Quotes

When you are younger you get blamed for crimes you never committed and when you're older you begin to get credit for virtues you never possessed. It evens itself out.

What is crime amongst the multitude, is only vice among the few.

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

No matter how you seem to fatten on a crime, that can never be good for the bee which is bad for the hive.

The best situation of all, and one frequently utilized, is for jails and prisons to allow volunteer ministers of all faiths to enter prisons and offer their services to the inmates who want them. That way, the religious needs of inmates are met but without government funds being spent.

Justice renders to every one his due.

We have initiated programs for re-entry offenders, since some 500,000 to 600,000 offenders will come out of prison each year for the next three or four years. We want to have positive alternatives when they come back to the community.

I don't like jail, they got the wrong kind of bars in there.

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

I can work for the Lord in or out of prison.

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

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.

Self is the only prison that can bind the soul.

Clemency alone makes us equal to the gods.

Intellectual despair results in neither weakness nor dreams, but in violence. It is only a matter of knowing how to give vent to one's rage; whether one only wants to wander like madmen around prisons, or whether one wants to overturn them.

I sometimes wish that people would put a little more emphasis upon the observance of the law than they do upon its enforcement.

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

I know not whether laws be right, or whether laws be wrong; All that we know who lie in gaol is that the wall is strong; And that each day is like a year, a year whose days are long.

Vices are not crimes.

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.

If punishment reaches not the mind and makes not the will supple, it hardens the offender.

The punishment can be remitted; the crime is everlasting.

We're in a war. People who blast some pot on a casual basis are guilty of treason.

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

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.