Jail Quotes - Page 2

• It sounds kind of strange, but Jail time was almost a good experience for me.

  Tommy Lee

  Jail Time, Sound, Strange

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• It's awfully easy to be in love in jail

  Dashiell Hammett

  Easy

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• When I was in jail, I was a lot of people's favorite person. I practically ran the jail. I had more freedom than the police.

  Flavor Flav

  People, Police, Favorite Person

  "Hip-hop, you don't stop" by Johnny Davis, www.theguardian.com. June 18, 2006.

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• I know not whether Laws be right,
  Or whether Laws be wrong;
  All that we know who be in jail
  Is that the wall is strong;
  And that each day is like a year,
  A year whose days are long.

  Oscar Wilde

  Witty, Strong, Wall

  The Ballad of Reading Gaol pt. 5, st. 1 (1898)

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• Freedom is never voluntarily given by the oppressor; it must be demanded by the oppressed.

  Martin Luther King, Jr.

  Freedom, 4th Of July, Direct Action

  "Letter from Birmingham Jail," 16 Apr. 1963

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• Term limits aren't enough. We need jail.

  P. J. O'Rourke

  Needs, Term Limits, Enough

  "The Liberty Manifesto". Speech at the opening of the Cato Institute's headquarters in Washington, D.C., www.cato.org. May 06, 1993.

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• Steal a little and they throw you in jail Steal a lot and they make you king.

  Bob Dylan

  Kings, Politics, Littles

  "Sweetheart Like You". Song by Bob Dylan, bobdylan.com. 1983.

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• I'd rather deal with Tipper than Bush. He's trying to kill everybody in jail.

  Dr. Dre

  Trying, Deals

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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• All of North Korea is a jail.

  Kim Young-sam

  Korea, North Korea

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• My occupation now, I suppose, is jail inmate.

  Theodore Kaczynski

  Funny, Witty, Humorous

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• A man will be imprisoned in a room with a door that's unlocked and opens inwards; as long as it does not occur to him to pull rather than push it.

  Ludwig Wittgenstein

  Moving On, Moving Forward, Men

  "Culture and Value" by Ludwig Wittgenstein, translated by Peter Winch, (p. 42e), 1980.

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• Federal prison, if you get any of it, you're going to have to do 85% of it. And the reason why I called it that is because I had a friend who got sent to the federal joint and his whole... it wasn't about him being in jail. He cried about the 85%.

  Mike Epps

  Joints, Reason Why, Prison

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• 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

  Voice, Movement, Firsts

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• The penalty for laughing in a courtroom is six months in jail; if it were not for this penalty, the jury would never hear the evidence.

  H. L. Mencken

  Funny, Laughter, Humorous

  A Little Book in C Major ch. 4 (1916)

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• A nation that continues year after year to spend more money on military defense than on programs of social uplift is approaching spiritual doom.

  Martin Luther King, Jr.

  Change, Uplifting, Spiritual

  Beyond Vietnam -- A Time to Break Silence, Delivered 4 April 1967, Riverside Church, New York City

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• Addiction should never be treated as a crime. It has to be treated as a health problem. We do not send alcoholics to jail in this country. Over 500,000 people are in our jails who are nonviolent drug users.

  Ralph Nader

  Country, People, Addiction

  "Nader Endorses Legal Marijuana". Associated Press, www.nytimes.com. September 09, 2000.

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• There's no happy ending to cocaine. You either die, you go to jail, or else you run out.

  Sam Kinison

  Funny, Running, Comedian

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• So what really works? Treatments in jail do some good, but it's mostly too late: finding a family and a job or just growing older make most prisoners eventually give up crime.

  Polly Toynbee

  Jobs, Giving Up, Too Late

  "It is not fanciful to make the pursuit of happiness a political imperative" by Polly Toynbee, www.theguardian.com. June 15, 2006.

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• There's a pattern when tours start - a pattern of infighting, of making up, of breaking up, of addiction. There's a pattern of going to jail. There's a pattern of passion for music.

  Nikki Sixx

  Passion, Addiction, Patterns

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• I was in jail four and a half years. When I came out, I continued the same struggle against injustice, but instead of using weapons, I began to use art and cinema.

  Mohsen Makhmalbaf

  Art, Struggle, Years

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

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• The letters from jail are always disconcerting.

  Eliza Dushku

  Letters

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• To assert in any case that a man must be absolutely cut off from society because he is absolutely evil amounts to saying that society is absolutely good, and no-one in his right mind will believe this today.

  Albert Camus

  Believe, Cutting, Men

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• Forty years ago, we were on the tail of the Front Page era. There was a different point of view. Reporters and editors were more forgiving of public people. They didn't think they had to stick someone in jail to make a career.

  Mike Royko

  Thinking, Views, Years

  "Chicago's Mike Royko, sharp-witted columnist, dies" by Lisa Price, www.cnn.com. April 29, 1997.

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• They still don't want to admit to the world that this isn't the best and the fairest and most equal justice system. And that they are guilty of railroading people into jail. They don't want to, or never will, admit these things.

  Leonard Peltier

  People, Justice, World

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• Prison continues, on those who are entrusted to it, a work begun elsewhere, which the whole of society pursues on each individual through innumerable mechanisms of discipline.

  Michel Foucault

  Discipline, Prison, Individual

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