Quotes by Jail So Columbus said, somebody show me the sunset and somebody did and he set sail for it, And he discovered America and they put him in jail for it, And the fetters gave him welts, And they named America after somebody else. Ogden Nash sunset jail america If you look at it that way, then you start thinking about the basic things, which are jobs not jails, and education not incarceration. Oren Moverman jail jobs thinking Enormous and growing parts of the population are basically superfluous for profit-making purposes. Along with this, the jail population is increasing very rapidly; it's the highest in the industrial world by far. New and onerous crime bills are being passed to deal with this superfluous population. Noam Chomsky population jail purpose When I was doing drugs and alcohol, I thought I'll have a drink and a line of this and I'll smoke this. I didn't go, 'Then I'm going to go out and get drunk, come back strangle my wife and wake up in jail on charges of attempted murder,' but that's what happened. I'm not telling people what to do. If they can enjoy doing it and they get on with it and they can handle it fine, but don't involve me. I'm lucky to be alive; you're playing with Russian roulette. Ozzy Osbourne lucky-to-be-alive jail people Term limits aren't enough. We need jail. P. J. O'Rourke term-limits jail needs You know, if government were a product, selling it would be illegal. ... Government contains impure ingredients - as anybody who's looked at Congress can tell you. ... government practices deceptive advertising. And the merest glance at the federal budget is enough to convict the government of perjury, extortion, and fraud. ... in a nutshell: government should be against the law. Term limits aren't enough. We need jail. P. J. O'Rourke jail practice law I prefer to be in the grave in Colombia than in a jail cell in the United States. Pablo Escobar united-states jail cells Never steal anything so small that you'll have to go to an unpleasant city jail for it instead of a minimum-security federal tennis prison. P. J. O'Rourke tennis jail cities 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 april jail pay 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 P. J. O'Rourke jail half waiting Every time the liberals pass a bill - I don't care what it involves - they stick criminal sanctions on it. They don't feel there is any way people are going to keep a law unless they can put them in jail. Pat Robertson jail law people I had a naïve idea that if I could tell the story, people would be outraged and do something about conditions in the jails. Patricia McConnell jail people ideas I'm actually a lowlife. On the street at fifteen and also in jail for the first time at that age, and off and on the street until my mid-twenties. Patricia McConnell jail twenties age We who live in prison, and in whose lives there is no event but sorrow, have to measure time by throbs of pain, and the record of bitter moments. Oscar Wilde prison-time jail pain Anarchism is grounded in a rather definite social-psychological hypothesis: that forceful, graceful and intelligent behaviour occurs only when there is an uncoerced and direct response to the physical and social environment; that in most human affairs, more harm than good results from compulsion, top-down direction, bureaucratic planning, pre-ordained curricula, jails, conscription, states. Paul Goodman top-down jail intelligent I support decriminalisation. People are smoking pot anyway and to make them into criminals is wrong. It's when you're in jail you really become a criminal. Paul McCartney marijuana jail weed When I was 16 or 17, I saw Lenny Bruce being taken to jail. They took him off stage because he talked about race. Paul Mooney jail taken race People with mental illnesses are dying on our streets. More than 350,000 are in jails and prisons. Most are people whose only real crime is they got sick. Pete Earley jail real people There is an old Arabic proverb, 'When the king puts the poet on his payroll, he cuts off the tongue of the poet', so throughout the ages, people in power have liked to control music, they used to throw songwriters in jail throughout history, and were assassinated. Pete Seeger jail cutting kings Song, songs kept them going and going; They didn't realize the millions of seeds they were sowing. They were singing in marches, even singing in jail. Songs gave them the courage to believe they would not fail. Pete Seeger jail song believe «1718192021222324252627»