Jail Quotes - Page 10

• I don't want want to go to jail, I'm fragile.

  Adam Sandler

  Funny, Want, Comedy

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• When you're young, you're stupid. You do silly things. I did it (the O-Z-Z-Y tattoo across his knuckles) when I was 14. I was in jail for something. I could have had it removed, but why? It's my trademark. People stop me and say, 'Let me have a look at your hand.'

  Ozzy Osbourne

  Tattoo, Stupid, Silly

  Launch Magazine, October 30, 1998.

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• I had my back against the wall. He [Gary Hinman] said, I'm going to tell the police what you did to me. [] This guy is a drug dealer. He's playing the game. And if you're going to dance, you've got to pay the fiddler. You burn somebody, that's the way it is. [I] Stabbed [him] in the heart twice. He died immediately. [] Susan Atkins seemed to think, Oh what fun, how interesting. Susan Atkins is now a Jesus freak in jail. She gave five different testimonies and in one of them, she claimed she killed Hinman.

  Bobby Beausoleil

  Jesus, Wall, Fun

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• 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.

  Janusz Palikot

  Hurt, Drinking, Beer

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• I did my time in the jail of your arms

  Tom Waits

  Arms, My Time

  Song: Who Are You, Album: Bone Machine

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• 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!

  Stokely Carmichael

  Men, White Man, Black

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• I don't mind if after the job is done you put me in front of a Nuremberg Trial and then jail me for life. Hang me if you want, as a war criminal. What you don't understand is that the dirty work of Zionism is not finished yet, far from it.

  Ariel Sharon

  Jobs, War, Dirty

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

  Gary Snyder

  Rap, Land, Perfect

  Gary Snyder (1978). “Myths & Texts”, p.45, New Directions Publishing

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• Hundreds of poor laboring men and women are being thrown into jails and police stations because of their political beliefs. In fact, an attempt is being made to deport an entire political party.

  Jane Addams

  Party, Men, Political

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• If the newspapers of a country are filled with good news, the jails of that country will be filled with good people.

  Daniel Patrick Moynihan

  Country, People, News

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• Man, I've been to jail. It was hell in there, but I survived, If they put me back, I'll come out again. I'm one of the world's great survivors. I'll always survive because I've got the right combination of wit, grit and bullshit.

  Don King

  Men, Boxing, Bullshit

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

  Stevie Ray Vaughan

  Play, Finesse

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• For Hell and the foul fiend that rules
  God's everlasting fiery jails
  (Devised by rogues, dreaded by fools),
  With his grim, grisly dog that keeps the door,
  Are senseless stories, idle tales,
  Dreams, whimseys, and no more.

  John Wilmot

  Dream, Dog, Doors

  John Wilmot, John Adlard (2002). “The Debt to Pleasure: John Wilmot, Earl of Rochester, in the Eyes of His Contemporaries and in His Own Poetry and Prose”, p.126, Taylor & Francis

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• 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.

  Tommy Chong

  School, Degrees, Billionaire

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

  Tommy Chong

  Exciting, Happened, Exciting Things

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

  Bob Dylan

  Crazy, Insanity, Cop

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• I don't trust Santa Barbara as far as I can spit. I am afraid that if I went back there, it's possible that I could be run through their system, their judicial system, and wind up in some county jail where I could be killed and I'm not gonna take that chance.

  Randy Quaid

  Running, Santa Barbara, Wind

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• Oooh, if you have never been to Alaska, go there while it is still wild. My favorite uncle asked me if I wanted to go there, Uncle Sam. He said if you don't go, you're going to jail. That is how Uncle Sam asks you.

  Bob Ross

  Uncles, Alaska, Favorite Uncle

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

  Chris Powell

  Needs, Cards, Information

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

  Eugene Field

  Congress, Statesmen

  Eugene Field (1967). “The complete Tribune primer”

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

  Ricky Martin

  Caught

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• I take no pleasure in seeing DeLay swing gently in the wind. But the thing I believe in the most is ethics. If someone has lost his moral compass and has to go to jail to find it, then I believe it will make him a much better person.

  Tom DeLay

  Believe, Compassion, Wind

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• . . . 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.

  Tom McCall

  War, Long Ago, Effort

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• The real enemy of my people is here. I will not disgrace my religion, my people or myself by becoming a tool to enslave those who are fighting for their own justice, freedom and equality.… If I thought the war was going to bring freedom and equality to 22 million of my people they wouldn’t have to draft me, I’d join tomorrow. I have nothing to lose by standing up for my beliefs. So I’ll go to jail, so what? We’ve been in jail for 400 years.

  Muhammad Ali

  Real, War, Fighting

  "The hidden history of Muhammad Ali" by David Zirin, www.isreview.org. January 2004.

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• Every beggar shall be arrested. But to arrest a beggar merely in order to put him in jail would be barbarous and absurd. He should be arrested for the sole purpose of teaching him how to earn a living by his work.

  Napoleon Bonaparte

  Teaching, Order, Would Be

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