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I have nothing to lose by standing up and following my beliefs. So I'll go to jail, so what? We have been in jail for years.
Jail is a good experience but it has its drawbacks ... all the disadvantages of married life with none of its compensations.
People who prepare false or fraudulent tax returns risk criminal prosecution and, upon conviction, substantial time in jail.
When a person gets to the age of 35 and you go to jail, it either makes you or breaks you. It made me identify what I wanted.
In my younger days, I was arrogant - jail helped me to get rid of it. I did nothing but make enemies because of my arrogance.
It's so easy to steal from the bottom 99 percent, but try stealing from the top one percent, and they put you under the jail.
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've lost a bunch of friends - some of them in jail, some of them made bad choices, some of them aren't where they should be.
I left the world of jail with plenty of relief but, more than anything, with a sense of unease that I still can't quite shake.
I'm enjoying prison ministry, particularly with the women in Hudson County Jail who have suffered tremendously in their lives.
On a planet that increasingly resembles one huge Maximum Security prison, the only intelligent choice is to plan a jail break.
As we go on with our lives we tend to forget that the jails and the hospitals and the madhouses and the graveyards are packed.
Let us be on the side of those who sit in jails and are sentenced to death for their faith. Let us pray for them and help them.
When they put me in jail, that's when they turned me into an activist. Up until the time I went to jail, I was just a comedian.
Subsidizing someone's rent is much cheaper than paying for new housing, police or medical responses, or hospital or jail stays.
The kids growing up in the apartheid era were so restricted and angry - if they spoke out against it, they were thrown in jail.
I was happy to be with my parents. I didn't see very much of them, so I was very happy when my father was there and out of jail.
In my view, one of the major reasons that we have so many people in jail is that we have turned our backs on a lot young people.
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
I'm a prosecutor first and foremost, and as a judge, I put people in jail for extended periods of time when that was appropriate.
And although I'm all for freedom of expression and against censorship, there are certain things I'm not willing to go to jail for.
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.
My daddy was the type that if you asked him, "Dad, am I going to get off punishment soon?" - he would extend it. It was like jail.
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.
Wall Street can never be allowed to threaten main street again. No bank can be too big to fail, no executive too powerful to jail.
Jail was preferable. There they only limited you physically. In a mental ward they tampered with your soul and worldview and mind.
You have an interesting set of morals," he observed. "Breaking out of jail is okay. But steal a car, and you sound totally outraged.
I have never seen any BJP leader going to jail during the freedom struggle; it was only Congressmen who sacrificed for this country.
When a person goes to a country and finds their newspapers filled with nothing but good news, he can bet there are good men in jail.
I know someone from growing up who is in jail right now for the rest of his life, but he was one of the sweetest people I ever knew.
I would lay awake nights and cry a lot thinking, is my dad gonna come home? Is he gonna go to jail again? Is he going to get killed?
For me, soldiers are all equal. Those black people wore your same uniform, fought on your side, and so you will be in the same jail.
But if by some freak of history communism had caught up with this country, I would have been one of the first people thrown in jail.
I don't trust anyone that hasn't been to jail at least once in their life. You should have been, or something's the matter with you.
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.
As long as possible live free and uncommitted. It makes but little difference whether you are committed to a farm or the county jail.
My mother brought up nine children, in Hackney, and none of us are criminals, none of us in jail. Her strength made me who I am today.
If you look at it that way, then you start thinking about the basic things, which are jobs not jails, and education not incarceration.
When youre touring and the minute you tell someone that youre from Jersey its the equivalent of telling them you just got out of jail.
I used to always fight for human rights. I still fight for Leonard Peltier, who's spent 35 years in jail for a crime he didn't commit.
And don't worry, if I get thrown in jail in Manila, Beyonce will just bail me out. Sold out night 2 in the Philippines. I love it here!
It costs $30,000 to $50,000 per year to send someone to jail. You don't have to pay so much to send someone to school at Johns Hopkins.
We are already taking care of people from jail. Hundred and ten non-criminal women are already with us in Shantidhan (abode of peace).
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.
Guys with bigger boobs than I have walk around, and they're fine. If women were to do that, they could go to jail. That's totally wrong.
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.
Well... you know, I would wake up with a terrible hangover in a jail somewhere and worst part was that I would not know why I was there.
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.
If, after obtaining Buddhahood, anyone in my land gets tossed in jail on a vagrancy rap, may I not attain highest perfect enlightenment.
Max Askeli was a very courageous, principled man up to a point. He had left Italy before he was thrown in jail by [Francesco] Mussolini.