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Jail Quotes

On time behind bars, its causes, and what comes after.

This collection includes both historic and personal reflections on jail, from a civil rights icon's imprisonment for peaceful protest to candid accounts of personal legal trouble. A couple of lines also touch on how normal political imprisonment shouldn't be treated. Continue with our Go collection.

He thinks he can use the jail for networking to be somebody. In that way, he's always operating.

Quotes by John Leguizamo

Be thine own palace, or the world's thy jail.

Quotes by John Donne

Jail threats did not dissuade Martin Luther King - and intergenerational justice is a moral issue of comparable magnitude to civil rights.

Quotes by James Hansen

Jail is definitely not cool. Education is.

Quotes by Ja Rule

If I was gonna go to jail, I don't want to go to jail for stealing a bottle of water. I'll steal that $20 million. At least then it was worth it.

Quotes by Idris Elba

Tom DeLay ought to go back to Houston where he can serve his jail sentence.

Quotes by Howard Dean

The penalty for laughing in a courtroom is six months in jail; if it were not for this penalty, the jury would never hear the evidence.

Quotes by H. L. Mencken

It would be like the films I've seen where wardens would decide to be in a jail cell for a week, to get a sense of what it would be like to be a prisoner.

Quotes by Gregory Hines

My skin is more beautiful than yours. I would be quite more popular in jail if I so chose.

Quotes by Gene Simmons

Most people figured I'd be in jail. I've been proving people wrong my whole life.

Quotes by Gary Sheffield

You can jail a Revolutionary, but you can't jail the Revolution.

Quotes by Fred Hampton

I am not afraid to go to jail.

Quotes by Ferdinand Marcos

My parents got put into jail, both my mom and my dad.

Quotes by Farrah Abraham

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.

Quotes by Elyn Saks

The vice president had a bargaining asset, however, that no ordinary person has: He was next in line to the presidency. I saw no chance that he would resign first, then take his chances on trial, conviction, and jail.

Quotes by Elliot Richardson

The letters from jail are always disconcerting.

Quotes by Eliza Dushku

I'd rather deal with Tipper than Bush. He's trying to kill everybody in jail.

Quotes by Dr. Dre

We're rapidly approaching a world comprised entirely of jail and shopping.

Quotes by Douglas Coupland

Writers in repressive societies are considered dangerous. That's why so many of them are in jail.

Quotes by Don DeLillo

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

Quotes by Diplo

Frequently Asked Questions

What range of experiences do these jail quotes cover?
They span from a civil rights leader's imprisonment for peaceful protest to personal, candid accounts of legal trouble.
Why does this collection include a civil rights reference?
It highlights how jail has historically been used against people peacefully protesting for justice, which remains a powerful reference point.
Do any quotes discuss personal accountability?
Yes, a couple of lines candidly reflect on the speaker's own arrest and time served.
Is there a quote about political imprisonment?
Yes, one comments generally on how unusual it should be for opposition figures to repeatedly end up jailed.
What other pages complement this topic?
See our Go and Got collections for related themes.

These quotes span protest, personal accountability, and second chances after time served. Pair this page with our Got and I Am collections.