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Jail Quotes

Jails and prisons are designed to break human beings, to convert the population into specimens in a zoo - obedient to our keepers, but dangerous to each other. Angela Davis
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
Jails and prisons are the complement of schools; so many less as you have of the latter, so many more must you have of the former. Horace Mann
Kennedy's issue didn't seem to be that she had been in jail, but that she had put on weight in jail. The food had been crappy, she'd told me, and it has been high on the carbohydrate count. "But I'm an emotional eater," she'd said, as if that were a terrible thing. "And I was real emotional in jail. Charlaine Harris
But if you go over the line, you don't want to get stuck in a Nevada State court room. Honestly, because Nevada has been doing a good job of putting California criminals in jail. I mean, we couldn't put OJ in jail, but they did. We couldn't put Paris Hilton in jail, but they did. James Belushi
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
The question at the end of the day was, the courts having found there was no defense, a producer about to go to jail, should CBS in effect tell the producer go to jail even though there is no law at all that we can use to get you out of jail? Floyd Abrams
Now here's somebody who wants to smoke a marijuana cigarette. If he's caught, he goes to jail. Now is that moral? Is that proper? I think it's absolutely disgraceful that our government, supposed to be our government, should be in the position of converting people who are not harming others into criminals, of destroying their lives, putting them in jail. That's the issue to me. The economic issue comes in only for explaining why it has those effects. But the economic reasons are not the reasons Milton Friedman
I also did some jail time a few years ago. Spent a whole summer in jail reading books. I pumped a ton of new knowledge and new thinking into myself. Tommy Lee
Helene Cixous quote: "in the synagogue of my heart...I myself jail and the jailed, I..."
in the synagogue of my heart...I myself jail and the jailed, I go wounded, bite-marked Helene Cixous
Carson McCullers quote: "It was better to be in a jail where you could bang the walls..."
It was better to be in a jail where you could bang the walls than in a jail you could not see. Carson McCullers
Flavor Flav quote: "When I was in jail, I was a lot of people's favorite person. I..."
When I was in jail, I was a lot of people's favorite person. I practically ran the jail. I had more freedom than the police. Flavor Flav
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
God doesn't go to jail for the pound of weed you got caught going over the Laredo with - even though he apparently has the knowledge, power, and care to prevent it - you go to jail. God passes go and the courts collect two hundred dollars. Stephen Evans
But when we have families, when we have children, this gives us a purpose for being, to protect our children, to avoid going to jail because if I'm in jail, who looks after my children, who's there for my wife? Ernie Hudson

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