Quotes

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

One crime has to be concealed by another.

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

While crime is punished it yet increases.

And while God had work for Paul, he found him friends both in court and prison. Let persecutors send saints to prison, God can provide a keeper for their turn.

It is certain that the study of human psychology, if it were undertaken exclusively in prisons, would also lead to misrepresentation and absurd generalizations.

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.

It is true you cannot eat freedom and you cannot power machinery with democracy. But then neither can political prisoners turn on the light in the cells of a dictatorship.

It is the deed that teaches, not the name we give it. Murder and capital punishment are not opposites that cancel one another, but similars that breed their own kind.

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

Nelson Mandela and Malcolm X came out of prison stronger.

There are few better measures of the concern a society has for its individual members and its own well being than the way it handles criminals.

Extreme justice is extreme injustice.

Women now have choices. They can be married, not married, have a job, not have a job, be married with children, unmarried with children. Men have the same choice we've always had: work, or prison.

If you share the crime of your friend, you make it your own.

Civilization is maintained by a very few people in a small number of places and we need only some bombs and a few prisons to blot it out altogether.

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

We are prisoners of ideas.

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.

We don't seem to be able to check crime, so why not legalize it and then tax it out of business.

The world itself is but a large prison, out of which some are daily led to execution.

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

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

If you strike at, imprison, or kill us, out of our prisons or graves we will still evoke a spirit that will thwart you, and perhaps, raise a force that will destroy you! We defy you! Do your worst!

A sick person is a prisoner.