Jail Quotes - Page 6

• This country has nothing to fear from the crooked man who fails. We put him in jail. It is the crooked man who succeeds who is a threat to this country.

  Theodore Roosevelt

  Country, Men, President

  Theodore Roosevelt, Paul H. Jeffers (1998). “The Bully Pulpit: A Teddy Roosevelt Book of Quotations”, p.72, Taylor Trade Publications

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• I could hear Dean, blissful and blabbering and frantically rocking. Only a guy who's spent five years in jail can go to such maniacal helpless extremes; beseeching at the portals of the soft source, mad with a completely phsycial realization of the origins of life-bliss; blindly seeking to return the way he came

  Jack Kerouac

  Origin Of Life, Years, Mad

  Jack Kerouac (2007). “Road Novels 1957-1960”

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• Journalists don't need a get-out-of-jail-free card, ... Instead we should be given more access to information.

  Chris Powell

  Needs, Cards, Information

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• So I had a choice between going to a jail or going to a bughouse like a nice young middle-class student. So I chose to go to a very polite mental hospital. When I left eight months later, they said, 'You were never psychotic. You were just an average neurotic.'

  Allen Ginsberg

  Nice, Eight, Average

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• My theory is that everything went to hell with Prohibition, because it was a law nobody could obey. So the whole concept of the rule of law was corrupted at that moment. Then came Vietnam, and marijuana, which clearly shouldn't be illegal, but is. If you go to jail for ten years in Texas when you light up a joint, who are you? You're a lawbreaker. It's just like Prohibition was. When people accept breaking the law as normal, something happens to the whole society, you see?

  Orson Welles

  Marijuana, Light, Texas

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• Every beggar shall be arrested. But to arrest a beggar merely in order to put him in jail would be barbarous and absurd. He should be arrested for the sole purpose of teaching him how to earn a living by his work.

  Napoleon Bonaparte

  Teaching, Order, Would Be

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• If one man tells you to murder, you get a jail cell - if another man tells you to murder, you get medals and a pension.

  Stefan Molyneux

  Men, Cells, Murder

  "Against the Gods?: A Concise Guide to Atheism and Agnosticism (The Costs of False Ethics)". Book by Stefan Molyneux, 2010.

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• . . . the solution is not to toss youthful offenders into jail or prisons. We long ago recognized alcoholism to be a disease, and abondoned efforts to treat alcoholics simply by locking them up.

  Tom McCall

  War, Long Ago, Effort

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• The second time I went to jail, I was like, 'okay, this is not the move.'

  The Notorious B.I.G.

  Moving, Okay

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

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• But when we have families, when we have children, this gives us a purpose for being, to protect our children, to avoid going to jail because if I'm in jail, who looks after my children, who's there for my wife?.

  Ernie Hudson

  Children, Giving, Wife

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• I take no pleasure in seeing DeLay swing gently in the wind. But the thing I believe in the most is ethics. If someone has lost his moral compass and has to go to jail to find it, then I believe it will make him a much better person.

  Tom DeLay

  Believe, Compassion, Wind

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• Getting caught masturbating sucks. I got caught masturbating in jail 7 or 8 times, it really sucks.

  Ricky Martin

  Caught

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• It's like being on Death Row in an American jail. You are waiting for the door handle to turn, not knowing whether it's a reprieve or just your final breakfast before being executed.

  Howard Wilkinson

  Doors, Knowing, Waiting

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• Song, songs kept them going and going; They didn't realize the millions of seeds they were sowing. They were singing in marches, even singing in jail. Songs gave them the courage to believe they would not fail.

  Pete Seeger

  Song, Believe, Singing

  Song: Take It from DrKing

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• 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.

  Michelle Alexander

  War, African American, Felons

  "The mass incarceration of the Black community: an interview with Michelle Alexander, author of ‘The New Jim Crow’". Interview with Minister of Information JR Valrey, sfbayview.com. April 4, 2012.

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• Privately run jails are a mark of American "reinvented government" that has been picked up by neoconcervatives in Canada.

  Jane Jacobs

  Running, Government, Canada

  Jane Jacobs (2007). “Dark Age Ahead”, p.189, Vintage

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• You don't know how to handle anything today, because you have to go to jail to get some press or fall down drunk.

  Liza Minnelli

  Fall, Drunk, Today

  The Washington Blade, October 26, 2007.

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• I don't want want to go to jail, I'm fragile.

  Adam Sandler

  Funny, Want, Comedy

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• It had long been true, and prisoners knew this better than anyone, that the poorer you were the more likely you were to end up in jail. This was not just because the poor committed more crimes. In fact, they did. The rich did not have to commit crimes to get what they wanted; the laws were on their side. But when the rich did commit crimes, they often were not prosecuted, and if they were they could get out on bail, hire clever lawyers, get better treatment from judges. Somehow, the jails ended up full of poor black people.

  Howard Zinn

  Clever, Law, People

  Howard Zinn (2015). “A People's History of the United States: 1492-Present”, p.516, Routledge

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• I start from the supposition that the world is topsyturvy, that things are all wrong, that the wrong people are in jail and the wrong people are out of jail, that the wrong people are in power and the wrong people are out of power, that the wealth is distributed in this country and the world in such a way as not simply to require small reform but to require a drastic reallocation of wealth. I start from the supposition that we don't have to say too much about this because all we have to do is think about the state of the world today and realize that things are all upside down.

  Howard Zinn

  Country, Thinking, People

  Howard Zinn (1997). “The Zinn Reader: Writings on Disobedience and Democracy”, p.404, Seven Stories Press

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• Let us be on the side of those who sit in jails and are sentenced to death for their faith. Let us pray for them and help them.

  Richard Wurmbrand

  Sides, Helping, Praying

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• As long as society tells men to be the salespersons of sex, it is sexist for society to put only men in jail if they sell well. We don't put other salespersons in jail for buying clients drinks and successfully transforming a "no" into a "maybe" into a "yes." If the client makes a choice to drink too much and the "yes" turns out to be a bad decision, it is the client who gets fired, not the salesperson.

  Warren Farrell

  Sex, Men, Long

  Warren Farrell, James P. Sterba (2008). “Does feminism discriminate against men?”, Oxford University Press

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• I spent two months in a jail once. In a Mexican border town.

  Dean Ambrose

  Two, Mexican Border, Borders

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• If I went to jail, at least I wouldn't have to sign autographs.

  Kurt Cobain

  Truthful, Ifs, Autographs

  "Details" Magazine, February 1992.

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• A man in Georgia was arrested for burglary after he left his Facebook account open on the victim's computer. But this is nice: He's only been in jail a few hours, and his status already says "In a Relationship!

  Jimmy Fallon

  Nice, Men, Georgia

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