We're in a war. People who blast some pot on a casual basis are guilty of treason.
Justice is that virtue of the soul which is distributive according to desert.
Corporal punishment falls far more heavily than most weighty pecuniary penalty.
There's no greater threat to our independence, to our cherished freedoms and personal liberties than the continual, relentless injection of these insidious poisons into our system. We must decide whether we cherish independence from drugs, without which there is no freedom.
The number of laws is constantly growing in all countries and, owing to this, what is called crime is very often not a crime at all, for it contains no element of violence or harm.
America is the land of the second chance – and when the gates of the prison open, the path ahead should lead to a better life.
We judge ourselves by what we feel capable of doing, while others judge us by what we have already done.
Crimes generally punish themselves.
No obligation to justice does force a man to be cruel, or to use the sharpest sentence.
No matter how you seem to fatten on a crime, that can never be good for the bee which is bad for the hive.
Prison makes you a better judge of character. You pick up on people much faster.
When it comes to freedom, we are but prisoners of our own desires.
Wicked deeds are generally done, even with impunity, for the mere desire of occupation.
Since 1957, black people have experienced double-digit unemployment - in good times and bad times. Look at the population of African Americans in prison. They represent more than half the population of prisoners in the country, 55 percent of those on death row.
The world itself is but a large prison, out of which some are daily led to execution.
I have never been contained except I made the prison.
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.
As we grow in wisdom, we pardon more freely.
Self is the only prison that can bind the soul.
Pardon is the virtue of victory.
We are prisoners of ideas.
One crime has to be concealed by another.
Intellectual despair results in neither weakness nor dreams, but in violence. It is only a matter of knowing how to give vent to one's rage; whether one only wants to wander like madmen around prisons, or whether one wants to overturn them.
A man who has no excuse for a crime, is indeed defenseless!
