Jail Quotes

637 Jail quotes by 498 unique authors

Jefferson thought schools would produce free men: we prove him right by putting dropouts in jail. — Benjamin Barber
My dad went to jail for a long time. We lost everything, and the situation never resolved itself. My parents had this sort of passionate,… — Natalia Kills
Crimes were committed to punish crimes, and crimes were committed to prevent crimes. The world has been filled with prisons and dungeons, with chains and… — Robert Green Ingersoll
Your notions of friendship are new to me; I believe every man is born with his quantum, and he cannot give to one without robbing… — Jonathan Swift
I don't know how a judge can concentrate on being fair and impartial when he or she is faced with possible jail time for making… — Sandra Day O'Connor
Forty years ago, we were on the tail of the Front Page era. There was a different point of view. Reporters and editors were more… — Mike Royko
Jail doesn't teach anyone to do good, nor Siberia, but a man-yes! A man can teach another man to do good-believe me! — Maxim Gorky
To long for that which comes not. To lie a-bed and sleep not. To serve well and please not. To have a horse that goes… — John Florio
We're rapidly approaching a world comprised entirely of jail and shopping. — Douglas Coupland
In Vietnam we have no political prisoners. No one is arrested or jailed for his or her speech or point of view. They are put… — Nong ?uc Manh
Cop comes down the street crazy as a loon, he throws us in jail for carrying harpoons. — Bob Dylan
I think there is a heritage which I'm proud of, which is a fight for democracy, a fight for social justice, a fight for freedom.… — George Papandreou
I don't trust Santa Barbara as far as I can spit. I am afraid that if I went back there, it's possible that I could… — Randy Quaid
All of North Korea is a jail. — Kim Young-sam
I shot a couple of movies in jail, but I was never in jail. — Tom Sizemore
I happen to be pretty productive when I am in jail. When you are in jail, you have to spend more time with yourself. — Pramoedya Ananta Toer
I saw an Elvis Presley movie Jailhouse Rock, where he gets out of jail and makes his own records and takes them to the radio… — Bobby Vinton
I don't think the alternative to Yale is jail by any means. On the other hand, there is a mass of research that does show… — Derek Bok
From the air, Vatican City looked like a marble Monopoly set. The Church owned all the property from Broadwalk to Illinois Avenue, has three hotels… — Tom Robbins
Sometimes people have sympathized with me because long years of my life were spent in jail and in exile. Well, those years ... were a… — Sukarno
You know, don't tell anybody I'm a jail bird, you know, but there were a bunch of us that were years ago involved in the… — Todd Akin
But the single overwhelming reason why jails are bursting is longer sentences given for more crimes. — Polly Toynbee
But if you go over the line, you don't want to get stuck in a Nevada State court room. Honestly, because Nevada has been doing… — James Belushi
Criminals look at identity theft and say only 1 in 700 criminals gets convicted of it. And they look at check forgery and they know… — Frank Abagnale
I want to see somebody go to jail over the financial crisis and not just black, brown and poor whites over humbles and minor drug… — Don Cheadle

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