Famous Quotes & Sayings

Kurt Cobain

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

Michel Foucault

Prison continues, on those who are entrusted to it, a work begun elsewhere, which the whole of society pursues on each individual through innumerable mechanisms of discipline.

Ted Nugent

If Barack Obama becomes the president in November again, I will either be dead or in jail by this time next year.

Mahatma Gandhi

Swaraj does not depend on jail going. If it did, there are thousands of prisoners in jail today. It depends on everyone doing his or her own task.

Mahatma Gandhi

Jail-going is only the beginning, not the end of satyagraha. The acme of satyagraha for us would be to lay down our lives for the defence of India's just cause.

Emma Goldman

I may be arrested, I may be tried and thrown into jail, but I never will be silent.

Frank Abagnale

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.

John Bunyan

I will stay in jail to the end of my days before I make a butchery of my conscience.

Joe Arpaio

Everything I did in the jails - chain gangs, everything - I haven't changed the policy. I did it, I stand by it, and I'm not going to change.

Elyn Saks

We must stop criminalizing mental illness. It's a national tragedy and scandal that the L.A. County Jail is the biggest psychiatric facility in the United States.

Kate Millett

[Madness] is the jail we could all end up in. And we know it. And watch our step. For a lifetime. We behave. A fantastic and entire system of social control, by the threat of example as effective over the general population as detention centers in dictatorships, the image of the madhouse floats through every mind for the course of its lifetime.

Gayle Forman

Even going to jail would be easy compared to losing you.

Malcolm Forbes

There are more fakers in business than in jail.

Judy Woodruff

The system was afraid of Vaclav Havel. And so they either harassed him for put him in jail.

John Cleese

If you want to know who your friends are, have a major failure.

E. B. White

You could stay there three months in jail for something you wouldn't likely be spending three months in jail for even if you were convicted.

Kim Young-sam

All of North Korea is a jail.

Patrick Henry

If our government servants had to comply with the Sarbanes-Oxley Act as they have forced all of American business to do, they would be in jail.

Martin Luther King, Jr.

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

Pramoedya Ananta Toer

I happen to be pretty productive when I am in jail. When you are in jail, you have to spend more time with yourself.

Nelson Mandela

When I went to jail, I was a trained lawyer. And when the wardens received letters of demands or summonses, they didn't have the resources to go to an attorney to help them. I would help them settle their cases, so they became attached to me and the other prisoners.

Nelson Mandela

In my younger days, I was arrogant - jail helped me to get rid of it. I did nothing but make enemies because of my arrogance.

P. J. O'Rourke

The U.S. tax code was written by A students. Every April 15, we have to pay somebody who got an A in accounting to keep ourselves from being sent to jail.

P. J. O'Rourke

There is a fine line in the Third World between half a dozen customs officials waiting for you to offer them a bribe and half a dozen customs officials waiting for you to offer them a bribe so they can throw you in jail.

P. J. O'Rourke

Term limits aren't enough. We need jail.

Patricia McConnell

I'm actually a lowlife. On the street at fifteen and also in jail for the first time at that age, and off and on the street until my mid-twenties.

Mario Puzo

No, that's not possible," Michael said. "Killed, yes; jail, no.

Nicole Richie

I will be really happy once I have done my jail time. I can start fresh.

Nick Offerman

I'm always pleased that I managed to stay out of jail throughout my tenure in Chicago.

Mario Balotelli

I will not accept racism at all. It's unacceptable. If someone throws a banana at me in the street, I will go to jail, because I will kill them.

Gerard Way

If you don't go to highschool you will definately go to jail.

Gerard Way

When youre touring and the minute you tell someone that youre from Jersey its the equivalent of telling them you just got out of jail.

Foxy Brown

Being in jail, it's humbled me in a way I never imagined.