Jail Quotes - Page 14

• I prefer to be in the grave in Colombia than in a jail cell in the United States.

  Pablo Escobar

  Cells, United States, Colombia

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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• A petty thief is put in jail. A great brigand becomes a ruler of a Nation.

  Zhuangzi

  Thieves, Petty, Nations

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• 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.

  Richard Wurmbrand

  Sides, Helping, Praying

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

  Adam Sandler

  Funny, Want, Comedy

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• If I went to jail, at least I wouldn't have to sign autographs.

  Kurt Cobain

  Truthful, Ifs, Autographs

  "Details" Magazine, February 1992.

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• Almost makes you want to go to jail out here, doesn't it?

  William J. Clinton

  Stupid, Humorous, Want

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• Under this law (Controlled Substances Act) a bureaucrat-usually not elected-decides whether or not a substance is dangerous and how dangerous that substance is. There's no more messing around with legislatures, presidents, or other bothersome formalities. When MDMA (ecstasy) was made illegal in 1986, no elected official voted on that. It was done "in house." People are now in jail because they did something that an administrator declared was wrong.

  Peter McWilliams

  Law, People, House

  Peter McWilliams (1996). “Ain't Nobody's Business If You Do: The Absurdity of Consensual Crimes in Our Free Country”, Mary Book / Prelude Press

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• The reign of tears is over. The slums will soon be only a memory. We will turn our prisons into factories and our jails into storehouses and comcribs. Men will walk upright now, women will smile, and the children will laugh. Hell will be forever for rent.

  Billy Sunday

  Children, Memories, Men

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• 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.

  P. J. O'Rourke

  Cities, Tennis, Advice

  P. J. O'Rourke (2015). “Thrown Under the Omnibus: A Reader”, p.25, Grove/Atlantic, Inc.

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• I could hear Dean, blissful and blabbering and frantically rocking. Only a guy who's spent five years in jail can go to such maniacal helpless extremes; beseeching at the portals of the soft source, mad with a completely phsycial realization of the origins of life-bliss; blindly seeking to return the way he came

  Jack Kerouac

  Origin Of Life, Years, Mad

  Jack Kerouac (2007). “Road Novels 1957-1960”

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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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• So I had a choice between going to a jail or going to a bughouse like a nice young middle-class student. So I chose to go to a very polite mental hospital. When I left eight months later, they said, 'You were never psychotic. You were just an average neurotic.'

  Allen Ginsberg

  Nice, Eight, Average

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• As long as society tells men to be the salespersons of sex, it is sexist for society to put only men in jail if they sell well. We don't put other salespersons in jail for buying clients drinks and successfully transforming a "no" into a "maybe" into a "yes." If the client makes a choice to drink too much and the "yes" turns out to be a bad decision, it is the client who gets fired, not the salesperson.

  Warren Farrell

  Sex, Men, Long

  Warren Farrell, James P. Sterba (2008). “Does feminism discriminate against men?”, Oxford University Press

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• I spent two months in a jail once. In a Mexican border town.

  Dean Ambrose

  Two, Mexican Border, Borders

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• a TEN-YEAR-OLD lad in Indianapolis who was arrested for picking up coal along the side of railroad tracks is now in jail. If the boy had known enough to steal the whole railroad he would be heralded as a Napoleon of finance.

  Mother Jones

  Boys, Years, Track

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• Have you seen some of the crap they're selling as exercise equipment now? How about that Suzanne Somers? She should have been thrown in jail for selling the piece-of-crap Thigh Master. It just develops a little muscle on the inner thigh. What good is that?

  Jack LaLanne

  Exercise, Should Have, Pieces

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• We handed the most important belongings of our people - the railroads and the banks - to aliens who 2000 years ago had turned the temple into a house of usury. Back then there was a man who had the bravery to drive out these scoundrels with a whip! If today a national socialist is seen with such a temple-whip, he's thrown into jail.

  Julius Streicher

  Men, Years, People

  "Kampf dem Weltfeind", Stürmer publishing house, Nuremberg, 1938.

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• There was zero time for reflection. We had to feed the prisoners three meals a day, deal with the prisoner breakdowns, deal with their parents, run a parole board. By the third day I was sleeping in my office. I had become the superintendent of the Stanford county jail. That was who I was: I'm not the researcher at all. Even my posture changes--when I walk through the prison yard, I'm walking with my hands behind my back, which I never in my life do, the way generals walk when they're inspecting troops.

  Philip Zimbardo

  Running, Zero, Sleep

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• For years I've been interested in a fundamental question concerning what I call the psychology of evil: Why is it that good people do evil deeds? I've been interested in that question since I was a little kid. Growing up in the ghetto in the South Bronx, I had lots of friends who I thought were good kids, but for one reason or another they ended up in serious trouble. They went to jail, they took drugs, or they did terrible things to other people. My whole upbringing was focused on trying to understand what could have made them go wrong.

  Philip Zimbardo

  Growing Up, Kids, Ghetto

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• 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.

  Luis de Camoes

  Caring, Desire, Assassins

  Luís de Camões (2008). “Selected Sonnets: A Bilingual Edition”, p.45, University of Chicago Press

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

  Nassim Nicholas Taleb

  Country, May, Way

  Nassim Nicholas Taleb (2012). “Antifragile: Things That Gain from Disorder”, p.62, Random House

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• All I did in Chicago was to exercise my legal right to speak on my own behalf and I was given four years in jail as a result. But I think the most serious injustice perpetrated by the court system in America is the inability of a black man to get a jury of his peers.

  Bobby Seale

  Exercise, Men, Thinking

  The Guardian Interview, February 1970.

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• 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.

  Stefan Molyneux

  Men, Cells, Murder

  "Against the Gods?: A Concise Guide to Atheism and Agnosticism (The Costs of False Ethics)". Book by Stefan Molyneux, 2010.

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• The second time I went to jail, I was like, 'okay, this is not the move.'

  The Notorious B.I.G.

  Moving, Okay

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

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

  Philip K. Dick

  Men, Innocent Man, Criminals

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