Jail Quotes - Page 12

• At nighttime, you just try to keep him out of jail.

  David Cone

  Yankees, Trying, Nighttime

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• I've never been accused of a felony. I never spent time behind bars except for a few overnight jail times back in the Sixties. [But] I think there's a little bit of a criminal in all of us. Everybody's done something they don't want anybody to know about.

  Johnny Cash

  Thinking, Done, Want

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• We handed the most important belongings of our people - the railroads and the banks - to aliens who 2000 years ago had turned the temple into a house of usury. Back then there was a man who had the bravery to drive out these scoundrels with a whip! If today a national socialist is seen with such a temple-whip, he's thrown into jail.

  Julius Streicher

  Men, Years, People

  "Kampf dem Weltfeind", Stürmer publishing house, Nuremberg, 1938.

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• There was zero time for reflection. We had to feed the prisoners three meals a day, deal with the prisoner breakdowns, deal with their parents, run a parole board. By the third day I was sleeping in my office. I had become the superintendent of the Stanford county jail. That was who I was: I'm not the researcher at all. Even my posture changes--when I walk through the prison yard, I'm walking with my hands behind my back, which I never in my life do, the way generals walk when they're inspecting troops.

  Philip Zimbardo

  Running, Zero, Sleep

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• For years I've been interested in a fundamental question concerning what I call the psychology of evil: Why is it that good people do evil deeds? I've been interested in that question since I was a little kid. Growing up in the ghetto in the South Bronx, I had lots of friends who I thought were good kids, but for one reason or another they ended up in serious trouble. They went to jail, they took drugs, or they did terrible things to other people. My whole upbringing was focused on trying to understand what could have made them go wrong.

  Philip Zimbardo

  Growing Up, Kids, Ghetto

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• a caring that gains only when losing; an obsessed desire to be bound, for love , in jail ; a capitulation to the one you've conquered yourself; a devotion to your own assassin every single day.

  Luis de Camoes

  Caring, Desire, Assassins

  Luís de Camões (2008). “Selected Sonnets: A Bilingual Edition”, p.45, University of Chicago Press

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• The best way to learn a language may be an episode of jail in a foreign country.

  Nassim Nicholas Taleb

  Country, May, Way

  Nassim Nicholas Taleb (2012). “Antifragile: Things That Gain from Disorder”, p.62, Random House

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• All I did in Chicago was to exercise my legal right to speak on my own behalf and I was given four years in jail as a result. But I think the most serious injustice perpetrated by the court system in America is the inability of a black man to get a jury of his peers.

  Bobby Seale

  Exercise, Men, Thinking

  The Guardian Interview, February 1970.

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• If the method is able to liberate our land, to liberate our people from Israeli jails, to reconstruct what was destroyed by the long-standing Israeli occupation, at that time we can discuss.

  Mahmoud al-Zahar

  Land, Long, People

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• All of our punishment institutions, including jails, laws, church confessionals, and so forth, are systems of illusion. The order of the universe, the infinite justice of yin and yang, naturally takes care of all motion and compensation. We don't need to invent arbitrary ways to make balance with punishments.

  Michio Kushi

  Order, Law, Punishment

  "Spiritual Journey: Michio Kushi's Guide to Endless Self-Realization and Freedom". Book by Michio Kushi and Edward Esko (p. 57), December 1994.

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• The drug war has nothing to do with making communities livable or creating a decent future for black kids. On the contrary, prohibition is directly responsible for the power of crack dealers to terrorize whole neighborhoods. And every cent spent on the cops, investigators, bureaucrats, courts, jails, weapons, and tests required to feed the drug-war machine is a cent not spent on reversing the social policies that have destroyed the cities, nourished racism, and laid the groundwork for crack culture.

  Ellen Willis

  War, Kids, Cities

  Ellen Willis (2012). “No More Nice Girls: Countercultural Essays”, p.250, U of Minnesota Press

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• Had Mother Nature been a real parent, she would have been in jail for child abuse and murder.

  Nick Bostrom

  Mother, Children, Real

  "In Defense of Posthuman Dignity". Bioethics, Vol. 19, No. 3, nickbostrom.com. 2005.

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• There is nothing in all the world greater than freedom. It is worth paying for; it is worth going to jail for. I would rather be a free pauper than a rich slave. I would rather die in abject poverty with my convictions than live in inordinate riches with the lack of self respect.

  Martin Luther King, Jr.

  Self, World, Riches

  Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. (2013). “The Essential Martin Luther King, Jr.: "I Have a Dream" and Other Great Writings”, p.35, Beacon Press

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• This is my first summer [with] no trouble. I ain't go to jail for speeding. Didn't go to jail for DUI. I didn't break my foot. I didn't break my other foot. I'm one step ahead of the game already.

  Kwame Brown

  Summer, Games, Feet

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• It is better to support schools than jails.

  Mark Twain

  School, Support

  Mark Twain (2016). “Mark Twain's Speeches”, p.94, Xist Publishing

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• And although I'm all for freedom of expression and against censorship, there are certain things I'm not willing to go to jail for.

  Tom Lehrer

  Expression, Censorship, Certain

  "The Music Show" with Andrew Ford, www.abc.net.au. July 8, 2006.

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• My mother always says: "You know better, so you'll be punished. Your friends don't know better, so they won't be punished. They can go snatch chains and they'll be fine. But if you snatch chains, you'll end up in jail because you know better."

  Chris Rock

  Mother, Ends, Chains

  Source: www.indielondon.co.uk

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• Each and every child in this country is valuable because they are our future as a society. We cannot afford to lose a single child to ill-health, under-education, abuse, addiction, jail, or gun violence. America's highest goal should be for every child to grow up to be a successful young adult -- healthy, educated, free, secure, and a good citizen.

  John F. Kerry

  Country, Children, Growing Up

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• If you are low income in the United States, you have a higher chance of going to jail than getting a 4-year degree.

  Bill Gates

  Years, Low Income, United States

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• Your home is your jail, Bird. I'm going to set you free.

  Teresa Mummert

  Home, Bird

  Teresa Mummert (2013). “Perfect Lie”, p.81, Teresa Mummert

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• When people ask me about drugs and alcohol, I say "Yeah, I went to rehab, I went to a mental hospital, I've been to jail." The main lesson you can learn is do drugs and alcohol when you are in a good mood, not when you are in a bad mood, and find balance in anything you do.

  Marilyn Manson

  People, Alcohol, Drug

  Source: archive.azcentral.com

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• Branding jails corporate America but honesty sets entrepreneurs free.

  James Altucher

  Honesty, America, Entrepreneur

  "7 Things That Happen To You When You Are Completely Honest" by James Altucher, jamesaltucher.com. October 12, 2011.

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• Dallas is where Kennedy was shot, and that's where I was put in jail.

  Eartha Kitt

  Dallas, Shots

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• But if by some freak of history communism had caught up with this country, I would have been one of the first people thrown in jail.

  Pete Seeger

  Country, People, Firsts

  "The Old Left". New York Times (section 6, p. 13), www.nytimes.com. January 22, 1995.

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• Nothing will prepare you for singing the truth like about 35 years in the music business, financial troubles and a couple trips to jail, ... It will get you really humble and really truthful, and gets you ready to sing out about who and what saved you.

  Marty Stuart

  Couple, Humble, Years

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