Quotes

I can work for the Lord in or out of prison.

The common argument that crime is caused by poverty is a kind of slander on the poor.

I existed in a world that never is - the prison of the mind.

While crime is punished it yet increases.

And while God had work for Paul, he found him friends both in court and prison. Let persecutors send saints to prison, God can provide a keeper for their turn.

The world itself is but a large prison, out of which some are daily led to execution.

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.

One should respect public opinion insofar as is necessary to avoid starvation and keep out of prison, but anything that goes beyond this is voluntary submission to an unnecessary tyranny.

The worst of prison life, he thought, was not being able to close his door.

I know how men in exile feed on dreams of hope.

I sometimes wish that people would put a little more emphasis upon the observance of the law than they do upon its enforcement.

The power of punishment is to silence, not to confute.

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 solution to our drug problem is not in incarceration.

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.

Crime succeeds by sudden despatch; honest counsels gain vigor by delay.

Reality becomes a prison to those who can’t get out of it.

Overlook our deeds, since you know that crime was absent from our inclination.

Prosecution I have managed to avoid; but I have been arrested, charged in a police court, have refused to be bound over, and thereupon have been unconditionally released - to my great regret; for I have always wanted to know what going to prison was like.

Educate your children to self-control, to the habit of holding passion and prejudice and evil tendencies to an upright and reasoning will, and you have done much to abolish misery from their future lives and crimes to society.

It is better that ten guilty persons escape, than that one innocent suffer.

Society prepares the crime; the criminal commits it.

To make punishments efficacious, two things are necessary. They must never be disproportioned to the offence, and they must be certain.

The torment of human frustration, whatever its immediate cause, is the knowledge that the self is in prison, its vital force and 'mangled mind' leaking away in lonely, wasteful self-conflict.

A man who has no excuse for a crime, is indeed defenseless!