Jail Quotes

If you look at it that way, then you start thinking about the basic things, which are jobs not jails, and education not incarceration.

The justice system is flawed, and that just because you're overtly guilty doesn't actually mean you're actually going to go away, to jail.

Put all the pervs in jail, bring back the birch and cat-o-nine tails.

I, had an excellent instructor. One that you currently have locked up. If you want to talk about skills going to waste, then go look in your own jail.

In the 1920s, we thought the problems associated with alcohol could be solved by police and jails. Prohibition taught us we were wrong. The strategy of the present drug war is Prohibition redux.

We're releasing hardened criminals from jails all over California. They don't have the money. They don't have the room anymore. The jails are overflowing so we gotta get rid of somebody.

[As in the case of] alcohol prohibition, illegality has driven organized crime, sent countless people to jail, and killed many thousands. Repression does not work.

If you have a drug problem, you should be sent to a doctor, not a jail cell.

I don't think I'll write a large novel again because it was like being in jail for me. Even though that's the funniest book I've ever written, it was the saddest period of my life.

I don't know how a judge can concentrate on being fair and impartial when he or she is faced with possible jail time for making a decision that others deem incorrect.

We have a situation where we have a lawmaker here in California who says that if you spank the child, you spank them, you're going to go to jail for a year or you're going to pay a $1,000 fine.

I think it's unworkable. What are we going to have, people like in contentious divorces suddenly claiming that one or the other of them should go to jail because once he or she spanked the child.

I mean I've never been thrown in jail in New York or Los Angeles.

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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.

America has its roots in a tradition of risk-taking pioneers. In more conservative Europe, if you fail in business or actually end up going to jail for it, you're finished as a businessman for good.

Your home is your jail, Bird. I'm going to set you free.

There is no higher claim to journalistic integrity than going to jail to protect a source.

I would never go to jail to protect animals or plants or wilderness. For me, it’s about the people.

You know, don't tell anybody I'm a jail bird, you know, but there were a bunch of us that were years ago involved in the pro-life movement.

It is wrong to take half or more of what people earn; wrong to force some people to pay for the support of others, threatening them with jail if they refuse (are in "noncompliance").

. . . the solution is not to toss youthful offenders into jail or prisons. We long ago recognized alcoholism to be a disease, and abondoned efforts to treat alcoholics simply by locking them up.

I shot a couple of movies in jail, but I was never in jail.

I'd be in my hotel room, smoking too much, drinking, going to clubs, just being numb. That was being in jail to me. I wasn't happy at all on the streets. That was the addict speaking.

I only wrote one song in jail. But I'm writing new album - you're going to feel the entire 11 months of what I went through on this album. I'm venting my anger.

People were threatened, folks was put in jail just because we wanted people to try to register to vote.

If our government servants had to comply with the Sarbanes-Oxley Act as they have forced all of American business to do, they would be in jail.

You are all in jail. Each alone, solitary, with a heap of what he owns. You live in prison, die in prison. It is all I can see in your eyes - the wall, the wall!

I used to always fight for human rights. I still fight for Leonard Peltier, who's spent 35 years in jail for a crime he didn't commit.

I wouldn’t mind going to jail if I had three cellmates who played bridge

Any time you see a white guy in jail, you know he did something bad.

Almost makes you want to go to jail out here, doesn't it?

If I didn't self-censor, I would be in jail, and then I wouldn't be effective at all.

Even after facing jail, Martin Luther King, Jr. courageously and boldly spoke out against racial inequality.

Release is not the same as liberation. You get out of jail, all right, but you never stop being condemned.

When you spend your life taking care of mudmen, you can't help getting a little dirty yourself.

If you're low-income in the United States, you have a higher chance of going to jail than you do of getting a four-year degree. And that doesn't seem entirely fair.

I love you" he said. I did not say anything. What could I say? If i said i love you too, i had perpetual punishment for being a liar.

That’s the ironic thing about time, Doc. One the one hand, we don’t have much of it for this, but it’s all I have in here.

When you're in jail, a good friend will be trying to bail you out. A best friend will be in the cell next to you saying, 'Damn, that was fun'.

Power does not pardon, power punishes.

To be sentenced to jail because of your faith in God is to let you know the degree of darkness in that particular society

I was kind of excited to go to jail for the first time and I learnt some great dialogue.

I also did some jail time a few years ago. Spent a whole summer in jail reading books. I pumped a ton of new knowledge and new thinking into myself.

Hate will cause you to "catch a case". Release yourself from your own personal jail before you are put in the real one for life! It ain't worth it!!

We have glorified wealth and freedom so much that it is impossible for most of us to truly believe that a man can truly be happy in a shack or within the confines of a prison cell.

We know through painful experience that freedom is never voluntarily given by the oppressor

The real purpose of the opposition is to minimize the amount of money the ruling party will have stolen from the people at the end of its term.

Looks sure can be deceiving: not every ‘ugly’ person is a ‘bad’ person (or is guilty of whatever it is that they are accused of).

A prisoner should know that there are thousands of imprisoned freemen living in this world…jailed in their own society, handcuffed by duties..