Imprisonment, as it exists today, is a worse crime than any of those committed by its victims. — George Bernard Shaw Copy Share Image
“ Niemand ist mehr Sklave, als der sich für frei hält, ohne es zu sein . None are more hopelessly enslaved than… — Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Copy Share Image
“Silence has built walls, walls that I attempt to break by pedaling faster, only to be imprisoned a hundred feet down the… — Doug Cooper Copy Share Image
“Has every line inside of you been crossed? Is there anything left unviolated? Are you so comfortable with your imprisonment you feel… — Bryant McGill Copy Share Image
Strict justice would demand total confiscation of your property, personal imprisonment and fines. — Zebulon Pike Copy Share Image
Blind certainty, a close-mindedness that amounts to an imprisonment so total that the prisoner doesn't even know he's locked up. — David Foster Copy Share Image
Ours is a civil fight, and imprisonment as a civil prisoner has got to be earned by the strict observance of the… — Mahatma Gandhi Copy Share Image
It's habits that can imprison you and it's habits that can free you. But when thanks to God becomes a habit -… — Ann Voskamp Copy Share Image
O thou that pinest in the imprisonment of the Actual, and criest bitterly to the gods for a kingdom wherein to rule… — Thomas Carlyle Copy Share Image
A culture of dialogue is breaking down and giving way to a culture of threats and impunity, you can see the strategy… — Sophal Ear Copy Share Image
The severest prosecutions have never been followed by revelations changing a divine law, obedience to which brought imprisonment or martyrdom. Though I… — Lorenzo Snow Copy Share Image
What can my enemies do to me? I have in my breast both my Heaven and my Garden. If I travel they… — Ibn Taymiyyah Copy Share Image
The human soul finds its saddest imprisonment when it is helpless in the presence of cruelty, when it cannot right a wrong.… — Jenkin Lloyd Jones Copy Share Image
The years of imprisonment hardened me... Perhaps if you have been given a moment to hold back and wait for the next… — Winnie Madikizela-Mandela Copy Share Image
Living out one's faith is either no way to live or the only way to live; it's either imprisonment, or the only… — Tarek Saab Copy Share Image
Dominion is a spy novel, a love story, and also I hope gives some sense of the difficulties faced by dissidents under… — C.J. Sansom Copy Share Image
“Gus, do I have to put you in a cage or something? Because I will! Don't push it, mister!" "As an officer… — Kristan Higgins Copy Share Image
Every court of criminal justice must have the power of correcting the greatest and dangerous of all abuses of the forms of… — David Hume Copy Share Image
And in the general hardening of outlook that set in ... practices which had been long abandoned ... -- imprisonment without trial,… — George Orwell Copy Share Image
“A bus drives past and I’m nauseated by a whiff of exhaust. Then rotting fish. The rancid stench of sewage. Is it… — Shannon M Mullen Copy Share Image
“But a punishment like forced labour or even imprisonment – mere loss of liberty – has never functioned without a certain additional… — Michel Foucault Copy Share Image
Our nature is to worship, but unless that element is directed towards God it becomes "a senseless impersonal force, carrying us away… — Olivier Clement Copy Share Image
There exists, I believe, throughout the whole Christian world, a law which makes it blasphemy to deny or doubt the divine inspiration… — John Adams Copy Share Image
No individual or private group or private organization has the legal power to initiate the use of physical force against other individuals… — Ayn Rand Copy Share Image
I question the negative connotations of fabric, of ribbon, of lace. I turn these symbols of our imprisonment around. — Miriam Schapiro Copy Share Image
“Blame is very tricky in that it seems like a way out when it is really a form of imprisonment.” — Bryant McGill Copy Share Image
Death to a good man is his release from the imprisonment of this world, and his departure to the enjoyments of another… — Matthew Henry Copy Share Image
Friendship is not diminished by distance or time, by imprisonment or war, by suffering or silence. It is in these things that… — Pam Brown Copy Share Image
I'm glad my name stands for the principle that everyone has the right to force the government to justify his imprisonment. — Lakhdar Boumediene Copy Share Image
“Security is a double-edged sword: While a fence sure protects the fenced; it also imprisons the protected.” — Mokokoma Mokhonoana Copy Share Image
Imprisonment has become the response of first resort to far too many of our social problems. — Angela Davis Copy Share Image
You can imprison a man, but not an idea. You can exile a man, but not an idea. You can kill a… — Benazir Bhutto Copy Share Image
When thee builds a prison, thee had better build with the thought ever in thy mind that thee and thy children may… — Elizabeth Fry Copy Share Image
“Today, the United States has the highest rate of imprisonment of any nation in the world—possibly the highest rate in the history… — David Cay Johnston Copy Share Image
“There is great literature about imprisonment, . . . about the foot soldier, . . . about the sea -- but not one great work about flying.” — John Sayles Copy Share Image
The fundamental sense of freedom is freedom from chains, from imprisonment, from enslavement by others. The rest is extension of this sense,… — Isaiah Berlin Copy Share Image
“It is as reasonable to represent one kind of imprisonment by another as it is to represent anything that really exists by… — Daniel Defoe Copy Share Image
Let them fear bondage who are slaves to fear; the sweetest freedom is an honest heart. — John Ford Copy Share Image
“In the criminal law [...] imprisonment should be resorted to only after the most anxious consideration.” — Pius Langa Copy Share Image
“what’s the point in threatening them with imprisonment if they break the terms of their parole? The threat has no meaning for… — Jon Ronson Copy Share Image