Jail Quotes

• If it's illegal to rock and roll, throw my ass in jail!

  Kurt Cobain

  Rocks, Rock And Roll, Rock N Roll

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• If you want to know who your friends are, get yourself a jail sentence.

  Charles Bukowski

  Friendship, Interesting, Want

  Charles Bukowski (2013). “Notes of a Dirty Old Man”, p.128, City Lights Books

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• 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

  Zoos, Prison Population, Break

  Angela Davis: An Autobiography ch. 1 (1974)

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• No one truly knows a nation until one has been inside its jails. A nation should not be judged by how it treats its highest citizens but its lowest ones.

  Nelson Mandela

  Inspiring, Inspiration, Compassion

  "Long Walk to Freedom". Book by Nelson Mandela, 1995.

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• I have never regarded any man as my superior, either in my life outside or inside prison.

  Nelson Mandela

  Men, Prison, Subordination

  Twitter post from Mar 04, 2017

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• I don't like jail, they got the wrong kind of bars in there.

  Charles Bukowski

  Drinking, Bail, Bars

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• If you are ever going to lie, you go to jail for the lie rather than the crime. So believe me, don't ever lie.

  Richard M. Nixon

  Lying, Believe, Belief

  Richard M. Nixon's remarks to John Dean (April 1973) as quoted in Nixon Tapes "Submission of Recorded Presidential Conversations to the Committee on the Judiciary of the House of Representatives", 1974.

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• When thee builds a prison, thee had better build with the thought ever in thy mind that thee and thy children may occupy the cells.

  Elizabeth Fry

  Children, Freedom, Cells

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• You can jail a Revolutionary, but you can't jail the Revolution.

  Huey Newton

  Revolution, Revolutionary, Nationalism

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• We buy our way out of jail but we can't buy freedom,
  We buy a lot of clothes when we don't really need them,
  Things we buy to cover up what's inside.

  Kanye West

  Song, Clothes, Needs

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• I will be really happy once I have done my jail time. I can start fresh.

  Nicole Richie

  Jail Time, Done, Really Happy

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• I think there are too many people in jail for too long and for not necessarily good reasons.

  Eric Holder

  Thinking, Long, People

  "Drug War Waged Hard Against People Of Color". "Weekend Edition" with Rachel Martin, www.nhpr.org. August 14, 2013.

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• "Who is secure in all his basic needs? Who has work, spiritual care, medical care, housing, food, occasional entertainment, free clothing, free burial, free everything? The answer might be nuns and monks, but the standard reply is 'prisoners'"

  Erik von Kuehnelt-Leddihn

  Spiritual, Food, Needs

  Erik von Kuehnelt-Leddihn (1990). “Leftism Revisited: From de Sade and Marx to Hitler and Pol Pot”, Gateway Books

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• What can you do with me? My jannah is in my heart! If you take me to jail, I will make zikr of Allah. If you exile me out of my land, I will make takaffur. If you execute me, I would be a shaheed. What can you do with me? Because I am not limited to this dunya. I am living for al-akhira!

  Ibn Taymiyyah

  Heart, Land, Would Be

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• Ninety percent of all prisoners in all jails get out some day. So why not give them a little levity in what's otherwise a very dark life?

  Jeff Ross

  Dark, Giving, Why Not

  Source: www.npr.org

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• I have nothing to lose by standing up and following my beliefs. So I'll go to jail, so what? We have been in jail for years.

  Muhammad Ali

  Years, Belief, Nothing To Lose

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• On a planet that increasingly resembles one huge Maximum Security prison, the only intelligent choice is to plan a jail break.

  Robert Anton Wilson

  Intelligent, Choices, Prison

  Robert Anton Wilson (1991). “Cosmic trigger: Down to earth”, New Falcon Pubns

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• I shall be honored to go to jail. Under a dictatorship, the detention cell is a place of honor.

  Miriam Defensor Santiago

  Cells, Honor, Human Rights

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• I don't know anything about this man. Anyhow, I only know two things about him. One is, he has never been in jail, and the other is, I don't know why.

  Mark Twain

  Men, Two, Insult

  Mark Twain (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of Mark Twain (Illustrated)”, p.7187, Delphi Classics

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• There is a close relationship between flowers and convicts. The fragility and delicacy of the former are of the same nature as the brutal insensitivity of the latter.

  Jean Genet

  Flower, Fragility, Delicacy

  Jean Genet (1973). “The Thief's Journal”

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• Care about what other people think and you will always be their prisoner.

  Laozi

  Inspirational, Relationship, Wise

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• What I learned in jail is that I can't change. I can't live a different lifestyle - this is it. This is the life that they gave and this is the life that I made.

  Tupac Shakur

  Different, Lifestyle, Made

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

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• I used to always fight for human rights. I still fight for Leonard Peltier, who's spent 35 years in jail for a crime he didn't commit.

  Vivienne Westwood

  Fighting, Rights, Years

  "Vivienne Westwood Is Fashion’s Global Punk Warrior". Interview with Katharine Zarrella, www.interviewmagazine.com. October 7, 2011.

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• If I wanted to develop a scenario to destroy America, I would do what the Republicans are doing. Take the brightest and best young black men off the streets, put them in jail, make them meaner than hell for 8 or 10 years and then turn them lose in a society where there are plenty of guns for them to play with.

  Andrew Young

  Gun, Men, Years

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• People don't understand that where I come from, everyone is either a convict, been in jail, been in a gang, is a hooligan of some sorts, but those are my brothers, my family and the people that I travel with. Those are the people that I roll with.

  Lupe Fiasco

  Brother, People, Gang

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