Imprisoned Quotes
208 quotes by 175 authors
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A political prisoner is someone who is out fighting for his or her people's rights and freedom and is imprisoned for that alone.
— Leonard Peltier
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But recently I began to feel that maybe I wouldn't be able to do what I want to do and need to do with American…
— Sun Ra
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If we bought everything on the Internet, our eyes and mouths and nostrils would probably begin to film over with a tegument - one initially…
— Will Self
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No dictator, no invader, can hold an imprisoned population by force of arms forever.
— J. Michael Straczynski
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Our houses are such unwieldy property that we are often imprisoned rather than housed by them.
— Henry David Thoreau
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One of the striking features of the form of globalisation that has now been established is that it is based on the premise that goods…
— Roberto Unger
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In our natural state, we are glorious beings. In the world of illusion, we are lost and imprisoned, slaves to our appetites and our will…
— Marianne Williamson
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A man will be imprisoned in a room with a door that's unlocked and opens inwards; as long as it does not occur to him…
— Ludwig Wittgenstein
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The town has a sense, not of history, but of time, and the telephone poles seem to know this. If you lay your hand against…
— Stephen King
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If we maintain the open-mindedness of children, we challenge fixed ideas and established structures, including our own. We listen to people in other denominations and…
— Brennan Manning
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There is an inmost center in us all, where truth abides in fullness;....and, to know, rather consists in opening out a way where the imprisoned…
— Robert Browning
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I want to commit the murder I was imprisoned for.
— Joanne Kathleen Rowling
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In a library we are surrounded by many hundreds of dear friends imprisoned by an enchanter in paper and leathern boxes.
— Ralph Waldo Emerson
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Do not allow yourself to be imprisoned by any affection. Keep your solitude. The day, if it ever comes, when you are given true affection,…
— Simone Weil
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She felt a board indifference toward the immediate world around her toward other children and adults alike. She took it as a regrettable accident to…
— Ayn Rand
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Let your imagination release your imprisoned possibilities
— Robert H. Schuller
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I could have waited years, now that I knew the end of the story. I was cold and wet and very happy. I could even…
— Graham Greene
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Her cheeks were flushed. She caught hold of the Savage's arm and pressed it, limp, against her side. He looked down at her for a…
— Aldous Huxley
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Men towering high above such political pygmies, men of refinement, of culture, of ability, are jeered into silence as mollycoddles. It is absurd to claim…
— Emma Goldman
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I suppose that it was inevitable that my word-base broadened. I could now for the first time pick up a book and read and now…
— Alex Haley
Who Wrote These Imprisoned Quotes
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