Imprisonment Quotes

91 Imprisonment quotes by 79 unique authors

Imprisonment in the contemporary is the worst of all intellectual tyrannies. — Weston La Barre
Marijuana gives rise to insanity -- not in its users but in the policies directed against it. A nation that sentences the possessor of a… — Eric Schlosser
Living out one's faith is either no way to live or the only way to live; it's either imprisonment, or the only path to freedom.… — Tarek Saab
Dominion is a spy novel, a love story, and also I hope gives some sense of the difficulties faced by dissidents under any totalitarian regime:… — C.J. Sansom
Plants are the young of the world, vessels of health and vigor; but they grope ever upward towards consciousness; the trees are imperfect men, and… — Ralph Waldo Emerson
Torture is banned but in two-thirds of the world's countries it is still being committed in secret. Too many governments still allow wrongful imprisonment, murder… — Peter Benenson
I could not have the honour of being a German soldier because of my imprisonment in the First World War. And in this world war… — Fritz Sauckel
The fundamental sense of freedom is freedom from chains, from imprisonment, from enslavement by others. The rest is extension of this sense, or else metaphor. — Isaiah Berlin
Drugs. If they did not exist our governors would have invented them in order to prohibit them and so make much of the population vulnerable… — Gore Vidal
All lines of play which lead to the imprisonment of the bishop are on principle to be condemned. — Siegbert Tarrasch
I never told a victim story about my imprisonment. Instead, I told a transformation story - about how prison changed my outlook, about how I… — Fernando Flores
Strict justice would demand total confiscation of your property, personal imprisonment and fines. — Zebulon Pike
Imprisonment is as irrevocable as death. — George Bernard Shaw
Poverty, disease, sorrow, imprisonment and other evils are the fruits borne by the tree of one's own sins. — Chanakya
The state is an organization of mere mortals who, by one dubious method or another, have been allowed to don the mantle of political legitimacy… — Sheldon Richman
What can separate us from the love of God? An attempt to separate us by death simply releases us from the imprisonment of this world. — T. B. Joshua
In Israel, the maximum legal penalty for denying the existence of God is one year in prison, while the punishment for denying the existence of… — Ward Churchill
...a common observation, that few are mended by imprisonment, and that he, whose crimes have made confinement necessary, seldom makes any other use of his… — Samuel Johnson
It was only when I lay there on the rotting prison straw that I sensed within myself the first stirrings of good. Gradually it was… — Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn
The so-called liberals of today have the very popular idea that freedom of speech, of thought, of the press, freedom of religion, freedom from imprisonment… — Ludwig von Mises
Imprisonment, as it exists today, is a worse crime than any of those committed by its victims. — George Bernard Shaw
Afflictions, persecutions, imprisonments, and death, we must expect, according to the scriptures, which tell us that the blood of those whose souls were under the… — Joseph Smith, Jr.
An infinite God ought to be able to protect himself, without going in partnership with State Legislatures. Certainly he ought not so to act that… — Robert Green Ingersoll
The human soul finds its saddest imprisonment when it is helpless in the presence of cruelty, when it cannot right a wrong. It finds its… — Jenkin Lloyd Jones
People should not be imprisoned without having the ability to challenge the legality of that imprisonment. — Jeff Bingaman

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