Jail Quotes
637 quotes by 517 authors
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An athlete gets paid a lot of money. And someone who is after that, a thief, a mugger or someone who steals from people, they…
— Luke Scott
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Steve Jobs, the pioneer of the computer as a jail made cool, designed to sever fools from their freedom, has died.
— Richard Stallman
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School is a twelve-year jail sentence where bad habits are the only curriculum truly learned.
— John Taylor Gatto
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If you are ever going to lie, you go to jail for the lie rather than the crime. So believe me, don't ever lie.
— Richard M. Nixon
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Marijuana is rejected all over the world. Damned. In England heroin is alright for out-patents, but marijuana? They'll put your ass in jail. I wonder…
— Lenny Bruce
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Every tiny molecule of Ash is in motion with my heat I am such a Lunatic that I am free even in Jail.
— Bhagat Singh
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Suppose . . . burglars had made entry into this . . . [library]. Picture them seated here on this floor, pouring the light of…
— Mark Twain
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Are you able to accept blows without retaliating?" and "Are you able to endure the ordeals of jail?"
— Martin Luther King, Jr.
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It is unconscionable that 10,000 boys have died in Vietnam. If 10,000 American women had mind enough they could end the war, if they were…
— Jeannette Rankin
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When I was in jail, I was a lot of people's favorite person. I practically ran the jail. I had more freedom than the police.
— Flavor Flav
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The letters from jail are always disconcerting.
— Eliza Dushku
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It's such a tragedy that man endures in killing his brother and his own kind, putting him in jail and insane asylums, letting him lay…
— Sun Ra
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If the Government is going to intrude upon the sacred ground of the First Amendment and tell its citizens that their exercise of protected speech…
— Ronald L. Buckwalter
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There are more fakers in business than in jail.
— Malcolm Forbes
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Let freedom ka-ching...Corporations do everything people do except breathe, die and go to jail for dumping 1.3 million pounds of PCBs in the Hudson River.
— Stephen Colbert
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The Bible says, 'The truth shall make you free.' But let's not forget it was Spiro Agnew who said that a good lie will keep…
— A. Whitney Brown
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Hit them in their personal lives, visit their homes . Actively target U.S. military establishments within the United States... strike hard and fast and retreat…
— Craig Rosebraugh
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The American Medical Association says the humane way is to let people starve and thirst to death. If you did that to an animal, youd…
— Jack Kevorkian
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I feel like somebody who just got out of prison after 40 years for something she didn't do, like I got pardoned by the governor.…
— Jennifer Finney Boylan
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It's not that I don't want to become famous or that I'm obsessed by my work as an actress, but it's all about not limiting…
— Sarah Polley
Who Wrote These Jail Quotes
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