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Being incarcerated is truly very serious, and it has changed my life to such an extent that breaking the cycle has become my sole focus. Jail is definitely not cool. Education is. -- Ja Rule
If it's illegal to rock and roll, throw my ass in jail! -- Kurt Cobain
I don't like jail, they got the wrong kind of bars in there. -- Charles Bukowski
If you want to know who your friends are, get yourself a jail sentence. -- Charles Bukowski
It sounds kind of strange, but Jail time was almost a good experience for me. -- Tommy Lee
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. -- Tupac Shakur
Nobody black had learned anything from the 'Letter from the Birmingham Jail' or from the 'I Have a Dream' speech. That was a revelation of white people. -- Andrew Young
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
Jail's like school but you can't leave. -- Boy George
Jail is definitely not cool. Education is. -- Ja Rule
Jail is much easier on people who have nothing. -- Bernhard Goetz
The only excuse for being broke is being in Jail. -- Curtis Jackson
Jail is no place for a young fellow. There's no advancement -- Groucho Marx
Jail was probably the most exciting thing that's ever happened to me. -- Tommy Chong
Jail and the streets go hand in hand. You can't have one with out the other. They coincide. -- Kevin Gates
I'm enjoying prison ministry, particularly with the women in Hudson County Jail who have suffered tremendously in their lives. -- James McGreevey
Jail was a result of me not taking time for myself. So I was forced to take some time for myself. -- Christian Slater
Jail is a good experience but it has its drawbacks ... all the disadvantages of married life with none of its compensations ... -- Vijaya Lakshmi Pandit
Jail doesn't teach anyone to do good, nor Siberia, but a man-yes! A man can teach another man to do good-believe me! -- Maxim Gorky
Jail was preferable. There they only limited you physically. In a mental ward they tampered with your soul and worldview and mind. -- John Kennedy Toole
Jail was preferable. There they only limited you physically. In a mental ward they tampered with your soul and worldview and mind." -- John Kennedy Toole
Jail threats did not dissuade Martin Luther King - and intergenerational justice is a moral issue of comparable magnitude to civil rights. -- James Hansen
Every tiny molecule of Ash is in motion with my heat I am such a Lunatic that I am free even in Jail. -- Bhagat Singh
Nobody black had learned anything from the Letter from the Birmingham Jail or from the I Have a Dream speech. That was a revelation of white people. -- Andrew Young
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. -- Elyn Saks
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. -- Mahatma Gandhi
Manny Pacquiao I'm calling you out let's fight May 5th and give the world what they want to see. My Jail Sentence was pushed back because the date was locked in. Step up Punk. -- Floyd Mayweather, Jr.
Jail is just another micro-society. It just happens that here, the problems are far more out in the open, we don't live with the facades of lies that democracy or capitalism creates for us. -- Cecily McMillan
I still don't have any crushes on actresses or models. It's always been one of those things with girlfriends. They say, "Who's on your list?" What do you call it, the Get Out of Jail Free card? -- Henry Cavill
You can jail a Revolutionary, but you can't jail the Revolution. -- Huey Newton
There is no more independence in politics than there is in jail. -- Will Rogers
Every single person in jail for a violent crime had a nightmare childhood. -- Rob Reiner
I don't have to talk about whether or not I got raped in jail. -- Tupac Shakur
I'd rather deal with Tipper than Bush. He's trying to kill everybody in jail. -- Dr. Dre
Summon me, then; I will be the posse comitatus; I will take them to jail. -- Samuel Chase
I will be really happy once I have done my jail time. I can start fresh. -- Nicole Richie
The second time I went to jail, I was like, 'Okay, this is not the move.' -- The Notorious B.I.G.
To put someone in jail for using drugs in the privacy of his hotel room is just barbaric. -- Danny Sugerman
I was kind of excited about going to jail the first time and I learnt some great dialogue. -- Quentin Tarantino
My skin is more beautiful than yours. I would be quite more popular in jail if I so chose. -- Gene Simmons
On a planet that increasingly resembles one huge Maximum Security prison, the only intelligent choice is to plan a jail break. -- Robert Anton Wilson
We'll try to cooperate fully with the IRS, because, as citizens, we feel a strong patriotic duty not to go to jail. -- Dave Barry
My years in jail were a bit like a workshop for my - that actually forged my way of thinking and my values. -- Jose Mujica
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. -- Nicholas Pileggi
It costs $30,000 to $50,000 per year to send someone to jail. You don't have to pay so much to send someone to school at Johns Hopkins. -- John Money
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
A man will be imprisoned in a room with a door that's unlocked and opens inwards; as long as it does not occur to him to pull rather than push. -- Ludwig Wittgenstein
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I was in jail four and a half years. When I came out, I continued the same struggle against injustice, but instead of using weapons, I began to use art and cinema. -- Mohsen Makhmalbaf
In Vietnam we have no political prisoners. No one is arrested or jailed for his or her speech or point of view. They are put in jail because they violated the law. -- Nong ?uc Manh
So what really works? Treatments in jail do some good, but it's mostly too late: finding a family and a job or just growing older make most prisoners eventually give up crime. -- Polly Toynbee
There's a pattern when tours start - a pattern of infighting, of making up, of breaking up, of addiction. There's a pattern of going to jail. There's a pattern of passion for music. -- Nikki Sixx
It is said that no one truly knows a nation until one has been inside its jails. A nation should not be judged by how it treats its highest citizens, but its lowest ones. -- Nelson Mandela
Am I a criminal? The world knows I'm not a criminal. What are they trying to put me in jail for? You've lost common sense in this society because of religious fanaticism and dogma. -- Jack Kevorkian
If you or I fail at business, we fail. If we cheat and fail, we go to jail. But if you're rich and politically connected, your incompetence may be protected by a government bailout. -- Robert Kiyosaki
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
Creativity can release you from the limitations that the world has constructed around you; the everyday, mundane, 9-5 jail cell where everybody is waiting for the weekend to party so they can get outside of their head. -- Robert LaSardo
I done wrestled with an alligator, I done tussled with a whale; handcuffed lightning, thrown thunder in jail; only last week, I murdered a rock, injured a stone, hospitalised a brick; I'm so mean I make medicine sick. -- Muhammad Ali
Addiction should never be treated as a crime. It has to be treated as a health problem. We do not send alcoholics to jail in this country. Over 500,000 people are in our jails who are nonviolent drug users. -- Ralph Nader
Parents who neglect their children, who don't know where they are, who don't know what they're doing, who don't know who they're hanging out with, you're gonna find yourselves spending some quality time with your kids, in jail, together. -- Michael Nutter
I know not whether Laws be right, Or whether Laws be wrong; All that we know who be in jail Is that the wall is strong; And that each day is like a year, A year whose days are long. -- Oscar Wilde
I used to help my granddaddy make sausage. He would mix it up in a cleaned-out washtub with his hands, no gloves. Man, if we did anything like that today, they would jack the jail up and throw us under it. -- Jimmy Dean
My mom and dad passed away from cancer. Within nine months, I lost both of my folks. Immediately after that, I had a horrible betrayal where my brother, who worked for me, stole a lot of my money. He's in jail now. -- Dane Cook
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. -- Leonard Peltier
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
Nelson Mandela went to jail believing in violence, and 27 years later he and his colleagues had slowly and carefully honed the skills, the incredible skills, that they needed to turn one of the most vicious governments the world has known into a democracy. And they did it in a total devotion to non-violence. -- Scilla Elworthy
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. -- Frank Abagnale
I was in chemical jail. -- James Taylor
I should still be in jail. -- Amnat Ruenroeng
Only poor people go to jail. -- Charles Barkley
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Buy health insurance, or go to jail. -- Barack Obama
All of North Korea is a jail. -- Kim Young-sam
The letters from jail are always disconcerting. -- Eliza Dushku
My occupation now, I suppose, is jail inmate. -- Theodore Kaczynski
There are more fakers in business than in jail. -- Malcolm Forbes
It's awfully easy to be in love in jail -- Dashiell Hammett
I am not in jail. There is no jail. -- Charles Manson
It's awfully easy to be in love in jail. -- Dashiell Hammett
A lot of guys in jail tattoo their hands. -- Daniel Day-Lewis
A world without open country would be universal jail. -- Edward Abbey
I think every person should go to jail once. -- Ernests Gulbis
Be thine own palace, or the world's thy jail. -- John Donne
Hillary Clinton should have been prosecuted and gone to jail. -- Donald Trump
And for each unharmful gentle soul misplaced inside a jail... -- Bob Dylan
No, that's not possible," Michael said. "Killed, yes; jail, no. -- Mario Puzo
We all hold the keys to our own jail cells. -- Paul Levine
You see, you can't put joblessness in a jail cell. -- Carrie P. Meek
It was hell, hugging my Mama from a jail cell. -- Tupac Shakur
I don't want want to go to jail, I'm fragile. -- Adam Sandler
Send me to jail in 48 hours if I am corrupt. -- Arvind Kejriwal
I did my time in the jail of your arms -- Tom Waits
... isn't breaking a supervillian out of jail a little ... much? -- Kirstin van Dyke
Eugene Debs entered jail a moderate Unionist and emerged a Socialist. -- H.W. Brands
If we send industrialists to jail, we would be discouraging investment. -- Salman Khurshid
There are good reasons for being in jail - for protesting. -- Tracy Chapman
We're rapidly approaching a world comprised entirely of jail and shopping. -- Douglas Coupland
In a society of criminals, the innocent man goes to jail. -- Philip K. Dick
At nighttime, you just try to keep him out of jail. -- David Cone
Many people are living in an emotional jail without realizing it. -- Virginia Satir
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Even going to jail would be easy compared to losing you. -- Gayle Forman
People who go to jail breed people who go to jail. -- Andrew Barrett
If you don't go to highschool you will definately go to jail. -- Gerard Way
I am so mean I've handcuffed lightnin' and thrown thunder in jail. -- Muhammad Ali
The presumption of innocence only means you don't go right to jail. -- Ann Coulter
Books won't stay banned. They won't burn. Ideas won't go to jail. -- Alfred Whitney Griswold
As horrible as jail was, there were some first-rate guys in there. -- Scott Weiland
Books won't stay banned. They won't burn. Ideas won't go to jail -- Alfred Whitney Griswold
Jesus would be framed and in jail if he was living today. -- Carson McCullers
Almost makes you want to go to jail out here, doesn't it? -- William J. Clinton
I've come out of a small jail and entered a bigger one. -- Chen Guangcheng
Your home is your jail, Bird. I'm going to set you free. -- Teresa Mummert
When the fear of jail disappears, repression puts heart into the people. -- Mahatma Gandhi
The whole earth is in jail and we're plotting this incredible jailbreak. -- Wavy Gravy
Being in jail, it's humbled me in a way I never imagined. -- Foxy Brown
If you seek violence, we will seek to put you in jail. -- Ed Koch
Put all the pervs in jail, bring back the birch and cat-o-nine tails. -- Ray Davies
Rotten travesty. Yeah. Send me to jail for contempt. Try that. Go ahead. -- Jack Kevorkian
Three years in jail is a good corrective for three years at Harvard. -- Alger Hiss

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