Famous Quotes & Sayings

We have to have a jail or we can't ever restore order and rebuild the city.

Don Cheadle

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.

David Suzuki

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.

Chen Guangcheng

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

Asif Ali Zardari

What can I do if everyone from the president to a junior bureaucrat is dying to convict me. If I am such a criminal, what was I doing outside jail before my marriage to Benazir?

Barbara Deming

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.

Shame is the turnkey that keeps our evil desires in jail.

Brian Urlacher

How great a life is this? To get to knock guys' heads off for 60 minutes and not get thrown in jail?

Brian Baird

With random urinalysis, there's a clear choice - either get high or go to jail.

Charles Manson

I'm in jail because people wanna keep me in jail. It ain't got nothing to do with the law.

Charles Manson

I am not in jail. There is no jail.

Arundhati Roy

Pity the nation that has to silence its writers for speaking their minds. Pity the nation that needs to jail those who ask for justice, while communal killers, mass murderers, corporate scamsters, looters, rapists, and those who prey on the poorest of the poor, roam free.

Charles Barkley

Only poor people go to jail.

Chelsea Handler

Kiefer Sutherland has agreed to serve 48 days in jail for his DUI convictions. That's 245 months in Jack Bauer years.

Bernhard Goetz

Jail is much easier on people who have nothing.

Eartha Kitt

Dallas is where Kennedy was shot, and that's where I was put in jail.

Eldridge Cleaver

In prison, those things withheld from and denied to the prisoner become precisely what he wants most of all.

Ed Koch

Clinton has more important things to worry about. He not only risks being destroyed historically, like Afghanistan's Buddha statues; he also could end up going to jail.

Ed Koch

If you seek violence, we will seek to put you in jail.

Eliza Dushku

The letters from jail are always disconcerting.

Barry White

I went to jail at 16 for stealing tires off Cadillacs. When I got out I said, Never again.

Bob Dylan

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

And for each unharmful gentle soul misplaced inside a jail...

Barry Goldwater

The effect of Welfarism on freedom will be felt later on - after its beneficiaries have become its victims, after dependence on government has turned into bondage and it is too late to unlock the jail.

We're not able to spring people from jail just because they're Americans.

I was going to be in jail the rest of my life, so I might as well try something to get out.

Ayn Rand

Do not help your jailers to pretend that their jail is your natural state of existence.

Geoffrey Fieger

I can tell you what the results will be if he represents himself. He will go to jail and starve.

To a warden, Utopia is an escape-proof jail

Kurt Vonnegut

If I wrote something that hadn't really happened, and I tried to sell it, I could go to jail. That's fraud!

E. O. Wilson

He's going to jail for us and I think the symbolism is he's not doing this alone.

Albert Ellis

He would have been a security problem for any jail he would have been at. The judge was cognizant of that.

Charles Bukowski

As we go on with our lives we tend to forget that the jails and the hospitals and the madhouses and the graveyards are packed.