Jail Quotes

I don't want this to be a distraction. This has been distracting enough. I'm not going to rehash this going forward. I'm…

— Jayson Werth

Jail is definitely not cool. Education is.

— Ja Rule

Yesterday's truth is today's bullshit. Even yesterday's liberating insight is today's jail of stale explanation.

— Brad Blanton

[As in the case of] alcohol prohibition, illegality has driven organized crime, sent countless people to jail, and killed many thousands. Repression…

— Sam Branson

“Do not fear ARREST. Why? Because, there is REST at the end of each AR"REST"; either in jail or in the grave.…

— Opoong Amankwaa

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

— William J. Clinton

They would almost throw the cops in jail when they tried to arrest me.

— Lawrence Taylor

a TEN-YEAR-OLD lad in Indianapolis who was arrested for picking up coal along the side of railroad tracks is now in jail.…

— Mother Jones

Those type of whites who are always going to jail with Negroes are the ones who tell Negroes to be loving and…

— Malcolm X

I am surprised that many people disregard the fact that the end for almost all drug dealers ends up being the cemetery…

— Juan Pablo Escobar

As we go on with our lives we tend to forget that the jails and the hospitals and the madhouses and the…

— Charles Bukowski

When I produced Spartacus, the writer was Dalton Trumbo, who spent a year in jail because he would not answer McCarthy's questions…

— Kirk Douglas

I take no pleasure in seeing DeLay swing gently in the wind. But the thing I believe in the most is ethics.…

— Tom DeLay

I've said many of my friends are in jail; some already died.

— Richarlison

Very early in my childhood I associated poverty, toil, unemployment, drunkenness, cruelty, quarreling, fighting, debts, jail with large families.

— Margaret Sanger

I think that compared to other politicians who have been put in jail in the past, compared to the human-rights activists in…

— Joshua Wong

I just put myself in a hotel and was smoking coke for a while. Then I met up with the wrong people.…

— Marc Wallice

For our kids to go to school, they must be alive, and for adults to work, they must not be in jail.

— DeRay Mckesson

I'm in jail because people wanna keep me in jail. It ain't got nothing to do with the law.

— Charles Manson

But when we have families, when we have children, this gives us a purpose for being, to protect our children, to avoid…

— Ernie Hudson

The value of a dollar is to buy just things; a dollar goes on increasing in value with all the genius and…

— Ralph Waldo Emerson

“The thing that give me the mos' trouble was, it didn' make no sense. You don't look for no sense when lightnin'…

— John Steinbeck

'Nobody goes to jail.' This is the mantra of the financial-crisis era, one that saw virtually every major bank and financial company…

— Matt Taibbi

“Looks sure can be deceiving: not every ‘ugly’ person is a ‘bad’ person (or is guilty of whatever it is that they…

— Mokokoma Mokhonoana

You frequently ask, where are the friends of your childhood, and urge that they shall be brought back to you. As far…

— Stephen Leacock