“I had as lief have the foppery of freedom as the morality of imprisonment.” — William Shakespeare Copy Share Image
“Imprisonment leads to either love or hate of the incarcerator. I chose love.” — Faiqa Mansab Copy Share Image
We must be afraid of neither poverty nor exile nor imprisonment; of fear itself only should we be afraid. — Epictetus Copy Share Image
Most people seem to assume that this dramatic surge in imprisonment was due to a corresponding surge in crime, particularly violent crime. — Michelle Alexander Copy Share Image
The freedom the bars give women is not the same freedom a woman on the street or in a brothel has. That's… — Sonia Faleiro Copy Share Image
“The Fulcrum is not the first institution to have learned an eternal truth of humankind: No need for guards when you can… — N.K. Jemisin Copy Share Image
If love is ajail and she is aprison officer let me be sentanced to prison for the life imprisonment. — Princealanz Copy Share Image
I resolve never to make any resolutions because all resolutions are restrictions for the future. All resolutions are imprisonments. — Rajneesh Copy Share Image
People should not be imprisoned without having the ability to challenge the legality of that imprisonment. — Jeff Bingaman Copy Share Image
All my life I had feared imprisonment, the nun's cell, the hospital bed, the places where one faced the self without distraction,… — Edna O'Brien Copy Share Image
Questioning the status quo can result in banishment, imprisonment, ridicule or being burned at the stake, depending on your era, your locale,… — Gene Spafford Copy Share Image
“To subdue and crush the masses of a nation by military force, when all are unanimous in the determination to be free,… — William Dalrymple Copy Share Image
My father was released from jail, after more than three years of imprisonment, in 1971. Without wasting any time, he wanted to… — Radha Ravi Copy Share Image
An individual who breaks a law that conscience tells him is unjust, and who willingly accepts the penalty of imprisonment in order… — Martin Luther King, Jr Copy Share Image
To top it off, for those of you who are interested in the economics, it costs more to pursue a capital case… — Ralph Nader Copy Share Image
Americans like to humiliate wrongdoers...We like, in short, to punish. It makes us feel good. By every conceivable metric - arrests, prosecutions,… — Chris Hayes Copy Share Image
Some people surrender their freedom willingly but others are forced to surrender it. Imprisonment begins with birth. Society, parents they refuse to… — Jim Morrison Copy Share Image
Executing a murderer is the only way to adequately express our horror at the taking of an innocent life. Nothing else suffices.… — Don Feder Copy Share Image
“The bad parts of the statute are not judicially severable, I consider, from the rest of its provisions that deal with imprisonment.… — John Didcott Copy Share Image
The years of imprisonment hardened me ... Perhaps if you have been given a moment to hold back and wait for the… — Winnie Madikizela-Mandela Copy Share Image
In a growing number of states, you're actually expected to pay back the costs of your imprisonment. Paying back all these fees,… — Michelle Alexander Copy Share Image
“At no time have governments been moralists. They never imprisoned people and executed them for having done something. They imprisoned and executed… — Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn Copy Share Image
No person shall be restrained of his liberty but by regular process from a court of justice, authorized by a general law.… — Thomas Jefferson Copy Share Image
“The thing that give me the mos' trouble was, it didn' make no sense. You don't look for no sense when lightnin'… — John Steinbeck Copy Share Image
“I am convinced that imprisonment is a way of pretending to solve the problem of crime. It does nothing for the victims… — Howard Zinn Copy Share Image
Whereas, Slavery, throughout its entire existence in the United States is none other than a most barbarous, unprovoked, and unjustifiable War of… — John Brown Copy Share Image
“A utopian system, when established by men, is likely to be synonymous with a dystopian depression. The only way for perfect peace… — Criss Jami Copy Share Image
“I have always been interested in this man . My father had a set of Tom Paine 's books on the shelf… — Thomas A. Edison 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
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
“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
