Jail Quotes - Page 7

• If I could come out in this book and advocate complete revolution and the violent overthrow of the United States of America, without being thrown in jail, I would not have written The Anarchist Cookbook, and there would be no need for it.

  William Powell

  Book, America, Revolution

  "The Anarchist Cookbook" by William Powell, (Introduction), 1971.

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• Never steal anything so small that you'll have to go to an unpleasant city jail for it instead of a minimum-security federal tennis prison.

  P. J. O'Rourke

  Cities, Tennis, Advice

  P. J. O'Rourke (2015). “Thrown Under the Omnibus: A Reader”, p.25, Grove/Atlantic, Inc.

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• Our prisons and our jails are now our mental health institutions.

  Hillary Clinton

  Prison, Mental Health, Institutions

  "Read: Hillary Clinton's huge new speech on criminal justice reform". Hillary Clinton's speech at Columbia University, www.vox.com. April 29, 2015.

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• Presently I shall be introduced as 'this venerable old gentleman' and the axe will fall when they raise me to the degree of 'grand old man'. That means on our continent any one with snow-white hair who has kept out of jail till eighty.

  Stephen Leacock

  Fall, Mean, Men

  1942 My Remarkable Uncle,'Three Score and Ten'.

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• You frequently ask, where are the friends of your childhood, and urge that they shall be brought back to you. As far as I am able to learn, those of your friends who are not in jail are still right there in your native village. You point out that they were wont to share your gambols, If so, you are certainly entitled to have theirs now.

  Stephen Leacock

  Childhood, Village, Able

  Stephen Leacock (2014). “Literary Lapses”, p.51, The Floating Press

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• The reign of tears is over. The slums will soon be only a memory. We will turn our prisons into factories and our jails into storehouses and comcribs. Men will walk upright now, women will smile, and the children will laugh. Hell will be forever for rent.

  Billy Sunday

  Children, Memories, Men

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• Unfortunately I've been to jail a couple times. Anytime I come in it's difficult to make music, write songs.

  Gucci Mane

  Song, Couple, Writing

  Source: www.billboard.com

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• Under this law (Controlled Substances Act) a bureaucrat-usually not elected-decides whether or not a substance is dangerous and how dangerous that substance is. There's no more messing around with legislatures, presidents, or other bothersome formalities. When MDMA (ecstasy) was made illegal in 1986, no elected official voted on that. It was done "in house." People are now in jail because they did something that an administrator declared was wrong.

  Peter McWilliams

  Law, People, House

  Peter McWilliams (1996). “Ain't Nobody's Business If You Do: The Absurdity of Consensual Crimes in Our Free Country”, Mary Book / Prelude Press

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• Almost makes you want to go to jail out here, doesn't it?

  William J. Clinton

  Stupid, Humorous, Want

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• a TEN-YEAR-OLD lad in Indianapolis who was arrested for picking up coal along the side of railroad tracks is now in jail. If the boy had known enough to steal the whole railroad he would be heralded as a Napoleon of finance.

  Mother Jones

  Boys, Years, Track

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• The attempt to make the consumption of beer criminal is as silly and as futile as if you passed a law to send a man to jail for eating cucumber salad.

  Stephen Leacock

  Silly, Beer, Men

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• You don't care if I'm guilty or not. You gonna make sure I go to jail for life.

  Ray Lewis

  Care, Guilty, Ifs

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• Poor people, especially those of color, are worth nothing to corporations and private contractors if they are on the street. In jail and prisons, however, they can each generate corporate revenues of $30,000 to $40,000 a year.

  Chris Hedges

  Color, Years, People

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• I've come out of a small jail and entered a bigger one.

  Chen Guangcheng

  Bigger

  "Rights groups: prominent Chinese activist and wife beaten" by Jo Ling Kent and Jaime Florcruz, www.cnn.com. February 11, 2011.

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• They spent the night in jail, where their progressive views on gay marriage served them well.

  Ann Coulter

  Gay, Night, Views

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• Blind Curve, the book I'm working on now, sprang from a crazy incident that happened to me last year while on my book tour. I was pulled out of my car for a minor traffic violation - an incident that escalated into my being thrown into cuffs and told I was going to jail. Except in my story, the hero doesn't get off as easily as I did.

  Andrew Gross

  Crazy, Book, Hero

  Interview with Lisa Gardner, www.amazon.com. 2012.

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• In a society of criminals, the innocent man goes to jail.

  Philip K. Dick

  Men, Innocent Man, Criminals

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• Of course it can be said of jails, too, that they try - by punishing the troublesome - to deter others. No doubt, in certain instances this deterrence actually works. But generally speaking it fails conspicuously.

  Barbara Deming

  Doubt, Trying, Failing

  Barbara Deming (1974). “We cannot live without our lives”

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• I love what I do. I love to capture the guy. I love to tell the victim 'Don't worry anymore. They're in jail.' And this is my way to heaven. This is my way to contribute to America what I know how to do best, and that's chase down the predator.

  Duane Chapman

  America, Worry, Guy

  "Duane 'Dog' Chapman 'On the Record' and on the Hunt for a Fugitive Child Rapist". "On the Record", www.foxnews.com. December 16, 2008.

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• I want to see somebody go to jail over the financial crisis and not just black, brown and poor whites over humbles and minor drug beefs.

  Don Cheadle

  Drug, Black, Beef

  "Don Cheadle Says President Obama Should Have Been More ‘Gangster,’ Clarifies Comments". www.huffingtonpost.com. December 30, 2011.

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• Criminals look at identity theft and say only 1 in 700 criminals gets convicted of it. And they look at check forgery and they know that for every 1,400 forgers arrested, only about 123 get convicted and about 26 go to jail. So the rewards are great, but the risks are very slim. So that's one of the reasons that make it very popular.

  Frank Abagnale

  Risk, Identity, Looks

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• Many people are living in an emotional jail without realizing it.

  Virginia Satir

  Emotional, People, Realizing

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• [democrats] hated Richard Nixon, and no wonder. It was Nixon who sent Alger Hiss to jail, and Nixon who waged the Vietnam War after the Democrats gave up.

  David Frum

  War, Vietnam, Politics

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• Government is not capable of caring. Government gets things done through coercion. They fine, they penalize, they tax, they confiscate, they jail, they bully to get what they want.

  Rush Limbaugh

  Caring, Government, Bully

  FaceBook post by Rush Limbaugh from Nov 07, 2013

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• There are more Negroes in jail with me than there are on the voting rolls.

  Martin Luther King, Jr.

  Voting

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