Jail Quotes - Page 9

• We who live in prison, and in whose lives there is no event but sorrow, have to measure time by throbs of pain, and the record of bitter moments.

  Oscar Wilde

  Pain, Prison Time, Sorrow

  Oscar Wilde, Russell Jackson, Ian Small (2000). “The Complete Works of Oscar Wilde: De profundis, "Epistola : in carcere et vinculis"”, p.51, Oxford University Press on Demand

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• We are all conceived in close prison; in our mothers wombs, we are close prisoners all; when we are born, we are born but to the liberty of the house; prisoners still, though within larger walls; and then all our life is but a going out to the place of execution, to death.

  John Donne

  Mother, Wall, House

  John Donne, John Carey (2000). “John Donne: The Major Works”, p.280, Oxford University Press, USA

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• We are all serving a life sentence in the dungeon of the self.

  Cyril Connolly

  Self, Dungeons, Prison

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• I am so mean I've handcuffed lightnin' and thrown thunder in jail.

  Muhammad Ali

  Mean, Boxing, Thunder

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• I strongly object to the fact that so many newspapers have given the American public and the world the impression that I have only two alternatives in taking this stand: either I go to jail or go to the Army. There is another alternative and that alternative is justice. If justice prevails, if my Constitutional rights are upheld, I will be forced to go neither to the Army nor jail. In the end I am confident that justice will come my way for the truth must eventually prevail.

  Muhammad Ali

  Army, Rights, Two

  Muhammad Ali, Hana Yasmeen Ali (2013). “The Soul of a Butterfly: Reflections on Life's Journey”, p.89, Simon and Schuster

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• Moonshiners put more time, energy, thought, and love into their cars than any racer ever will. Lose on the track, and you go home. Lose with a load of whiskey, and you go to jail.

  Junior Johnson

  Home, Nascar Racing, Track

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• We must stop criminalizing mental illness. It's a national tragedy and scandal that the L.A. County Jail is the biggest psychiatric facility in the United States.

  Elyn Saks

  Motivation, Inspiration, Tragedy

  "A tale of mental illness — from the inside". TED Talk, www.ted.com. June, 2012.

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• I would never go to jail to protect animals or plants or wilderness. For me, it’s about the people.

  Tim DeChristopher

  Animal, People, Wilderness

  "What Love Looks Like". Interview with Terry Tempest Williams, orionmagazine.org. May 28, 2011.

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• I haven't taken an overdose of sleeping pills and called my agent. I haven't been in jail, and I don't go running to the psychiatrist every two minutes. That's something of an accomplishment these days.

  Ava Gardner

  Running, Taken, Sleep

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

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• The only thing left for Barack Obama to do is to work like a third world dictator and just put all these guys in jail.

  Harry Belafonte

  Guy, World, Dictator

  "Harry Belafonte, MSNBC criticized over 'jailing Republicans' remarks". www.foxnews.com. December 14, 2012.

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• The chief moral obligation of the 21st Century is to build a green economy that is strong enough to lift people out of poverty. Those communities that were locked out of the last century's pollution-based economy must be locked into the new, clean and renewable economy. Our youth need green-collar jobs, not jails.

  Van Jones

  Strong, Jobs, People

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• Freedom or jail clips inserted, a baby's being born/ Same time a man is murdered, the beginning and end.

  Nas

  Baby, Men, Beginnings And Ends

  Song: Nas Is Like, Album: I Am..., 1999

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• The only difference between me and my fellow actors is that I've spent more time in jail.

  Robert Mitchum

  Differences, Actors, Prison

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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• I'm unbelievably claustrophobic, and I have really bad anxiety. There were a few moment when I was very dramatic and thought, 'I'm not going to live through this. I'm going to hyperventilate and just die. Right here in jail.'

  Shannen Doherty

  Anxiety, Dramatic, Moments

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• Being in jail, it's humbled me in a way I never imagined.

  Foxy Brown

  Way

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• I went to jail for 11 days for disturbing the peace; I was trying to disturb the war.

  Joan Baez

  War, Trying, Disturbing Things

  Pop Chronicles interview, 1967.

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• The American Medical Association says the humane way is to let people starve and thirst to death. If you did that to an animal, youd be put in jail immediately ... In the face of such insanity masquerading as authority, who wouldnt be strident?

  Jack Kevorkian

  Animal, Humane Way, People

  "Kevorkian suggests guidelines for suicides", www.cnn.com. January 14, 1997.

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• When you're young, you're stupid. You do silly things. I did it (the O-Z-Z-Y tattoo across his knuckles) when I was 14. I was in jail for something. I could have had it removed, but why? It's my trademark. People stop me and say, 'Let me have a look at your hand.'

  Ozzy Osbourne

  Tattoo, Stupid, Silly

  Launch Magazine, October 30, 1998.

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• I had my back against the wall. He [Gary Hinman] said, I'm going to tell the police what you did to me. [] This guy is a drug dealer. He's playing the game. And if you're going to dance, you've got to pay the fiddler. You burn somebody, that's the way it is. [I] Stabbed [him] in the heart twice. He died immediately. [] Susan Atkins seemed to think, Oh what fun, how interesting. Susan Atkins is now a Jesus freak in jail. She gave five different testimonies and in one of them, she claimed she killed Hinman.

  Bobby Beausoleil

  Jesus, Wall, Fun

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• You go to jail for drinking beer and then walking with your bike. You go to jail for smoking a joint. For abortion. This is a nihilist policy which hurts people.

  Janusz Palikot

  Hurt, Drinking, Beer

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• I did my time in the jail of your arms

  Tom Waits

  Arms, My Time

  Song: Who Are You, Album: Bone Machine

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• I ain't going to jail no more. The only
  way we gonna stop them white men from whuppin' us is to take over.
  What we gonna start sayin' now is Black Power!

  Stokely Carmichael

  Men, White Man, Black

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• I don't mind if after the job is done you put me in front of a Nuremberg Trial and then jail me for life. Hang me if you want, as a war criminal. What you don't understand is that the dirty work of Zionism is not finished yet, far from it.

  Ariel Sharon

  Jobs, War, Dirty

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• If, after obtaining Buddhahood, anyone in my land
  gets tossed in jail on a vagrancy rap, may I
  not attain highest perfect enlightenment.

  Gary Snyder

  Rap, Land, Perfect

  Gary Snyder (1978). “Myths & Texts”, p.45, New Directions Publishing

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• Hundreds of poor laboring men and women are being thrown into jails and police stations because of their political beliefs. In fact, an attempt is being made to deport an entire political party.

  Jane Addams

  Party, Men, Political

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