Jail Quotes - Page 31

• If it was up to me, if you uttered the word 'gun control,' we'd put you in jail.

  Ted Nugent

  Gun, Gun Control, Ifs

  "Ted Nugent tells NRA crowd to turn up "the heat" on guns" by Daniel Lovering, www.reuters.com. May 1, 2011.

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• When you go to jail, there's so much simple stuff missing. You just want some good toilet paper or a real toothbrush, a real blanket and a real bed to lay in.

  Ja Rule

  Real, Simple, Missing

  "The Real World of Ja Rule". Interview with Zack Etheart, www.interviewmagazine.com. October 17, 2013.

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• You can kill a revolutionary but you can't kill revolution...you can jail a liberator but you can't jail liberation.

  Fred Hampton

  Revolution, Liberation, Liberators

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• I saw an Elvis Presley movie Jailhouse Rock, where he gets out of jail and makes his own records and takes them to the radio stations himself. And then, he puts records in the store. After seeing that, I made records an put them in stores.

  Bobby Vinton

  Rocks, Records, Radio

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• I happen to be pretty productive when I am in jail. When you are in jail, you have to spend more time with yourself.

  Pramoedya Ananta Toer

  More Time, Happens, Productive

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• If anything’s going on in our lives, we have each other. One time, I was having a bad day, and I called Chris Colfer. He came over with a pint of ice cream and Madea Goes to Jail, and it was, like, the best night of my life.

  Lea Michele

  Bad Day, Night, Ice Cream

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• I shot a couple of movies in jail, but I was never in jail.

  Tom Sizemore

  Couple, Shots

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• People have a right to protest; they have a right to make their opinion. They can be very upset about what they consider to be a murder of a person in custody, but you cannot destroy property. First person does it goes to jail.

  Rudy Giuliani

  People, Upset, Custody

  "Baltimore remains calm after first night of mandatory curfew". "The Five" with Dana Perino, Kimberly Guilfoyle, Juan Williams, Eric Bolling, Greg Gutfeld, www.foxnews.com. April 29, 2015.

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• I was pretty much a mess out of primary school. I really experienced a lot more of that stuff from the ages of seven to twelve, where there was a really popular girl at my school, and I was obsessed with her, like you'd go to jail for that stuff today. I'm so embarrassed to say this, but I was in tears one day, because I couldn't sit next to her.

  Charlize Theron

  Girl, School, Tears

  Source: collider.com

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• We can no longer tolerate what's going on in Ottawa and Edmonton. What I would challenge you to do is to put a lot of effort into trying to see whether there's a legal way of throwing our so-called leaders into jail because what they're doing is a criminal act.

  David Suzuki

  Science, Effort, Leader

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• You know, don't tell anybody I'm a jail bird, you know, but there were a bunch of us that were years ago involved in the pro-life movement.

  Todd Akin

  Years, Pro Life, Bird

  "Todd Akin Recalls Jail Time For Anti-Abortion Protest" by Laura Bassett, www.huffingtonpost.com. September 27, 2012.

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• Anyone who has been to an English public school will always feel comparatively at home in prison. It is the people brought up in the gay intimacy of the slums who find prison so soul-destroying.

  Evelyn Waugh

  Home, School, Gay

  Decline and Fall (1928) pt. 3, ch. 4

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• But the single overwhelming reason why jails are bursting is longer sentences given for more crimes.

  Polly Toynbee

  Reason Why, Crime, Bursting

  "Amid this panic over stabbings, we are ignoring what really cuts crime" by Polly Toynbee, www.theguardian.com. June 09, 2006.

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• But if you go over the line, you don't want to get stuck in a Nevada State court room. Honestly, because Nevada has been doing a good job of putting California criminals in jail. I mean, we couldn't put OJ in jail, but they did. We couldn't put Paris Hilton in jail, but they did.

  James Belushi

  Jobs, Mean, California

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• We need to pledge ourselves anew to the cause of Christ. We must capture the spirit of the early church. Wherever the early Christians went, they made a triumphant witness for Christ. Whether on the village streets or in the city jails, they daringly proclaimed the good news of the gospel.

  Martin Luther

  Christian, Cities, Church

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• The hero is not fed on sweets, Daily his own heart he eats; Chambers of the great are jails, And head-winds right for royal sails.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Sweet, Hero, Heart

  Ralph Waldo Emerson, Robert Ernest Spiller, Alfred Riggs Ferguson, Joseph Slater, Jean Ferguson Carr (1971). “The Collected Works of Ralph Waldo Emerson”, p.315, Harvard University Press

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• Oh, the inmates and the prisoners I found they were my kind And it was there inside the bars I found my peace of mind But the jails they were too crowded Institutions overflowed So they turned me loose to walk upon Life's hurried tangled road

  Bob Dylan

  Tangled, Mind, Bars

  Song: Ballad of Donald White

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• Such is the remorseless progression of human society, shedding lives and souls as it goes on its way. It is an ocean into which men sink who have been cast out by the law and consigned, with help most cruelly withheld, to moral death. The sea is the pitiless social darkness into which the penal system casts those it has condemned, an unfathomable waste of misery. The human soul, lost in those depths, may become a corpse. Who shall revive it?

  Victor Hugo

  Ocean, Men, Sea

  Victor Hugo (1980). “Les misérables”, Viking Pr

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• [Madness] is the jail we could all end up in. And we know it. And watch our step. For a lifetime. We behave. A fantastic and entire system of social control, by the threat of example as effective over the general population as detention centers in dictatorships, the image of the madhouse floats through every mind for the course of its lifetime.

  Kate Millett

  Mind, Steps, Example

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• You can tell a lot about a civilization by the quality of the people found in its jails.

  David Gerrold

  Civilization, People, Quality

  David Gerrold (2014). “Under the Eye of God: Trackers, Book One”, p.96, BenBella Books, Inc.

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• Deign on the passing world to turn thine eyes, And pause a while from learning to be wise. There mark what ills the scholar's life assail,- Toil, envy, want, the patron, and the jail.

  Samuel Johnson

  Wise, Learning, Eye

  'The Vanity of Human Wishes' (1749) l. 157

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• It's [Jail's] like being at school. Except you can't leave.

  Boy George

  School

  "Boy George: 'Jail's like school but you can't leave'". Interview with Nick McGrath, www.theguardian.com. October 12, 2010.

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• And if I don't be there by morning, she'll know that I must've spent the night in jail.

  Eric Clapton

  Morning, Night, Order

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• And don't worry, if I get thrown in jail in Manila, Beyonce will just bail me out. Sold out night 2 in the Philippines. I love it here!

  Lady Gaga

  Night, Worry, Bail

  Lady Gaga ‏ Verified account Lady Gaga @ladygaga, twitter.com. May 22, 2012.

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• He's going to jail. He can't see. He can't hear. He can't take a leak that lasts under fifteen minutes. But he has an erection and all the other problems are small change. Next time around I'm coming back as a man. Priorities are clearly defined. Life is simple.

  Janet Evanovich

  Men, Simple, Small Changes

  Janet Evanovich (2010). “Seven Up: A Stephanie Plum Novel”, p.322, Macmillan

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