Quotes

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.

Definition, rationality, and structure are ways of seeing, but they become prisons when they blank out other ways of seeing.

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

Vices are not crimes.

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.

Trial by jury itself, instead of being a security to persons who are accused, shall be a delusion, a mockery, and a snare.

Written laws are like spiders' webs, and will, like them, only entangle and hold the poor and weak, while the rich and powerful will easily break through them.

Crimes generally punish themselves.

A man will be imprisoned in a room with a door that's unlocked and opens inwards, as long as it does not occur to him to pull rather than push.

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.

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

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

It isn't true that convicts live like animals: animals have more room to move around.

We have our own system, ... and journalists in our system are not put in prison for embarrassing the government by revealing things the government might not wish to have revealed. The important thing is that our system, under which journalists can write without fear or favor, should continue.

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

The contagion of crime is like that of the plague. Criminals collected together corrupt each other; they are worse than ever when at the termination of their punishment they re-enter society.

No crime has been without a precedent.

I am an expert of electricity. My father occupied the chair of applied electricity at the state prison.

Nelson Mandela and Malcolm X came out of prison stronger.

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

No obligation to justice does force a man to be cruel, or to use the sharpest sentence.

When it comes to freedom, we are but prisoners of our own desires.

Probably the only place where a man can feel really secure is in a maximum security prison, except for the imminent threat of release.

Women have worked hard; starved in prison; given of their time and lives that we might sit in the House of Commons and take part in the legislating of this country.