Quotes About Going To Jail

“The Don looked around his cell, including the naked 30 year-old woman sprawled in his bed and steaming bowl of Mussels Marinara sitting in front of him. He was always famished after sex and couldn't envision a life on the outside that would limit all of the things he loved to do. In a way, being on the outside would be like going to jail for Don Vito.”

— Phil Wohl

“Threatening others with physical harm allows the possibility of cutting through all this. It makes possible relations of a far more simple and schematic kind ("cross this line and I will shoot you," "one more word out of any of you and you're going to jail"). This is of course why violence is so often the preferred weapon of the stupid.”

— David Graeber

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

— Gayle Forman

“Kami, do you have a weapon?"
"No, I do not have a fucking weapon!" Kami screamed over her shoulder. "Do you really think I'd risk going to jail for that Mexican whore?"
"Puerto Rican," Hawk muttered,rolling his eyes.
"Shut up, Gorbachev!”

— Madeline Sheehan

“Well good, I think, maybe he's thinking that he's being a total tool and reassessing the whole idea. Maybe he's going to figure out that going to jail would be a dumb idea. And that kissing me would be a not so dumb idea. Goddamn all men. Goddamn them. They all have shit for brains. I think about what I'm going to tell Megan and then remember that I am sworn to secrecy. I will never betray Jesse's confidence even if I think he's being a total idiot with shit for brains.”

— Sarah Alderson

“'Seriously, I'm going to kill you,' Tom told him, then muttered, 'If I can't hide the body well enough, it will so be worth it going to jail.'”

— S.E. Jakes

“Michael always said if he could get them to eighteen without going to jail or getting a girl pregnant he'd consider it a success.”

— Brigid Kemmerer

“Educators are in the news, too. Usually that's bad. I had a favorite college professor. He used to tell us, 'If you make CNN as a teacher, you're probably going to jail.”

— Tucker Elliot

“Clinton has more important things to worry about. He not only risks being destroyed historically, like Afghanistan's Buddha statues; he also could end up going to jail.”

— Ed Koch

“You're like the thief who isn't the least bit sorry he stole, but is terribly, terribly sorry he's going to jail. - Rhett Butler”

— Margaret Mitchell

“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

“'Blind Curve,' the book I'm working on now, sprang from a crazy incident that happened to me last year while on my book tour. I was pulled out of my car for a minor traffic violation - an incident that escalated into my being thrown into cuffs and told I was going to jail. Except in my story, the hero doesn't get off as easily as I did.”

— Andrew Gross

“An athlete gets paid a lot of money. And someone who is after that, a thief, a mugger or someone who steals from people, they are taking a chance with the law that if they get caught, they are going to jail or face some other problem. In my case, you are going to get shot.”

— Luke Scott

“I'm gonna perform on one of the nights. Good clean fun; we're not going to jail. For the record.”

— Luther Campbell

“LL Cool J was a rapper-turned-actor, and I also relate to him because he was sort of a ladies' man and had a female fan base, but yet he's a positive dude. You never read about him getting into trouble or going to jail.”

— Bow Wow

“When I was younger, I didn't have the finer things in life. It was around me - the cars, the jewelry and all of that. But I didn't have it. So I did bad things to get what I wanted. Going to jail never crossed my mind. I wish it had. When I was locked up, my mother didn't support me because she couldn't accept who I was and where I was.”

— Larenz Tate

“People who want to express themselves need to be given an opportunity. For me, it's a very fundamental premise: you break the law, you're going to jail. Absent that, you're entitled to say whatever you want to say within reason.”

— Bob Buckhorn

“I am not brave enough to not pay my income tax and risk going to jail. But I can say rather freely what I want to say with my art.”

— Corita Kent

“We will not allow this day of the Martin Luther King, Jr. Memorial to go without somebody going to jail.”

— Cornel West

“When I was 17, I was told I had the choice of enlisting in the Navy or going to jail, so I spent the next three years in the Navy.”

— Seymour Cassel

“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.”

— Michael Davis

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

— Thomas Frank

“It is unconscionable that 10,000 boys have died in Vietnam. If 10,000 American women had mind enough they could end the war, if they were committed to the task, even if it meant going to jail.”

— Jeannette Rankin

“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

“Football is, after all, a wonderful way to get rid of your aggressions without going to jail for it.”

— Woody Hayes

“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.”

— Dito Montiel

“It might be worthwhile to take a familiar question-why there is so much crime in modern society?-and stand it on its head: why isn't there a bit more crime?
After all, every one of us regularly passes up opportunities to main, steal, and defraud. The chance of going to jail-thereby losing your job, your house, and your freedom, all of which are essentially economic penalties-is certainly a strong incentive. But when it comes to crime people also respond to moral incentives (they don't want to do something they consider wrong) and social incentives (they don't want to be seen by others as doing something wrong).”

— Steven D. Levitt

“When you're young, you make mistakes. The big thing that's different now is that when I was a kid, you could survive your mistakes. We didn't have guns. Today, kids have access to guns. The same kids that would have been in trouble and gotten a stern talking-to are now going to jail for fifteen or twenty years. Instead of bloody noses there are bodies lying in the street with chalk outlines around them. The values are basically the same, but it's easier to mess up.”

— Walter Dean Myers

“He's going to jail. He can't see. He can't hear. He can't take a leak that lasts under fifteen minutes. But he has an erection and all the other problems are small change. Next time around I'm coming back as a man. Priorities are clearly defined. Life is simple.”

— Janet Evanovich

“When I first started out in music, I was so negative. I was knee-deep in the streets. Then my friends started going to jail. They said, 'Boy, you better start taking this seriously; you got a chance to do something with your life.' That's when I realised I had to focus. The music led to the acting.”

— Ice-T

“Sometimes going to jail is just the price you have to pay for social reform or social change.”

— Paul Watson

“The beauty, the poetry of the fear in their eyes. I didn't mind going to jail for, what, five, six hours? It was absolutely worth it.”

— Johnny Depp

“If you're low-income in the United States, you have a higher chance of going to jail than you do of getting a four-year degree. And that doesn't seem entirely fair.”

— Bill Gates

“And unless you think there is a serious chance you're going to jail, don't listen to your lawyer.”

— Barney Frank

“You only have to worry about going to jail if you break the law. That's pretty simple.”

— Kenneth Langone

“Keep in mind that in 1975, when you became a cook, it was because you were between two things: you were between getting out of the military and ... going to jail. Anybody could be a cook, just like anybody could mow the lawn.”

— Mario Batali

“Oooh, if you have never been to Alaska, go there while it is still wild. My favorite uncle asked me if I wanted to go there, Uncle Sam. He said if you don't go, you're going to jail. That is how Uncle Sam asks you.”

— Bob Ross

“America has its roots in a tradition of risk-taking pioneers. In more conservative Europe, if you fail in business or actually end up going to jail for it, you're finished as a businessman for good.”

— Stelios Haji-Ioannou

“I feel bad [about Lil Wayne going to jail], because I don't think anything like this has happened in music since Elvis got drafted into the Army. Let's just keep it real - Lil Wayne is not just the biggest rapper, Lil Wayne is the biggest pop star right now. Maybe Susan Boyle is on his level. But when you talk about music, nice times out of ten, Lil Wayne's name is gonna come into the conversation.”

— Bun B

“I ain't going to jail no more. The only
way we gonna stop them white men from whuppin' us is to take over.
What we gonna start sayin' now is Black Power!”

— Stokely Carmichael

“I don't know if I'm going to jail for three weeks, three months, or three years, but I think what I've done to motivate Hongkongers to care about this city, to try to love this country, is still valuable.”

— Joshua Wong

“There is nothing in all the world greater than freedom. It is worth paying for; it is worth going to jail for. I would rather be a free pauper than a rich slave. I would rather die in abject poverty with my convictions than live in inordinate riches with the lack of self respect.”

— Martin Luther King, Jr.

“Me? I see an old, broke-ass black guy taking care of a bunch of kids, living life, taking them to school, and all that stuff, who's asking himself: What the hell is this? But I wouldn't give it up for the world because I love my wife. I never expected to have a life like this. No chaos ... no confusion ... no lawsuits ... no violence ... no going to jail ...”

— Mike Tyson

“People don't understand that you can actually lose your life going to jail. There's more violence in the jail-house than there is on the streets.”

— Snoop Dogg

“The men who have gotten women pregnant need to be accountable if we are. If we are going to jail, the men are coming too. Religious rhetoric will bite its own ass trying to nail only women in a two-person process.”

— Neko Case

“If you are low income in the United States, you have a higher chance of going to jail than getting a 4-year degree.”

— Bill Gates

“It seems like Michael Vick is going to jail for dog fighting. Hopefully, they won't have guard dogs.”

— Jon Stewart

“I wouldn't mind going to jail if I had three cellmates who played bridge”

— Warren Buffett

“A man cannot free himself by any self-denying ordinances, neither by water nor potatoes, nor by violent possibilities, by refusing to swear, refusing to pay taxes, by going to jail, or by taking another man's crops or squatting on his land. By none of these ways can he free himself; no, nor by paying his debts with money; only by obedience to his own genius.”

— Ralph Waldo Emerson

“If a kid calls his grandma "Mommy" and his mama "Pam", he's going to jail!”

— Chris Rock