Jail Quotes - Page 5

• Clinton has more important things to worry about. He not only risks being destroyed historically, like Afghanistan's Buddha statues; he also could end up going to jail.

  Ed Koch

  Worry, Risk, Important

  "I'm Right, You're Wrong: Ed Koch Vs. Al D'Amato". nymag.com.

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• I have consistently preached that nonviolence demands that the means we use must be as pure as the ends we seek.

  Martin Luther King, Jr.

  Mean, Use, Demand

  Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. (2011). “Why We Can't Wait”, p.69, Beacon Press

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• One has a moral responsibility to disobey unjust laws.

  Martin Luther King, Jr.

  Inspirational, Religious, Responsibility

  Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. (2011). “Why We Can't Wait”, p.60, Beacon Press

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• If you want to know who your friends are, have a major failure.

  John Cleese

  Who Your Friends Are, Want, Majors

  "Early On, Comedian John Cleese Says, He Had Good Timing But Little Else". "Fresh Air" with Dave Davies, www.npr.org. October 16, 2015.

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• The work of democratic government is routinely concerned with matters defined as troubles. In "The Presidency and the Press" I make the point, familiar to anyone who has flown about the world much, that the best quick test of the political nature of a regime is to read the local papers on arrival. If they are filled with bad news, you have landed in a libertarian society of some sort. If, on the other hand, the press is filled with good news, it is a fair bet that the jails will be filled with good men.

  Daniel Patrick Moynihan

  Men, Hands, Political

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• But all I could think of was taking some books to read in jail. I held everybody up, choosing which ones to take.

  John Clellon Holmes

  Book, Thinking

  John Clellon Holmes (2015). “Go: A Novel”, p.254, Open Road Media

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• When people get out of jail, it is not easy for them to find a job. It is not easy for them to return to civil society.

  Bernie Sanders

  Jobs, People, Return

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• School is a twelve-year jail sentence where bad habits are the only curriculum truly learned.

  John Taylor Gatto

  School, Years, Twelve

  John Taylor Gatto, Thomas Moore (2013). “Dumbing Us Down: The Hidden Curriculum of Compulsory Schooling”, p.29, New Society Publishers

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• Me? I see an old, broke-ass black guy taking care of a bunch of kids, living life, taking them to school, and all that stuff, who's asking himself: What the hell is this? But I wouldn't give it up for the world because I love my wife. I never expected to have a life like this. No chaos... no confusion... no lawsuits... no violence... no going to jail.

  Mike Tyson

  Live Life, School, Kids

  Source: aalbc.com

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• Jail is much easier on people who have nothing.

  Bernhard Goetz

  People, Easier

  "Interview with "Subway Vigilante" Bernhard Goetz". "Larry King Live", edition.cnn.com. December 17, 2004.

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• When you're in jail, a good friend will be trying to bail you out. A best friend will be in the cell next to you saying, 'Damn, that was fun.'

  Groucho Marx

  Funny, Friendship, Witty

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• Churchill was a brilliant and inspiring rhetorician, but one of the first things he did as the head of the British nation was to put German Jews in jail. Tens of thousands of Jews - who had just been fortunate enough to get out from under Hitler only a few years before - spent the entire war in jail.

  Nicholson Baker

  War, Years, Firsts

  Source: www.barnesandnoble.com

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• That truth which you swallow from others will not be yours...you have to realize truth and work it our for yourself according to your own nature...All must struggle to be individuals-strong, standing on your own feet, thinking your own thoughts, realizing you own Self. No use swallowing doctrines others pass on-standing up together like soldiers in jail, sitting down together, all eating the same food, all nodding their heads at the same time. Variation is the sign of life. Sameness is the sign of death.

  Swami Vivekananda

  Strong, Struggle, Thinking

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• I think every person should go to jail once.

  Ernests Gulbis

  Thinking, Should, Persons

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• The presumption of innocence only means you don't go right to jail.

  Ann Coulter

  Mean, Presumption Of Innocence, Innocence

  "Hannity & Colmes", August 24, 2001.

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• We're rapidly approaching a world comprised entirely of jail and shopping.

  Douglas Coupland

  Shopping, World

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• If a slave is unwilling to go with his new master, he is whipped, or locked up in jail, until he consents to go, and promises not to run away during the year.

  Harriet Ann Jacobs

  Running, Years, Promise

  Harriet Ann Jacobs (2006). “Incidents in the Life of a Slave Girl - Literary Touchstone Classic”, p.25, Prestwick House Inc

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• They would almost throw the cops in jail when they tried to arrest me.

  Lawrence Taylor

  Sports, Cop

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• I was in chemical jail.

  James Taylor

  Chemicals

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

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• With random urinalysis, there's a clear choice - either get high or go to jail.

  Brian Baird

  Choices, Getting High, Clear

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• When people just become numbers, and we stop relating to each other as human beings. And we don't have the agency to make choices that can positively affect another human being. I was watching something yesterday where Justin Timberlake took a picture of himself voting, and he might get thirty days in jail because it's a new law or something.

  Bryce Dallas Howard

  Agency, Law, Yesterday

  Source: www.marieclaire.com

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• My mom would spend a week in jail. She would spend a day in jail here - a week again, a week and a half, two weeks. My grandmother tells me stories of how because I would be at the house, I wouldn't notice that my mom was gone because she would be at work sometimes. So it was just like time when my mom would be gone and my grandma would tell me she'll be back. And nobody knew where anybody was.

  Trevor Noah

  Mom, Grandma, Grandmother

  Source: www.npr.org

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• Let us be today's Christians. Let us not take fright at the boldness of today's church. With Christ's light let us illuminate even the most hideous caverns of the human person: torture, jail, plunder, want, chronic illness. The oppressed must be saved, not with a revolutionary salvation, in mere human fashion, but with the holy revolution of the Son of Man, who dies on the cross to cleanse God's image, which is soiled in today's humanity, a humanity so enslaved, so selfish, so sinful.

  Oscar Romero

  Christian, Fashion, Selfish

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• Some statesmen go to Congress and some go to jail. It is the same thing, after all.

  Eugene Field

  Congress, Statesmen

  Eugene Field (1967). “The complete Tribune primer”

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• I know from my own education that if I hadn't encountered two or three individuals that spent extra time with me, I'm sure I would have been in jail.

  Steve Jobs

  Two, Extra Time, Three

  "Steve Jobs interview: One-on-one in 1995". Interview with Daniel Morrow, www.computerworld.com. October 6, 2011.

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