Imprisoned Quotes
208 quotes by 176 authors
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There is an angel imprisoned in it and I must set it free.
— Michelangelo
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His impression was that he had been imprisoned in a shelter deep down in the underworld of his personality, listening and biding his time while…
— Christer Kihlman
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The events inspired characters that truly existed, as well as fictitious people I had to invent. Sometimes the harsh reality was too much, too absurd.…
— Christian Carion
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The North American system only wants to consider the positive aspects of reality. Men and women are subjected from childhood to an inexorable process of…
— Octavio Paz
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An old Arabian fable tells of a prince imprisoned in a castle which had thirteen windows. Twelve of these windows overlooked lovely scenes, while the…
— James Keller
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I do not come bearing a party label on my sleeve - or a quick fix in my back pocket. I do not come with…
— Ted Kulongoski
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When tradition is thought to state the way things really are, it becomes the director and judge of our lives; we are, in effect, imprisoned…
— Marcus Borg
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Prophet just means intellectual. They were people giving geopolitical analysis, moral lessons, that sort of thing. We call them intellectuals today. There were the people…
— Noam Chomsky
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Imprisoned professors taught imprisoned students free theology.
— Jürgen Moltmann
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I defy my honored opponents to give me the name of a single man imprisoned in the United States, Great Britain, or West Germany for…
— Richard Wurmbrand
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I don't believe in depriving myself of any food or being imprisoned by a diet.
— Joely Fisher
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Of the Yamacraw children, I can say little. I don't think I changed the quality of their lives significantly or altered the inexorable fact that…
— Pat Conroy
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In this state [man's fallen condition], the Free Will of man toward the True God is not only wounded, maimed, infirm, bent, and weakened; but…
— Jacobus Arminius
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We are powerfully imprisoned in these Dark Ages simply by the terms in which we have been conditioned to think.
— R. Buckminster Fuller
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Now, get this as a technical fact, not a hopeful idea. Every time we have investigated the background of a critic of Scientology, we have…
— L. Ron Hubbard
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The child is the spiritual builder of mankind, and obstacles to his free development are the stones in the wall by which the soul of…
— Maria Montessori
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Do not try to know the truth, for knowledge by the mind is not true knowledge. But you can know what is not true-which is…
— Sri Nisargadatta Maharaj
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The basis and firm groundwork of the material, and its primary contribution, lies in the concept that consciousness itself indeed creates matter, that consciousness is…
— Jane Roberts
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Everybody seems to be imprisoned in their own sectarian or political affiliations. They don't seem to be able to rise above these things.
— Adnan Pachachi
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Open your newspaper - any day of the week - and you will find a report from somewhere in the world of someone being imprisoned,…
— Peter Benenson
Who Wrote These Imprisoned Quotes
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