Imprison Quotes

53 quotes by 49 authors

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
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
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
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
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
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
A country that goes out of its way to imprison the innocent has no business preaching democracy to the world. — Paul Craig Roberts
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
Pedagogy, like language itself, can either liberate or imprison ideas, inspire of suffocate constructive thinking. — Hyman Bass
If the word has the potency to revive and make us free, it has also the power to bind, imprison and destroy. — Ralph Ellison
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
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
Having looked the past in the eye, having asked for forgiveness and having made amends, let us shut the door on the pastâ€”not in order… — Desmond Tutu
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
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
Oh! how near are genius and madness! Men imprison them and chain them, or raise statues to them. — Denis Diderot
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
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
A heart filled with love is like a phoenix that no cage can imprison. — Rumi
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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