Top 235 Jail Quotes

You know what? I’ve never paid taxes in my life. I’m probably going to go to jail.

If you do things, whether it’s acting or music or painting, do it without fear – that’s my philosophy. Because nobody can arrest you and put you in jail if you paint badly, so there’s nothing to lose.

If I wasn’t a champion, I’d still be in jail. That makes me try very hard.

I hate that song ‘Mr. Bojangles.’ It drives me up the wall, since it’s not about him at all. He was never a bum in jail.

It would be great to do a story and get somebody who is innocent out of jail. That’s a wonderful thing.

When I was in jail I could only think about what the average person has to go through – the person who has no power to go to the press or no money to hire a lawyer.

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.

I have an incomplete album that I want to finish. I have been thinking about the plan during my days in jail, I have sung rock n’ roll for forty years. After jail, I will continue to rock n’ roll.

We had all these things to deal with – houses full of people and John going to jail, guys from New York saying ‘don’t worry about anything.’ So it was really confusing.

Although each human rights victory energizes us to continue our work, there remains a deep sorrow for those prisoners still wrongfully languishing in jail.

No one has any license to brag because he is honest. That should be natural instinct and, besides, if you are not, they put you in jail. Honesty is merely a form of insurance.

Prisons and jails, I tend to feel that you’re actually safer as a journalist than you might think, certainly more than it appears.

There’s great disparity between who goes to college and who goes to jail. Who lives long and who dies prematurely, is the defining issue of our time. And I submit to you, there’s a significant race dimension, it is basically class-driven.

I know a lot of people who are weak, who are in a perpetual cycle of poverty and being locked up. There are guys from my neighborhood who are in jail or who are dead. It does take a certain strength to know your environment and say, ‘I can grow beyond it.’

For my parents, leaving the close social quarters of Abilene was like getting out of jail. They were not true West Texans; they had not come to love the unending monotony of mesquite barrens or the high, hot blue sky that made sunsets a matter of prayerful thankfulness.

I am prepared to oppose a Jim Crow army till I rot in jail.

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.

We can work to get queer and trans people out of the prisons and jails and off the streets, and to improve our access to housing, education, employment and gender-confirming healthcare.

I know a lot of reporters certainly will go to jail to defend confidential sources. Some have even gone to jail for an issue like this. But I can’t say that’s the norm.

I had to go to jail, which was probably the most humbling thing I’ve ever had to deal with in my life.

I think there are too many people in jail for too long and for not necessarily good reasons.

I’ve never been to prison. I’ve been to jail but never prison. I don’t like being in holding tanks. I don’t like being in shackles. I’m a smarter guy than that. I can figure something out to do better with my time.

In Brazil, a poor man goes to jail when he steals. When a rich man steals, he becomes a minister.

I’ve been speaking at churches for years, as well as juvenile jails, rehabs and hospitals, and I always talk about my faith. That is a declaration of my relationship with God.

When the Bangladesh war happened, people in Pakistan who did not support it were called unpatriotic. My father was in the jail at that time, and a lot of those who knew my family used to call us children of a traitor.

People of great power wield great power, but people of lesser power or people who have fallen out of power go to jail without adequate evidence, or their bodies are found in the trunks of cars.

I’ve been in jail a couple times. I’ve been caught shoplifting.

Facebook is not a physical country, but with 900 million users, its ‘population’ comes third after China and India. It may not be able to tax or jail its inhabitants, but its executives, programmers, and engineers do exercise a form of governance over people’s online activities and identities.

There is no higher claim to journalistic integrity than going to jail to protect a source.

I should still be in jail.

A man who cannot be enticed by money or intimidated by the threat of jail or death has two of the strongest weapons that anyone has to offer.

I’ve never been arrested in my life. Never had cuffs put on me, never been charged with a crime, never spent one day in jail.

I thought that was the crown jewel of the reporter’s resume – to actually go to jail protecting a source.

Through everything I’ve gone through- and I’ve been everywhere, at the top of the world, in jail, hung over drunk – I never gave up my dream of winning a gold medal in the Olympics.

I was in chemical jail.

I just put myself in a hotel and was smoking coke for a while. Then I met up with the wrong people. I ended up getting in a hassle. I had to call the police and get myself arrested or get attacked, ripped off and got to jail. So I called the cops on them and myself.

There are people so alienated from the mainstream of American culture that it’s like a parallel universe. They don’t expect anything but trouble from the square world. Every time they interact with that world, they’re given a ticket, sent to jail, drafted. It’s never good. So they live by a separate value system.

One of my favorite movies that I’ve ever seen is ’25th Hour.’ I love it so much because it’s simply about a guy who’s going to jail for six years, and this slow, terrible day he has.

I grew up with my moms and pops. Pops was in jail for, like, three years.

People have been to jail when they’re innocent. I knew I would never miss a single ball on a snooker table on purpose and, until then, I was sure the evidence would support me.

Night raids are only the first step in the American detention process in Afghanistan. Suspects are usually sent to one of a series of prisons on U.S. military bases around the country. There are officially nine such jails, called Field Detention Sites in military parlance.

He was a king that had everything, and he lost it all but still had faith. So God blessed him with 10 times more. When I was in jail, like Solomon, I didn’t understand why I was going through what I was going through. I was on the right path. Wasn’t riding dirty. Then I got trapped in this hole. So I reached to the Word.

I’m not a fugitive anymore. Never will be in the future. After spending five years in jail, you learn your lesson. I never want to return there.

Intermediary liability enables the Chinese authorities to minimize the number of people they need to put in jail in order to stay in power and to maximize their control over what the Chinese people know and don’t know.

I was incarcerated for a little while in Baltimore, and my celly was Muslim. I was watching him pray every day, and his outlook on getting out of that situation was a lot more positive than the other dudes that were Muslim in the jail.

Every new invention is like a baby. You think it may cure cancer or become the president, but in the end, you’re happy it just stays out of jail.

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

Til I was about eight or nine, I had no awareness he was anybody special. Since all our friends were in the movement, I thought what Daddy did was natural. Everybody went to jail, right? Then, one day some kids at school called my daddy a jailbird, and it upset me. That was the beginning of my awareness.

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.

In the 1830s, Dorothea Dix revolutionized the care of people with mental illness by taking them out of jails and caring for them in asylums, later known as state hospitals.

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.

I’ve never been in prison. I’ve been in jail a lot. But I’ve never actually been sentenced to anything.

The proven method for saving the lives of innocent Americans is not disarming them. The proven method for saving the lives of innocent Americans is to arrest, prosecute, convict and jail criminal offenders, especially armed career criminals illegally using guns. This is the way to reduce gun violence.

My perception has changed from thinking if someone’s in jail they’re supposed to be, to there’s a lot of factors that’s not that simple.

Summon me, then; I will be the posse comitatus; I will take them to jail.

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.