Top Jail Quotes Collection - Page 2

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Image of Ayn Rand
Do not help your jailers to pretend that their jail is your natural state of existence.
- Ayn Rand
Collection: Jail
Image of Dave Winfield
I went to jail. I looked like one of those savings-and-loan guys leaving the jail house.
- Dave Winfield
Collection: Jail
Image of Mike Tyson
If Mike Tyson is in your courtroom and you don't send him to jail, it's an injustice. Everyone knows he's a bad guy. So if he is in your courtroom, he should go to jail.
- Mike Tyson
Collection: Jail
Image of J. K. Rowling
You never get it right, you people, do you? Either we've got Fudge, pretending everything's lovely while people get murdered right under his nose, or we've got you, chucking the wrong people into jail and trying to pretend you've got 'The Chosen One' working for you!
- J. K. Rowling
Collection: Jail
Image of Elaine Stritch
If you tell the truth all day long, you will end up in jail.
- Elaine Stritch
Collection: Jail
Image of Gayle Forman
Even going to jail would be easy compared to losing you.
- Gayle Forman
Collection: Jail
Image of Russell Brand
Addiction is a serious desease; it will end with jail, mental institutions or death.
- Russell Brand
Collection: Jail
Image of Kate Millett
[Madness] is the jail we could all end up in. And we know it. And watch our step. For a lifetime. We behave. A fantastic and entire system of social control, by the threat of example as effective over the general population as detention centers in dictatorships, the image of the madhouse floats through every mind for the course of its lifetime.
- Kate Millett
Collection: Jail
Image of Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn
To stand up for truth is nothing. For truth, you must sit in jail.
- Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn
Collection: Jail
Image of Howard Zinn
When [Ralph Waldo] Emerson visited Thoreau in jail and asked, 'What are you doing in there?' it was reported that Thoreau replied, 'What are you doing out there?'
- Howard Zinn
Collection: Jail
Image of Michelle Alexander
Of course in this age of colorblindness, a time when we have supposedly moved "beyond race," we as a nation would feel very uncomfortable if only black people were sent to jail for drug offenses. We seem comfortable with 90 percent of the people arrested and convicted of drug offenses in some states being African American, but if the figure was 100 percent, the veil of colorblindness would be lost.
- Michelle Alexander
Collection: Jail
Image of Benazir Bhutto
Being in jail is difficult too because it's like being in a graveyard, you can't do much.
- Benazir Bhutto
Collection: Jail
Image of Mario Puzo
No, that's not possible," Michael said. "Killed, yes; jail, no.
- Mario Puzo
Collection: Jail
Image of P. J. O'Rourke
The U.S. tax code was written by A students. Every April 15 we have to pay somebody who got an A in accounting to keep ourselves from being sent to jail.
- P. J. O'Rourke
Collection: Jail
Image of Harry Belafonte
The only thing left for Barack Obama to do is to work like a third world dictator and just put all these guys in jail.
- Harry Belafonte
Collection: Jail
Image of Richard Wurmbrand
Let us be on the side of those who sit in jails and are sentenced to death for their faith. Let us pray for them and help them.
- Richard Wurmbrand
Collection: Jail
Image of Edward Snowden
People sometimes say I broke an oath of secrecy - one of the early charges leveled against me. But it's a fundamental misunderstanding, because there is no oath of secrecy for people who work in the intelligence community. You are asked to sign a civil agreement, called a Standard Form 312, which basically says if you disclose classified information, they can sue you; they can do this, that and the other. And you risk going to jail.
- Edward Snowden
Collection: Jail
Image of Tom Waits
I did my time in the jail of your arms
- Tom Waits
Collection: Jail
Image of Noam Chomsky
Enormous and growing parts of the population are basically superfluous for profit-making purposes. Along with this, the jail population is increasing very rapidly; it's the highest in the industrial world by far. New and onerous crime bills are being passed to deal with this superfluous population.
- Noam Chomsky
Collection: Jail
Image of Ally Carter
Okay, first thing tomorrow we hit the streets around Taccone's place. Somebody saw something.' 'I got it covered.' 'The DiMarcos might be in town.' 'Actually, they're in jail.' 'All seven of them?' Hale shrugged. 'It was an interesting October.
- Ally Carter
Collection: Jail
Image of Judy Woodruff
The system was afraid of Vaclav Havel. And so they either harassed him for put him in jail.
- Judy Woodruff
Collection: Jail
Image of Hillary Clinton
Our prisons and our jails are now our mental health institutions.
- Hillary Clinton
Collection: Jail
Image of Charles Bukowski
As we go on with our lives we tend to forget that the jails and the hospitals and the madhouses and the graveyards are packed.
- Charles Bukowski
Collection: Jail
Image of Charles Bukowski
What? You’d dare drink right after getting out of jail for intoxication?” That’s when you need a drink the most.
- Charles Bukowski
Collection: Jail
Image of William F. Buckley, Jr.
Treatment is not now available for almost half of those who would benefit from it. Yet we are willing to build more and more jails in which to isolate drug users even though at one-seventh the cost of building and maintaining jail space and pursuing, detaining, and prosecuting the drug user, we could subsidize commensurately effective medical care and psychological treatment.
- William F. Buckley, Jr.
Collection: Jail
Image of John Bunyan
I will stay in jail to the end of my days before I make a butchery of my conscience.
- John Bunyan
Collection: Jail
Image of Kurt Cobain
If I went to jail, at least I wouldn't have to sign autographs.
- Kurt Cobain
Collection: Jail
Image of Austin O'Malley
Shame is the turnkey that keeps our evil desires in jail.
- Austin O'Malley
Collection: Jail
Image of Eugene V. Debs
I would rather a thousand times be a free soul in jail than to be a sycophant and coward in the streets.
- Eugene V. Debs
Collection: Jail
Image of Rick Ross
I didn't understand that you could go to jail for the rest of your life for selling cocaine. I thought life sentences were for murderers. I didn't know that you could get it for supplying something to someone that they asked you for.
- Rick Ross
Collection: Jail
Image of Rick Ross
If you had a magic wand today, and you had one wish - to wipe out all the drug dealers, take them all off the streets and put them in jail, no trial, everybody who sold drugs would automatically be convicted. You know what's going to happen? There's going to be new ones. Why? Because the drug users are going to create them.
- Rick Ross
Collection: Jail
Image of Eminem
I've got to formulate a plot or end up in jail or shot, success is my only option, failure's not.
- Eminem
Collection: Jail
Image of Jasper Fforde
Once upon a midnight dreary, while I pondered weak and weary, O’er a plan to venge myself upon that cursed Thursday Next- This Eyre affair, so surprising, gives my soul such loath despising, Here I plot my temper rising, rising from my jail of text. “Get me out!” I said, advising, “Pluck me from this jail of text- or I swear I’ll wring your neck!
- Jasper Fforde
Collection: Jail
Image of Bob Dylan
Oh, the inmates and the prisoners I found they were my kind And it was there inside the bars I found my peace of mind But the jails they were too crowded Institutions overflowed So they turned me loose to walk upon Life's hurried tangled road
- Bob Dylan
Collection: Jail
Image of Snoop Dogg
People don't understand that you can actually lose your life going to jail. There's more violence in the jail-house than there is on the streets.
- Snoop Dogg
Collection: Jail
Image of Will Ferrell
I built a jail in my closet and I would incarcerate my family from time to time.
- Will Ferrell
Collection: Jail
Image of Immortal Technique
Rich people, they stay out of jail not just because they have more money but because they grew up in a culture where they're educated by people to say, "I don't have to talk to the cops. If I get arrested, I'm not going to say a word to them. I'm just going to wait until my family lawyer gets here".
- Immortal Technique
Collection: Jail
Image of Shannen Doherty
I'm unbelievably claustrophobic, and I have really bad anxiety. There were a few moment when I was very dramatic and thought, 'I'm not going to live through this. I'm going to hyperventilate and just die. Right here in jail.'
- Shannen Doherty
Collection: Jail
Image of Sonny Barger
We've got thousands and thousands of people in jail on minor drug violations and they really don't need to be in jail. They're people whose lives are ruined. If drugs were legal there would be a lot less people using them.
- Sonny Barger
Collection: Jail
Image of Mahatma Gandhi
Jail-going is only the beginning, not the end of satyagraha. The acme of satyagraha for us would be to lay down our lives for the defence of India's just cause.
- Mahatma Gandhi
Collection: Jail
Image of Nancy Grace
I would wipe my tears, and walk out of the stall and the bathroom, and march myself back into that courtroom because the only way that I could deal with Keith's [ Griffin] murder was to feel like I was doing something about it. In retrospect, what did I do? I know that I put a lot of bad guys in jail and if I kept them off the street one day more, that may have been one less crime victim.
- Nancy Grace
Collection: Jail
Image of Emma Goldman
I may be arrested, I may be tried and thrown into jail, but I never will be silent.
- Emma Goldman
Collection: Jail
Image of Rudy Giuliani
I've never ever attacked someone who's been the victim who's been the victim of sexual abuse. Not only that, I've put people in jail who've been the victim of sexual abuse.
- Rudy Giuliani
Collection: Jail
Image of Danny Glover
The death penalty is inhumane... whether that person is in a [jail] or it's bin Laden.
- Danny Glover
Collection: Jail
Image of Rudy Giuliani
People have a right to protest; they have a right to make their opinion. They can be very upset about what they consider to be a murder of a person in custody, but you cannot destroy property. First person does it goes to jail.
- Rudy Giuliani
Collection: Jail
Image of Mahatma Gandhi
Swaraj does not depend on jail going. If it did, there are thousands of prisoners in jail today. It depends on everyone doing his or her own task.
- Mahatma Gandhi
Collection: Jail
Image of Bill Hicks
Why do we put people who are on drugs in jail? They're sick, they're not criminals. Sick people don't get healed in prison. You see? It makes no sense.
- Bill Hicks
Collection: Jail
Image of Chelsea Handler
Kiefer Sutherland has agreed to serve 48 days in jail for his DUI convictions. That's 245 months in Jack Bauer years.
- Chelsea Handler
Collection: Jail