Jail Quotes

637 Jail quotes by 498 unique authors

At Kansas City, Kansas, before the saloons were closed, they were getting ready to build an addition to the jail. Now the doors swing idly… — Billy Sunday
'Nobody goes to jail.' This is the mantra of the financial-crisis era, one that saw virtually every major bank and financial company on Wall Street… — Matt Taibbi
You know what an effective deterrent to crime is? Jail! And do you know what kind of criminal penalty actually makes people think twice about… — Matt Taibbi
I was kind of excited about going to jail the first time and I learnt some great dialogue. — Quentin Tarantino
I was in chemical jail. — James Taylor
So what really works? Treatments in jail do some good, but it's mostly too late: finding a family and a job or just growing older… — Polly Toynbee
Yanukovych has changed everything in Ukrainian jails - real criminals have been released, while representatives of the middle class and politically rebellious free-minded people have… — Yulia Tymoshenko
The Founding Fathers in their wisdom decided that children were an unnatural strain on parents. So they provided jails called schools, equipped with tortures called… — John Updike
I've never been arrested in my life. Never had cuffs put on me, never been charged with a crime, never spent one day in jail. — Jesse Ventura
Jail didn't make me find God, He's always been there. They can lock me up, but my spirit and my love can never be confined… — Lil Wayne
We will not allow this day of the Martin Luther King, Jr. Memorial to go without somebody going to jail. — Cornel West
I used to always fight for human rights. I still fight for Leonard Peltier, who's spent 35 years in jail for a crime he didn't… — Vivienne Westwood
On a planet that increasingly resembles one huge Maximum Security prison, the only intelligent choice is to plan a jail break. — Robert Anton Wilson
A man will be imprisoned in a room with a door that's unlocked and opens inwards; as long as it does not occur to him… — Ludwig Wittgenstein
If I wanted to develop a scenario to destroy America, I would do what the Republicans are doing. Take the brightest and best young black… — Andrew Young
Like civil-rights protesters who sang rousing hymns as they were carried off to jail, Twitterers are bearing witness to what's happening around them, and calling… — Douglas Rushkoff
The highways are crowded with people who drive as if their sole purpose in getting behind the wheel is to avenge every wrong done them… — Hunter S. Thompson
If someone were to harm my family or a friend or somebody I love, I would eat them. I might end up in jail for… — Johnny Depp
...and every Wednesday the perfumed young lady slips me a hundred-crown note to leave her alone with the convict. And by Thursday the hundred crowns… — Italo Calvino
The public school system is not about educating black children. Never has been. Inner-city schools are about social control. Period. They’re operated as holding pens—miniature… — Barack Obama
You never get it right, you people, do you? Either we've got Fudge, pretending everything's lovely while people get murdered right under his nose, or… — Joanne Kathleen Rowling
What would Kathy say if she knew I let the whole crew eat those Oreos when they never did eat their carrot sticks (which I… — Dean Hughes
It is said that no one truly knows a nation until one has been inside its jails. A nation should not be judged by how… — Nelson Mandela
Every time you stop a school, you will have to build a jail. What you gain at one end you lose at the other. It's… — Mark Twain
No, that's not possible," Michael said. "Killed, yes; jail, no. — Mario Puzo

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