Jail Quotes - Page 17

• If you put something together and it doesn't look so good,
  the fashion police are not going to come and take you away.
  And if they do, you might have some fun in jail.

  Iris Apfel

  Fashion, Fun, Police

  "Learn to layer up for a hot, sticky summer" by Invisible Woman, www.theguardian.com. July 10, 2013.

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• Marijuana is rejected all over the world. Damned. In England heroin is alright for out-patents, but marijuana? They'll put your ass in jail. I wonder why that is? The only reason could be: To Serve the Devil - Pleasure! Pleasure, which is a dirty word in Christian culture.

  Lenny Bruce

  Christian, Dirty, Marijuana

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• An athlete gets paid a lot of money. And someone who is after that, a thief, a mugger or someone who steals from people, they are taking a chance with the law that if they get caught, they are going to jail or face some other problem. In my case, you are going to get shot.

  Luke Scott

  Athlete, Law, People

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• Suppose . . . burglars had made entry into this . . . [library]. Picture them seated here on this floor, pouring the light of their dark-lanterns over some books they found, and thus absorbing moral truths and getting moral uplift. The whole course of their lives would have been changed. As it was, they kept straight on in their immoral way and were sent to jail. For all I know, they may next be sent to Congress.

  Mark Twain

  Life, Uplifting, Book

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• Steve Jobs, the pioneer of the computer as a jail made cool, designed to sever fools from their freedom, has died.

  Richard Stallman

  Jobs, Pioneers, Fool

  Political notes from 2011, stallman.org. October 6, 2011.

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• Life goes on and the truth changes; this just happens to be the way life is. What was once true is often no longer true just a little while later. Yesterday's truth is today's bullshit. Even yesterday's liberating insight is today's jail of stale explanation.

  Brad Blanton

  Yesterday, Bullshit, Way

  Brad Blanton (1996). “Radical Honesty: How to Transform Your Life by Telling the Truth”, Dell

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• We've got thousands and thousands of people in jail on minor drug violations and they really don't need to be in jail. They're people whose lives are ruined. If drugs were legal there would be a lot less people using them.

  Sonny Barger

  People, Drug, Would Be

  Source: nwo.media.xs2.net

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• Anarchism is grounded in a rather definite social-psychological hypothesis: that forceful, graceful and intelligent behaviour occurs only when there is an uncoerced and direct response to the physical and social environment; that in most human affairs, more harm than good results from compulsion, top-down direction, bureaucratic planning, pre-ordained curricula, jails, conscription, states.

  Paul Goodman

  Intelligent, Top Down, Behaviour

  Paul Goodman (1967). “Like a conquered province: the moral ambiguity of America”

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• I don't trust anyone that hasn't been to jail at least once in their life.

  John Waters

  Don't Trust Anyone, Don't Trust

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• By creating false environment of a war on drugs, and cruel and unusual punishment with these crimes, 50% of our U.S. population is in jail without having hurt anybody, mostly for drugs.

  Oliver Stone

  Hurt, War, Punishment

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• When the tabloids photograph me when I'm out, I always say: "You know what, folks? I'm not married and I'm not gay. You caught me with a hot chick. You got me. Take me to hot-chick jail. Did it again. Guilty."

  Bill Maher

  Gay, Hot, Tabloids

  Interview with David Steinberg, www.interviewmagazine.com. November 30, 2008.

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• My attitude these days is, if you write a bad song, what are they gonna do, throw you in songwriter jail?

  John Hiatt

  Song, Attitude, Writing

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• That's a real void in my life. I see a lot of people who struggled and went to jail and the dogs were after them. I'd look them in the eyes and say, 'God almighty, I wish I'd have been there.'

  Ernie Banks

  Dog, Real, Eye

  "ESPN SportsCentury (Disciples of Jackie Robinson)". TV Series, February 20, 2004.

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• If our government servants had to comply with the Sarbanes-Oxley Act as they have forced all of American business to do, they would be in jail.

  Unknown

  Government, Would Be, Servant

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• Three years in jail is a good corrective for three years at Harvard.

  Alger Hiss

  Years, Three, Harvard

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• You can say what you want about all the guns in the country [the USA], all the drugs, all the crime, but we all know 400,000 people a year die of cigarette-related deaths. How many people died of drugs, guns, automobile accidents? You add them all together it doesn't come anywhere near that. Yet they let me smoke and get cancer, and they put me in jail for having drugs. What's going on? The government don't care. It's all about money and job security.

  Sonny Barger

  Country, Jobs, Cancer

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• Jail-going is only the beginning, not the end of satyagraha. The acme of satyagraha for us would be to lay down our lives for the defence of India's just cause.

  Mahatma Gandhi

  India, Would Be, Causes

  Mahatma Gandhi (1982). “Collected Works”

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• I feel bad [about Lil Wayne going to jail], because I don't think anything like this has happened in music since Elvis got drafted into the Army. Let's just keep it real - Lil Wayne is not just the biggest rapper, Lil Wayne is the biggest pop star right now. Maybe Susan Boyle is on his level. But when you talk about music, nice times out of ten, Lil Wayne's name is gonna come into the conversation.

  Bun B

  Stars, Real, Nice

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• I was really in to shiny things when I was younger and I stole a shiny tag for my dog. I didn't get caught. I hope I don't go to jail for that.

  Nicholas Hoult

  Dog, Tag, Caught

  "Interrogation: Nicholas Hoult". Interview with Lara Kilner, www.mirror.co.uk. February 2, 2008..

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• The justice system is flawed, and that just because you're overtly guilty doesn't actually mean you're actually going to go away, to jail.

  Rashida Jones

  Mean, Justice, Going Away

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• Never before have I written so long a letter. I'm afraid it is much too long to take your precious time. I can assure you that it would have been much shorter if I had been writing from a comfortable desk, but what else can one do when he is alone in a narrow jail cell, other than write long letters, think long thoughts, and pray long prayers?

  Martin Luther King, Jr.

  Prayer, Writing, Thinking

  Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. (2011). “Why We Can't Wait”, p.70, Beacon Press

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• It seems like Michael Vick is going to jail for dog fighting. Hopefully, they won't have guard dogs.

  Jon Stewart

  Dog, Fighting, Michael Vick

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• I tell the truth, and it has gotten me into a lot of trouble. My dad used to say to me, 'If you tell the truth all day long, you will end up in jail.'

  Elaine Stritch

  Dad, Long, Telling The Truth

  "The Way We Live Now: 2-24-02: Questions For Elaine Stritch; Of A Certain Age". Interview with Liz Welch, www.nytimes.com. February 24, 2002.

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• She's no lady. Her songs are all unbelievably unhappy or lewd. It's called Blues. She sings about sore feet, sexual relations, baked goods, killing your lover, being broke, men called Daddy, women who dress like men, working, praying for rain. Jail and trains. Whiskey and morphine. She tells stories between verses and everyone in the place shouts out how true it all is.

  Ann-Marie MacDonald

  Song, Rain, Men

  Ann-Marie Macdonald (2010). “Fall on Your Knees”, p.474, Vintage Canada

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• If a kid calls his grandma "Mommy" and his mama "Pam", he's going to jail!

  Chris Rock

  Funny, Grandma, Humor

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