Jail Quotes - Page 32

• He's going to jail. He can't see. He can't hear. He can't take a leak that lasts under fifteen minutes. But he has an erection and all the other problems are small change. Next time around I'm coming back as a man. Priorities are clearly defined. Life is simple.

  Janet Evanovich

  Men, Simple, Small Changes

  Janet Evanovich (2010). “Seven Up: A Stephanie Plum Novel”, p.322, Macmillan

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• Morality may keep you out of jail, but it takes the blood of Jesus Christ to keep you out of hell.

  Charles Spurgeon

  Jesus, Blood, May

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• Such is the remorseless progression of human society, shedding lives and souls as it goes on its way. It is an ocean into which men sink who have been cast out by the law and consigned, with help most cruelly withheld, to moral death. The sea is the pitiless social darkness into which the penal system casts those it has condemned, an unfathomable waste of misery. The human soul, lost in those depths, may become a corpse. Who shall revive it?

  Victor Hugo

  Ocean, Men, Sea

  Victor Hugo (1980). “Les misérables”, Viking Pr

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• [Madness] is the jail we could all end up in. And we know it. And watch our step. For a lifetime. We behave. A fantastic and entire system of social control, by the threat of example as effective over the general population as detention centers in dictatorships, the image of the madhouse floats through every mind for the course of its lifetime.

  Kate Millett

  Mind, Steps, Example

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• Deign on the passing world to turn thine eyes, And pause a while from learning to be wise. There mark what ills the scholar's life assail,- Toil, envy, want, the patron, and the jail.

  Samuel Johnson

  Wise, Learning, Eye

  'The Vanity of Human Wishes' (1749) l. 157

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• Murder is illegal, but if you take a picture of it you may get your name in a magazine or maybe win a Pulitzer Prize. However, sex is legal, but if you take a picture of that act, you can go to jail.

  Larry Flynt

  Sex, Winning, Names

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• Miguelito, liberated from having to sing with Cugat, sounds like he just got out of jail and is letting it rip.

  Ned Sublette

  Rip, Sound, Liberated

  Ned Sublette (2007). “Cuba and Its Music: From the First Drums to the Mambo”, p.472, Chicago Review Press

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• The only excuse for being broke is being in Jail.

  Curtis Jackson

  Excuse, Broke, Being Broke

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• People with mental illnesses are dying on our streets. More than 350,000 are in jails and prisons. Most are people whose only real crime is they got sick.

  Pete Earley

  Real, People, Sick

  "What's Driving Pete Earley Crazy". "On the Road with Lizzie Simon", www.psychologytoday.com. March 18, 2010.

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• Everything I did in the jails - chain gangs, everything - I haven't changed the policy. I did it, I stand by it, and I'm not going to change.

  Joe Arpaio

  Gang, Chains, Changed

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• And if I don't be there by morning, she'll know that I must've spent the night in jail.

  Eric Clapton

  Morning, Night, Order

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• Brother, you can't go to jail for what you're thinking, or that look in your eye, just standing on the corner watching all the girls go by.

  Dean Martin

  Girl, Brother, Eye

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• He was removed from jail and placed in a place for the insensitive and insane.

  Johnny Cash

  Order, Law, Insane

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• I could have killed her when we first met and I've been out of jail by now.

  Waylon Jennings

  Order, Law, Firsts

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• Put all the pervs in jail, bring back the birch and cat-o-nine tails.

  Ray Davies

  Cat, Order, Law

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• I think I had kind of an advantage. When I was growing up, my dad had just got out of jail and he had a great record collection. He had - it was all - these were the songs. So I heard a lot of these songs, like, my whole life, so for me it was easy. I already knew what I was going to sing.

  Chris Isaak

  Song, Growing Up, Dad

  "Musician Chris Isaak". "Travis Smiley Show", www.pbs.org. November 15, 2011.

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• All these rappers on stage and Martha Stewart has done the most jail time.

  Natasha Leggero

  Rapper, Jail Time, Done

  "CNN Newsroom", www.cnn.com. April 1, 2015.

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• Only poor people go to jail.

  Charles Barkley

  People, Poor, Poor People

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• You can tell a lot about a civilization by the quality of the people found in its jails.

  David Gerrold

  Civilization, People, Quality

  David Gerrold (2014). “Under the Eye of God: Trackers, Book One”, p.96, BenBella Books, Inc.

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• Shame is the turnkey that keeps our evil desires in jail.

  Austin O'Malley

  Evil, Desire, Shame

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• Hell no / I ain't going to go / Clean out my cell / And take my tail / To jail / Without bail / Because it's better there eating / Watching television fed / Than in Vietnam with your white folks dead.

  Muhammad Ali

  Cells, White, Tails

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• Fortune has dealt with me rather too well. I have known little struggle, not much poverty, many generosities. Now and then I have, for my books or myself, been somewhat warmly denounced -- there was one good pastor in California who upon reading my Elmer Gantry desired to lead a mob and lynch me, while another holy man in the state of Maine wondered if there was no respectable and righteous way of putting me in jail.

  Sinclair Lewis

  Reading, Struggle, Book

  Erik Axel Karlfeldt, Sinclair Lewis (1931). “Why Sinclair Lewis got the Nobel prize”

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• Any time you demonstrate against segregation and a man has the audacity to put a police dog on you, kill that dog, kill him, I'm telling you, kill that dog. I say it if they put me in jail tomorrow, kill that dog. Then you'll put a stop to it.

  Malcolm X

  Dog, Men, Police

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• Oh, the inmates and the prisoners I found they were my kind And it was there inside the bars I found my peace of mind But the jails they were too crowded Institutions overflowed So they turned me loose to walk upon Life's hurried tangled road

  Bob Dylan

  Tangled, Mind, Bars

  Song: Ballad of Donald White

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• The corporation is not a person; it is a legal fiction backed up by guns and police and jail cells and taxing authorities and the regulators called government.

  Jerry Brown

  Gun, Government, Cells

  "Jerry Brown, on Corporations and Jobs, We the People Radio Network archives". December 1995/January 1996.

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