Quotes

Men are not prisoners of fate, but only prisoners of their own minds.

He was a first-time nonviolent possible offender, ... And under the mandatory minimums, he was put in prison for 15 years. Not only does the punishment not fit the crime, but the mandatory minimums don't give judges any discretion to look at the background of the case, to read into the specifics of the case. I don't know a judge who really is in favor of the mandatory minimums.

I never saw a man who looked With such a wistful eye Upon that little tent of blue Which prisoners call the sky.

The reformative effect of punishment is a belief that dies hard, chiefly I think, because it is so satisfying to our sadistic impulses.

Virtue pardons the wicked, as the sandal-tree perfumes the axe which strikes it.

The only real prison is fear, and the only real freedom is freedom from fear.

A variety in punishment is of utility, as well as a proportion.

There are only two places in the world where time takes precedence over the job to be done. School and prison.

On a planet that increasingly resembles one huge Maximum Security prison, the only intelligent choice is to plan a jail break.

In prisons, those things withheld from and denied to the prisoner become precisely what he wants most of all.

Experts and the educated elite have replaced what worked with what sounded good. Society was far more civilized before they took over our schools, prisons, welfare programs, police departments and courts. It's high time we ran these people out of our lives and went back to common sense.

In prison, you get the chance to see who really loves you.

Society has used the juvenile courts to create a caste system where there are throw-away people.

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

Crimes generally punish themselves.

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

If we were brought to trial for the crimes we have committed against ourselves, few would escape the gallows.

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

We shall fight against them, throw them in prisons and destroy them.

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

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.

Clemency alone makes us equal to the gods.

The thoughts of a prisoner - they're not free either. They keep returning to the same things.

Self is the only prison that can bind the soul.