Jail Quotes - Page 17

• Had Mother Nature been a real parent, she would have been in jail for child abuse and murder.

  Nick Bostrom

  Mother, Children, Real

  "In Defense of Posthuman Dignity". Bioethics, Vol. 19, No. 3, nickbostrom.com. 2005.

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• There is nothing in all the world greater than freedom. It is worth paying for; it is worth going to jail for. I would rather be a free pauper than a rich slave. I would rather die in abject poverty with my convictions than live in inordinate riches with the lack of self respect.

  Martin Luther King, Jr.

  Self, World, Riches

  Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. (2013). “The Essential Martin Luther King, Jr.: "I Have a Dream" and Other Great Writings”, p.35, Beacon Press

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• You pass the old L.A. County jail, which is surprisingly beautiful. It's got a handsome stone facade and stately columns. The new L.A. County jail - called The Twin Towers - isn't beautiful at all; it's a stucco panopticon the color of sick flesh.

  Leslie Jamison

  Beautiful, Color, Sick

  Leslie Jamison (2014). “The Empathy Exams: Essays”, p.72, Granta Books

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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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• 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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• Sending Paris Hilton to jail for being the most loathed celeprosy lesion in the history of the species seems like a happening idea at first - forty-five days at Century Regional Detention Center is so the new thirty days at Promises Malibu! But it sets a dangerous precedent to jail celebs just because someone hates them.

  Rob Sheffield

  Hate, Ideas, Paris

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• If a dad does his job, we don't need prisons, we don't need jails. That's what I saw growing up.

  Mike Singletary

  Jobs, Growing Up, Dad

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• I could envision it all to clearly: Stuart or Debbie finding the dented door off its hinges, lying in the snow. "She came in, ravaged the boy, stole plastic bags, and ripped off the door in her escape," the police would say in the APB. "Probably making her way to bust her parents out of jail.

  Maureen Johnson

  Lying, Boys, Doors

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• One thing," I said, when we had broken apart and the swirling feeling in my head subsided. "Maybe...don't tell your mom too much about this. I think she has ideas." "What?" he asked, all innocence, as he put an arm around my shoulders and led me back toward his house. "Don't your parents cheer and stare when you make out with someone? Is that weird where you come from? I guess they don't get to see it much, though. From jail, I mean." "Shut it, Weintraub. If I knock you down in the snow, these kids will swarm and eat you.

  Maureen Johnson

  Mom, Cheer, Mean

  John Green, Lauren Myracle, Maureen Johnson (2009). “Let It Snow: Three Holiday Stories”, p.72, Penguin

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• Christmas poem to a man in jail hello Bill Abbott: I appreciate your passing around my books in jail there, my poems and stories. if I can lighten the load for some of those guys with my books, fine. but literature, you know, is difficult for the average man to assimilate (and for the unaverage man too); I don't like most poetry, for example, so I write mine the way I like to read it.

  Charles Bukowski

  Book, Writing, Men

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• You have an interesting set of morals," he observed. "Breaking out of jail is okay. But steal a car, and you sound totally outraged.

  Richelle Mead

  Interesting, Car, Sound

  Richelle Mead (2010). “Last Sacrifice: A Vampire Academy Novel”, p.43, Penguin

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• A judge can manipulate the law. A smart lawyer can keep a killer out of jail.

  Mario Cuomo

  Smart, Law, Judging

  NBC TV, August 12, 1986.

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• Jail is just another micro-society. It just happens that here, the problems are far more out in the open, we don't live with the facades of lies that democracy or capitalism creates for us.

  Cecily McMillan

  Money, Wall, Lying

  "Occupy Activist Cecily McMillan Gets 3 Months in Prison: A Rare Interview". Interview with Ashley Codianni, mashable.com. May 19, 2014.

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• Look, we'll have to confront the pathologies of poverty at some point. We can deal with them cheaply at the front end, in infancy. Or we can wait and jail a troubled adolescent at the tail end. To some extent, we face a choice between investing in preschools or in prisons.

  Nicholas D. Kristof

  Education, Money, Reality

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• For digital natives, public schools are jails

  Bing Gordon

  School, Digital, Public School

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• My feet might fail me, my heart might ail me,
  The synagogues of Satan might accuse or jail me,
  Strip, crown, nail me, brimstone hail me...
  They might defeat the flesh but they could never ever kill me.
  They might feel the music but could never ever feel me.

  Jay Electronica

  Rap, Heart, Feet

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• I believe in heaven more than hell, lessons more than jail.
  In the ghetto, let love prevail with a story to tell.
  My eyes see the glory, and well,
  The world waiting for me to yell, "I Have A Dream!"

  Common

  Dream, Believe, Rap

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• I don't fear jail because I know I'm not guilty. I know I did nothing wrong. I did nothing criminal and I also believe my God will get me through this.

  Kenneth Lay

  Mistake, Believe, Criminals

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• This is a victory against those who promote terrorism, against hypocrites who tout a supposed war on terror and in reality protect terrorists and jail young men who only acted to oppose terrorism in the United States.

  Ricardo Alarcon

  War, Hypocrite, Reality

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• More than life, I value vindication. When you are at peace with the truth and you know that you are on the side of the right and God is on your side, you are not afraid of anything, including jail.

  Imelda Marcos

  Your Side, Sides, Not Afraid

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• If you don't go to highschool you will definately go to jail.

  Gerard Way

  Ifs

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• When youre touring and the minute you tell someone that youre from Jersey its the equivalent of telling them you just got out of jail.

  Gerard Way

  Jersey, Touring, Minutes

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• If you tell the truth all day long, you will end up in jail.

  Elaine Stritch

  Long, Telling The Truth, Ends

  "The Way We Live Now: 2-24-02: Questions For Elaine Stritch; Of A Certain Age". Interview with Liz Welch, www.nytimes.com. February 24, 2002.

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• Is all the world jails and churches?

  Zack de la Rocha

  Church, World, Rage Against The Machine

  "Song: Vietnow (Evil Empire)". October 1997.

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• You know, if you’re caught with an ounce of cocaine, the chances are good you’re going to go to jail. If it happens repeatedly, you may go to jail for the rest of your life. But evidently, if you launder nearly a billion dollars for drug cartels and violate our international sanctions, your company pays a fine and you go home and sleep in your own bed at night, every single individual associated with this. I think that’s fundamentally wrong.

  Elizabeth Warren

  Home, Sleep, Night

  "Regulators look to punish bankers for money laundering". www.reuters.com. March 7, 2013.

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