Jail Quote by Douglas Coupland Download Open image “We're rapidly approaching a world comprised entirely of jail and shopping.” — Douglas Coupland ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 2.5 out of 5 (3 ratings) Copy quoteShare Jail Shopping World
The whole earth is in jail and we're plotting this incredible jailbreak. — Wavy Gravy Copy Share Image
Jail is just another micro-society. It just happens that here, the problems are far more out in the open, we don't live with the… — Cecily McMillan Copy Share Image
Enormous and growing parts of the population are basically superfluous for profit-making purposes. Along with this, the jail population is increasing very rapidly; it's… — Noam Chomsky Copy Share Image
We need prisons because there are some hardcore criminals, but I never met a guy who has been in jail that came out with… — Tahar Rahim Copy Share Image
On a planet that increasingly resembles one huge Maximum Security prison, the only intelligent choice is to plan a jail break. — Robert Anton Wilson Copy Share Image
“The percentage of drug arrests that result in prison sentences (rather than dismissal, community service, or probation) has quadrupled, resulting in a prison-building boom… — Michelle Alexander Copy Share Image
I believe we are nearing a time when a combination of technology and radical thinking will make it possible for much more intensive and… — David Gauke Copy Share Image
One of the things about jail that's weird is that you're sent to a place where you're supposed to sit there and think about… — Lane Garrison Copy Share Image
With breathtaking rapidity, we are destroying all that was lovely to look at and turning America into a prison house of the spirit. The… — Eric Sevareid Copy Share Image
And in your new lives you'll have to live entirely for that one sensation-that of imminent truth. And you're going to have to holler… — Douglas Coupland Copy Share Image
A man in a bookstore buys a book on loneliness and every woman in the store hits on him. A woman buys a book… — Douglas Coupland Copy Share Image
Do you remember how you felt at seventeen? I do and I don't (...) Imagine you came from outer space and someone showed you… — Douglas Coupland Copy Share Image
“But Dag, for all of his efforts, might as well have been talking to a cat. Our parents’ generation seems neither able nor interested… — Douglas Coupland Copy Share Image
Negative? Moi? I think realistic might be a better word. You mean to tell me we can drive all the way here from L.A.… — Douglas Coupland Copy Share Image
It was pivotal in making you but you don't remember it. Or do you? Do we understand the events that make us who we… — Douglas Coupland Copy Share Image
Your ability to rationalize your own bad deeds makes you believe that the whole world is as amoral as you are. — Douglas Coupland Copy Share Image
“I like to go beach-combing, and I like to find interestingly shaped rocks. When I really get into the groove I start finding beautiful… — Douglas Coupland Copy Share Image
“You know, Dag and Claire smile a lot, as do many people I know. But I always wondered if there is something either mechanical… — Douglas Coupland Copy Share Image
Brain research tells us that only twenty percent of human beings have a sense of irony, which means that eighty percent of the world… — Douglas Coupland Copy Share Image
I don't want this to be a distraction. This has been distracting enough. I'm not going to rehash this going forward. I'm sure other… — Jayson Werth Copy Share Image
Yesterday's truth is today's bullshit. Even yesterday's liberating insight is today's jail of stale explanation. — Brad Blanton Copy Share Image
[As in the case of] alcohol prohibition, illegality has driven organized crime, sent countless people to jail, and killed many thousands. Repression does not… — Sam Branson Copy Share Image
“Do not fear ARREST. Why? Because, there is REST at the end of each AR"REST"; either in jail or in the grave. The wisest… — Opoong Amankwaa Copy Share Image
They would almost throw the cops in jail when they tried to arrest me. — Lawrence Taylor Copy Share Image
a TEN-YEAR-OLD lad in Indianapolis who was arrested for picking up coal along the side of railroad tracks is now in jail. If the… — Mother Jones Copy Share Image
Those type of whites who are always going to jail with Negroes are the ones who tell Negroes to be loving and be kind… — Malcolm X Copy Share Image
I am surprised that many people disregard the fact that the end for almost all drug dealers ends up being the cemetery or the… — Juan Pablo Escobar Copy Share Image
As we go on with our lives we tend to forget that the jails and the hospitals and the madhouses and the graveyards are… — Charles Bukowski Copy Share Image
When I produced Spartacus, the writer was Dalton Trumbo, who spent a year in jail because he would not answer McCarthy's questions about other… — Kirk Douglas Copy Share Image