Quotes

If you share the crime of your friend, you make it your own.

One of the problems that the marijuana reform movement consistently faces is that everyone wants to talk about what marijuana does, but no one ever wants to look at what marijuana prohibition does. Marijuana never kicks down your door in the middle of the night. Marijuana never locks up sick and dying people, does not suppress medical research, does not peek in bedroom windows. Even if one takes every reefer madness allegation of the prohibitionists at face value, marijuana prohibition has done far more harm to far more people than marijuana ever could.

The difference between tax avoidance and tax evasion is the thickness of a prison walls.

Crimes lead one into another; they who are capable of being forgers are capable of being incendiaries.

Vices are not crimes.

History is full of people who went to prison or were burned at the stake for proclaiming their ideas. Society has always defended itself.

Punishment, that is the justice for the unjust.

The virtue of justice consists in moderation, as regulated by wisdom.

Pardon is the virtue of victory.

A Sunday school is a prison in which children do penance for the evil conscience of their parents.

To trial bring her stolen charms, and let her prison be my arms.

One man meets an infamous punishment for that crime which confers a diadem upon another.

Well, I don't think prisons are the answer to everything, obviously.

The contagion of crime is like that of the plague. Criminals collected together corrupt each other; they are worse than ever when at the termination of their punishment they re-enter society.

When the Nazis came for the communists, I remained silent; I was not a communist. When they locked up the social democrats, I remained silent; I was not a social democrat. When they came for the trade unionists, I did not speak out; I was not a trade unionist. When they came for me, there was no one left to speak out.

To try to raise a son from inside the prison walls is a very difficult thing. But I want to say to the world my son at 16 was the one who tried the most to get me out of prison.
~Jim Bakker

I don't like being famous - it is like a prison. And driving for Ferrari would make it far worse.

There are few better measures of the concern a society has for its individual members and its own well being than the way it handles criminals.

No man survives when freedom fails. The best men rot in filthy jails, and those who cry 'appease, appease' are hanged by those they tried to please.

Any punishment that does not correct, that can merely rouse rebellion in whoever has to endure it, is a piece of gratuitous infamy which makes those who impose it more guilty in the eyes of humanity, good sense and reason, nay a hundred times more guilty than the victim on whom the punishment is inflicted.

I just remember that disturbing feeling of walking into that prison, the complete loss of privacy, the complete loss of stimulation, dignity.

Organized crime in America takes in over forty billion dollars a year. This is quite a profitable sum, especially when one considers that the Mafia spends very little for office supplies.

In prison, you get the chance to see who really loves you.

It is not at the table, but in prison, that you learn who your true friends are.

On average, drug prisoners spend more time in federal prison than rapists, who often get out on early release because of the overcrowding in prison caused by the Drug War.