Jail Quotes - Page 12

• My mother always says: "You know better, so you'll be punished. Your friends don't know better, so they won't be punished. They can go snatch chains and they'll be fine. But if you snatch chains, you'll end up in jail because you know better."

  Chris Rock

  Mother, Ends, Chains

  Source: www.indielondon.co.uk

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• My little cousin Jimmy told me in jail he was a drag queen.

  Master P

  Cousin, Queens, Littles

  Song: Snitches

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• It was hell, hugging my Mama from a jail cell.

  Tupac Shakur

  Cells, Order, Law

  Song: Dear Mama

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• I went to jail 44 times. I've been beaten and left for dead on the side of the road fighting for freedom. . . . Yet Rosa Parks is better known in history than Ralph David Abernathy. Why is that?

  Ralph Abernathy

  Fighting, Parks, Sides

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• When people ask me about drugs and alcohol, I say "Yeah, I went to rehab, I went to a mental hospital, I've been to jail." The main lesson you can learn is do drugs and alcohol when you are in a good mood, not when you are in a bad mood, and find balance in anything you do.

  Marilyn Manson

  People, Alcohol, Drug

  Source: archive.azcentral.com

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

  Ray Lewis

  Care, Guilty, Ifs

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• Poor people, especially those of color, are worth nothing to corporations and private contractors if they are on the street. In jail and prisons, however, they can each generate corporate revenues of $30,000 to $40,000 a year.

  Chris Hedges

  Color, Years, People

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• 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.

  Stephen Leacock

  Silly, Beer, Men

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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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• 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.

  Howard Wilkinson

  Doors, Knowing, Waiting

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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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• 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.

  Charles Ferguson

  Years, Forgive Me, Forgiving

  "Charles Ferguson’s Oscar Speech Rips Wall Street: ‘Inside Job’ Director Levels Criticism During Acceptance". www.huffingtonpost.com. Februrary 28, 2011.

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• An athlete gets paid a lot of money. And someone who is after that, a thief, a mugger or someone who steals from people, they are taking a chance with the law that if they get caught, they are going to jail or face some other problem. In my case, you are going to get shot.

  Luke Scott

  Athlete, Law, People

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• 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.

  Iris Apfel

  Fashion, Fun, Police

  "Learn to layer up for a hot, sticky summer" by Invisible Woman, www.theguardian.com. July 10, 2013.

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

  Richard Stallman

  Jobs, Pioneers, Fool

  Political notes from 2011, stallman.org. October 6, 2011.

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• Marijuana is rejected all over the world. Damned. In England heroin is alright for out-patents, but marijuana? They'll put your ass in jail. I wonder why that is? The only reason could be: To Serve the Devil - Pleasure! Pleasure, which is a dirty word in Christian culture.

  Lenny Bruce

  Christian, Dirty, Marijuana

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• Suppose . . . burglars had made entry into this . . . [library]. Picture them seated here on this floor, pouring the light of their dark-lanterns over some books they found, and thus absorbing moral truths and getting moral uplift. The whole course of their lives would have been changed. As it was, they kept straight on in their immoral way and were sent to jail. For all I know, they may next be sent to Congress.

  Mark Twain

  Life, Uplifting, Book

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

  Martin Luther King, Jr.

  Inspirational, Blow, Able

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• 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.

  Jeannette Rankin

  War, Boys, Mind

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• If the Government is going to intrude upon the sacred ground of the First Amendment and tell its citizens that their exercise of protected speech could land them in jail, the law imposing such a penalty must clearly define the prohibited speech not only for the potential offender but also for the potential enforcer.

  Ronald L. Buckwalter

  Exercise, Government, Law

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• There are more fakers in business than in jail.

  Malcolm Forbes

  Business

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• 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.

  Stephen Colbert

  Rivers, People, Hudson River

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• 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.

  A. Whitney Brown

  Wisdom, Lying, Firsts

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• The American Medical Association says the humane way is to let people starve and thirst to death. If you did that to an animal, youd be put in jail immediately ... In the face of such insanity masquerading as authority, who wouldnt be strident?

  Jack Kevorkian

  Animal, Humane Way, People

  "Kevorkian suggests guidelines for suicides", www.cnn.com. January 14, 1997.

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