We are imprisoning or giving jail sentences to young…

I have prosecuted very serious criminals who are now serving very long jail sentences.

— Keir Starmer

I think it is now widely understood that the so-called "War on Drugs" has largely been a failure. Too many people have developed criminal…

— Bernie Sanders

Like any art, what is the most imprisoning thing is also the most delivering thing. If an actor knows he only has 12 syllables…

— Derek Walcott

“When we lock things away, we're really imprisoning ourselves.”

— Gordon Korman Capricorn Anderson

Every time I go past a cinema and see a queue out the door, I think, look at those fools, every penny they spend…

— Cory Doctorow

Unforgiveness is a deeply seated and poisonous bitter root; imprisoning those who harbours it with a hardened heart.

— Geraldine Vermaak

When we lock things away," he said with conviction, "we're really imprisoning ourselves.

— Gordon Korman

What really drives the battle against law enforcement and punishment is not a commitment to treatment, but the widely held view that, first, we…

— John P. Walters

Years of imprisoning and beheading writers never succeeded in shutting them out. However, placing them in the heart of a market and rewarding them…

— Arundhati Roy

Imprisoning philosophy within the professionalizations and specializations of an institutionalized curriculum, after the manner of our contemporary European and North American culture, is arguably…

— Anonymous

The imprisoning of a writer is the same as the burning of a book.

— Joseph Brodsky

“The delusion lies in the fact that no matter how well we think we know the Other, we still judge from within the imprisoning…

— John Howard Griffin

...finally her hands, so light, holding his head still and catching all his thoughts and imprisoning them there, in the space that no longer…

— Paolo Giordano

Boy George has been charged with falsely imprisoning a man who'd gone to his apartment to pose for photographs. Going to Boy George's house…

— Chelsea Handler

“To lock these men up or threaten them would be no more effective than imprisoning the milkweed or shouting at the kudzu.”

— Edward W. Robertson