Jail Quotes

I submit that an individual who breaks the law that conscience tells him is unjust and willingly accepts the penalty by staying in jail to arouse the conscience of the community over its injustice, is in reality expressing the very highest respect for law.
Martin Luther King, Jr.

Respect, Reality, Him

If it's illegal to rock and roll, throw my ass in jail!
Kurt Cobain

Rock, Throw, Illegal

I just spent 11 and a half months in a maximum-security jail, got shot five times, and was wrongly convicted of a crime I didn't commit.
Tupac Shakur

Times, Half, Crime

What I learned in jail is that I can't change. I can't live a different lifestyle-this is it. This is the life that they gave and this is the life that I made.
Tupac Shakur

Life, Change, Live

I was called a terrorist yesterday, but when I came out of jail, many people embraced me, including my enemies, and that is what I normally tell other people who say those who are struggling for liberation in their country are terrorists.
Nelson Mandela

Country, Tell, Struggling

I don't have to talk about whether or not I got raped in jail.
Tupac Shakur

Before I went to jail, I was active in politics as a member of South Africa's leading organization - and I was generally busy from 7 A.M. until midnight. I never had time to sit and think.
Nelson Mandela

Politics, Time, Busy

There is no more independence in politics than there is in jail.
Will Rogers

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

Beauty, Fear, Poetry

Addiction should never be treated as a crime. It has to be treated as a health problem. We do not send alcoholics to jail in this country. Over 500,000 people are in our jails who are nonviolent drug users.
Ralph Nader

Health, Country, Problem

The penalty for laughing in a courtroom is six months in jail; if it were not for this penalty, the jury would never hear the evidence.
H. L. Mencken

Hear, Laughing, Months

If you want to know who your friends are, get yourself a jail sentence.
Charles Bukowski

Yourself, Friends, Sentence

Be thine own palace, or the world's thy jail.
John Donne

Thy, Palace, Thine

No man will be a sailor who has contrivance enough to get himself into a jail; for being in a ship is being in a jail, with the chance of being drowned... a man in a jail has more room, better food, and commonly better company.
Samuel Johnson

Food, Enough, Chance

I don't like jail, they got the wrong kind of bars in there.
Charles Bukowski

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

Society, Lost, Trying

You can jail a Revolutionary, but you can't jail the Revolution.
Huey Newton

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

Chance, Ship, Drowned

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, Judge, Law

Jail didn't make me find God, He's always been there. They can lock me up, but my spirit and my love can never be confined to prison walls.
Lil Wayne

Love, God, Find

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, Try, Duty

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

Time, Great, Excited

On a planet that increasingly resembles one huge Maximum Security prison, the only intelligent choice is to plan a jail break.
Robert Anton Wilson

Choice, Plan, Security

A man who cannot be enticed by money or intimidated by the threat of jail or death has two of the strongest weapons that anyone has to offer.
Jesse Jackson

Money, Death, Two

Every time the liberals pass a bill - I don't care what it involves - they stick criminal sanctions on it. They don't feel there is any way people are going to keep a law unless they can put them in jail.
Pat Robertson

Time, Care, Law

I was interested by the idea that artists working in a totalitarian dictatorship or tsarist autocracy are secretly and slightly shamefully envied by artists who work in freedom. They have the gratification of intense interest: the authorities want to put them in jail, while there are younger readers for whom what they write is pure oxygen.
Tom Stoppard

Work, Freedom, Working

We're rapidly approaching a world comprised entirely of jail and shopping.
Doug Coupland

Shopping, Entirely, Rapidly

I don't want to send them to jail. I want to send them to school.
Adlai E. Stevenson

A lot of guys in jail tattoo their hands.
Daniel Day-Lewis

Guys, Hands, Tattoo

At Kansas City, Kansas, before the saloons were closed, they were getting ready to build an addition to the jail. Now the doors swing idly on the hinges and there is nobody to lock in the jails.
Billy Sunday

Before, Getting, Nobody

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