Imprisonment Quotes

Imprisonment in the contemporary is the worst of all intellectual tyrannies.

— Weston La Barre

“If the only point of jail is isolation, then I have served a full sentence.”

— Abhaidev

I had to face imprisonment and house arrests, but it made me tougher.

— Asma Jahangir

No force, oppression, imprisonment, jail... nothing will stop me.

— Nawaz Sharif

“And after my imprisonment I could look back and”

— Charles W. Colson

The desire to impress others is one of the worst forms of mental imprisonment.

— Robert Ringer

But I am chained to Time, and cannot thence depart!

— Percy Bysshe Shelley

What is imprisonment to the man who is fearless of death itself?

— Mahatma Gandhi

The practice of arbitrary imprisonments have been, in all ages, the favorite and most formidable instruments of tyranny.

— Alexander Hamilton

People should not be imprisoned without having the ability to challenge the legality of that imprisonment.

— Jeff Bingaman

Imprisonment, as it exists today, is a worse crime than any of those committed by its victims.

— George Bernard Shaw

“Until 1988, one year of imprisonment had been the maximum for possession of any amount of any drug.”

— Michelle Alexander

“ Niemand ist mehr Sklave, als der sich für frei hält, ohne es zu sein . None are more hopelessly enslaved than…

— Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

“Silence has built walls, walls that I attempt to break by pedaling faster, only to be imprisoned a hundred feet down the…

— Doug Cooper

The weariest and most loathed worldly life, that age, ache, penury and imprisonment can lay on nature is a paradise, to what…

— William Shakespeare

Every pulpit is a pillory, in which stands a hired culprit, defending the justice of his own imprisonment

— Robert Green Ingersoll

...a common observation, that few are mended by imprisonment, and that he, whose crimes have made confinement necessary, seldom makes any other…

— Samuel Johnson

Economic power is exercised by means of a positive, by offering men a reward, an incentive, a payment, a value; political power…

— Ayn Rand

As president, I watched in wonder as Nelson Mandela had the remarkable capacity to forgive his jailers following 26 years of wrongful…

— George H. W. Bush

Marijuana gives rise to insanity -- not in its users but in the policies directed against it. A nation that sentences the…

— Eric Schlosser

“An insincere individual would feel afraid to admit the truth because he or she wants to avoid facing the consequences with a…

— Saaif Alam

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

A lover knows only humility, he has no choice. He steals into your alley at night, he has no choice. He longs…

— Anonymous

Calisto, a companion of Ignatius, and who on recovering from a severe illness had heard of the imprisonment of Ignatius, hastened from…

— Anonymous

I could have easily been a statistic. Growing up in Brooklyn, N.Y., it was easy - a little too easy - to…

— Al Sharpton

And in the general hardening of outlook that set in ... practices which had been long abandoned ... -- imprisonment without trial,…

— George Orwell

Our nature is to worship, but unless that element is directed towards God it becomes "a senseless impersonal force, carrying us away…

— Olivier Clement

“But a punishment like forced labour or even imprisonment – mere loss of liberty – has never functioned without a certain additional…

— Michel Foucault

“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

There exists, I believe, throughout the whole Christian world, a law which makes it blasphemy to deny or doubt the divine inspiration…

— John Adams

“The American prisoner's greatest obstacle to achieving something of importance is a lack of communication with the outside world. When prison administrators…

— Christopher Zoukis

I was wondering how you were going to punish me for not confiding in you. Punishment, actually, is something I've thought about…

— Derek Landy

“A utopian system, when established by men, is likely to be synonymous with a dystopian depression. The only way for perfect peace…

— Criss Jami

“I am convinced that imprisonment is a way of pretending to solve the problem of crime. It does nothing for the victims…

— Howard Zinn

“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

“I have always been interested in this man . My father had a set of Tom Paine 's books on the shelf…

— Thomas A. Edison

“Once the criminal has served his time, he returns to his old neighborhood. There’s a good chance he’s been psychologically damaged by…

— Malcolm Gladwell

“When you fear nothing, you have nothing to fear”

— S.F. Chandler

Imprisonment of the body is bitter; imprisonment of the mind is worse

— Thornton Wilder

Imprisonment is as irrevocable as death.

— George Bernard Shaw