Famous Quotes & Sayings

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.

All we need to do is let the jailer run the jail.

Bill Cunningham

All but these two are back at the jail now.

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.

Stephen Leacock

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.

Ray Lewis

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

Rick Ross

I didn't understand that you could go to jail for the rest of your life for selling cocaine. I thought life sentences were for murderers. I didn't know that you could get it for supplying something to someone that they asked you for.

Rick Ross

If you had a magic wand today, and you had one wish - to wipe out all the drug dealers, take them all off the streets and put them in jail, no trial, everybody who sold drugs would automatically be convicted. You know what's going to happen? There's going to be new ones. Why? Because the drug users are going to create them.

Will Ferrell

I built a jail in my closet and I would incarcerate my family from time to time.

William F. Buckley, Jr.

Treatment is not now available for almost half of those who would benefit from it. Yet we are willing to build more and more jails in which to isolate drug users even though at one-seventh the cost of building and maintaining jail space and pursuing, detaining, and prosecuting the drug user, we could subsidize commensurately effective medical care and psychological treatment.

Rob Reiner

Every single person in jail for a violent crime had a nightmare childhood.

Richelle Mead

You have an interesting set of morals," he observed. "Breaking out of jail is okay. But steal a car, and you sound totally outraged.

Russell Brand

Addiction is a serious desease; it will end with jail, mental institutions, or death.

Ricky Martin

Getting caught masturbating sucks. I got caught masturbating in jail 7 or 8 times, it really sucks.

Tupac Shakur

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

Tupac Shakur

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

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.

Sandra Day O'Connor

I don't know how a judge can concentrate on being fair and impartial when he or she is faced with possible jail time for making a decision that others deem incorrect.

Sanjay Dutt

I would never go into the 'Bigg Boss' house even in a hypothetical situation. I have been to jail, so if I were to be confined in that house, I'd get rattled.

Sarah Polley

It's not that I don't want to become famous or that I'm obsessed by my work as an actress, but it's all about not limiting myself, such as putting myself in a little jail that I can escape from.

Will Rogers

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

Zack de la Rocha

Is all the world jails and churches?

Zhuangzi

A petty thief is put in jail. A great brigand becomes a ruler of a Nation.

Warren Buffett

I wouldn’t mind going to jail if I had three cellmates who played bridge

Samuel L. Jackson

I've never been to jail. I've never been arrested. I've never been locked up.

Salman Khurshid

If we send industrialists to jail, we would be discouraging investment.

Seth Shostak

Neil Armstrong was no Christopher Columbus. In most respects, he was better. Unlike the famous fifteenth century seafarer, Armstrong knew where he landed. He also spent his time in public service, not in jail, and his passing was marked by world-wide encomiums. He ended his days as a celebrated explorer rather than a royal inconvenience.

Leonard Peltier

They still don't want to admit to the world that this isn't the best and the fairest and most equal justice system. And that they are guilty of railroading people into jail. They don't want to, or never will, admit these things.

Samuel Johnson

...a common observation, that few are mended by imprisonment, and that he, whose crimes have made confinement necessary, seldom makes any other use of his enlargement, than to do, with greater cunning, what he did before with less.

Shannen Doherty

I'm unbelievably claustrophobic, and I have really bad anxiety. There were a few moment when I was very dramatic and thought, 'I'm not going to live through this. I'm going to hyperventilate and just die. Right here in jail.'

Tommy Lee

It sounds kind of strange, but Jail time was almost a good experience for me.

Tom Waits

I did my time in the jail of your arms