Quotes

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.

Do not lay on the multitude the blame that is due to a few.

Well does Heaven have care that no man secures happiness by crime.

One should respect public opinion insofar as is necessary to avoid starvation and keep out of prison, but anything that goes beyond this is voluntary submission to an unnecessary tyranny.

History is full of people who went to prison or were burned at the stake for proclaiming their ideas. Society has always defended itself.

Reality becomes a prison to those who can’t get out of it.

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

America is the land of the second chance – and when the gates of the prison open, the path ahead should lead to a better life.

Fast closed with double grills
And triple gates – the cell
To wicked souls is hell;
But to a mind that's innocent
'Tis only iron, wood and stone.

To try to raise a son from inside the prison walls is a very difficult thing. But I want to say to the world my son at 16 was the one who tried the most to get me out of prison.
~Jim Bakker

Punishment, that is the justice for the unjust.

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

Educate your children to self-control, to the habit of holding passion and prejudice and evil tendencies to an upright and reasoning will, and you have done much to abolish misery from their future lives and crimes to society.

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.

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.

There is no greater punishment of wickedness that that it is dissatisfied with itself and its deeds.

How dreadful it is when the right judge judges wrong.

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

What restrains us from killing is partly fear of punishment, partly moral scruple, and partly what may be described as a sense of humor.

Those magistrates who can prevent crime, and do not, in effect encourage it.

I wrote a million words in the first year, and I could never have done that outside of prison.

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

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.

The degree of civilization in a society can be judged by entering its prisons.

Fear can be like a prison. It is, however, a self made prison. Many are imprisoned by fear. No one else can liberate them from this prison. Others may inspire them but they must liberate themselves.