Jail Quotes - Page 33

• 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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• It's [Jail's] like being at school. Except you can't leave.

  Boy George

  School

  "Boy George: 'Jail's like school but you can't leave'". Interview with Nick McGrath, www.theguardian.com. October 12, 2010.

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• Where is the justice of political power if it executes the murderer and jails the plunderer, and then itself marches upon neighboring lands, killing thousands and pillaging the very hills?

  Khalil Gibran

  Wisdom, Land, Justice

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• Football is, after all, a wonderful way to get rid of your aggressions without going to jail for it.

  Woody Hayes

  Football, Funny Sports, Way

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• If you do things, whether it's acting or music or painting, do it without fear - that's my philosophy. Because nobody can arrest you and put you in jail if you paint badly, so there's nothing to lose.

  Anthony Hopkins

  Philosophy, Acting, Painting

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• There are not enough jails, not enough police, not enough courts to enforce a law not supported by the people.

  Hubert H. Humphrey

  Law, People, Police

  Speech,Williamsburg, Va., 1 May 1965

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• A man who cannot be enticed by money or intimidated by the threat of jail or death has two of the strongest weapons that anyone has to offer.

  Jesse Jackson

  Men, Two, Weapons

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• People internalize, from the jail to student loan debt, to credit card debt, to unemployment to the whole collective. It manifests itself in many ways, in people's home lives, domestic stuff.

  Jesse Jackson

  Home, People, Unemployment

  "Rev. Jackson opens up about son" by Katie Glueck, www.politico.com. August 17, 2012.

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• There's great disparity between who goes to college and who goes to jail. Who lives long and who dies prematurely, is the defining issue of our time. And I submit to you, there's a significant race dimension, it is basically class-driven.

  Jesse Jackson

  College, Race, Class

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• I've never been to jail. I've never been arrested. I've never been locked up.

  Samuel L. Jackson

  Locked Up, Arrested, Locked

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

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• I was called a terrorist yesterday, but when I came out of jail, many people embraced me, including my enemies, and that is what I normally tell other people who say those who are struggling for liberation in their country are terrorists.

  Nelson Mandela

  Country, Struggle, Yesterday

  "President Nelson Mandela One-on-One". "The Larry King Live Show", transcripts.cnn.com. May 16, 2000.

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• Before I went to jail, I was active in politics as a member of South Africa's leading organization - and I was generally busy from 7 A.M. until midnight. I never had time to sit and think.

  Nelson Mandela

  Thinking, Organization, Midnight

  Interview with Oprah Winfrey, www.oprah.com. April 2001.

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• I'm enjoying prison ministry, particularly with the women in Hudson County Jail who have suffered tremendously in their lives.

  James McGreevey

  Ministry, Prison, Enjoy

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