Imprison Quotes
53 Imprison quotes by 48 unique authors
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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
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I refuse to imprison our acts in the rigid mould of sentences.
— Ella Maillart
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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
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Like the truth, retirement can set you free. Or, like work, retirement can imprison you.
— Ernie J Zelinski
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Paired opposites define your longings and those longings imprison you.
— Frank Herbert
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You can chain me, you can torture me, you can even destroy this body, but you will never imprison my mind.
— Mahatma Gandhi
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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There is in fact something obscene and sinister about photography, a desire to imprison, to incorporate, a sexual intensity of pursuit.
— William S. Burroughs
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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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Can you see air you breathe? Can you see the force that moves the tides or changes the seasons or sends the birds to a…
— Francine Rivers
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How was she to tie herself to a man without permitting him to imprison her? And was there some means of acquiring things without those…
— Clarice Lispector
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Anyone that looked like that wouldn't need to tie up girls and imprison them in order to get them to marry him
— Cassandra Clare
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With the first commandment, Mohammed tried to imprison common sense. And with the second commandment, the beautiful, romantic side of mankind was enslaved.
— Ayaan Hirsi Ali
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The sculptor who deals with form seeks to imprison beauty in a marble statue that will withstand the ravages of time during millenniums; but a…
— Max Heindel
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As politics is disconnected from its ethical and material moorings, it becomes easier to punish and imprison young people than to educate them.
— Henry Giroux
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If the word has the potency to revive and make us free, it has also the power to blind, imprison, and destroy.
— Ralph Ellison
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No man is my enemy, my own hands imprison me. Love rescue me.
— Unknown Author
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Sometimes the prison of fear is so powerful theres no need to lock the cell doors. Your fear creates a willingness to self-imprison.
— Steve Maraboli
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It is better to end something and start another.. than to imprison urself hoping for the impossible thing to happen.
— Jochelle Dimitui
Who Wrote These Imprison Quotes
48 authors contributed a total of 53 Imprison Quotes, led by these top contributors: