Jail Quotes

637 Jail quotes by 498 unique authors

Jail threats did not dissuade Martin Luther King - and intergenerational justice is a moral issue of comparable magnitude to civil rights. — James Hansen
So Columbus said, somebody show me the sunset and somebody did and he set sail for it, And he discovered America and they put him… — Ogden Nash
My occupation now, I suppose, is jail inmate. — Theodore Kaczynski
People have a right to protest; they have a right to make their opinion. They can be very upset about what they consider to be… — Rudy Giuliani
I was pretty much a mess out of primary school. I really experienced a lot more of that stuff from the ages of seven to… — Charlize Theron
The hero is not fed on sweets, Daily his own heart he eats; Chambers of the great are jails, And head-winds right for royal sails. — Ralph Waldo Emerson
The attempt to make the consumption of beer criminal is as silly and as futile as if you passed a law to send a man… — Stephen Leacock
Journalists don't need a get-out-of-jail-free card, ... Instead we should be given more access to information. — Chris Powell
Some statesmen go to Congress and some go to jail. It is the same thing, after all. — Eugene Field
I take no pleasure in seeing DeLay swing gently in the wind. But the thing I believe in the most is ethics. If someone has… — Tom DeLay
It's like being on Death Row in an American jail. You are waiting for the door handle to turn, not knowing whether it's a reprieve… — Howard Wilkinson
Getting caught masturbating sucks. I got caught masturbating in jail 7 or 8 times, it really sucks. — Ricky Martin
But when we have families, when we have children, this gives us a purpose for being, to protect our children, to avoid going to jail… — Ernie Hudson
. . . the solution is not to toss youthful offenders into jail or prisons. We long ago recognized alcoholism to be a disease, and… — Tom McCall
Every beggar shall be arrested. But to arrest a beggar merely in order to put him in jail would be barbarous and absurd. He should… — Napoleon Bonaparte
My theory is that everything went to hell with Prohibition, because it was a law nobody could obey. So the whole concept of the rule… — Orson Welles
I know from my own education that if I hadn't encountered two or three individuals that spent extra time with me, I'm sure I would… — Steve Jobs
This country has nothing to fear from the crooked man who fails. We put him in jail. It is the crooked man who succeeds who… — Theodore Roosevelt
Song, songs kept them going and going; They didn't realize the millions of seeds they were sowing. They were singing in marches, even singing in… — Pete Seeger
There are more African Americans under correctional control, in prison or jail, on probation or parole, than were enslaved in 1850 a decade before the… — Michelle Alexander
Our prisons and our jails are now our mental health institutions — Hillary Clinton
Presently I shall be introduced as 'this venerable old gentleman' and the axe will fall when they raise me to the degree of 'grand old… — Stephen Leacock
You frequently ask, where are the friends of your childhood, and urge that they shall be brought back to you. As far as I am… — Stephen Leacock
Unfortunately I've been to jail a couple times. Anytime I come in it's difficult to make music, write songs. — Gucci Mane
Prison continues, on those who are entrusted to it, a work begun elsewhere, which the whole of society pursues on each individual through innumerable mechanisms… — Michel Foucault

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