Imprisonment Quotes

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Three hundred years ago a prisoner condemned to the Tower of London carved on the wall of his cell this sentiment to keep up his… — James Keller
I think that most small amounts of marijuana have been decriminalized in some places, and should be. We really need a re-examination of our entire… — William J. Clinton
When the frustration of my helplessness seemed greatest, I discovered God's grace was more than sufficient. And after my imprisonment, I could look back and… — Charles Caleb Colton
The marks of Jesus are imprisonment, chains, scourgings, blows and stoning in bearing testimony to the Gospel. Galatians 6:17 - 17 Finally, let no one… — John Calvin
No individual or private group or private organization has the legal power to initiate the use of physical force against other individuals or groups and… — Ayn Rand
What a stupendous, what an incomprehensible machine is man! Who can endure toil, famine, stripes, imprisonment & death itself in vindication of his own liberty,… — Thomas Jefferson
Desire is our imprisonment. The man who wants nothing, who is absolutely contented as he is, is free of all bondage. He has attained to… — Rajneesh
The star [Tycho's supernova] was at first like Venus and Jupiter, giving pleasing effects; but as it then became like Mars, there will next come… — Tycho Brahe
Our nature is to worship, but unless that element is directed towards God it becomes "a senseless impersonal force, carrying us away in its momentum.… — Olivier Clement
O thou that pinest in the imprisonment of the Actual, and criest bitterly to the gods for a kingdom wherein to rule and create, know… — Thomas Carlyle
I resolve never to make any resolutions because all resolutions are restrictions for the future. All resolutions are imprisonments. — Rajneesh
The weariest and most loathed worldly life, that age, ache, penury and imprisonment can lay on nature is a paradise, to what we fear of… — William Shakespeare
To top it off, for those of you who are interested in the economics, it costs more to pursue a capital case toward execution than… — Ralph Nader
The death penalty is no more effective a deterrent than life imprisonment... It is also evident that the burden of capital punishment falls upon the… — Thurgood Marshall
A conditional love is nothing but an infatuation, sexuality. Unconditional is the only way love can be. Wherever a condition comes in, love disappears. It… — Rajneesh
The practice of arbitrary imprisonments have been, in all ages, the favorite and most formidable instruments of tyranny. — Alexander Hamilton
Fines are preferable to imprisonment and other types of punishment because they are more efficient. With a fine, the punishment to offenders is also revenue… — Gary Becker
Blind certainty, a close-mindedness that amounts to an imprisonment so total that the prisoner doesn't even know he's locked up. — David Foster
Because it would be too agonizing to cope with the possibility that anyone, including ourÂ selves, could become a prisoner, we tend to think of… — Angela Davis
Imprisonment has become the response of first resort to far too many of our social problems. — Angela Davis

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