I submit that an individual who breaks a law that conscience tells him is unjust, and who willingly accepts the penalty of… — Martin Luther King, Jr Copy Share Image
When you have a nation that is suffering collectively from a situation of injustice - of violence, of imprisonment and closure and… — Hanan Ashrawi Copy Share Image
Fines are preferable to imprisonment and other types of punishment because they are more efficient. With a fine, the punishment to offenders… — Gary Becker Copy Share Image
An unjust law is itself a species of violence. Arrest for its breach is more so. Now the law of nonviolence says… — Mahatma Gandhi Copy Share Image
Plants are the young of the world, vessels of health and vigor; but they grope ever upward towards consciousness; the trees are… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
“In the end, no one noticed when protection turned into imprisonment, or when 'for the good of the people' turned into 'for… — Mira Grant Copy Share Image
Three hundred years ago a prisoner condemned to the Tower of London carved on the wall of his cell this sentiment to… — James Keller Copy Share Image
Those who have advanced rise to the mind which is in the head, - they have the play of their mental movements… — Sri Aurobindo Copy Share Image
The so-called liberals of today have the very popular idea that freedom of speech, of thought, of the press, freedom of religion,… — Ludwig von Mises Copy Share Image
Liberals love to say things like, "We're just asking everyone to pay their fair share." But government is not about asking. It… — Thomas Sowell Copy Share Image
The biblical lifestyle is always a witness of resistance to the status quo in politics, economics, and all society. It is a… — William Stringfellow Copy Share Image
The New York Times columnist, Thomas Friedman, cited Haqqani to make the argument that Guantánamo must be shut down. He wrote:“Husain Haqqani,… — Husain Haqqani Copy Share Image
Since I was a law student, I have been against the death penalty. It does not deter. It is severely discriminatory against… — Ralph Nader Copy Share Image
We felt the imprisonment of being a girl, the way it made your mind active and dreamy, and how you ended up… — Jeffrey Eugenides Copy Share Image
I know of only one country, at least to my knowledge, which has a dissident culture where leading figures, I mean, the… — Noam Chomsky Copy Share Image
In the years preceding my imprisonment, I worked as a software programmer, designing and developing web interfaces, secure databases, and communication software;… — Chelsea Manning Copy Share Image
If we went back to the imprisonment rate we had in the early '70s, something like four out of five people employed… — Eugene Jarecki Copy Share Image
“I know you want this as much as I do," he said. "You aren't going to report me. And even if you… — Fiona Paul Copy Share Image
The birth of a child is the imprisonment of a soul. The soul must work its way out of prison, and, in… — William Gilmore Simms Copy Share Image
Look how in societies today where Islam is dominant and prominent, how any non-Islamic person, whether it's a Christian or an apostate… — Geert Wilders Copy Share Image
An infinite God ought to be able to protect himself, without going in partnership with State Legislatures. Certainly he ought not so… — Robert Green Ingersoll Copy Share Image
Saddam's fate should be in the hands of his country men. They were the major victims of his brutal reign and should… — Ronnie James Dio Copy Share Image
I look at my life today at 69 and I think about all the things that have happened after all my imprisonment.… — Frank Abagnale Copy Share Image
Until you will stop the bombing, gassing, imprisonment and torture of my people we will not stop this fight. We are at… — Mohamed Khan Copy Share Image
“I know that imprisonment will be harder for me than it has ever been for anyone, filled with cowardly threats and hideous… — Fidel Castro Copy Share Image
“The world was full of such madmen in those days. Imprisonment is not the way to deal with such people; half measures… — Iain Pears Copy Share Image
When the frustration of my helplessness seemed greatest, I discovered God's grace was more than sufficient. And after my imprisonment, I could… — Charles Caleb Colton Copy Share Image
Islam was like a mental cage. At first, when you open the door, the caged bird stays inside: it is frightened. It… — Ayaan Hirsi Ali Copy Share Image
In a world in which stylistic innovation is no longer possible, all that is left is to imitate dead styles... Contemporary or… — Fredric Jameson Copy Share Image
I worked 12 hours a day, seven days a week for years. Being a comic book artist is like sentencing yourself to… — Wally Wood Copy Share Image
Capital punishment kills immediately, whereas lifetime imprisonment does so slowly. Which executioner is more humane? The one who kills you in a… — Anton Chekhov Copy Share Image
Drugs. If they did not exist our governors would have invented them in order to prohibit them and so make much of… — Gore Vidal Copy Share Image
The same means that have supported every other popular belief have supported Christianity. War, imprisonment, and falsehood; deeds of unexampled and incomparable… — Percy Bysshe Shelley Copy Share Image
I never told a victim story about my imprisonment. Instead, I told a transformation story - about how prison changed my outlook,… — Fernando Flores Copy Share Image
The marks of Jesus are imprisonment, chains, scourgings, blows and stoning in bearing testimony to the Gospel. Galatians 6:17 - 17 Finally,… — John Calvin Copy Share Image
Actions are held to be good or bad, not on their own merits, but according to who does them. There is almost… — George Orwell Copy Share Image
The star [Tycho's supernova] was at first like Venus and Jupiter, giving pleasing effects; but as it then became like Mars, there… — Tycho Brahe Copy Share Image
“Imprisonment is the form of punishment which may detrimentally affect not only the offender but also his family and his employment and… — P.W. Thirion Copy Share Image
It was only when I lay there on the rotting prison straw that I sensed within myself the first stirrings of good.… — Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn Copy Share Image
Writing is like wrestling; you are wrestling with ideas and with the story. There is a lot of energy required. At the… — Chinua Achebe Copy Share Image
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