Jail Quotes · Page 16

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

— Warren Buffett

It's just not normal when one after another opposition politician ends up in jail.

— Vitali Klitschko

Branding jails corporate America, but honesty sets entrepreneurs free.

— James Altucher

I went to jail at 16 for stealing tires off Cadillacs. When I got out I said, Never again.

— Barry White

A petty thief is put in jail. A great brigand becomes a ruler of a Nation.

— Zhuangzi

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

— Ray Davies

I'm a warrior, I went into jail for the drama. I'm the story of the terrorist cell of Osama

— Vinnie Paz

What? You’d dare drink right after getting out of jail for intoxication?” That’s when you need a drink the most.

— Charles Bukowski

I think there should be a law - and I know this is extreme - that no one can have a gun…

— Rosie O'Donnell

Holding people presumed to be innocent in jail pre-trial simply because they cannot afford to pay their bail extracts huge human and…

— Stan Van Gundy

I went to jail for a year when I was 17. When I got out, my mother took me to the recruiting…

— Charlie Murphy

Spending time in jail really helped me stay away from what my brother did because I got a taste of jail time.…

— John Starks

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

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…

— Bill Hicks

Every nation-state tends towards the imperial - that is the point. Through banks, armies, secret police, propaganda, courts and jails, treaties, taxes,…

— Daniel Berrigan

There is an old Arabic proverb, 'When the king puts the poet on his payroll, he cuts off the tongue of the…

— Pete Seeger

Of course in this age of colorblindness, a time when we have supposedly moved "beyond race," we as a nation would feel…

— Michelle Alexander

A woman woke in the middle of the night to find her husband missing from their bed. She got out of bed…

— Harriet Morgan

An athlete gets paid a lot of money. And someone who is after that, a thief, a mugger or someone who steals…

— Luke Scott

When you screw up, you got to pay the price. Shoot up a supermarket, you go to jail. Ride a motorcycle without…

— Christopher Titus

We are Born like this Into this Into these carefully mad wars Into the sight of broken factory windows of emptiness Into…

— Charles Bukowski

When people ask me about drugs and alcohol, I say "Yeah, I went to rehab, I went to a mental hospital, I've…

— Marilyn Manson

Now here's somebody who wants to smoke a marijuana cigarette. If he's caught, he goes to jail. Now is that moral? Is…

— Milton Friedman

I was struggling at Rookie Camp to be quite honest with you. Basically, it was a week of being locked down like…

— Andrew Bogut

A man who goes to jail for his ideas is much freer than his keepers.

— Mikis Theodorakis

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

— Ilona Andrews

I will gladly go to jail in the name of free speech. I have no problem with what I said. Make me…

— Joey Barton

You should never think like 'You go to jail and you come home a G.' Because it only takes one mistake for…

— Boosie

“The rabbi glanced over glumly from behind the jail bars. 'My faith in God is fine,' he said. 'It's people I'm not…

— Richard Fliegel

Had Mother Nature been a real parent, she would have been in jail for child abuse and murder.

— Nick Bostrom

Jefferson thought schools would produce free men: we prove him right by putting dropouts in jail.

— Benjamin Barber

But the single overwhelming reason why jails are bursting is longer sentences given for more crimes.

— Polly Toynbee

I have prosecuted very serious criminals who are now serving very long jail sentences.

— Keir Starmer

But if by some freak of history communism had caught up with this country, I would have been one of the first…

— Pete Seeger

I feel like you don't have to go through jail, that's not part of bein' a man.

— Gucci Mane

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

— Henry David Thoreau

Taking the game away is probably the closest thing to jail that I'll get to.

— O. J. Mayo

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

— Tim DeChristopher

If the newspapers of a country are filled with good news, the jails of that country will be filled with good people.

— Daniel Patrick Moynihan

It was better to be in a jail where you could bang the walls than in a jail you could not see.

— Carson McCullers