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
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
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
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
Not one of the orthodox ministers dare preach what he thinks if he knows a majority of his congregation think otherwise. He… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
I have never concealed the fact and said it before the court in 1938 that I came from an anti-Semitic past and… — Martin Niemoller 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
What other developed democracy has such a ridiculous and squalid history of intolerance? From the imprisonment and roasting of heretics, witches and… — Stephen Fry Copy Share Image
Imprisonment of the body is bitter; imprisonment of the mind is worse — Thornton Wilder Copy Share Image
Dare to do things worthy of imprisonment if you mean to be of consequence. — Juvenal Copy Share Image
The desire to impress others is one of the worst forms of mental imprisonment. — Robert Ringer Copy Share Image
“If the only point of jail is isolation, then I have served a full sentence.” — Abhaidev Copy Share Image
Imprisonment in the contemporary is the worst of all intellectual tyrannies. — Weston La Barre Copy Share Image
“When failure imprisons you for not doing what you should have done, you have no option than to bail yourself on the… — Israelmore Ayivor Copy Share Image
Our thinking can create liberation or it can create imprisonment. It depends on how we use our mind. — Tenzin Palmo Copy Share Image
Communism feeds on aggression, hatred, and the imprisonment of men's minds and souls. This shall not take root in the United States. — Emanuel Celler Copy Share Image
That fierce imprisonment in the self is but the obverse of the self-giving which is absolute reality. — C. S. Lewis Copy Share Image
The caged eagle become a metaphor for all forms of isolation, the ultimate in imprisonment. A zoo is prison. — Nadine Gordimer Copy Share Image
Every pulpit is a pillory, in which stands a hired culprit, defending the justice of his own imprisonment — Robert Green Ingersoll Copy Share Image
The weariest and most loathed worldly life, that age, ache, penury and imprisonment can lay on nature is a paradise, to what… — William Shakespeare Copy Share Image
The burning of an author's books, imprisonment for opinion's sake, has always been the tribute that an ignorant age pays to the… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Plenty of people have bad divorces, but few of them end up with cancer, imprisonment, and public scorn. In the dark, rolling,… — Jim Goad Copy Share Image
...any form of government that required the repression, imprisonment, and execution of those who disagreed with it was certainly not a government… — Vince Flynn Copy Share Image
Heterosexuality has been forcibly and subliminally imposed on women. Yet everywhere women have resisted it, often at the cost of physical torture,… — Adrienne Rich Copy Share Image
Afflictions, persecutions, imprisonments, and death, we must expect, according to the scriptures, which tell us that the blood of those whose souls… — Joseph Smith, Jr Copy Share Image
Because it would be too agonizing to cope with the possibility that anyone, including our selves, could become a prisoner, we tend… — Angela Davis Copy Share Image
Among the events of John McCain's five-and-a-half years of imprisonment and torture in North Vietnam, probably the most heroic, and surely the… — Bret Stephens Copy Share Image
The death penalty is no more effective a deterrent than life imprisonment... It is also evident that the burden of capital punishment… — Thurgood Marshall Copy Share Image
“Let us not be trapped by faint discrimination or intolerance preventing us from creating open perspectives. If we rise above the imprisonment… — Erik Pevernagie Copy Share Image
My whole life has been based on two principles: the love of the Church to which I am united, and the love… — Leonid Feodorov Copy Share Image
In loneliness, in sickness, in confusion-the mere knowledge of friendship makes it possible to endure, even if the friend is powerless to… — Pam Brown Copy Share Image
A simple way to determine whether the right to dissent in a particular society is being upheld is to apply the town… — Natan Sharansky Copy Share Image
Two weeks after the arrested I was on the phone with my wife and we said a prayer and I was crying… — Christian Hosoi 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
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
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 could have easily been a statistic. Growing up in Brooklyn, N.Y., it was easy - a little too easy - to… — Al Sharpton Copy Share Image
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