Famous Quotes & Sayings

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.

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.

Barry White

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

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.

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.

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.

Charles Bukowski

What? You’d dare drink right after getting out of jail for intoxication?” That’s when you need a drink the most.

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.

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.

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.

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.

Chelsea Handler

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

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

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

Alain Robert

They want me to go to jail for a little while.

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.

Donald Harrison

What does he have to lose? If I'm going to jail for the maximum sentence, I can laugh and smirk and do whatever. You're still going to give me the same 200 years.

This jail thing is not going to go away, ... I can think of a lot more places where wed rather spend taxpayer money, but this jail thing is not going to go away. Its only going to get worse.

Dr. Dre

I'd rather deal with Tipper than Bush. He's trying to kill everybody in jail.

If you say no, you could be jailed for two years.

Jack Kevorkian

Rotten travesty. Yeah. Send me to jail for contempt. Try that. Go ahead.

Harry Belafonte

The only thing left for Barack Obama to do is to work like a third world dictator and just put all these guys in jail.

I'm not sure there was any way you could know the numbers for women would go up so much when the (Benton County) jail was planned,

I'll go in. Jail is not a problem.

John Waters

I don't trust anyone that hasn't been to jail at least once in their life.

Nicholas Pileggi

Let me tell you something. Nobody goes to jail unless they want to. Unless they make themselves get caught. They don't have things organized.