The reformative effect of punishment is
The reformative effect of punishment is a belief that dies hard, chiefly I think, because it is so satisfying to our sadistic impulses.
The number of laws is constantly growing
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.
I wrote a million words in the first
I wrote a million words in the first year, and I could never have done that outside of prison.
They took away my money, my family, and
They took away my money, my family, and my security. Why couldn't they destroy my ideas? We will question them in court tomorrow as we trigger The Revolution of all revolutions!
Show me the prison, Show me the jail,
Show me the prison, Show me the jail, Show me the prisoner whose life has gone stale. And I'll show you a young man with so many reasons why And there, but for fortune, go you or I.
If two people fight on the street, whose
If two people fight on the street, whose fault is it? Who is the criminal? It is the government’s responsibility because the government has not educated the people to not make mistakes. The people have inadequate, incompetent education, so they make mistakes! It is such a fraud.
Some laws of state aimed at curbing
Some laws of state aimed at curbing crime are even more criminal.
We don't seem to be able to check crime,
We don't seem to be able to check crime, so why not legalize it and then tax it out of business.
There is no peace because the making of
There is no peace because the making of peace is at least as costly as the making of war - at least as exigent, at least as disruptive, at least as liable to bring disgrace and prison and death in its wake.
Punishment, that is the justice for the
Punishment, that is the justice for the unjust.
Wherever any one is against his will,
Wherever any one is against his will, that is to him a prison.
To be at peace in crime! Ah, who can
To be at peace in crime! Ah, who can thus flatter himself.
The power of punishment is to silence,
The power of punishment is to silence, not to confute.
One crime is everything; two nothing.
One crime is everything; two nothing.
Justice is justice though it's always
Justice is justice though it's always delayed and finally done only by mistake.
One of the problems that the marijuana
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.
Men are not prisoners of fate, but only
Men are not prisoners of fate, but only prisoners of their own minds.
He who does not prevent a crime when he
He who does not prevent a crime when he can, encourages it.
Nor cell, nor chain, nor dungeon speaks
Nor cell, nor chain, nor dungeon speaks to the murderer like the voice of solitude.
The public have more interest in the
The public have more interest in the punishment of an injury than he who receives it.
I am an expert of electricity. My father
I am an expert of electricity. My father occupied the chair of applied electricity at the state prison.
What restrains us from killing is partly
What restrains us from killing is partly fear of punishment, partly moral scruple, and partly what may be described as a sense of humor.
Self is the only prison that can bind
Self is the only prison that can bind the soul.
The thoughts of a prisoner - they're not
The thoughts of a prisoner - they're not free either. They keep returning to the same things.
Do not lay on the multitude the blame
Do not lay on the multitude the blame that is due to a few.
