Human reason is beautiful and invincible. No bars, no…

From Augustine down, theologians have tried to compel people to accept their special interpretation of the Scripture, and the tortures of the inquisition, the…

— Matilda Joslyn Gage

“What greater sorrow than being forced to leave behind my native earth?”

— Euripides

Welcome to the age of paper money, where governments and central banks can manufacture as much money as they want without limit. Gold was…

— Llewellyn Rockwell

Questioning the status quo can result in banishment, imprisonment, ridicule or being burned at the stake, depending on your era, your locale, and the…

— Gene Spafford

In France, the leader of Jacobinism perished on the guillotine; with us, the change of leadership was achieved by means of arrest and banishment.…

— Leon Trotsky

“In an antique city-state, or a modern municipality, shame is the penalty for the violation of ethics—making things more symmetric. Banishment and exile, or,…

— Nassim Nicholas Taleb

And why not death rather than living torment? To die is to be banish'd from myself; And Silvia is myself: banish'd from her Is…

— William Shakespeare

To roam Giddily, and be everywhere but at home, Such freedom doth a banishment become.

— John Donne

Within legal enforcement of "morality," there is no sense of how to morally, ethically, or fairly help people live safer lives. It's all about…

— Terre Thaemlitz

This person had arrived, he had illuminated her, he had ensorcelled her with notions of miracle and beauty, he had both understood and misunderstood…

— Elizabeth Gilbert

My guess [is] . . . that the great majority of Americans are saying they favor gun control when they really mean gun banishment.…

— Roger Rosenblatt

In the American hemisphere the cause of freedom and independence has continued to prevail, and if signalized by none of those splendid triumphs which…

— John Quincy Adams

Such as are in immediate fear of a losing their estates, of banishment, or of slavery, live in perpetual anguish, and lose all appetite…

— Michel de Montaigne

“Is it not true that in ancient times the worst punishment of all was not death, but banishment?”

— Jean Said Makdisi

There are no parallels to the life of the concentration camps. All seeming parallels create confusion and distract attention from what is essential. Forced…

— Hannah Arendt