Jail Quotes - Page 4

• We'll try to cooperate fully with the IRS, because, as citizens, we feel a strong patriotic duty not to go to jail.

  Dave Barry

  Strong, Patriotic, Patriotism

  Dave Barry (1994). “The World According to Dave Barry”, Outlet

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• I will stay in jail to the end of my days before I make a butchery of my conscience.

  John Bunyan

  Butchery, Ends, Conscience

  "Letter from Birmingham Jail". Open letter by Martin Luther King, Jr., April 16, 1963.

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• I was going to go make a film in Greece. If they caught you with this much marijuana, they threw you in jail, no questions asked, and I was trying to stuff it in my deodorant bottles. I thought, what I am doing?

  Dyan Cannon

  Marijuana, Trying, Deodorant

  "Dyan Cannon Discusses Her Faith". "Larry King Live", transcripts.cnn.com. April 23, 2001.

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• Being in a ship is being in a jail, with the chance of being drowned.

  Samuel Johnson

  Travel, Sailing, Navy

  Quoted in James Boswell, The Life of Samuel Johnson (1791) (entry for 16 Mar. 1759)

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• Tom DeLay ought to go back to Houston where he can serve his jail sentence.

  Howard Dean

  Delay, Houston, Sentences

  "Capitol Hill Rhetoric Heats Up Over 'Nuclear Option'". "Day to Day" with Alex Chadwick, www.npr.org. May 20, 2005.

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• The beauty, the poetry of the fear in their eyes. I didn't mind going to jail for, what, five, six hours? It was absolutely worth it.

  Johnny Depp

  Eye, Mind, Six

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• I was kind of excited about going to jail the first time and I learnt some great dialogue.

  Quentin Tarantino

  Jail Time, Firsts, Kind

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• It costs $30,000 to $50,000 per year to send someone to jail. You don't have to pay so much to send someone to school at Johns Hopkins.

  John Money

  School, Years, Cost

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• In Vietnam we have no political prisoners. No one is arrested or jailed for his or her speech or point of view. They are put in jail because they violated the law.

  Nong ?uc Manh

  Views, Law, Political

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• If - you know, it seems to me that if we see Matt Cooper being carted off to jail today, a lot of people may find that, you know, a very upsetting thing.

  Michael Isikoff

  People, Upset, May

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• Civil disobedience is not our problem. Our problem is civil obedience. Our problem is that people all over the world have obeyed the dictates of leaders…and millions have been killed because of this obedience…Our problem is that people are obedient allover the world in the face of poverty and starvation and stupidity, and war, and cruelty. Our problem is that people are obedient while the jails are full of petty thieves… (and) the grand thieves are running the country. That’s our problem.

  Howard Zinn

  Inspirational, Death, Running

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  If you want total security, go to prison. There you're fed, clothed, given medical care and so on. The only thing lacking... is freedom.

  Dwight D. Eisenhower

  Freedom, Patriotic, Vaccines

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• Prison is the only form of public housing that the government has truly invested in over the past 5 decades

  Marc Lamont Hill

  Past, Government, Ironic

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• If you can manipulate news, a judge can manipulate the law. A smart lawyer can keep a killer out of jail, a smart accountant can keep a thief from paying taxes, a smart reporter could ruin your reputation - unfairly.

  Mario Cuomo

  Smart, Law, Judging

  NBC TV, August 12, 1986.

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• Today there are more African-Americans under correctional control, in prison or jail, on probation or parole, than were enslaved in 1850, a decade before the Civil War began. There are millions of African-Americans now cycling in and out of prisons and jails or under correctional control or saddled with criminal records. In major American cities today, more than half of working-age African-American men either are under correctional control or are branded felons, and are thus subject to legalized discrimination for the rest of their lives.

  Michelle Alexander

  War, Men, Cycling

  "Legal Scholar: Jim Crow Still Exists In America". "Fresh Air" with Dave Davies, www.npr.org. January 16, 2012.

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• Injustice anywhere is a threat to justice everywhere.

  Martin Luther King, Jr.

  Wisdom, Peace, Kings

  "Letter from Birmingham Jail," 16 Apr. 1963

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• Every tiny molecule of Ash is in motion with my heat I am such a Lunatic that I am free even in Jail.

  Bhagat Singh

  Molecules, Ashes, Tiny

  Bhagat Singh, Bhupendra Hooja, Democratic Youth Federation of India (2007). “Bhagat Singh, on the path of liberation”

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• Jails and prisons are the complement of schools; so many less as you have of the latter, so many more must you have of the former.

  Horace Mann

  Inspirational, Education, School

  Horace Mann (1867). “Thoughts”, p.112

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• Books won't stay banned. They won't burn. Ideas won't go to jail. In the long run of history, the censor and the inquisitor have always lost. The only sure weapon against bad ideas is better ideas. The source of better ideas is wisdom. The surest path to wisdom is a liberal education.

  Alfred Whitney Griswold

  Education, Running, Fear

  "Quora: What Does Freedom of Speech Mean?". www.yahoo.com. May 13, 2017.

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• A lot of guys in jail tattoo their hands.

  Daniel Day-Lewis

  Tattoo, Hands, Guy

  "In the name of the father". Interview with Simon Hattenstone, www.theguardian.com. February 28, 2003.

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• I think that if the beast who sleeps in man could be held down by threats of any kind, whether of jail or retribution, then the highest emblem of humanity would be the lion tamer, not the prophet who sacrificed himself.... What for centuries raised man above the beast is not the cudgel but the irresistible power of unarmed truth.

  Boris Pasternak

  Sleep, Men, Thinking

  "Doctor Zhivago". Book by Boris Pasternak. Paraphrase of the 1958 translation, as quoted in The New York Times (1 January 1978), 1957.

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• Am I a criminal? The world knows I'm not a criminal. What are they trying to put me in jail for? You've lost common sense in this society because of religious fanaticism and dogma.

  Jack Kevorkian

  Religious, Common Sense, Society

  "Jail: An Inmates Survival Guide". Panama Publishing Inc. Book, p. 24, 2007.

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• ..When I first heard Elvis' voice, I knew that I wasn't going to work for anybody ... hearing him for the first time was like busting out of jail

  Bob Dylan

  Music, Busting Out, Voice

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• Writers in repressive societies are considered dangerous. That's why so many of them are in jail.

  Don DeLillo

  Bedtime, Dangerous

  Don DeLillo, Thomas DePietro (2005). “Conversations with Don DeLillo”, p.46, Univ. Press of Mississippi

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• Every single person in jail for a violent crime had a nightmare childhood.

  Rob Reiner

  Childhood, Fatherhood, Nightmare

  "Star Power Fuels Push For Prop. 10 / `Rob Reiner Initiative' has steep cigarette tax" by Sabin Russell, www.sfgate.com. October 22, 1998.

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