Imprisoned Quotes

208 quotes by 175 authors

As I travel through my country, people often ask me how it feels to have been imprisoned in my home -first for six years, then… — Aung San Suu Kyi
This Government, as promised, has maintained the closest surveillance of the Soviet Military buildup on the island of Cuba. Within the past week, unmistakable evidence… — John F. Kennedy
If you had to work in the environment of Washington, D.C., as I do, and watch those men who are so imprisoned and so confined… — Barbara Jordan
To men and women who want to do things, there is nothing quite so driving as the force of an imprisoned ego. . . .… — Mary Roberts Rinehart
With my somewhat vague aspiring mind, to be imprisoned in the rude details of a most material life was often irksome. — Edward Carpenter
This one question-'What do I know for certain?'-is tremendously powerful. When you look deeply into this question, it actually destroys your world. It destroys your… — Adyashanti
I cannot classify the other, for the other is, precisely, Unique, the singular Image which has miraculously come to correspond to the speciality of my… — Roland Barthes
Are the prisons overpopulated, or is the population over-imprisoned ? — Michel Foucault
The knowledge that I have acquired must not remain imprisoned in my brain. I owe it to many men and women to do something with… — Elie Wiesel
The resentment I felt inside was not hatred for being imprisoned or for Victor who had betrayed me but something deeper: a rebellion against the… — MacDonald Harris
Imprisoned is he whose heart is imprisoned from AllÃ¢h. Captured is he who is captured by his desires. — Ibn Taymiyyah
Tell this imprisoned soul that it will never be owned. Nothing will ever own you. But God. — Yasmin Mogahed
I was at a benefit for some imprisoned students in the '60s at San Francisco State, and there were lots of poets reading for the… — Thom Gunn
In Presence, there is no outcome. It is our involvement in the outcome that keeps us imprisoned in an imagined future. In Presence, there is… — Leonard Jacobson
I believe that to knowingly commit actions that cause or condone suffering is reprehensible in the extreme. I call upon you to be compassionate and… — Unknown Author
Fantasy is escapist, and that is its glory. If a soldier is imprisoned by the enemy, don't we consider it his duty to escape? — J.R.R. Tolkien
Brutality was imprisoned in a lumious glare revealing the naked truth to the whole world — Martin Luther King, Jr.
Ibn Taymiyyah lived poorly. He was imprisoned and threatened. But I have never seen anyone as happy as him. — Ibn Qayyim Al-Jawziyya
The one who is [truly] imprisoned is the one whose heart is imprisoned from Allah and the captivated one is the one whose desires have… — Ibn Taymiyyah
Unhappiness, I saw then, comes to each of us because we think ourselves at the center of the world, because we have the miserable conviction… — Jacques Lusseyran

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