Imprison Quotes
53 quotes by 49 authors
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What was any art but a mould in which to imprison for a moment the shining elusive element which is life itself - life hurrying…
— Willa Cather
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Nothing can be more abhorrent to democracy than to imprison a person or keep him in prison because he is unpopular. This is really the…
— Winston Churchill
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Negation is the mind's first freedom, yet a negative habit is fruitful only so long as we exert ourselves to overcome it, adapt it to…
— Emile M. Cioran
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In every block of marble I see a statue as plain as though it stood before me, shaped and perfect in attitude and action. I…
— Michelangelo
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I am filled with fear and tormented with terrible visions of pain. Everywhere people are hurting one another, the planet is rampant with injustices, whole…
— Robert Anton Wilson
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The secret of meditation is the art of unlearning. Mind is learning; meditation is unlearning: that is - die constantly to your experience; let it…
— Rajneesh
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A country that goes out of its way to imprison the innocent has no business preaching democracy to the world.
— Paul Craig Roberts
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What can my enemies do to me? My paradise is in my heart, it is with me wherever I go. To imprison me is to…
— Ibn Taymiyyah
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Pedagogy, like language itself, can either liberate or imprison ideas, inspire of suffocate constructive thinking.
— Hyman Bass
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If the word has the potency to revive and make us free, it has also the power to bind, imprison and destroy.
— Ralph Ellison
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Not only will atomic power be released, but someday we will harness the rise and fall of the tides and imprison the rays of the…
— Thomas A. Edison
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A horse is freedom so indominable that it becomes useless to imprison it to serve man: it lets itself be domesticated, but with a simple,…
— Clarice Lispector
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Having looked the past in the eye, having asked for forgiveness and having made amends, let us shut the door on the past—not in order…
— Desmond Tutu
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I wonder why it is that we so often imprison ourselves in the opinions of other people. There can be no punishment worse than conspiring…
— Dawna Markova
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Because one species is more clever than another, does it give it the right to imprison or torture the less clever species? Does one exceptionally…
— Richard D. Ryder
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Oh! how near are genius and madness! Men imprison them and chain them, or raise statues to them.
— Denis Diderot
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Our confession will either imprison us or set us free. Our confession is the result of our believing, and our believing is the result of…
— Kenneth E. Hagin
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Anyone who tries to imprison love will cut off the spring that feeds it, and the trapped water will grow stagnant and rank.
— Paulo Coelho
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A heart filled with love is like a phoenix that no cage can imprison.
— Rumi
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It's habits that can imprison you and it's habits that can free you. But when thanks to God becomes a habit - so joy in…
— Ann Voskamp
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