Jail Quotes

637 quotes by 498 authors

There is no higher claim to journalistic integrity than going to jail to protect a source. — Thomas Frank
Every friend of freedom must be as revolted as I am by the prospect of turning the United States into an armed camp, by the… — Milton Friedman
Where is the justice of political power if it executes the murderer and jails the plunderer, and then itself marches upon neighboring lands, killing thousands… — Khalil Gibran
My mom and dad passed away from cancer. Within nine months, I lost both of my folks. Immediately after that, I had a horrible betrayal… — Dane Cook
The Queen of Crafts herself, Martha Stewart, and I have the same birthday. I prefer to think it's the glue-gun wielding, perfect-tart-producing Martha and not… — Sloane Crosley
If you can manipulate news, a judge can manipulate the law. A smart lawyer can keep a killer out of jail, a smart accountant can… — Mario Cuomo
Jails and prisons are designed to break human beings, to convert the population into specimens in a zoo - obedient to our keepers, but dangerous… — Angela Davis
Tom DeLay ought to go back to Houston where he can serve his jail sentence. — Howard Dean
I used to help my granddaddy make sausage. He would mix it up in a cleaned-out washtub with his hands, no gloves. Man, if we… — Jimmy Dean
The beauty, the poetry of the fear in their eyes. I didn't mind going to jail for, what, five, six hours? It was absolutely worth… — Johnny Depp
Be thine own palace, or the world's thy jail. — John Donne
Federal prison, if you get any of it, you're going to have to do 85% of it. And the reason why I called it that… — Mike Epps
People don't understand that where I come from, everyone is either a convict, been in jail, been in a gang, is a hooligan of some… — Lupe Fiasco
Football is, after all, a wonderful way to get rid of your aggressions without going to jail for it. — Woody Hayes
If you do things, whether it's acting or music or painting, do it without fear - that's my philosophy. Because nobody can arrest you and… — Anthony Hopkins
There are not enough jails, not enough police, not enough courts to enforce a law not supported by the people. — Hubert H. Humphrey
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… — Jesse Jackson
People internalize, from the jail to student loan debt, to credit card debt, to unemployment to the whole collective. It manifests itself in many ways,… — Jesse Jackson
There's great disparity between who goes to college and who goes to jail. Who lives long and who dies prematurely, is the defining issue of… — Jesse Jackson
I've never been to jail. I've never been arrested. I've never been locked up. — Samuel L. Jackson

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