Jail Quotes - Page 16

• 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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• I don't have a life of my own. I've put myself and my life at the service of the people. If necessity dictates I run, I run.. go to jail, I go to jail.. die, I die.My private aspirations are exactly the general aspirations of the people.

  Yusuf Idris

  Running, People, Aspiration

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

  Emma Goldman

  May, Silent, Thrown

  Emma Goldman (2016). “Anarchy and the Sex Question: Essays on Women and Emancipation, 1896–1926”, p.107, PM Press

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• Within our own society, we jail more prisoners than any other country in the world, 85 percent of them people of nonwhite races — red, black, brown, and yellow. We are one of the few nations that still indulge in the death penalty for increasing numbers of these prisoners. We must become mindful of these negative things, since we need not support these actions of our nation to be affected negatively by their evolutionary impact, unless we mentally, verbally, and ultimately physically, disassociate ourselves from them.

  Robert Thurman

  Country, Impact, Race

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• I've got to formulate a plot or end up in jail or shot, success is my only option, failure's not.

  Eminem

  Plot, Ends, Shots

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• I feel like somebody who just got out of prison after 40 years for something she didn't do, like I got pardoned by the governor. When dear friends deal with me with mixed emotions, it is a little like being told, 'Well, Jenny, we're glad you got sprung, really, but quite honestly we did kind of like you better when you were in jail.

  Jennifer Finney Boylan

  Years, Littles, Jenny

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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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• 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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• 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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• There are more fakers in business than in jail.

  Malcolm Forbes

  Business

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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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• We must reverse this psychology (of needing guns for home defense). WE can do it by passing a law that says anyone found in possession a handgun except a legitimate officer of the law goes to jail-period!

  Carl T. Rowan

  Home, Gun, Law

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• I'm a warrior, I went into jail for the drama. I'm the story of the terrorist cell of Osama

  Vinnie Paz

  Drama, Warrior, Cells

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

  Tommy Chong

  Exciting, Happened, Exciting Things

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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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• 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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• 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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• I've never stabbed, hurt, killed, stolen, anything, but I went to jail for a year. What is that? My pastor said to me the fact that I'm not living under a bridge as a crazy woman, talking to myself, is amazing.

  Foxy Brown

  Hurt, Crazy, Talking

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

  Arvind Kejriwal

  Hours, 48 Hours, Ifs

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• Yesterday's truth is today's bullshit. Even yesterday's liberating insight is today's jail of stale explanation.

  Brad Blanton

  Yesterday, Bullshit, Today

  Brad Blanton (1996). “Radical Honesty: How to Transform Your Life by Telling the Truth”, Dell

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• The men who have gotten women pregnant need to be accountable if we are. If we are going to jail, the men are coming too. Religious rhetoric will bite its own ass trying to nail only women in a two-person process.

  Neko Case

  Religious, Men, Two

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• Yesterday President Obama said, 'We can't continue to treat tax money like monopoly money.' Oh really - how come all those guys on Wall Street got 'get out of jail free' cards?

  Jay Leno

  Wall, Yesterday, Guy

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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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