Quotes

Crimes generally punish themselves.

I submit that an individual who breaks a law that conscience tells him is unjust, and who willingly accepts the penalty of imprisonment in order to arouse the conscience of the community over its injustice, is in reality expressing the highest respect for the law.

The most anxious man in a prison is the governor.

Only free men can negotiate. Prisoners cannot enter into contracts.

I existed in a world that never is - the prison of the mind.

The difference between tax avoidance and tax evasion is the thickness of a prison walls.

The worst of prison life, he thought, was not being able to close his door.

Show me the prison, Show me the jail, Show me the prisoner whose life has gone stale. And I'll show you a young man with so many reasons why And there, but for fortune, go you or I.

One crime has to be concealed by another.

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.

A pedestal is as much a prison as any small, confined space.

The law does not pretend to punish everything that is dishonest. That would seriously interfere with business.

The virtue of justice consists in moderation, as regulated by wisdom.

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.

Shyness is the prison of the heart.

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%.

You utter a vow, or forge a signature, and you may find yourself bound for life to a monastery, a woman, or prison.

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

Nothing can be more abhorrent to democracy than to imprison a person or keep him in prison because he is unpopular. This is really the test of civilization.

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

Assassination is the extreme form of censorship.

We are prisoners of ideas.

One crime is everything; two nothing.

The object of punishment is prevention from evil; it never can be made impulsive to good.

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.