Famous Quotes & Sayings

It is probably the worst-run jail I can remember seeing in my 30 years of practice. It's not working. It's broken.

Russell Brand

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

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.

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.

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

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.

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.

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.

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.

Quentin Tarantino

I was kind of excited about going to jail the first time and I learnt some great dialogue.

Polly Toynbee

But the single overwhelming reason why jails are bursting is longer sentences given for more crimes.

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.

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.'

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.

Judy Woodruff

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

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.

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.

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.

Gayle Forman

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

Malcolm Forbes

There are more fakers in business than in jail.

James Taylor

I was in chemical jail.

James McGreevey

I'm enjoying prison ministry, particularly with the women in Hudson County Jail who have suffered tremendously in their lives.

Gary Bauer

And as president I would throw rapists in jail for a long time so America's women wouldn't have to worry about it.

Elaine Stritch

If you tell the truth all day long, you will end up in jail.