Imprison Quotes

53 quotes by 49 authors

It is better to let 100 criminals go free than to imprison 1 innocent man. — Benjamin Franklin
Take me to you, imprison me, for I, except you enthrall me, never shall be free, nor ever chaste, except you ravish me. — John Donne
. . . in America, we have achieved the Orwellian prediction - enslaved, the people have been programmed to love their bondage and are left… — Gerry Spence
The professional military mind is by necessity an inferior and unimaginative mind; no man of high intellectual quality would willingly imprison his gifts in such… — H.G. Wells
During war we imprison the rights of man. — Jean Giraudoux
There is no man who desires as passionately as a Russian. If we could imprison a Russian desire beneath a fortress, that fortress would explode. — Joseph de Maistre
I refuse to imprison our acts in the rigid mould of sentences. — Ella Maillart
I shall never pay a dollar of your unjust penalty. All the stock in trade I possess is a $10,000 debt, incurred by publishing my… — Susan B. Anthony
Like the truth, retirement can set you free. Or, like work, retirement can imprison you. — Ernie J Zelinski
Paired opposites define your longings and those longings imprison you. — Frank Herbert
You can chain me, you can torture me, you can even destroy this body, but you will never imprison my mind. — Mahatma Gandhi
If you strike at, imprison, or kill us, out of our prisons or graves we will still evoke a spirit that will thwart you, and… — James Connolly
The vote is the most powerful instrument ever devised by man for breaking down injustice and destroying the terrible walls which imprison men because they… — Lyndon B. Johnson
Every one with this writ may be a tyrant; if this commission be legal, a tyrant in a legal manner, also, may control, imprison, or… — James Otis
Perhaps the whole root of our trouble, the human trouble, is that we will sacrifice all the beauty of our lives, will imprison ourselves in… — James A. Baldwin
Some birds are not meant to be caged, that's all. Their feathers are too bright, their songs too sweet and wild. So you let them… — Stephen King
Love is an untamed force. When we try to control it, it destroys us. When we try to imprison it, it enslaves us. When we… — Paulo Coelho
Love fills everything. It cannot be desired because it is an end in itself. It cannot betray because it has nothing to do with possession.… — Paulo Coelho
There is in fact something obscene and sinister about photography, a desire to imprison, to incorporate, a sexual intensity of pursuit. — William S. Burroughs
You cannot imprison me!" He bellowed. "I am Hyperion! I am-" The bark closed over his face. Grover took his pipes from his mouth. "You… — Rick Riordan

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