Jail Quotes

My occupation now, I suppose, is jail inmate.

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.

Steal a little and they throw you in jail Steal a lot and they make you king.

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

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.

Is all the world jails and churches?

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.

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

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.

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!

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

Term limits aren't enough. We need jail.

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 like feeding a dog on his own tail. It won't fatten the dog.

Let us be on the side of those who sit in jails and are sentenced to death for their faith. Let us pray for them and help them.

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

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.

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

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.

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

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.

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

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

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.

I am surprised that many people disregard the fact that the end for almost all drug dealers ends up being the cemetery or the jail cell, we do not know of any case where a drug dealer has "retired"

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.

I did my time in the jail of your arms

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.

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?

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

If it were up to me, I would put in jail every sandal-wearing, scruffy-bearded weirdo who burns the American flag. But I am not king.

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.

Everything I did in the jails - chain gangs, everything - I haven't changed the policy. I did it, I stand by it, and I'm not going to change.

I don't want to send them to jail. I want to send them to school.

I think there should be a law - and I know this is extreme - that no one can have a gun in the U.S. If you have a gun, you go to jail. Only the police should have guns.

If you want to know who your friends are, have a major failure.

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

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

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

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

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.

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

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

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.

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.

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

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.

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?

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

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

Our prisons and our jails are now our mental health institutions.