Jail Quotes - Page 18

• By creating false environment of a war on drugs, and cruel and unusual punishment with these crimes, 50% of our U.S. population is in jail without having hurt anybody, mostly for drugs.

  Oliver Stone

  Hurt, War, Punishment

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• I don't trust anyone that hasn't been to jail at least once in their life.

  John Waters

  Don't Trust Anyone, Don't Trust

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• What is it about the government and its agents and employees that they can lie to us with impunity, but we risk being sent to jail if we lie to them?

  Andrew Napolitano

  Lying, Government, Risk

  "Lies the Government Told You: Myth, Power, and Deception in American History". Book by Andrew Napolitano, www.foxnews.com. 2010.

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• We all hold the keys to our own jail cells.

  Paul Levine

  Keys, Cells, Law

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• True freedom is always spiritual. It has something to do with your innermost being, which cannot be chained, handcuffed, or put into a jail.

  Rajneesh

  Spiritual, Freedom, Chained

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• I couldn't sell pills no more [because my] homie went to jail. I was just dirt broke. I went to TDE and was literally living in the studio where you record. I went damn near a whole two years not getting sleep because there was always somebody there recording. I was taking baths with dishwashing liquid.I was one of the dudes [who] would never ask for nothing so I would never ask for soap.

  Schoolboy Q

  Sleep, Years, Two

  Source: www.vibe.com

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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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• I wouldn’t mind going to jail if I had three cellmates who played bridge

  Warren Buffett

  Bridges, Mind, Three

  "Warren Buffett Speaks: Wit and Wisdom from the World's Greatest Investor". Book by Janet Lowe, 1997.

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• I was appointed United States attorney on September 10, 2001. And I spent the next seven years of my career fighting terrorism and putting terrorists in jail.

  Chris Christie

  Fighting, Years, Careers

  Chris Christie at GOP primary debate in Cleveland, Ohio, www.washingtonpost.com. August 6, 2015.

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• When I was doing drugs and alcohol, I thought I'll have a drink and a line of this and I'll smoke this. I didn't go, 'Then I'm going to go out and get drunk, come back strangle my wife and wake up in jail on charges of attempted murder,' but that's what happened. I'm not telling people what to do. If they can enjoy doing it and they get on with it and they can handle it fine, but don't involve me. I'm lucky to be alive; you're playing with Russian roulette.

  Ozzy Osbourne

  Lucky To Be Alive, People, Drunk

  Source: www.foxnews.com

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• The government has created a nation of paper criminals. People can be put in jail and lose civil rights and liberties through bureaucratic procedures.The only thing that is keeping you out of jail is government goodwill.

  Ayn Rand

  Rights, Government, People

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• If Mike Tyson is in your courtroom and you don't send him to jail, it's an injustice. Everyone knows he's a bad guy. So if he is in your courtroom, he should go to jail.

  Mike Tyson

  Guy, Injustice, Should

  Source: articles.latimes.com

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• I think I'm damn lucky. I'm lucky that my kids are all straight, that they haven't ended up in jail, that they're all worthwhile human beings, thank God. Their lives are happy; they have happy partners, wives, husbands.

  Lauren Bacall

  Husband, Kids, Thinking

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

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• The night in prison was novel and interesting enough.... I found that even here there was a history and a gossip which never circulated beyond the walls of the jail. Probably this is the only house in the town where verses are composed, which are afterward printed in a circular form, but not published. I was shown quite a long list of verses which were composed by some young men who had been detected in an attempt to escape, who avenged themselves by singing them.

  Henry David Thoreau

  Wall, Night, Men

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• Jail sentences have many functions, but one is surely to send a message about what our society abhors and what it values. This week, the equation was twofold: female infidelity twice as bad as male abuse, the life of a woman half as valuable as that of a man. The killing of the woman taken in adultery has a long history and survives today in many cultures. One of those is our own.

  Anna Quindlen

  Taken, Men, Law

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