Quotes

Here the great art lies, to discern in what the law is to be to restraint and punishment, and in what things persuasion only is to work.

Crimes lead one into another; they who are capable of being forgers are capable of being incendiaries.

Every instance of a man's suffering the penalty of the law is an instance of the failure of that penalty in effecting its purpose, which is to deter.

Adversities such as being homeless and going to prison has made many people stronger.

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.

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

When I was in prison, I was wrapped up in all those deep books. That Tolstoy crap - people shouldn't read that stuff.

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.

The English laws punish vice; the Chinese laws do more, they reward virtue.

The guilt of enforced crimes lies on those who impose them.

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

The most anxious man in a prison is the governor.

To seek the redress of grievances by going to law, is like sheep running for shelter to a bramble bush.

The perfection of a thing consists in its essence; there are perfect criminals, as there are men of perfect probity.

Once we are destined to live out our lives in the prison of our mind, our duty is to furnish it well.

They're not supposed to show prison films in prison. Especially ones that are about escaping.

A just chastisement may benefit a man, though it seldom does; but an unjust one changes all his blood to gall.

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

Society prepares the crime; the criminal commits it.

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

The world is a prison in which solitary confinement is preferable.

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 shall not yield to violence. We shall not be deprived of union freedoms. We shall never agree with sending people to prison for their convictions.