Quotes about Jail

Being incarcerated is truly very serious, and it has changed my life to such an extent that breaking the cycle has become my sole focus. Jail is definitely not cool. Education is. Votes: 5

If it's illegal to rock and roll, throw my ass in jail! Votes: 4

I don't like jail, they got the wrong kind of bars in there. Votes: 4

If you want to know who your friends are, get yourself a jail sentence. Votes: 4

It sounds kind of strange, but Jail time was almost a good experience for me. Votes: 4

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 commit. Votes: 4

Nobody black had learned anything from the 'Letter from the Birmingham Jail' or from the 'I Have a Dream' speech. That was a revelation of white people. Votes: 4

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 to prison walls. Votes: 4

Jail's like school but you can't leave. Votes: 3

Jail is definitely not cool. Education is. Votes: 3

Jail is much easier on people who have nothing. Votes: 3

The only excuse for being broke is being in Jail. Votes: 3

Jail is no place for a young fellow. There's no advancement Votes: 3

Jail was probably the most exciting thing that's ever happened to me. Votes: 3

Jail and the streets go hand in hand. You can't have one with out the other. They coincide. Votes: 3

I'm enjoying prison ministry, particularly with the women in Hudson County Jail who have suffered tremendously in their lives. Votes: 3

Jail was a result of me not taking time for myself. So I was forced to take some time for myself. Votes: 3

Jail is a good experience but it has its drawbacks ... all the disadvantages of married life with none of its compensations ... Votes: 3

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! Votes: 3

Jail was preferable. There they only limited you physically. In a mental ward they tampered with your soul and worldview and mind. Votes: 3

Jail was preferable. There they only limited you physically. In a mental ward they tampered with your soul and worldview and mind." Votes: 3

Jail threats did not dissuade Martin Luther King - and intergenerational justice is a moral issue of comparable magnitude to civil rights. Votes: 3

Every tiny molecule of Ash is in motion with my heat I am such a Lunatic that I am free even in Jail. Votes: 3

Nobody black had learned anything from the Letter from the Birmingham Jail or from the I Have a Dream speech. That was a revelation of white people. Votes: 3

We must stop criminalizing mental illness. It's a national tragedy and scandal that the L.A. County Jail is the biggest psychiatric facility in the United States. Votes: 3

Jail-going is only the beginning, not the end of satyagraha. The acme of satyagraha for us would be to lay down our lives for the defence of India's just cause. Votes: 3

Manny Pacquiao I'm calling you out let's fight May 5th and give the world what they want to see. My Jail Sentence was pushed back because the date was locked in. Step up Punk. Votes: 3

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 facades of lies that democracy or capitalism creates for us. Votes: 3

I still don't have any crushes on actresses or models. It's always been one of those things with girlfriends. They say, "Who's on your list?" What do you call it, the Get Out of Jail Free card? Votes: 3

You can jail a Revolutionary, but you can't jail the Revolution. Votes: 2

There is no more independence in politics than there is in jail. Votes: 2

Every single person in jail for a violent crime had a nightmare childhood. Votes: 2

I don't have to talk about whether or not I got raped in jail. Votes: 2

I'd rather deal with Tipper than Bush. He's trying to kill everybody in jail. Votes: 2

Summon me, then; I will be the posse comitatus; I will take them to jail. Votes: 2

I will be really happy once I have done my jail time. I can start fresh. Votes: 2

The second time I went to jail, I was like, 'Okay, this is not the move.' Votes: 2

To put someone in jail for using drugs in the privacy of his hotel room is just barbaric. Votes: 2

I was kind of excited about going to jail the first time and I learnt some great dialogue. Votes: 2

My skin is more beautiful than yours. I would be quite more popular in jail if I so chose. Votes: 2

On a planet that increasingly resembles one huge Maximum Security prison, the only intelligent choice is to plan a jail break. Votes: 2

We'll try to cooperate fully with the IRS, because, as citizens, we feel a strong patriotic duty not to go to jail. Votes: 2

My years in jail were a bit like a workshop for my - that actually forged my way of thinking and my values. Votes: 2

Let me tell you something. Nobody goes to jail unless they want to. Unless they make themselves get caught. They don't have things organized. Votes: 2

It costs $30,000 to $50,000 per year to send someone to jail. You don't have to pay so much to send someone to school at Johns Hopkins. Votes: 2

Jails and prisons are designed to break human beings, to convert the population into specimens in a zoo - obedient to our keepers, but dangerous to each other. Votes: 2

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 to pull rather than push. Votes: 2

The U.S. tax code was written by A students. Every April 15, we have to pay somebody who got an A in accounting to keep ourselves from being sent to jail. Votes: 2

I was in jail four and a half years. When I came out, I continued the same struggle against injustice, but instead of using weapons, I began to use art and cinema. Votes: 2

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 in jail because they violated the law. Votes: 2

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 make most prisoners eventually give up crime. Votes: 2

There's a pattern when tours start - a pattern of infighting, of making up, of breaking up, of addiction. There's a pattern of going to jail. There's a pattern of passion for music. Votes: 2

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 it treats its highest citizens, but its lowest ones. Votes: 2

Am I a criminal? The world knows I'm not a criminal. What are they trying to put me in jail for? You've lost common sense in this society because of religious fanaticism and dogma. Votes: 2

If you or I fail at business, we fail. If we cheat and fail, we go to jail. But if you're rich and politically connected, your incompetence may be protected by a government bailout. Votes: 2

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 they gave and this is the life that I made. Votes: 2

Creativity can release you from the limitations that the world has constructed around you; the everyday, mundane, 9-5 jail cell where everybody is waiting for the weekend to party so they can get outside of their head. Votes: 2

I done wrestled with an alligator, I done tussled with a whale; handcuffed lightning, thrown thunder in jail; only last week, I murdered a rock, injured a stone, hospitalised a brick; I'm so mean I make medicine sick. Votes: 2

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 this country. Over 500,000 people are in our jails who are nonviolent drug users. Votes: 2

Parents who neglect their children, who don't know where they are, who don't know what they're doing, who don't know who they're hanging out with, you're gonna find yourselves spending some quality time with your kids, in jail, together. Votes: 2

I know not whether Laws be right, Or whether Laws be wrong; All that we know who be in jail Is that the wall is strong; And that each day is like a year, A year whose days are long. Votes: 2

I used to help my granddaddy make sausage. He would mix it up in a cleaned-out washtub with his hands, no gloves. Man, if we did anything like that today, they would jack the jail up and throw us under it. Votes: 2

My mom and dad passed away from cancer. Within nine months, I lost both of my folks. Immediately after that, I had a horrible betrayal where my brother, who worked for me, stole a lot of my money. He's in jail now. Votes: 2

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 are guilty of railroading people into jail. They don't want to, or never will, admit these things. Votes: 2

No man will be a sailor who has contrivance enough to get himself into a jail; for being in a ship is being in a jail, with the chance of being drowned... a man in a jail has more room, better food, and commonly better company. Votes: 2

Nelson Mandela went to jail believing in violence, and 27 years later he and his colleagues had slowly and carefully honed the skills, the incredible skills, that they needed to turn one of the most vicious governments the world has known into a democracy. And they did it in a total devotion to non-violence. Votes: 2

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 that for every 1,400 forgers arrested, only about 123 get convicted and about 26 go to jail. So the rewards are great, but the risks are very slim. So that's one of the reasons that make it very popular. Votes: 2

I was in chemical jail. Votes: 0

I should still be in jail. Votes: 0

Only poor people go to jail. Votes: 0

Term limits aren't enough. We need jail. Votes: 0

Buy health insurance, or go to jail. Votes: 0

All of North Korea is a jail. Votes: 0

The letters from jail are always disconcerting. Votes: 0

My occupation now, I suppose, is jail inmate. Votes: 0

There are more fakers in business than in jail. Votes: 0

It's awfully easy to be in love in jail Votes: 0

I am not in jail. There is no jail. Votes: 0

It's awfully easy to be in love in jail. Votes: 0

A lot of guys in jail tattoo their hands. Votes: 0

A world without open country would be universal jail. Votes: 0

I think every person should go to jail once. Votes: 0

Be thine own palace, or the world's thy jail. Votes: 0

Hillary Clinton should have been prosecuted and gone to jail. Votes: 0

And for each unharmful gentle soul misplaced inside a jail... Votes: 0

No, that's not possible," Michael said. "Killed, yes; jail, no. Votes: 0

We all hold the keys to our own jail cells. Votes: 0

You see, you can't put joblessness in a jail cell. Votes: 0

It was hell, hugging my Mama from a jail cell. Votes: 0

I don't want want to go to jail, I'm fragile. Votes: 0

Send me to jail in 48 hours if I am corrupt. Votes: 0

I did my time in the jail of your arms Votes: 0

... isn't breaking a supervillian out of jail a little ... much? Votes: 0

Eugene Debs entered jail a moderate Unionist and emerged a Socialist. Votes: 0

If we send industrialists to jail, we would be discouraging investment. Votes: 0

There are good reasons for being in jail - for protesting. Votes: 0

We're rapidly approaching a world comprised entirely of jail and shopping. Votes: 0

In a society of criminals, the innocent man goes to jail. Votes: 0

At nighttime, you just try to keep him out of jail. Votes: 0

Many people are living in an emotional jail without realizing it. Votes: 0

Shame is the turnkey that keeps our evil desires in jail. Votes: 0

Even going to jail would be easy compared to losing you. Votes: 0

People who go to jail breed people who go to jail. Votes: 0

If you don't go to highschool you will definately go to jail. Votes: 0

I am so mean I've handcuffed lightnin' and thrown thunder in jail. Votes: 0

The presumption of innocence only means you don't go right to jail. Votes: 0

Books won't stay banned. They won't burn. Ideas won't go to jail. Votes: 0

As horrible as jail was, there were some first-rate guys in there. Votes: 0

Books won't stay banned. They won't burn. Ideas won't go to jail Votes: 0

Jesus would be framed and in jail if he was living today. Votes: 0

Almost makes you want to go to jail out here, doesn't it? Votes: 0

I've come out of a small jail and entered a bigger one. Votes: 0

Your home is your jail, Bird. I'm going to set you free. Votes: 0

When the fear of jail disappears, repression puts heart into the people. Votes: 0

The whole earth is in jail and we're plotting this incredible jailbreak. Votes: 0

Being in jail, it's humbled me in a way I never imagined. Votes: 0

If you seek violence, we will seek to put you in jail. Votes: 0

Put all the pervs in jail, bring back the birch and cat-o-nine tails. Votes: 0

Rotten travesty. Yeah. Send me to jail for contempt. Try that. Go ahead. Votes: 0

Three years in jail is a good corrective for three years at Harvard. Votes: 0

I spent two months in a jail once. In a Mexican border town. Votes: 0

Every time you stop a school, you will have to build a jail. Votes: 0

If I went to jail, at least I wouldn't have to sign autographs. Votes: 0

If you ever feel so happy you land in jail, I'm your bail. Votes: 0

My little cousin Jimmy told me in jail he was a drag queen. Votes: 0

To stand up for truth is nothing. For truth, you must sit in jail. Votes: 0

We are imprisoning or giving jail sentences to young people who are smoking marijuana. Votes: 0

Addiction is a serious desease; it will end with jail, mental institutions, or death. Votes: 0

All these rappers on stage and Martha Stewart has done the most jail time. Votes: 0

Too many young African-American and Latino men ended up in jail for nonviolent offenses. Votes: 0

I wouldn't mind going to jail if I had three cellmates who played bridge Votes: 0

I shot a couple of movies in jail, but I was never in jail. Votes: 0

The law is what I can get away with and stay out of jail. Votes: 0

A man in a jail has more room, better food, and commonly better company Votes: 0

If you tell the truth all day long, you will end up in jail. Votes: 0

They would almost throw the cops in jail when they tried to arrest me. Votes: 0

Dallas is where Kennedy was shot, and that's where I was put in jail. Votes: 0

I mean I've never been thrown in jail in New York or Los Angeles. Votes: 0

The good thing about a jail show is nobody gets up and walks out. Votes: 0

I've never been to jail. I've never been arrested. I've never been locked up. Votes: 0

With random urinalysis, there's a clear choice - either get high or go to jail. Votes: 0

School is a twelve-year jail sentence where bad habits are the only curriculum truly learned. Votes: 0

He was removed from jail and placed in a place for the insensitive and insane. Votes: 0

Yesterday's truth is today's bullshit. Even yesterday's liberating insight is today's jail of stale explanation. Votes: 0

In jail I was just like everybody else, I was sitting there praying, feeling caged. Votes: 0

If a kid calls his grandma "Mommy" and his mama "Pam", he's going to jail! Votes: 0

Journalists don't need a get-out-of-jail-free card, ... Instead we should be given more access to information. Votes: 0

Tom DeLay ought to go back to Houston where he can serve his jail sentence. Votes: 0

There are more Negroes in jail with me than there are on the voting rolls. Votes: 0

I don't trust anyone that hasn't been to jail at least once in their life. Votes: 0

Getting caught masturbating sucks. I got caught masturbating in jail 7 or 8 times, it really sucks. Votes: 0

Being in a ship is being in a jail, with the chance of being drowned. Votes: 0

Any time you see a white guy in jail, you know he did something bad. Votes: 0

I don't want to send them to jail. I want to send them to school. Votes: 0

in the synagogue of my heart... I myself jail and the jailed, I go wounded, bite-marked Votes: 0

The death penalty is inhumane... whether that person is in a [jail] or it's bin Laden. Votes: 0

There are no unemployed, either in Russia or in Dartmoor jail, and for the same reason. Votes: 0

I went to jail. I looked like one of those savings-and-loan guys leaving the jail house. Votes: 0

OPIATE, n. An unlocked door in the prison of Identity. It leads into the jail yard. Votes: 0

A judge can manipulate the law. A smart lawyer can keep a killer out of jail. Votes: 0

Statistics say that I'm supposed to be in jail. And I'm not supposed to be alive. Votes: 0

There is no higher claim to journalistic integrity than going to jail to protect a source. Votes: 0

They spent the night in jail, where their progressive views on gay marriage served them well. Votes: 0

We have more people in jail than any other country in Earth, disproportionately Latino and African-American. Votes: 0

Writers in repressive societies are considered dangerous. That's why so many of them are in jail. Votes: 0

Jefferson thought schools would produce free men: we prove him right by putting dropouts in jail. Votes: 0

When we put someone in our jail cell of hatred, we are stuck guarding the door. Votes: 0

Do not help your jailers to pretend that their jail is your natural state of existence. Votes: 0

Even after facing jail, Martin Luther King, Jr. courageously and boldly spoke out against racial inequality. Votes: 0

A petty thief is put in jail. A great brigand becomes a ruler of a Nation. Votes: 0

If I wasn't a champion, I'd still be in jail. That makes me try very hard. Votes: 0

I'm always pleased that I managed to stay out of jail throughout my tenure in Chicago. Votes: 0

Being in jail is difficult too because it's like being in a graveyard, you can't do much. Votes: 0

I am satisfied with everything in my life. Including the fact that I spent time in jail. Votes: 0

The only difference between me and my fellow actors is that I've spent more time in jail. Votes: 0

The best way to learn a language may be an episode of jail in a foreign country. Votes: 0

Cop comes down the street crazy as a loon, he throws us in jail for carrying harpoons. Votes: 0

I went to jail for 11 days for disturbing the peace; I was trying to disturb the war. Votes: 0

Some statesmen go to Congress and some go to jail. It is the same thing, after all. Votes: 0

I don't play with a lot of finesse. I usually play like I'm breaking out of jail! Votes: 0

I built a jail in my closet and I would incarcerate my family from time to time. Votes: 0

Steal a little, and they put you in jail. Steal a lot, and they make you king. Votes: 0

If you have a drug problem, you should be sent to a doctor, not a jail cell. Votes: 0

I could have killed her when we first met and I've been out of jail by now. Votes: 0

Had Mother Nature been a real parent, she would have been in jail for child abuse and murder. Votes: 0

Putting a family member in jail is a good sign there is something seriously wrong in the home. Votes: 0

Are you able to accept blows without retaliating?" and "Are you able to endure the ordeals of jail?" Votes: 0

It seems like Michael Vick is going to jail for dog fighting. Hopefully, they won't have guard dogs. Votes: 0

He thinks he can use the jail for networking to be somebody. In that way, he's always operating. Votes: 0

And unless you think there is a serious chance you're going to jail, don't listen to your lawyer. Votes: 0

Sometimes going to jail is just the price you have to pay for social reform or social change. Votes: 0

I may be arrested, I may be tried and thrown into jail, but I never will be silent. Votes: 0

I think there are too many people in jail for too long and for not necessarily good reasons. Votes: 0

Given the way his night had been going so far, he didn't have time to go to jail. Votes: 0

A jail is just like a nutshell with a worm in it, the worm will always get out. Votes: 0

I went to jail at 16 for stealing tires off Cadillacs. When I got out I said, Never again. Votes: 0

There's no happy ending to cocaine. You either die, you go to jail, or else you run out. Votes: 0

You don't care if I'm guilty or not. You gonna make sure I go to jail for life. Votes: 0

And if I don't be there by morning, she'll know that I must've spent the night in jail. Votes: 0

Living a good life may keep you out of jail, but it cannot keep you out of hell. Votes: 0

The system was afraid of Vaclav Havel. And so they either harassed him for put him in jail. Votes: 0

I prefer to be in the grave in Colombia than in a jail cell in the United States. Votes: 0

In a way, a jail is a place where you can rest, read books and live with yourself. Votes: 0

Very early in my childhood I associated poverty, toil, unemployment, drunkenness, cruelty, quarreling, fighting, debts, jail with large families. Votes: 0

Kiefer Sutherland has agreed to serve 48 days in jail for his DUI convictions. That's 245 months in Jack Bauer years. Votes: 0

People were threatened, folks was put in jail just because we wanted people to try to register to vote. Votes: 0

Every time the Russians throw an American in jail, the Committee throws an American in jail to get even. Votes: 0

Freedom or jail clips inserted, a baby's being born/ Same time a man is murdered, the beginning and end. Votes: 0

From his moment of victory, a kinder, gentler Donald Trump - praise for the opponent he promised to jail. Votes: 0

Unfortunately I've been to jail a couple times. Anytime I come in it's difficult to make music, write songs. Votes: 0

I would never go to jail to protect animals or plants or wilderness. For me, it's about the people. Votes: 0

Football is, after all, a wonderful way to get rid of your aggressions without going to jail for it. Votes: 0

I'm a warrior, I went into jail for the drama. I'm the story of the terrorist cell of Osama Votes: 0

Lots of people think I went to prison. I never went to prison. I was in jail without bail. Votes: 0

I will stay in jail to the end of my days before I make a butchery of my conscience. Votes: 0

When large numbers of wholly innocent men are in jail, we may take it that Swaraj is at hand. Votes: 0

I'm gonna perform on one of the nights. Good clean fun; we're not going to jail. For the record. Votes: 0

I'm in jail because people wanna keep me in jail. It ain't got nothing to do with the law. Votes: 0

I shall be honored to go to jail. Under a dictatorship, the detention cell is a place of honor. Votes: 0

If you were summoned for jury duty and you didn't show up, what would happen? You'd be in jail! Votes: 0

If it was up to me, if you uttered the word 'gun control,' we'd put you in jail. Votes: 0

I was in jail when Medgar Evers was murdered and nothing, I mean nothing has been done about that. Votes: 0

I thought that was the crown jewel of the reporter's resume - to actually go to jail protecting a source. Votes: 0

I don't think we should be putting first-time drug offenders in jail for five years. It's a waste of resources. Votes: 0

Being a teacher is like being in jail; once it's on your record, you can never get rid of it. Votes: 0

We will not allow this day of the Martin Luther King, Jr. Memorial to go without somebody going to jail. Votes: 0

You can kill a revolutionary but you can't kill revolution...you can jail a liberator but you can't jail liberation. Votes: 0

I've got to formulate a plot or end up in jail or shot, success is my only option, failure's not. Votes: 0

Miguelito, liberated from having to sing with Cugat, sounds like he just got out of jail and is letting it rip. Votes: 0

I'm a substitute mom." "You're more like a crazy aunt who only gets called when somebody needs bailing out of jail. Votes: 0

How do you think jail was?! I got face raped by a woman... and I think I may have liked it. Votes: 0

Steve Jobs, the pioneer of the computer as a jail made cool, designed to sever fools from their freedom, has died. Votes: 0

If your boss is getting you down, look at him through the prongs of a fork and imagine him in jail. Votes: 0

I wanted to look at how people deal with death ... Why is Henry Kissinger not in jail and Charles Manson is? Votes: 0

My mom used to get arrested for being with my dad. She would get fined. She would spend weekends in jail. Votes: 0

If I wrote something that hadn't really happened, and I tried to sell it, I could go to jail. That's fraud! Votes: 0

How great a life is this? To get to knock guys' heads off for 60 minutes and not get thrown in jail? Votes: 0

I will probably go to jail, but do you know what? There's a lot of good people who go to jail. Votes: 0

Morality may keep you out of jail, but it takes the blood of Jesus Christ to keep you out of hell. Votes: 0

My attitude these days is, if you write a bad song, what are they gonna do, throw you in songwriter jail? Votes: 0

Clearly Google is searching for a way to do business in China that avoids them sending someone to jail over an e-mail. Votes: 0

I would rather a thousand times be a free soul in jail than to be a sycophant and coward in the streets. Votes: 0

In Canada you can still settle things with your fists. If there's a fight in a bar, no one goes to jail. Votes: 0

There is always a chance that he who sets himself up as his brother's keeper will end up by being his jail-keeper. Votes: 0

If Barack Obama becomes the president in November again, I will either be dead or in jail by this time next year. Votes: 0

It costs a hell of a lot more money to put somebody in jail than send them to the University of Virginia. Votes: 0

When I was 16 or 17, I saw Lenny Bruce being taken to jail. They took him off stage because he talked about race. Votes: 0

Life is like a dice game; one roll could land you in jail, or cuttin' cake, blowin' kisses in the rice game. Votes: 0

It was better to be in a jail where you could bang the walls than in a jail you could not see. Votes: 0

Paris Hilton got 45 days in jail. A lot of people were upset about this - they were hoping for the death penalty. Votes: 0

"ŽWe are already taking care of people from jail. Hundred and ten non-criminal women are already with us in Shantidhan (abode of peace). Votes: 0

If, after obtaining Buddhahood, anyone in my land gets tossed in jail on a vagrancy rap, may I not attain highest perfect enlightenment. Votes: 0

If you make a mistake as a prosecutor, your mistakes go home, whereas if you make a mistake defending, they go to jail. Votes: 0

The justice system is flawed, and that just because you're overtly guilty doesn't actually mean you're actually going to go away, to jail. Votes: 0

And although I'm all for freedom of expression and against censorship, there are certain things I'm not willing to go to jail for. Votes: 0

If you are low income in the United States, you have a higher chance of going to jail than getting a 4-year degree. Votes: 0

WANTED: DEAD OR ALIVE: RAPUNZEL For horse thieving, kidnapping, jail breaking, and using her hair in a manner other than nature intended! REWARD Votes: 0

Facebook is like jail, you sit around and waste time, you write on walls and you get poked by people you don't know Votes: 0

You don't know how to handle anything today, because you have to go to jail to get some press or fall down drunk. Votes: 0

But all I could think of was taking some books to read in jail. I held everybody up, choosing which ones to take. Votes: 0

I was given an opportunity to join the marines instead of go to jail - and I think I made the correct decision. Votes: 0

I'm sorry I didn't go to jail for six months, then I know you could come to see me anytime you wanted to. Votes: 0

There is something fantastic about getting divorced. Everyone should do it to experience the extraordinary sense of freedom after being in marriage jail. Votes: 0

True freedom is always spiritual. It has something to do with your innermost being, which cannot be chained, handcuffed, or put into a jail. Votes: 0

He had done regular live concerts from San Quentin jail until the civil rights people got him under the Cruel and Unusual Punishment clause. Votes: 0

Never steal anything so small that you'll have to go to an unpleasant city jail for it instead of a minimum-security federal tennis prison. Votes: 0

What? You’d dare drink right after getting out of jail for intoxication?” That’s when you need a drink the most. Votes: 0

He who has never tasted jail Lives well within the legal pale, While he who's served a heavy sentence Renews the racket, not repentance." Votes: 0

As long as possible live free and uncommitted. It makes but little difference whether you are committed to a farm or the county jail. Votes: 0

You have an interesting set of morals," he observed. "Breaking out of jail is okay. But steal a car, and you sound totally outraged. Votes: 0

I'm a prosecutor first and foremost, and as a judge, I put people in jail for extended periods of time when that was appropriate. Votes: 0

You're like the thief who isn't the least bit sorry he stole, but is terribly, terribly sorry he's going to jail. - Rhett Butler Votes: 0

Right before I was escorted to the jail, Fawn waved bye bye to me. I smiled. My empty, pointless life for hers. Not bad. Votes: 0

If you are ever going to lie, you go to jail for the lie rather than the crime. So believe me, don't ever lie. Votes: 0

Nothing can excel a few days in jail for giving a young man or woman a quick education in the basis of industrial society. Votes: 0

I am a veteran, I fought in a war. I've been a prosecutor. I've sent people to jail for the rest of their life. Votes: 0

I happen to be pretty productive when I am in jail. When you are in jail, you have to spend more time with yourself. Votes: 0

[Friendships] are easy to get out of compared to love affairs, but they are not easy to get out of compared to, say, jail. Votes: 0

I will gladly go to jail in the name of free speech. I have no problem with what I said. Make me a martyr... Votes: 0

When I was in jail, I was a lot of people's favorite person. I practically ran the jail. I had more freedom than the police. Votes: 0

Nobody should be allowed to burn the American flag. If they do, there must be consequences, perhaps loss of citizenship or a year in jail. Votes: 0

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 commit. Votes: 0

When youre touring and the minute you tell someone that youre from Jersey its the equivalent of telling them you just got out of jail. Votes: 0

The smartest billionaires I know never finished high school. I got my degree and my doctorate on the street and an advanced degree in jail. Votes: 0

The only thing left for Barack Obama to do is to work like a third world dictator and just put all these guys in jail. Votes: 0

[As in the case of] alcohol prohibition, illegality has driven organized crime, sent countless people to jail, and killed many thousands. Repression does not work. Votes: 0

Max Askeli was a very courageous, principled man up to a point. He had left Italy before he was thrown in jail by [Francesco] Mussolini. Votes: 0

The kids growing up in the apartheid era were so restricted and angry - if they spoke out against it, they were thrown in jail. Votes: 0

Let freedom ka-ching...Corporations do everything people do except breathe, die and go to jail for dumping 1.3 million pounds of PCBs in the Hudson River. Votes: 0

Wall Street can never be allowed to threaten main street again. No bank can be too big to fail, no executive too powerful to jail. Votes: 0

People don't understand that you can actually lose your life going to jail. There's more violence in the jail-house than there is on the streets. Votes: 0

I was appointed United States attorney on September 10, 2001. And I spent the next seven years of my career fighting terrorism and putting terrorists in jail. Votes: 0

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. Votes: 0

If our government servants had to comply with the Sarbanes-Oxley Act as they have forced all of American business to do, they would be in jail. Votes: 0

School is a twelve-year jail sentence where bad habits are the only curriculum truly learned. I teach school and win awards doing it. I should know. Votes: 0

If one man tells you to murder, you get a jail cell - if another man tells you to murder, you get medals and a pension. Votes: 0

Being in love is better than being in jail, a dentist's chair, or a holding pattern over Philadelphia, but not if he doesn't love you back. Votes: 0

I support decriminalisation. People are smoking pot anyway and to make them into criminals is wrong. It's when you're in jail you really become a criminal. Votes: 0

In my younger days, I was arrogant - jail helped me to get rid of it. I did nothing but make enemies because of my arrogance. Votes: 0

When a person goes to a country and finds their newspapers filled with nothing but good news, he can bet there are good men in jail. Votes: 0

The beauty, the poetry of the fear in their eyes. I didn't mind going to jail for, what, five, six hours? It was absolutely worth it. Votes: 0

I have nothing to lose by standing up and following my beliefs. So I'll go to jail, so what? We have been in jail for years. Votes: 0

A woman says to a man, "I haven't seen you around here." "Yes, I just got out of jail for killing my wife." "So you're single!" Votes: 0

And I had just kissed my ex-girlfriend, who had cried, while my current girlfriend was in jail. So far, it had not been my best day. Votes: 0

For me, soldiers are all equal. Those black people wore your same uniform, fought on your side, and so you will be in the same jail. Votes: 0

But if by some freak of history communism had caught up with this country, I would have been one of the first people thrown in jail. Votes: 0

Going to the trial was very tiring for me, but I did enjoy it better than sitting in a jail cell. That could be very monotonous. Votes: 0

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 beefs. Votes: 0

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 evidence. Votes: 0

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 pro-life movement. Votes: 0

When I was a kid, everybody in the neighborhood picked me to be the one in jail or be in the cemetery by the time I was 20. Votes: 0

And don't worry, if I get thrown in jail in Manila, Beyonce will just bail me out. Sold out night 2 in the Philippines. I love it here! Votes: 0

When people get out of jail, it is not easy for them to find a job. It is not easy for them to return to civil society. Votes: 0

I feel like the fellow in jail who is watching his scaffold being built." (On construction of reviewing stands for inauguration of his successor John F Kennedy) Votes: 0

I'm not a fugitive anymore. Never will be in the future. After spending five years in jail, you learn your lesson. I never want to return there. Votes: 0

Brother, you can't go to jail for what you're thinking, or that look in your eye, just standing on the corner watching all the girls go by. Votes: 0

Senator majority leader, Mitch McConnell, slammed [Donald] Trump`s comments about burning the American flag which is protected under the first amendment should lead to jail time. Votes: 0

When they put me in jail, that's when they turned me into an activist. Up until the time I went to jail, I was just a comedian. Votes: 0

I said something idiotic like, as [William] Shakespeare says, "Action is eloquence," and the judge just frowned at me and gave me a couple weeks in jail. Votes: 0

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 civil war began. Votes: 0

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 to jail. Votes: 0

Well... you know, I would wake up with a terrible hangover in a jail somewhere and worst part was that I would not know why I was there. Votes: 0

Now the British are coming. I think Cameron should ask the Chinese government not to make people 'disappear' or to jail them merely because they have different opinions. Votes: 0

A man who cannot be enticed by money or intimidated by the threat of jail or death has two of the strongest weapons that anyone has to offer. Votes: 0

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 needin' it more. Votes: 0

In my view, one of the major reasons that we have so many people in jail is that we have turned our backs on a lot young people. Votes: 0

..When I first heard Elvis' voice, I knew that I wasn't going to work for anybody ... hearing him for the first time was like busting out of jail Votes: 0

My daddy was the type that if you asked him, "Dad, am I going to get off punishment soon?" - he would extend it. It was like jail. Votes: 0

Swaraj does not depend on jail going. If it did, there are thousands of prisoners in jail today. It depends on everyone doing his or her own task. Votes: 0

[democrats] hated Richard Nixon, and no wonder. It was Nixon who sent Alger Hiss to jail, and Nixon who waged the Vietnam War after the Democrats gave up, Votes: 0

Some of the best projects to ever come out of Atari or Chuck E. Cheese's were from high school dropouts, college dropouts. One guy had been in jail. Votes: 0

The corporation is not a person; it is a legal fiction backed up by guns and police and jail cells and taxing authorities and the regulators called government. Votes: 0

Why do we put people who are on drugs in jail? They're sick, they're not criminals. Sick people don't get healed in prison. You see? It makes no sense. Votes: 0

They [the Reagan Administration] want to put street criminals in jail to make life safer for the business criminals. They're against street crime, providing that street isn't Wall Street. Votes: 0

I was blessed to go abroad and bring Americans home from jail in Syria, and Iraq, and Cuba, and Yugoslavia, and Liberia, those are high moments of my life. Votes: 0

I dropped the script in the fireplace, called my agent and said, they can jail me, sue me, but I'm never acting again, unless I can do something worthwhile. Votes: 0

Government is not capable of caring. Government gets things done through coercion. They fine, they penalize, they tax, they confiscate, they jail, they bully to get what they want. Votes: 0

I don't think it's entirely paranoid to suspect that one day, you won't be able to so much as question the primary tenets of anti-racism without going to jail. Votes: 0

I discovered even before I went to jail that apartheid was not run by people who were monolithic in their approach. Some of them didn't even believe in apartheid. Votes: 0

It's such a tragedy that man endures in killing his brother and his own kind, putting him in jail and insane asylums, letting him lay out in the street. Votes: 0

I will not accept racism at all. It's unacceptable. If someone throws a banana at me in the street, I will go to jail, because I will kill them. Votes: 0

It is a frightful satire and an epigram on the modern age that the only use it knows for solitude is to make it a punishment, a jail sentence. Votes: 0

Every new invention is like a baby. You think it may cure cancer or become the president, but in the end, you're happy it just stays out of jail. Votes: 0

I, had an excellent instructor. One that you currently have locked up. If you want to talk about skills going to waste, then go look in your own jail. Votes: 0

I'm actually a lowlife. On the street at fifteen and also in jail for the first time at that age, and off and on the street until my mid-twenties. Votes: 0

I would lay awake nights and cry a lot thinking, is my dad gonna come home? Is he gonna go to jail again? Is he going to get killed? Votes: 0

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 have been in jail. Votes: 0

That Grace looked annoyed at me."I didn't say you would go to jail, Junie B.," she said. "I just wish you would say the word correctly, that's all. Votes: 0

Hate will cause you to "catch a case". Release yourself from your own personal jail before you are put in the real one for life! It ain't worth it!! Votes: 0

I believe in God. Whatever supposed to happen supposed to happen. But I can not live in a jail cell. That's why I don't rob people and stick up people. Votes: 0

You got a million drug laws now because the bosses figured there was more money in putting people in jail than taxing something anyone can grow on a window sill. Votes: 0

When [Ralph Waldo] Emerson visited Thoreau in jail and asked, 'What are you doing in there?' it was reported that Thoreau replied, 'What are you doing out there?' Votes: 0

If you're low-income in the United States, you have a higher chance of going to jail than you do of getting a four-year degree. And that doesn't seem entirely fair. Votes: 0

I also did some jail time a few years ago. Spent a whole summer in jail reading books. I pumped a ton of new knowledge and new thinking into myself. Votes: 0

If the penalty for hiring illegals is just a fine, it becomes a business decision. But if the penalty is jail time, illegal immigration will come to a screeching halt. Votes: 0

In some countries, if you carry the Gospel, you can go to jail. You can't carry a cross, because you'll have to pay a fine. But still, the heart rejoices. Votes: 0

Being arrested that also changed everything for me because I was suddenly seeing America from a different perspective all together. I did a couple of weeks in a county jail. Votes: 0

People can demand someone they've never met be arrested and thrown in jail forever because they know it's never going to happen and they're never going to see this person. Votes: 0

I am not brave enough to not pay my income tax and risk going to jail. But I can say rather freely what I want to say with my art. Votes: 0

That's why when I send a postcard I quiz people. "Hey, did you get that postcard?" "Yeah, yeah yeah." "Well what'd I say?" "Uh, you were havin-" "I was in jail" Votes: 0

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 to jail for eating cucumber salad. Votes: 0

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 heard it before in my life. Votes: 0

I've never ever attacked someone who's been the victim who's been the victim of sexual abuse. Not only that, I've put people in jail who've been the victim of sexual abuse. Votes: 0

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 a decision that others deem incorrect. Votes: 0

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 500 years, but I would eat them. Votes: 0

I don't have, you know, an 'overcoming addiction' story, other than the guitar itself, and I haven't overcome that. I don't have a jail time, you know, story, or any arrests. Votes: 0

We should be long past applauding politicians of any hue: they got us into this mess. The best deserve a probationary opportunity to prove themselves, the worst should be in jail. Votes: 0

People internalize, from the jail to student loan debt, to credit card debt, to unemployment to the whole collective. It manifests itself in many ways, in people's home lives, domestic stuff. Votes: 0

You go to jail for drinking beer and then walking with your bike. You go to jail for smoking a joint. For abortion. This is a nihilist policy which hurts people. Votes: 0

When you're in jail, a good friend will be trying to bail you out. A best friend will be in the cell next to you saying, 'Damn, that was fun.' Votes: 0

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 a great dad in my life. Votes: 0

I don't know anything about this man. Anyhow, I only know two things about him. One is, he has never been in jail, and the other is, I don't know why. Votes: 0

I was a federal public defender during the most important years of the drug war. I saw people go to jail for nothing, and go to jail for a long time. Votes: 0

If I was gonna go to jail, I don't want to go to jail for stealing a bottle of water. I'll steal that $20 million. At least then it was worth it. Votes: 0

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 is a threat to this country. Votes: 0

I don't fear jail because I know I'm not guilty. I know I did nothing wrong. I did nothing criminal and I also believe my God will get me through this. Votes: 0

What is it about the government and its agents and employees that they can lie to us with impunity, but we risk being sent to jail if we lie to them? Votes: 0

They say that patriotism is the last refuge to which a scoundrel clings steal a little and they throw you in jail. Steal a lot and then they make you king. Votes: 0

Jace shook his blond head in exasperation. "You had to make a crazy jail friend, didn't you? You couldn't just count ceiling tiles or tame a pet mouse like normal prisoners do? Votes: 0

I didn't get that power from gunz..coz there's no gunz in jail..I got that power from books and from thinking and strategizing...... That's what I want little niggaz to see. Votes: 0

By creating false environment of a war on drugs, and cruel and unusual punishment with these crimes, 50% of our U.S. population is in jail without having hurt anybody, mostly for drugs. Votes: 0

I'm going to be me as I am, and you can beat me or jail me or even kill me, but I'm not going to be what you want me to be. Votes: 0

If football wasn't a part of my life, there were three things that could have happened, and they were all bad. I would have likely been selling drugs, in jail or dead. Votes: 0

You never wanna see yourself there. Like, ever. I'd rather go to jail than see myself on Step Your Rap Game up because I take a lot of time with my stuff. Votes: 0

It'd be great to be so famous that if I murder someone, I will never, ever, ever serve any jail time, even if it's totally obvious to everyone that I did it. Votes: 0

Goddamnit, look! We live here and they live there. We black and they white. They got things and we ain't. They do things and we can't. It's just like livin' in jail. Votes: 0

When you go to jail, there's so much simple stuff missing. You just want some good toilet paper or a real toothbrush, a real blanket and a real bed to lay in. Votes: 0

Forgive me, I must start by pointing out that three years after our horrific financial crisis caused by financial fraud, not a single financial executive has gone to jail, and that's wrong, Votes: 0

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 in jail because they violated the law. Votes: 0

We buy our way out of jail but we can't buy freedom, We buy a lot of clothes when we don't really need them, Things we buy to cover up what's inside. Votes: 0

I would never go into the 'Bigg Boss' house even in a hypothetical situation. I have been to jail, so if I were to be confined in that house, I'd get rattled. Votes: 0

Sometimes the stereotypes that a lot of people have are of black men in jail or who don't take care of their kids, so I think it's always important to have that. Votes: 0

. . . the solution is not to toss youthful offenders into jail or prisons. We long ago recognized alcoholism to be a disease, and abondoned efforts to treat alcoholics simply by locking them up. Votes: 0

I ain't going to jail no more. The only way we gonna stop them white men from whuppin' us is to take over. What we gonna start sayin' now is Black Power! Votes: 0

Against these two [Donald Trump and Hillary Clinton] I would [vote], but I never voted for [Barack Obama]. I always voted third party - the ones who say their gonna jail the bankers. Votes: 0

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 or just your final breakfast before being executed. Votes: 0

If - you know, it seems to me that if we see Matt Cooper being carted off to jail today, a lot of people may find that, you know, a very upsetting thing. Votes: 0

Yesterday President Obama said, 'We can't continue to treat tax money like monopoly money.' Oh really - how come all those guys on Wall Street got 'get out of jail free' cards? Votes: 0

I was really in to shiny things when I was younger and I stole a shiny tag for my dog. I didn't get caught. I hope I don't go to jail for that. Votes: 0

If a slave is unwilling to go with his new master, he is whipped, or locked up in jail, until he consents to go, and promises not to run away during the year. Votes: 0

I know a lot of reporters certainly will go to jail to defend confidential sources. Some have even gone to jail for an issue like this. But I can't say that's the norm. Votes: 0

This anonymous clan of slack-jawed troglodytes has cost me the election, and yet if I were to have them killed, I would be the one to go to jail. That's democracy for you. Votes: 0

No one has any license to brag because he is honest. That should be natural instinct and, besides, if you are not, they put you in jail. Honesty is merely a form of insurance. Votes: 0

I've never had knickers or marriage proposals. Most of my fans are blokes serving life in jail, troubled kids, and a lot of gay guys. I never get the mid-20s, beautiful women fanbase. Votes: 0

Because Brenda [Carlin] had a drinking problem along with the coke, she had to hit bottom first. Most alcoholics do. And for her, bottom was an automobile accident that almost landed her in jail. Votes: 0

The Bible says, 'The truth shall make you free.' But let's not forget it was Spiro Agnew who said that a good lie will keep you out of jail in the first place. Votes: 0

a caring that gains only when losing; an obsessed desire to be bound, for love , in jail ; a capitulation to the one you've conquered yourself; a devotion to your own assassin every single day. Votes: 0

It is unconscionable that 10,000 boys have died in Vietnam. If 10,000 American women had mind enough they could end the war, if they were committed to the task, even if it meant going to jail. Votes: 0

I'd like to do things to make money to save myself but right now I can't do nothing. If they want to put me in jail, they can do that. It's kind of tough. Votes: 0

I'm certainly not a linguist. I learned what languages I could learn in order to read books and I can't really speak them. I couldn't have stayed out of jail in most of them. Votes: 0

We put this 15-year old girl on the cover of a fashion magazine, and tell everyone she is the epitome of sexual perfection, but we jail anyone who touches her for another three years. Votes: 0

It is wrong to take half or more of what people earn; wrong to force some people to pay for the support of others, threatening them with jail if they refuse (are in "noncompliance"). Votes: 0

People have been to jail when they're innocent. I knew I would never miss a single ball on a snooker table on purpose and, until then, I was sure the evidence would support me." Votes: 0

If you put something together and it doesn't look so good, the fashion police are not going to come and take you away. And if they do, you might have some fun in jail. Votes: 0

You don't need jails, you get put a thousand miles into the middle of Australia, you can go wherever you want, go ahead, but if you come into a city it's straight to jail. Votes: 0

Even if only 2 percent of those assigned to perform military service should announce their refusal to fight, governments would be powerless, they would not dare send such a large number of people to jail. Votes: 0

Through everything I've gone through- and I've been everywhere, at the top of the world, in jail, hung over drunk - I never gave up my dream of winning a gold medal in the Olympics. Votes: 0

It would be like the films I've seen where wardens would decide to be in a jail cell for a week, to get a sense of what it would be like to be a prisoner. Votes: 0

Moonshiners put more time, energy, thought, and love into their cars than any racer ever will. Lose on the track, and you go home. Lose with a load of whiskey, and you go to jail. Votes: 0

I hope that even if I go to jail, it will motivate more and more Hongkongers to commit to determine our future, instead of fully relying on those ruling class who have dominated our future. Votes: 0

As entertainers, you're afraid [about] loss of income - but if other people start going to jail for free speech, then we've lost this great thing that America is, and I'd like to keep that. Votes: 0

If Mike Tyson is in your courtroom and you don't send him to jail, it's an injustice. Everyone knows he's a bad guy. So if he is in your courtroom, he should go to jail. Votes: 0

Colombia is a different country today. The state is now present in every single corner, the drug lords are in jail or dead. So we have the means to guarantee the security of FARC politicians. Votes: 0

If you are Black, you were born in jail, in the North as well as the South. Stop talking about the South. As long as you are South of the Canadian border, you are South. Votes: 0

What can I do if everyone from the president to a junior bureaucrat is dying to convict me. If I am such a criminal, what was I doing outside jail before my marriage to Benazir? Votes: 0

Those type of whites who are always going to jail with Negroes are the ones who tell Negroes to be loving and be kind and be patient and be nonviolent and turn the other cheek. Votes: 0

Deign on the passing world to turn thine eyes, And pause a while from learning to be wise. There mark what ills the scholar's life assail,- Toil, envy, want, the patron, and the jail. Votes: 0

America has its roots in a tradition of risk-taking pioneers. In more conservative Europe, if you fail in business or actually end up going to jail for it, you're finished as a businessman for good. Votes: 0

Hell no / I ain't going to go / Clean out my cell / And take my tail / To jail / Without bail / Because it's better there eating / Watching television fed / Than in Vietnam with your white folks dead. Votes: 0

I haven't taken an overdose of sleeping pills and called my agent. I haven't been in jail, and I don't go running to the psychiatrist every two minutes. That's something of an accomplishment these days Votes: 0