Imprisoned Quotes

208 Imprisoned quotes by 175 unique authors

Our modern society is engaged in polishing and decorating the cage in which man is kept imprisoned. — Nirmalananda
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
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
There is an artist imprisoned in each one of us. Let him loose to spread joy everywhere. — Bertrand Russell
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
It is a difficult matter to keep love imprisoned. — Apuleius
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
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
The main thing to understand is that we are imprisoned in some kind of work of art. — Terence McKenna
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
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 Allâh. 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

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