(230 quotes found)
“Be thine own palace, or the world's thy jail”
John Donne
““It is said that no-one truly knows a nation until one has been inside its jails. A nation should not be judged by how it treats its highest citizens, but its lowest ones,” Mr Mandela has said.”
Nelson Mandela
“If it's illegal to rock and roll, throw my ass in jail!”
Kurt Cobain
“I feel like the fellow in jail who is watching his scaffold being built.”
Dwight David Eisenhower
“My occupation now, I suppose, is jail inmate.”
Theodore Kaczynski
“I don't like jail, they got the wrong kind of bars in there”
Charles Bukowski
“There is no more independence in politics than there is in jail.”
Will Rogers
“This young gentleman is escorting me to jail”
Susan B. Anthony
“The death penalty is inhumane... whether that person is in a jail or it's bin Laden.”
Danny Glover
“Let fear be a counselor and not a jailer”
Anthony Robbins