The worst prison is not of stone. It is of a throbbing heart, outraged by an infamous life.
He who does not prevent a crime when he can, encourages it.
A Sunday school is a prison in which children do penance for the evil conscience of their parents.
I never told a victim story about my imprisonment. Instead, I told a transformation story - about how prison changed my outlook, about how I saw that communication, truth, and trust are at the heart of power.
Justice is justice though it's always delayed and finally done only by mistake.
When I was in prison, I was wrapped up in all those deep books. That Tolstoy crap - people shouldn't read that stuff.
Reality becomes a prison to those who can’t get out of it.
No obligation to justice does force a man to be cruel, or to use the sharpest sentence.
Do not lay on the multitude the blame that is due to a few.
Fast closed with double grills And triple gates–the cell To wicked souls is hell; But to a mind that's innocent 'Tis only iron, wood and stone.
Corporal punishment falls far more heavily than most weighty pecuniary penalty.
Clemency alone makes us equal to the gods.
Only free men can negotiate. Prisoners cannot enter into contracts.
When I was in prison, I was wrapped up in all those deep books. That Tolstoy crap - people shouldn't read that stuff.
It is true you cannot eat freedom and you cannot power machinery with democracy. But then neither can political prisoners turn on the light in the cells of a dictatorship.
He who profits by a crime commits it.
Men are not prisoners of fate, but only prisoners of their own minds.
Some laws of state aimed at curbing crime are even more criminal.
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.
Justice is that virtue of the soul which is distributive according to desert.
The guilt of enforced crimes lies on those who impose them.
Most people fancy themselves innocent of those crimes of which they cannot be convicted.
The refined punishments of the spiritual mode are usually much more indecent and dangerous than a good smack.
The public have more interest in the punishment of an injury than he who receives it.
No written law has been more binding than unwritten custom supported by popular opinion.
