We're in a war. People who blast some
We're in a war. People who blast some pot on a casual basis are guilty of treason.
He who does not prevent a crime when he
He who does not prevent a crime when he can, encourages it.
A sick person is a prisoner.
A sick person is a prisoner.
Prison makes you a better judge of
Prison makes you a better judge of character. You pick up on people much faster.
Distrust all in whom the impulse to
Distrust all in whom the impulse to punish is powerful.
The most anxious man in a prison is the
The most anxious man in a prison is the governor.
No man survives when freedom fails. The
No man survives when freedom fails. The best men rot in filthy jails, and those who cry 'appease, appease' are hanged by those they tried to please.
On a planet that increasingly resembles
On a planet that increasingly resembles one huge Maximum Security prison, the only intelligent choice is to plan a jail break.
The severest justice may not always be
The severest justice may not always be the best policy.
If two people fight on the street, whose
If two people fight on the street, whose fault is it? Who is the criminal? It is the government’s responsibility because the government has not educated the people to not make mistakes. The people have inadequate, incompetent education, so they make mistakes! It is such a fraud.
Let us remember that justice must be
Let us remember that justice must be observed even to the lowest.
As we grow in wisdom, we pardon more
As we grow in wisdom, we pardon more freely.
I have been studying how I may compare
I have been studying how I may compare this prison where I live unto the world; Shut up in the prison of their own consciences.
Here the great art lies, to discern in
Here the great art lies, to discern in what the law is to be to restraint and punishment, and in what things persuasion only is to work.
I can work for the Lord in or out of
I can work for the Lord in or out of prison.
The public have more interest in the
The public have more interest in the punishment of an injury than he who receives it.
One of the problems that the marijuana
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.
Law is merely the expression of the will
Law is merely the expression of the will of the strongest for the time being, and therefore laws have no fixity, but shift from generation to generation.
Corporal punishment falls far more
Corporal punishment falls far more heavily than most weighty pecuniary penalty.
In prisons, those things withheld from
In prisons, those things withheld from and denied to the prisoner become precisely what he wants most of all.
Only free men can negotiate. Prisoners
Only free men can negotiate. Prisoners cannot enter into contracts.
I was in prison, and you came unto me.
I was in prison, and you came unto me. Verily I say unto you, inasmuch as ye have done it unto one of the least of these my brethren, ye have done it unto me.
~(Jesus Christ) Matthew 25:36, 40
Crimes lead one into another; they who
Crimes lead one into another; they who are capable of being forgers are capable of being incendiaries.
Justice is justice though it's always
Justice is justice though it's always delayed and finally done only by mistake.
Shyness is the prison of the heart.
Shyness is the prison of the heart.
