Jail Quotes

OPIATE, n. An unlocked door in the prison of Identity. It leads into the jail yard.

Nobody Black had learned anything from the 'Letter from the Birmingham Jail' or from the 'I Have a Dream' speech. That was a revelation of white people.

In a way, a jail is a place where you can rest, read books and live with yourself.

When I was a kid, everybody in the neighborhood picked me to be the one in jail or be in the cemetery by the time I was 20.

This anonymous clan of slack-jawed troglodytes has cost me the election, and yet if I were to have them killed, I would be the one to go to jail. That's democracy for you.

Journalists don't need a get-out-of-jail-free card, ... Instead we should be given more access to information.

People can demand someone they've never met be arrested and thrown in jail forever because they know it's never going to happen and they're never going to see this person.

If you ever feel so happy you land in jail, I'm your bail.

Well... you know, I would wake up with a terrible hangover in a jail somewhere and worst part was that I would not know why I was there.

I am not brave enough to not pay my income tax and risk going to jail. But I can say rather freely what I want to say with my art.

A lot of guys in jail tattoo their hands.

I think every person should go to jail once.

That's a real void in my life. I see a lot of people who struggled and went to jail and the dogs were after them. I'd look them in the eyes and say, 'God almighty, I wish I'd have been there.'

Manny Pacquiao I'm calling you out let's fight May 5th and give the world what they want to see. My Jail Sentence was pushed back because the date was locked in. Step up Punk.

Being in jail, it's humbled me in a way I never imagined.

Even going to jail would be easy compared to losing you.

From his moment of victory, a kinder, gentler Donald Trump - praise for the opponent he promised to jail.

As long as possible live free and uncommitted. It makes but little difference whether you are committed to a farm or the county jail.

And please, please, lets us put mental health back on the top of our national agenda, our prisons and our jails are now our mental health institutions.

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?'

If I was gonna go to jail, I don't want to go to jail for stealing a bottle of water. I'll steal that $20 million. At least then it was worth it.

A man who cannot be enticed by money or intimidated by the threat of jail or death has two of the strongest weapons that anyone has to offer.

I've never been arrested in my life. Never had cuffs put on me, never been charged with a crime, never spent one day in jail.

I have consistently preached that nonviolence demands that the means we use must be as pure as the ends we seek.

Sometimes the stereotypes that a lot of people have are of black men in jail or who don't take care of their kids, so I think it's always important to have that.

Every time the Russians throw an American in jail, the Committee throws an American in jail to get even.

The best way to learn a language may be an episode of jail in a foreign country.

All these rappers on stage and Martha Stewart has done the most jail time.

I have never regarded any man as my superior, either in my life outside or inside prison.

People with mental illnesses are dying on our streets. More than 350,000 are in jails and prisons. Most are people whose only real crime is they got sick.

I don't know if that comes in a number, I don't know if that comes in a plaque, I don't know what it is. If I can keep me and the crew around me happy, stable, and out of jail, then we good.

Putting a family member in jail is a good sign there is something seriously wrong in the home.

Addiction is a serious desease; it will end with jail, mental institutions or death.

A man in a jail has more room, better food, and commonly better company

It's not that I don't want to become famous or that I'm obsessed by my work as an actress, but it's all about not limiting myself, such as putting myself in a little jail that I can escape from.

The attempt to make the consumption of beer criminal is as silly and as futile as if you passed a law to send a man to jail for eating cucumber salad.

It's okay to feel the need for protection if there is a real external threat. But to feel protective from the inside, it's a kind of jail: you get so protective that you cannot get out of the box.

Statistics say that I'm supposed to be in jail. And I'm not supposed to be alive.

The whole earth is in jail and we're plotting this incredible jailbreak.

Being in jail is difficult too because it's like being in a graveyard, you can't do much.

If you are low income in the United States, you have a higher chance of going to jail than getting a 4-year degree.

Jesus would be framed and in jail if he was living today.

No one has any license to brag because he is honest. That should be natural instinct and, besides, if you are not, they put you in jail. Honesty is merely a form of insurance.

The death penalty is inhumane... whether that person is in a [jail] or it's bin Laden.

Some statesmen go to Congress and some go to jail. It is the same thing, after all.

Being a teacher is like being in jail; once it's on your record, you can never get rid of it.

We put this 15-year old girl on the cover of a fashion magazine, and tell everyone she is the epitome of sexual perfection, but we jail anyone who touches her for another three years.

Hundreds of poor laboring men and women are being thrown into jails and police stations because of their political beliefs. In fact, an attempt is being made to deport an entire political party.

But all I could think of was taking some books to read in jail. I held everybody up, choosing which ones to take.

My attitude these days is, if you write a bad song, what are they gonna do, throw you in songwriter jail?