Jail Quotes

Cop comes down the street crazy as a loon, he throws us in jail for carrying harpoons.

Jail is just another micro-society. It just happens that here, the problems are far more out in the open, we don't live with the facades of lies that democracy or capitalism creates for us.

You can't put people in jail for having mental disorders. You can't do that, and they should not be held there. They need rehabilitative therapy.

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.

Forgive me, I must start by pointing out that three years after our horrific financial crisis caused by financial fraud, not a single financial executive has gone to jail, and that's wrong.

I support the death penalty for the kingpin, the guy at the top, but I don't think you should throw a drug offender in jail for five years, and let a mugger out after a year.

I don't think we should be putting first-time drug offenders in jail for five years. It's a waste of resources.

How do you think jail was?! I got face raped by a woman... and I think I may have liked it.

Kiefer Sutherland has agreed to serve 48 days in jail for his DUI convictions. That's 245 months in Jack Bauer years.

I've come out of a small jail and entered a bigger one.

I was appointed United States attorney on September 10, 2001. And I spent the next seven years of my career fighting terrorism and putting terrorists in jail.

Jail was a result of me not taking time for myself. So I was forced to take some time for myself.

Given the way his night had been going so far, he didn't have time to go to jail.

As the many male victims of rape in the regime's disgusting jails can testify, this state-run pathology of sexual repression and sexual sadism is not content to degrade women only.

I'm certainly not a linguist. I learned what languages I could learn in order to read books and I can't really speak them. I couldn't have stayed out of jail in most of them.

We will not allow this day of the Martin Luther King, Jr. Memorial to go without somebody going to jail.

Through everything I've gone through- and I've been everywhere, at the top of the world, in jail, hung over drunk - I never gave up my dream of winning a gold medal in the Olympics.

When a person goes to a country and finds their newspapers filled with nothing but good news, he can bet there are good men in jail.

I went to jail. I looked like one of those savings-and-loan guys leaving the jail house.

At nighttime, you just try to keep him out of jail.

I'm not reading currently because I'm getting revisions of a novel. If I read while I'm writing I will unconsciously plagiarize and go to jail.

[democrats] hated Richard Nixon, and no wonder. It was Nixon who sent Alger Hiss to jail, and Nixon who waged the Vietnam War after the Democrats gave up.

You can tell a lot about a civilization by the quality of the people found in its jails.

My daddy was the type that if you asked him, "Dad, am I going to get off punishment soon?" - he would extend it. It was like jail.

I feel like the fellow in jail who is watching his scaffold being built." (On construction of reviewing stands for inauguration of his successor John F Kennedy)

Dallas is where Kennedy was shot, and that's where I was put in jail.

A world without open country would be universal jail.

Nothing can excel a few days in jail for giving a young man or woman a quick education in the basis of industrial society.

If you tell the truth all day long, you will end up in jail.

I tell the truth, and it has gotten me into a lot of trouble. My dad used to say to me, 'If you tell the truth all day long, you will end up in jail.'

And if I don't be there by morning, she'll know that I must've spent the night in jail.

Apparently, I'm very, very popular in jails. They often ask me to come and speak.

There si nothing upon the face of the earth so insipid as a medium. Give me love or hate! A friend that will go to jail for me, or an enemy that will run me through the body!

You don't need jails, you get put a thousand miles into the middle of Australia, you can go wherever you want, go ahead, but if you come into a city it's straight to jail.

Because Brenda [Carlin] had a drinking problem along with the coke, she had to hit bottom first. Most alcoholics do. And for her, bottom was an automobile accident that almost landed her in jail.

We should be long past applauding politicians of any hue: they got us into this mess. The best deserve a probationary opportunity to prove themselves, the worst should be in jail.

Jail is no place for a young fellow. There's no advancement.

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.

in the synagogue of my heart... I myself jail and the jailed, I go wounded, bite-marked

Wall Street can never be allowed to threaten main street again. No bank can be too big to fail, no executive too powerful to jail.

Keeping them behind bars does little to reduce crime, but it does a lot to tear apart families, our prisons and our jails are now our mental health institutions.

Too many young African-American and Latino men ended up in jail for nonviolent offenses.

It's like being on Death Row in an American jail. You are waiting for the door handle to turn, not knowing whether it's a reprieve or just your final breakfast before being executed.

I was given an opportunity to join the marines instead of go to jail - and I think I made the correct decision.

I'm a substitute mom." "You're more like a crazy aunt who only gets called when somebody needs bailing out of jail.

More than life, I value vindication. When you are at peace with the truth and you know that you are on the side of the right and God is on your side, you are not afraid of anything, including jail.

I am satisfied with everything in my life. Including the fact that I spent time in jail.

When you go to jail, there's so much simple stuff missing. You just want some good toilet paper or a real toothbrush, a real blanket and a real bed to lay in.

Branding jails corporate America but honesty sets entrepreneurs free.

Jail threats did not dissuade Martin Luther King - and intergenerational justice is a moral issue of comparable magnitude to civil rights.