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• You know, if you’re caught with an ounce of cocaine, the chances are good you’re going to go to jail. If it happens repeatedly, you may go to jail for the rest of your life. But evidently, if you launder nearly a billion dollars for drug cartels and violate our international sanctions, your company pays a fine and you go home and sleep in your own bed at night, every single individual associated with this. I think that’s fundamentally wrong.

  Elizabeth Warren

  Home, Sleep, Night

  "Regulators look to punish bankers for money laundering". www.reuters.com. March 7, 2013.

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• Jail was preferable. There they only limited you physically. In a mental ward they tampered with your soul and worldview and mind.

  John Kennedy Toole

  Soul, Mind, Worldview

  John Kennedy Toole (1987). “A Confederacy of Dunces”

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• The value of a dollar is to buy just things; a dollar goes on increasing in value with all the genius and all the virtue of the world. A dollar in a university is worth more than a dollar in a jail; in a temperate, schooled, law-abiding community than in some sink of crime, where dice, knives, and arsenic are in constant play.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Money, Law, Knives

  Ralph Waldo Emerson (2009). “The Essential Writings of Ralph Waldo Emerson”, p.630, Modern Library

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• Jail sentences have many functions, but one is surely to send a message about what our society abhors and what it values. This week, the equation was twofold: female infidelity twice as bad as male abuse, the life of a woman half as valuable as that of a man. The killing of the woman taken in adultery has a long history and survives today in many cultures. One of those is our own.

  Anna Quindlen

  Taken, Men, Law

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• A judge can manipulate the law. A smart lawyer can keep a killer out of jail.

  Mario Cuomo

  Smart, Law, Judging

  NBC TV, August 12, 1986.

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• I went to jail. I looked like one of those savings-and-loan guys leaving the jail house.

  Dave Winfield

  House, Guy, Leaving

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• Jail is just another micro-society. It just happens that here, the problems are far more out in the open, we don't live with the facades of lies that democracy or capitalism creates for us.

  Cecily McMillan

  Money, Wall, Lying

  "Occupy Activist Cecily McMillan Gets 3 Months in Prison: A Rare Interview". Interview with Ashley Codianni, mashable.com. May 19, 2014.

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• And please, please, lets us put mental health back on the top of our national agenda, our prisons and our jails are now our mental health institutions.

  Hillary Clinton

  Health, Agendas, Prison

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• Very early in my childhood I associated poverty, toil, unemployment, drunkenness, cruelty, quarreling, fighting, debts, jail with large families.

  Margaret Sanger

  Family, Fighting, Childhood

  Margaret Sanger, Michael W. Perry, H. G. Wells (2003). “The Pivot of Civilization in Historical Perspective: The Birth Control Classic”, p.308, Inkling Books

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• We live in a very low state of the world, and pay unwilling tribute to government founded on force. There is not, among the most religious and instructed men of the most religious and civil nations, a reliance on the moral sentiment, and a sufficient belief in the unity of things to persuade them that society can be maintained without artificial restraints, as well as the solar system; or that the private citizen might be reasonable, and a good neighbor, without the hint of a jail or a confiscation.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Religious, Men, Unity

  Ralph Waldo Emerson (2006). “Ralph Waldo Emerson: Selected Essays, Lectures and Poems”, p.265, Bantam Classics

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• The U.S. tax code was written by A students. Every April 15 we have to pay somebody who got an A in accounting to keep ourselves from being sent to jail.

  P. J. O'Rourke

  Pay, April, Students

  "A Government of Know-it-Alls". www.cbsnews.com. April 27, 2010.

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• Do not help your jailers to pretend that their jail is your natural state of existence.

  Ayn Rand

  Helping, Natural, States

  Ayn Rand (1963). “For the New Intellectual: The Philosophy of Ayn Rand (50th Anniversary Edition)”, p.154, Penguin

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• I know this well, that if one thousand, if one hundred, if ten men whom I could name,--if ten honest men only,--ay, if one HONESTman, in this State of Massachusetts, ceasing to hold slaves, were actually to withdraw from this copartnership, and be locked up in the county jail therefor, it would be the abolition of slavery in America. For it matters not how small the beginning may seem to be: what is once well done is done forever.

  Henry David Thoreau

  Men, Names, Abolition Of Slavery

  Henry David Thoreau (1942). “Civil Disobedience”, p.10, Hayes Barton Press

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• Look, we'll have to confront the pathologies of poverty at some point. We can deal with them cheaply at the front end, in infancy. Or we can wait and jail a troubled adolescent at the tail end. To some extent, we face a choice between investing in preschools or in prisons.

  Nicholas D. Kristof

  Education, Money, Reality

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• Pharisaism, obtuseness and tyranny reign not only in the homes of merchants and in jails; I see it in science, in literature, and among youth. I consider any emblem or label a prejudice.... My holy of holies is the human body, health, intellect, talent, inspiration, love and the most absolute of freedoms, the freedom from force and falsity in whatever forms they might appear.

  Anton Chekhov

  Freedom, Inspiration, Home

  Letter to Alexei Pleshcheev, October 4, 1888.

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• I'm always pleased that I managed to stay out of jail throughout my tenure in Chicago.

  Nick Offerman

  Chicago, Tenure

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• When [Ralph Waldo] Emerson visited Thoreau in jail and asked, 'What are you doing in there?' it was reported that Thoreau replied, 'What are you doing out there?'

  Howard Zinn

  Waldo Emerson, Ralph Waldo

  Howard Zinn (2015). “A People's History of the United States: 1492-Present”, p.156, Routledge

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• Living a good life may keep you out of jail, but it cannot keep you out of hell.

  Tim Kimmel

  Good Life, May, Hell

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• I feel like the fellow in jail who is watching his scaffold being built." (On construction of reviewing stands for inauguration of his successor John F Kennedy)

  Dwight D. Eisenhower

  Success, Age, Construction

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• The authoritarian child-rearing style so often found in working-class families stems in part from the fact that parents see aroundthem so many young people whose lives are touched by the pain and delinquency that so often accompanies a life of poverty. Therefore, these parents live in fear for their children's future--fear that they'll lose control, that the children will wind up on the streets or, worse yet, in jail.

  Lillian B. Rubin

  Children, Pain, Wind

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• The night in prison was novel and interesting enough.... I found that even here there was a history and a gossip which never circulated beyond the walls of the jail. Probably this is the only house in the town where verses are composed, which are afterward printed in a circular form, but not published. I was shown quite a long list of verses which were composed by some young men who had been detected in an attempt to escape, who avenged themselves by singing them.

  Henry David Thoreau

  Wall, Night, Men

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• I think I'm damn lucky. I'm lucky that my kids are all straight, that they haven't ended up in jail, that they're all worthwhile human beings, thank God. Their lives are happy; they have happy partners, wives, husbands.

  Lauren Bacall

  Husband, Kids, Thinking

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

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• If Mike Tyson is in your courtroom and you don't send him to jail, it's an injustice. Everyone knows he's a bad guy. So if he is in your courtroom, he should go to jail.

  Mike Tyson

  Guy, Injustice, Should

  Source: articles.latimes.com

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• 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

  Dying, President, Criminals

  "Asif Zardari: A Man With an Incredibly Attractive Personality". Interview with Arun Chacko, www.indiatoday.in. May 15, 1991.

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• Remember that all tax revenue is the result of holding a gun to somebody's head. Not paying taxes is against the law. If you don't pay your taxes, you'll be fined. If you don't pay the fine, you'll be jailed. If you try to escape from jail, you'll be shot. ... Therefore, every time the government spends money on anything, you have to ask yourself, 'Would I kill my kindly, gray-haired mother for this?'

  P. J. O'Rourke

  Mother, Gun, Law

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