Imprisoned Quotes
208 quotes by 175 authors
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Jesus never says to the poor: ‘come find the church’, but he says to those of us in the church: ‘go into the world and…
— Tony Campolo
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All alternatives are open. Choose to be blissful. And then there are people who can be blissful even when they are imprisoned, and there are…
— Rajneesh
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Man is less interested in marriage, very much less interested. In fact not interested at all. If he agrees, he agrees only reluctantly - because…
— Rajneesh
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No one ever laid out the sequence of events that led to my mother being prosecuted and imprisoned for alleged welfare fraud.
— Chris Gardner
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Of all the wonderful things in the wonderful universe of God, nothing seems to me more surprising than the planting of a seed in the…
— Celia Thaxter
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One certain effect of war is to diminish freedom of expression. Patriotism becomes the order of the day, and those who question the war are…
— Howard Zinn
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No dictator, no invader, can hold an imprisoned population by force of arms forever. There is no greater power in the universe than the need…
— J. Michael Straczynski
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Your religions are boring you, your philosophies are boring you, your scriptures are boring you. Thousands of years of the past are the cause of…
— Rajneesh
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I think history is continuous. It doesn't begin or end on Pearl Harbor Day or the day Lyndon Johnson withdraws from the presidency or on…
— Richard Holbrooke
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God suffers in the multitude of souls whom His word can not reach. Religious truth is imprisoned in a small number of manuscript books, which…
— Johannes Gutenberg
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Our modern society is engaged in polishing and decorating the cage in which man is kept imprisoned.
— Nirmalananda
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A rational mind does not work under compulsion; it does not subordinate its grasp of reality to anyone’s orders, directives, or controls; it does not…
— Ayn Rand
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By the fulfillment of my legal and moral duty I think I have earned punishment just as little as the tens of thousands of dutiful…
— Wilhelm Frick
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There is an artist imprisoned in each one of us. Let him loose to spread joy everywhere.
— Bertrand Russell
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There is no captive in a worse state than the one who is captivated by his worst enemy (Shaytan) and there is no prison which…
— Ibn Qayyim Al-Jawziyya
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It is a difficult matter to keep love imprisoned.
— Apuleius
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A collective insanity seemed to have seized the nation and turned them into something worse than beasts. The princess de Lamballe, Marie Antoinette's intimate friend,…
— J. Christopher Herold
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In the end the Obama administration is not afraid of whistleblowers like me, Bradley Manning or Thomas Drake. We are stateless, imprisoned, or powerless. No,…
— Edward Snowden
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The main thing to understand is that we are imprisoned in some kind of work of art.
— Terence McKenna
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Take then this Book, look into it, and show me when Jesus was not forgiving. Read this diving tragedy and tell me where He speaks…
— Khalil Gibran
Who Wrote These Imprisoned Quotes
175 authors contributed a total of 208 Imprisoned Quotes, led by these top contributors: