Jail Quotes

637 quotes by 498 authors

There are good reasons for being in jail - for protesting. — Tracy Chapman
Jail is definitely not cool. Education is. — Ja Rule
Creativity can release you from the limitations that the world has constructed around you; the everyday, mundane, 9-5 jail cell where everybody is waiting for… — Robert LaSardo
Jail was a result of me not taking time for myself. So I was forced to take some time for myself. — Christian Slater
Lots of people think I went to prison. I never went to prison. I was in jail without bail. — Bobby Seale
I remember the moment when it hit me. I was walking down Amsterdam Avenue on the Upper West Side, and it felt like I was… — Matisyahu
When I was 16 or 17, I saw Lenny Bruce being taken to jail. They took him off stage because he talked about race. — Paul Mooney
The U.S. tax code was written by A students. Every April 15, we have to pay somebody who got an A in accounting to keep… — P.J. O'Rourke
If you prosecute a CEO or other senior executive and send him or her to jail for committing a crime, the deterrent effect in my… — Jed S. Rakoff
My years in jail were a bit like a workshop for my - that actually forged my way of thinking and my values. — Jose Mujica
Neil Armstrong was no Christopher Columbus. In most respects, he was better. Unlike the famous fifteenth century seafarer, Armstrong knew where he landed. He also… — Seth Shostak
I grew up in Brownsville; most of the kids I grew up with went to jail, not Yale. If they had heard of Yale, they… — Mitch Leigh
As an independent person, I find it difficult being dependent for everything, for even my food and medicine, to the prison authorities. I have had… — Asif Ali Zardari
What can I do if everyone from the president to a junior bureaucrat is dying to convict me. If I am such a criminal, what… — Asif Ali Zardari
Sometimes going to jail is just the price you have to pay for social reform or social change. — Paul Watson
Nelson Mandela went to jail believing in violence, and 27 years later he and his colleagues had slowly and carefully honed the skills, the incredible… — Scilla Elworthy
Clearly Google is searching for a way to do business in China that avoids them sending someone to jail over an e-mail. — Rebecca MacKinnon
Even after facing jail, Martin Luther King, Jr. courageously and boldly spoke out against racial inequality. — Yvette Clarke
I think there are too many people in jail for too long and for not necessarily good reasons. — Eric Holder
Smart on Crime says if you commit violent crimes, you should go to jail, and go to jail for extended periods of time. For people… — Eric Holder

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