Jail Quotes - Page 26

• The secret to writing is just to write. Write every day. Never stop writing. Write on every surface you see; write on people on the street. When the cops come to arrest you, write on the cops. Write on the police car. Write on the judge. I'm in jail forever now, and the prison cell walls are completely covered with my writing, and I keep writing on the writing I wrote. That's my method.

  Neil Gaiman

  Wall, Writing, Cells

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• The government has created a nation of paper criminals. People can be put in jail and lose civil rights and liberties through bureaucratic procedures.The only thing that is keeping you out of jail is government goodwill.

  Ayn Rand

  Rights, Government, People

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• People were threatened, folks was put in jail just because we wanted people to try to register to vote.

  Unita Blackwell

  People, Trying, Vote

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• What various scenes, and O! what scenes of Woe,
  Are witness'd by that red and struggling beam!
  The fever'd patient, from his pallet low,
  Through crowded hospitals beholds it stream;
  The ruined maiden trembles at its gleam,
  The debtor wakes to thought of gyve and jail,
  The love-lorn wretch starts from tormenting dream;
  The wakeful mother, by the glimmering pale,
  Trims her sick infant's couch, and soothes his feeble wail.

  Walter Scott

  Mother, Dream, Morning

  Walter Scott (2017). “Scott's Lady of the Lake”, p.152, Litres

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• Keeping them behind bars does little to reduce crime, but it does a lot to tear apart families, our prisons and our jails are now our mental health institutions.

  Hillary Clinton

  Health, Tears, Doe

  "Hillary Clinton: America must confront 'hard truths about race and justice'", www.theguardian.com. April 29, 2015.

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• There is a fine line in the Third World between half a dozen customs officials waiting for you to offer them a bribe and half a dozen customs officials waiting for you to offer them a bribe
  so they can throw you in jail.

  P. J. O'Rourke

  Waiting, Half, World

  P. J. O'Rourke (2007). “All the Trouble in the World: The Lighter Side of Overpopulation, Famine, Ecological Disaster, Ethnic Hatred, Plague, and Poverty”, p.44, Grove/Atlantic, Inc.

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• I would never go into the 'Bigg Boss' house even in a hypothetical situation. I have been to jail, so if I were to be confined in that house, I'd get rattled.

  Sanjay Dutt

  House, Boss, Situation

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• No one has any license to brag because he is honest. That should be natural instinct and, besides, if you are not, they put you in jail. Honesty is merely a form of insurance.

  Charles Comiskey

  Honesty, Natural Instinct, Form

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• Every time the Russians throw an American in jail, the Committee throws an American in jail to get even.

  Mort Sahl

  Committees

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• I was never molested by any person but those who represented the State. I had no lock nor bolt but for the desk which held my papers, not even a nail to put over my latch or windows. I never fastened my door night or day, though I was to be absent several days; not even when the next fall I spent a fortnight in the woods of Maine. And yet my house was more respected than if it had been surrounded by a file of soldiers.

  Henry David Thoreau

  Fall, Night, Doors

  Henry David Thoreau (2013). “The Essential Thoreau”, p.104, Simon and Schuster

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• Rush Limbaugh, who has made a career preaching that anybody who does drugs has got to go right to jail - do not pass go, no questions asked, right to jail - gets caught doing thirty oxycontin a day. Thirty oxycontin?! Do you have any idea how high that is?! I don't, and I've been pretty high!

  Bill Maher

  Ideas, Oxycontin, Careers

  "Bill Maher: I'm Swiss". Documentary, Comedy, 2005.

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• See, when I smoked pot it was illegal, but not immoral. Now, it is illegal AND immoral. The law didn't change, only the morality… That's why you get to go to jail and I don't.

  Newt Gingrich

  Law, Morality, Pot

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• Prostitutes go to jail. Their customers go home and read the New York Times. In this country you're allowed to buy anything. If you need a shirt, you have a right to buy it. If you need sex, you don't. What's more important, sex or a shirt?

  Jackie Mason

  Country, Sex, New York

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• Why are we proud? We are proud, first of all, because from the beginning of this Nation, a man can walk upright, no matter who he is, or who she is. He can walk upright and meet his friend - or his enemy; and he does not fear that because that enemy may be in a position of great power that he can be suddenly thrown in jail to rot there without charges and with no recourse to justice. We have the habeas corpus act, and we respect it.

  Dwight D. Eisenhower

  Men, Justice, Enemy

  "Public Papers of the Presidents of the United States: Dwight D. Eisenhower, 1953".

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• New York became the first state to ban talking on hand-held cell phones while driving. First-time violators could receive a fine of $100, with an additional mandatory six-month jail sentence if your ringer plays a Latin-themed novelty song.

  Jon Stewart

  Song, New York, Latin

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• I spent nine days in the Downtown Los Angeles City Jail. The judge gave me a suspended sentence and I went to work that night - wailed just like nothing happened. What strucked me funny though - I laughed real loud when several movie stars came up to the bandstand while we played a dance set and told me, when they heard about me getting caught with marijuana, they thought marijuana was a chick. Woo boy - that really fractured me!

  Louis Armstrong

  Stars, Real, Night

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• People don't understand that you can actually lose your life going to jail. There's more violence in the jail-house than there is on the streets.

  Snoop Dogg

  People, House, Violence

  "Playboy Interview: Snoop Dogg". Interview with David Sheff, reprints.longform.org. October 1995.

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• Show me the prison, Show me the jail, Show me the prisoner whose life has gone stale. And I'll show you a young man with so many reasons why And there, but for fortune, go you or I.

  Phil Ochs

  Men, Gone, Reason Why

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• When we put someone in our jail cell of hatred, we are stuck guarding the door.

  Max Lucado

  Doors, Cells, Hatred

  Max Lucado (2011). “The Great House of God”, p.110, Thomas Nelson Inc

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• When man violates man's laws, we send him to jail and point the finger of scorn at him. When he violates nature's laws, we send him to a hospital, give him flowers, and feel sorry for him.

  B. J. Palmer

  Sorry, Flower, Men

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• Manny Pacquiao I'm calling you out let's fight May 5th and give the world what they want to see. My Jail Sentence was pushed back because the date was locked in. Step up Punk.

  Floyd Mayweather, Jr.

  Fighting, Giving, Calling

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• They attack the victim, and then the criminal who attacked the victim accuses the victim of attacking him. This is American justice. This is American democracy and those of you who are familiar with it know that in America democracy is hypocrisy. Now, if I’m wrong, put me in jail; but if you can’t prove that democracy is not hypocrisy, then don’t put your hands on me.

  Malcolm X

  Hands, America, Justice

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• Having spent too many years in show business, the one thing I see that succeeds is persistence. It's the person who just ain't gonna go home. I decided early on that I wasn't going to go home. This is what I'll be doing until they put me in jail or in a coffin.

  David Mamet

  Home, Persistence, Years

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• Every time you stop a school, you will have to build a jail.

  Mark Twain

  Education, School, School Education

  Mark Twain (2006). “Mark Twain Speaking”, p.362, University of Iowa Press

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• The effect of Welfarism on freedom will be felt later on - after its beneficiaries have become its victims, after dependence on government has turned into bondage and it is too late to unlock the jail.

  Barry Goldwater

  Government, Too Late, Victim

  Barry Goldwater (1960). “The Conscience of a Conservative”

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