Quotes

Wherever any one is against his will, that is to him a prison.

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

If you strike at, imprison, or kill us, out of our prisons or graves we will still evoke a spirit that will thwart you, and perhaps, raise a force that will destroy you! We defy you! Do your worst!

We're in a war. People who blast some pot on a casual basis are guilty of treason.

We don't seem to be able to check crime, so why not legalize it and then tax it out of business.

I don't like being famous - it is like a prison. And driving for Ferrari would make it far worse.

Wicked deeds are generally done, even with impunity, for the mere desire of occupation.

I asked a man in prison once how he happened to be there and he said he had stolen a pair of shoes. I told him if he had stolen a railroad he would be a United States Senator.

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.

If punishment reaches not the mind and makes not the will supple, it hardens the offender.

While crime is punished it yet increases.

No matter how you seem to fatten on a crime, that can never be good for the bee which is bad for the hive.

Mere factual innocence is no reason not to carry out a death sentence properly reached.

To be at peace in crime! Ah, who can thus flatter himself.

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

Prisons don't rehabilitate, they don't punish, they don't protect, so what the hell do they do?

The public have more interest in the punishment of an injury than he who receives it.

We who live in prison, and in whose lives there is no event but sorrow, have to measure time by throbs of pain, and the record of bitter moments.

Whatever is worthy to be loved for anything is worthy of preservation. A wise and dispassionate legislator, if any such should ever arise among men, will not condemn to death him who has done or is likely to do more service than injury to society. Blocks and gibbets are the nearest objects with legislators, and their business is never with hopes or with virtues.

Hanging was the worst use a man could be put to.

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 only difference between me and my fellow actors is that I've spent more time in jail.

Money will determine whether the accused goes to prison or walks out of the courtroom a free man.

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

It is not at the table, but in prison, that you learn who your true friends are.