Quotes

I have been studying how I may compare This prison where I live unto the world; And, for because the world is populous, And here is not a creature but myself, I cannot do it. Yet I'll hammer it out.

What is crime amongst the multitude, is only vice among the few.

I don't like jail, they got the wrong kind of bars in there.

Hard cases, it is said, make bad law.

While we have prisons it matters little which of us occupy the cells.

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

There are dreadful punishments enacted against thieves; but it were much better to make such good provisions, by which every man might be put in a method how to live, and so to be preserved from the fatal necessity of stealing and dying for it.

To be in prison so long, it's difficult to remember exactly what you did to get there.

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

Man is condemned to be free.

We have our own system, ... and journalists in our system are not put in prison for embarrassing the government by revealing things the government might not wish to have revealed. The important thing is that our system, under which journalists can write without fear or favor, should continue.

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

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.

Federal prison, if you get any of it, you're going to have to do 85% of it. And the reason why I called it that is because I had a friend who got sent to the federal joint and his whole... it wasn't about him being in jail. He cried about the 85%.

Society prepares the crime; the criminal commits it.

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.

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.

The best situation of all, and one frequently utilized, is for jails and prisons to allow volunteer ministers of all faiths to enter prisons and offer their services to the inmates who want them. That way, the religious needs of inmates are met but without government funds being spent.

The mellow sweetness of pumpkin pie off a prison spoon is something you will never forget.

You stuff somebody into the American dream, and it becomes a prison.

Prison makes you a better judge of character. You pick up on people much faster.

The most anxious man in a prison is the governor.

It is impossible to go through life without trust: That is to be imprisoned in the worst cell of all, oneself.

Vices are not crimes.

The refined punishments of the spiritual mode are usually much more indecent and dangerous than a good smack.