Quotes and Sayings About Jail
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The Bible says, 'The truth shall make you free.' But let's not forget it was Spiro Agnew who said that a good lie will keep you out of jail in the first place.
-- A. Whitney Brown -
But Ash, I can't continue to want you from a distance. To love you and not have you. I'd end up in jail if anyone tried to touch you and God forbid you tried to date someone.
-- Abbi Glines -
I don't want want to go to jail, I'm fragile.
-- Adam Sandler -
I don't want to send them to jail. I want to send them to school.
-- Adlai E. Stevenson -
To stand up for truth is nothing. For truth, you must sit in jail.
-- Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn -
Books won't stay banned. They won't burn. Ideas won't go to jail
-- Alfred Whitney Griswold -
Okay, first thing tomorrow we hit the streets around Taccone's place. Somebody saw something.' 'I got it covered.' 'The DiMarcos might be in town.' 'Actually, they're in jail.' 'All seven of them?' Hale shrugged. 'It was an interesting October.
-- Ally Carter -
OPIATE, n. An unlocked door in the prison of Identity. It leads into the jail yard.
-- Ambrose Bierce -
If I wasn't a champion, I'd still be in jail. That makes me try very hard.
-- Amnat Ruenroeng -
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 -
Nobody black had learned anything from the Letter from the Birmingham Jail or from the I Have a Dream speech. That was a revelation of white people.
-- Andrew Young -
Jails and prisons are designed to break human beings, to convert the population into specimens in a zoo - obedient to our keepers, but dangerous to each other.
-- Angela Davis -
The presumption of innocence only means you don't go right to jail.
-- Ann Coulter -
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 -
It's not just the over $8 billion that we would be saving in law enforcement; it's also the over $8 billion that we would be making by taxing marijuana... We are filling our jails with nonviolent drug offenders - predominantly young, predominantly African American... It's a great beyond left and right issue. It has support across the political spectrum and also the support of the majority of the American people.
-- Arianna Huffington -
Pity the nation that has to silence its writers for speaking their minds. Pity the nation that needs to jail those who ask for justice, while communal killers, mass murderers, corporate scamsters, looters, rapists, and those who prey on the poorest of the poor, roam free.
-- Arundhati Roy -
Send me to jail in 48 hours if I am corrupt.
-- Arvind Kejriwal -
What can I do if everyone from the president to a junior bureaucrat is dying to convict me. If I am such a criminal, what was I doing outside jail before my marriage to Benazir?
-- Asif Ali Zardari -
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 -
Of course it can be said of jails, too, that they try - by punishing the troublesome - to deter others. No doubt, in certain instances this deterrence actually works. But generally speaking it fails conspicuously.
-- Barbara Deming -
And unless you think there is a serious chance you're going to jail, don't listen to your lawyer.
-- Barney Frank -
The effect of Welfarism on freedom will be felt later on - after its beneficiaries have become its victims, after dependence on government has turned into bondage and it is too late to unlock the jail.
-- Barry Goldwater -
I went to jail at 16 for stealing tires off Cadillacs. When I got out I said, Never again.
-- Barry White -
Jefferson thought schools would produce free men: we prove him right by putting dropouts in jail.
-- Benjamin Barber -
Jail is much easier on people who have nothing.
-- Bernhard Goetz -
The voice I have now, I got the first time I sang in a movement meeting, after I got out of jail... and I'd never heard it before in my life.
-- Bernice Johnson Reagon -
Every tiny molecule of Ash is in motion with my heat I am such a Lunatic that I am free even in Jail.
-- Bhagat Singh -
Why do we put people who are on drugs in jail? They're sick, they're not criminals. Sick people don't get healed in prison. You see? It makes no sense.
-- Bill Hicks -
If a man….who’s playing in front of the public, is being well paid, and he doesn’t dedicate himself to the job, I’d be hard on him. If I could I would put him in jail, out of the road of society. Because he’s a menace
-- Bill Shankly
