Jail Quotes
637 Jail quotes by 498 unique authors
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I know people who've gone to jail. It don't mean you stop loving them! They deservin' love just as much in there, and maybe they…
— Alicia Keys
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Clinton has more important things to worry about. He not only risks being destroyed historically, like Afghanistan's Buddha statues; he also could end up going…
— Ed Koch
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A lot of guys in jail tattoo their hands.
— Daniel Day-Lewis
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I was called a terrorist yesterday, but when I came out of jail, many people embraced me, including my enemies, and that is what I…
— Nelson Mandela
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Before I went to jail, I was active in politics as a member of South Africa's leading organization - and I was generally busy from…
— Nelson Mandela
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Jails and prisons are the complement of schools; so many less as you have of the latter, so many more must you have of the…
— Horace Mann
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I'm enjoying prison ministry, particularly with the women in Hudson County Jail who have suffered tremendously in their lives.
— James McGreevey
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The penalty for laughing in a courtroom is six months in jail; if it were not for this penalty, the jury would never hear the…
— H. L. Mencken
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Addiction should never be treated as a crime. It has to be treated as a health problem. We do not send alcoholics to jail in…
— Ralph Nader
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You can jail a Revolutionary, but you can't jail the Revolution.
— Huey Newton
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If it wasn't for my sport and my father, I'd probably be a fallen statistic. I'd be dead; I'd be in jail. Luckily, I had…
— Apolo Ohno
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They still don't want to admit to the world that this isn't the best and the fairest and most equal justice system. And that they…
— Leonard Peltier
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Statistics say that I'm supposed to be in jail. And I'm not supposed to be alive.
— Tyler Perry
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The voice I have now, I got the first time I sang in a movement meeting, after I got out of jail... and I'd never…
— Bernice Johnson Reagon
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I will be really happy once I have done my jail time. I can start fresh.
— Nicole Richie
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Every time the liberals pass a bill - I don't care what it involves - they stick criminal sanctions on it. They don't feel there…
— Pat Robertson
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There is no more independence in politics than there is in jail.
— Will Rogers
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I just spent 11 and a half months in a maximum-security jail, got shot five times, and was wrongly convicted of a crime I didn't…
— Tupac Shakur
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I don't have to talk about whether or not I got raped in jail.
— Tupac Shakur
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What I learned in jail is that I can't change. I can't live a different lifestyle - this is it. This is the life that…
— Tupac Shakur
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Sending Paris Hilton to jail for being the most loathed celeprosy lesion in the history of the species seems like a happening idea at first…
— Rob Sheffield
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My skin is more beautiful than yours. I would be quite more popular in jail if I so chose.
— Gene Simmons
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If a dad does his job, we don't need prisons, we don't need jails. That's what I saw growing up.
— Mike Singletary
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I don't want to send them to jail. I want to send them to school.
— Adlai E. Stevenson
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I was interested by the idea that artists working in a totalitarian dictatorship or tsarist autocracy are secretly and slightly shamefully envied by artists who…
— Tom Stoppard
Who Wrote These Jail Quotes
498 authors contributed a total of 637 Jail Quotes, led by these top contributors: