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.
He who opens a school door, closes a prison.
No written law has been more binding than unwritten custom supported by popular opinion.
A variety in punishment is of utility, as well as a proportion.
A sick person is a prisoner.
A just chastisement may benefit a man, though it seldom does; but an unjust one changes all his blood to gall.
Liberty is rendered even more precious by the recollection of servitude.
Crimes lead one into another; they who are capable of being forgers are capable of being incendiaries.
Crimes lead one into another; they who are capable of being forgers are capable of being incendiaries.
Clemency alone makes us equal to the gods.
Fear can be like a prison. It is, however, a self made prison. Many are imprisoned by fear. No one else can liberate them from this prison. Others may inspire them but they must liberate themselves.
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.
Man is condemned to be free.
It is better that ten guilty persons escape, than that one innocent suffer.
I have been studying how I may compare this prison where I live unto the world; Shut up in the prison of their own consciences.
If we look at Houston, which is a very environmentally toxic place, we find that it has one of the highest levels of young men going to prison and also among the highest levels of illiteracy in the country.
Civilization is maintained by a very few people in a small number of places and we need only some bombs and a few prisons to blot it out altogether.
If punishment reaches not the mind and makes not the will supple, it hardens the offender.
I can work for the Lord in or out of prison.
Concepts of justice must have hands and feet to carry out justice in every case in the shortest possible time and the lowest possible cost. That is the challenge to every lawyer and judge in America.
In prison, you get the chance to see who really loves you.
The English laws punish vice; the Chinese laws do more, they reward virtue.
He who does not prevent a crime when he can, encourages it.
Every instance of a man's suffering the penalty of the law is an instance of the failure of that penalty in effecting its purpose, which is to deter.
When I was in prison, I was wrapped up in all those deep books. That Tolstoy crap - people shouldn't read that stuff.
