Jail Quotes

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

  Kurt Cobain

  Rocks, Rock And Roll, Rock N Roll

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• 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.

  Angela Davis

  Zoos, Prison Population, Break

  Angela Davis: An Autobiography ch. 1 (1974)

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

  Charles Bukowski

  Friendship, Interesting, Want

  Charles Bukowski (2013). “Notes of a Dirty Old Man”, p.128, City Lights Books

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• 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.

  Nelson Mandela

  Inspiring, Inspiration, Compassion

  "Long Walk to Freedom". Book by Nelson Mandela, 1995.

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

  Charles Bukowski

  Drinking, Bail, Bars

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• You can jail a Revolutionary, but you can't jail the Revolution.

  Huey Newton

  Revolution, Revolutionary, Nationalism

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• Care about what other people think and you will always be their prisoner.

  Laozi

  Inspirational, Relationship, Wise

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

  Robert Anton Wilson

  Intelligent, Choices, Prison

  Robert Anton Wilson (1991). “Cosmic trigger: Down to earth”, New Falcon Pubns

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• Term limits aren't enough. We need jail.

  P. J. O'Rourke

  Needs, Term Limits, Enough

  "The Liberty Manifesto". Speech at the opening of the Cato Institute's headquarters in Washington, D.C., www.cato.org. May 06, 1993.

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• 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 it.

  Ludwig Wittgenstein

  Moving On, Moving Forward, Men

  "Culture and Value" by Ludwig Wittgenstein, translated by Peter Winch, (p. 42e), 1980.

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• 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.

  Oscar Wilde

  Witty, Strong, Wall

  The Ballad of Reading Gaol pt. 5, st. 1 (1898)

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

  Don DeLillo

  Bedtime, Dangerous

  Don DeLillo, Thomas DePietro (2005). “Conversations with Don DeLillo”, p.46, Univ. Press of Mississippi

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

  Tommy Lee

  Jail Time, Sound, Strange

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

  Ralph Nader

  Country, People, Addiction

  "Nader Endorses Legal Marijuana". Associated Press, www.nytimes.com. September 09, 2000.

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

  Dave Barry

  Strong, Patriotic, Patriotism

  Dave Barry (1994). “The World According to Dave Barry”, Outlet

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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 to jail.

  Ed Koch

  Worry, Risk, Important

  "I'm Right, You're Wrong: Ed Koch Vs. Al D'Amato". nymag.com.

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• 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.

  Jack Kevorkian

  Religious, Common Sense, Society

  "Jail: An Inmates Survival Guide". Panama Publishing Inc. Book, p. 24, 2007.

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• My occupation now, I suppose, is jail inmate.

  Theodore Kaczynski

  Funny, Witty, Humorous

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• Every single person in jail for a violent crime had a nightmare childhood.

  Rob Reiner

  Childhood, Fatherhood, Nightmare

  "Star Power Fuels Push For Prop. 10 / `Rob Reiner Initiative' has steep cigarette tax" by Sabin Russell, www.sfgate.com. October 22, 1998.

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• 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.

  Harriet Ann Jacobs

  Running, Years, Promise

  Harriet Ann Jacobs (2006). “Incidents in the Life of a Slave Girl - Literary Touchstone Classic”, p.25, Prestwick House Inc

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• They would almost throw the cops in jail when they tried to arrest me.

  Lawrence Taylor

  Sports, Cop

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• I was in chemical jail.

  James Taylor

  Chemicals

  "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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

  Brian Baird

  Choices, Getting High, Clear

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• We're rapidly approaching a world comprised entirely of jail and shopping.

  Douglas Coupland

  Shopping, World

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• Jail is much easier on people who have nothing.

  Bernhard Goetz

  People, Easier

  "Interview with "Subway Vigilante" Bernhard Goetz". "Larry King Live", edition.cnn.com. December 17, 2004.

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