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The fears you don't face imprison you. -- Robin Sharma
During war we imprison the rights of man. -- Jean Giraudoux
Paired opposites define your longings and those longings imprison you. -- Frank Herbert
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I refuse to imprison our acts in the rigid mould of sentences. -- Ella Maillart
It is better to let 100 criminals go free than to imprison 1 innocent man. -- Benjamin Franklin
A heart filled with love is like a phoenix that no cage can imprison. -- Rumi
Earth people glorify organized violence for 40 centuries. But you imprison those who employ it privately." -- Testy McTesterson
Like the truth, retirement can set you free. Or, like work, retirement can imprison you. -- Ernie J Zelinski
Pedagogy, like language itself, can either liberate or imprison ideas, inspire of suffocate constructive thinking. -- Hyman Bass
We are never free when we imprison ourselves in the prison of our fixed, false beliefs. -- Debasish Mridha
The young-old polarization and the male-female polarization are perhaps the two leading stereotypes that imprison people. -- Susan Sontag
Interesting. You Earth people glorify organized violence for 40 centuries, but you imprison those who employ it privately. -- Leonard Nimoy
The only way to prevent prostitution altogether would be to imprison one half of the human race. -- Isabel Paterson
Oh! how near are genius and madness! Men imprison them and chain them, or raise statues to them. -- Denis Diderot
The bones of the skeleton which support the body can become the bars of the cage which imprison the spirit. -- J. Ruth Gendler
A country that goes out of its way to imprison the innocent has no business preaching democracy to the world. -- Paul Craig Roberts
There is in fact something obscene and sinister about photography, a desire to imprison, to incorporate, a sexual intensity of pursuit. -- William S. Burroughs
You can chain me, you can torture me, you can even destroy this body, but you will never imprison my mind. -- Mahatma Gandhi
If the word has the potency to revive and make us free, it has also the power to bind, imprison and destroy. -- Ralph Ellison
If the word has the potency to revive and make us free, it has also the power to blind, imprison, and destroy. -- Ralph Ellison
Anyone that looked like that wouldn't need to tie up girls and imprison them in order to get them to marry him -- Cassandra Clare
With the first commandment, Mohammed tried to imprison common sense. And with the second commandment, the beautiful, romantic side of mankind was enslaved. -- Ayaan Hirsi Ali
Anyone who tries to imprison love will cut off the spring that feeds it, and the trapped water will grow stagnant and rank. -- Paulo Coelho
Take me to you, imprison me, for I, except you enthrall me, never shall be free, nor ever chaste, except you ravish me. -- John Donne
Truth will never imprison you. Only the repression of your conscience will. This is what is meant by 'THE TRUTH WILL SET YOU FREE'. -- Suzy Kassem
Do not imprison those about you to your way of thinking; give your companion the opportunity to interpret life as freely as you do. -- Chico Xavier
There is no man who desires as passionately as a Russian. If we could imprison a Russian desire beneath a fortress, that fortress would explode. -- Joseph de Maistre
The past could liberate or imprison - it creates a nation's character, provides the nourishment or the poison a people imbibe in their very marrow. -- F. Sionil Jose
Not only will atomic power be released, but someday we will harness the rise and fall of the tides and imprison the rays of the sun. -- Thomas A. Edison
Money and power can liberate only if they are used to do so. They can imprison and inhibit more finally than barred windows and iron chains. -- Maya Angelou
The professional military mind is by necessity an inferior and unimaginative mind; no man of high intellectual quality would willingly imprison his gifts in such a calling. -- H. G. Wells
You can imprison a man, but not an idea. You can exile a man, but not an idea. You can kill a man, but not an idea. -- Benazir Bhutto
Virtual reality is a denial of reality. We need to be open to the powers of imagination, which brings something useful to reality. Virtual reality can imprison people. -- Hayao Miyazaki
Under unitary executive theory, the [George W.]Bush administration has claimed the right to seize American citizens in the United States and imprison them indefinitely without a charge. -- Dick Durbin
How was she to tie herself to a man without permitting him to imprison her? And was there some means of acquiring things without those things possessing her? -- Clarice Lispector
Nothing can be more abhorrent to democracy than to imprison a person or keep him in prison because he is unpopular. This is really the test of civilization. -- Winston Churchill
It's habits that can imprison you and it's habits that can free you. But when thanks to God becomes a habit - so joy in God becomes your life. -- Ann Voskamp
Dreams are things from the past. They aren't from the future. That wasn't you imprisoned there. You imprison your dreams. You understand?Yeah, I'd say. But I wasn't convinced. -- Haruki Murakami
I wonder why it is that we so often imprison ourselves in the opinions of other people. There can be no punishment worse than conspiring in our own diminishment. -- Dawna Markova
Our confession will either imprison us or set us free. Our confession is the result of our believing, and our believing is the result of our right or wrong thinking. -- Kenneth E. Hagin
The vote is the most powerful instrument ever devised by man for breaking down injustice and destroying the terrible walls which imprison men because they are different from other men. -- Lyndon B. Johnson
You cannot imprison me!" He bellowed. "I am Hyperion! I am-" The bark closed over his face. Grover took his pipes from his mouth. "You are a very nice maple tree. -- Rick Riordan
Every one with this writ may be a tyrant; if this commission be legal, a tyrant in a legal manner, also, may control, imprison, or murder any one within the realm. -- James Otis
Energy is eternal delight; and from the earliest times human beings have tried to imprison it in some durable hieroglyphic. It is perhaps the first of all the subjects of art. -- Kenneth Clark
Negation is the mind's first freedom, yet a negative habit is fruitful only so long as we exert ourselves to overcome it, adapt it to our needs; once acquired it can imprison us. -- Emile M. Cioran

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