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Imprisonment is as irrevocable as death. -- George Bernard Shaw
Imprisonment in the contemporary is the worst of all intellectual tyrannies. -- Weston La Barre
Imprisonment hit me so hard - much harder than I had thought. -- Mathias Rust
Fashion should be a form of escapism, and not a form of imprisonment. -- Alexander McQueen
Strict justice would demand total confiscation of your property, personal imprisonment and fines. -- Zebulon Pike
Communism feeds on aggression, hatred, and the imprisonment of men's minds and souls. This shall not take root in the United States. -- Emanuel Celler
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
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 to the State. -- Gary Becker
I never told a victim story about my imprisonment. Instead, I told a transformation story - about how prison changed my outlook, about how I saw that communication, truth, and trust are at the heart of power. -- Fernando Flores
Imprisonment of the body is bitter; imprisonment of the mind is worse -- Thornton Wilder
Imprisonment has become the response of first resort to far too many of our social problems. -- Angela Davis
Imprisonment, as it exists today, is a worse crime than any of those committed by its victims. -- George Bernard Shaw
So I departed and was free from imprisonment. -- William Adams
Let them fear bondage who are slaves to fear; the sweetest freedom is an honest heart. -- John Ford
People should not be imprisoned without having the ability to challenge the legality of that imprisonment. -- Jeff Bingaman
Capital punishment turns the state into a murderer. But imprisonment turns the state into a gay dungeon-master. -- Jesse Jackson
Every pulpit is a pillory, in which stands a hired culprit, defending the justice of his own imprisonment. -- Robert Green Ingersoll
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
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 death. -- William Shakespeare
The burning of an author's books, imprisonment for opinion's sake, has always been the tribute that an ignorant age pays to the genius of its time. -- Joseph Lewis
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 or "disappearance" to be carried out by their officials with impunity -- Peter Benenson
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 or 'disappearance' to be carried out by their officials with impunity. -- 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 the Fuehrer refuses to allow me to serve as a soldier. -- Fritz Sauckel
Saddam's fate should be in the hands of his country men. They were the major victims of his brutal reign and should decide his life, death, or permanent imprisonment. Personally, I would lock him away forever. -- Ronnie James Dio
If we went back to the imprisonment rate we had in the early '70s, something like four out of five people employed in the prison industry would lose their jobs. That's what you're up against. -- Eugene Jarecki
A white woman with a camera in the Devadasi belt of Karnataka is not inconspicuous... it took time for these women to believe that I was not an official, carrying the threat of fine and imprisonment. -- Beeban Kidron
An individual who breaks a law that conscience tells him is unjust, and who willingly accepts the penalty of imprisonment in order to arouse the conscience of the community over its injustice, is in reality expressing the highest respect for the law. -- Martin Luther King, Jr.
Islam was like a mental cage. At first, when you open the door, the caged bird stays inside: it is frightened. It has internalized its imprisonment. It takes time for bird to escape, even after someone has opened the doors to its cage. -- Ayaan Hirsi Ali
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 spirits during his long imprisonment: 'It is not adversity that kills, but the impatience with which we bear adversity. -- James Keller
I submit that an individual who breaks a law that conscience tells him is unjust, and who willingly accepts the penalty of imprisonment in order to arouse the conscience of the community over its injustice, is in reality expressing the highest respect for law. -- Martin Luther King, Jr.
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 spirits during his long imprisonment: 'It is not adversity that kills, but the impatience with which we bear adversity.' -- James Keller
Economic power is exercised by means of a positive, by offering men a reward, an incentive, a payment, a value; political power is exercised by means of a negative, by the threat of punishment, injury, imprisonment, destruction. The businessman's tool is values; the bureaucrat's tool is fear. -- Ayn Rand
It's very hard to be cut off in Glasgow because it's such a small city. You know, we have the highest rate of per-capita imprisonment, certainly in Britain, maybe in Europe. We have a very high murder rate here. So most people will know someone who's been to prison. -- Denise Mina
Marijuana gives rise to insanity -- not in its users but in the policies directed against it. A nation that sentences the possessor of a single joint to life imprisonment without parole but sets a murderer free after perhaps six years is in the grips of a deep psychosis. -- Eric Schlosser
Hannity' had a a guy on that said, 'I fathered 20 kids by 14 mothers.' That is s cultural issue which has demeaned our society and has caused our society dearly in terms of imprisonment. Who's going to be the fathers to those children? Who's going to pay child support? -- Foster Friess
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 see how God used my powerlessness for His purpose. What He has chosen for my most significant witness was not my triumphs or victories, but my defeat. -- Charles Caleb Colton
What a stupendous, what an incomprehensible machine is man! Who can endure toil, famine, stripes, imprisonment & death itself in vindication of his own liberty, and the next moment ... inflict on his fellow men a bondage, one hour of which is fraught with more misery than ages of that which he rose in rebellion to oppose. -- Thomas Jefferson
I could have easily been a statistic. Growing up in Brooklyn, N.Y., it was easy - a little too easy - to get into trouble. Surrounded by poor schools, lack of resources, high unemployment rates, poverty, gangs and more, I watched as many of my peers fell victim to a vicious cycle of diminished opportunities and imprisonment. -- Al Sharpton
In loneliness, in sickness, in confusion-the mere knowledge of friendship makes it possible to endure, even if the friend is powerless to help. It is enough that they exist. Friendship is not diminished by distance or time, by imprisonment or war, by suffering or silence. It is in these things that it roots most deeply. It is from these things that it flowers. -- Pam Brown
In satyagraha, a courted imprisonment carries its own praise. -- Mahatma Gandhi
The price for Jarrod's freedom is to be my imprisonment. -- Marianne Curley
The birth of a child is the imprisonment of a soul. -- William Gilmore Simms
What is imprisonment to the man who is fearless of death itself? -- Mahatma Gandhi
Dare to do things worthy of imprisonment if you mean to be of consequence. -- Juvenal
The desire to impress others is one of the worst forms of mental imprisonment. -- Robert Ringer
Asia is an entertainment, Europe is a dream, America is an imprisonment and Rest is a nightmare. -- Santosh Kalwar
That fierce imprisonment in the self is but the obverse of the self-giving which is absolute reality. -- C. S. Lewis
All lines of play which lead to the imprisonment of the bishop are on principle to be condemned. -- Siegbert Tarrasch
Our thinking can create liberation or it can create imprisonment. It depends on how we use our mind. -- Tenzin Palmo
Poverty, disease, sorrow, imprisonment and other evils are the fruits borne by the tree of one's own sins. -- Chanakya
I question the negative connotations of fabric, of ribbon, of lace. I turn these symbols of our imprisonment around. -- Miriam Schapiro
The caged eagle become a metaphor for all forms of isolation, the ultimate in imprisonment. A zoo is prison. -- Nadine Gordimer
We must be afraid of neither poverty nor exile nor imprisonment; of fear itself only should we be afraid. -- Epictetus
No foteball player be used or suffered within the City of London and the liberties thereof upon pain of imprisonment. -- Elizabeth I
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
Ours is a civil fight, and imprisonment as a civil prisoner has got to be earned by the strict observance of the programme. -- Mahatma Gandhi
Death to a good man is his release from the imprisonment of this world, and his departure to the enjoyments of another world. -- Matthew Henry
The freedom the bars give women is not the same freedom a woman on the street or in a brothel has. That's more like imprisonment. -- Sonia Faleiro
...any form of government that required the repression, imprisonment, and execution of those who disagreed with it was certainly not a government of the people. -- Vince Flynn
The executions, persecution and imprisonment of political dissidents and the LGBT community, denial of free press, elections and religious freedoms, continue to be Fidel Castro's legacy. -- Andy Garcia
Friendship is not diminished by distance or time, by imprisonment or war, by suffering or silence. It is in these things that it roots most deeply. -- Pam Brown
Self-hatred is self-imprisonment. Self-forgiveness is self-liberation. You have the right to suppress yourself, oppress yourself and depress yourself. You have the right to impress yourself too. Feel happy! -- Israelmore Ayivor
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Heterosexuality has been forcibly and subliminally imposed on women. Yet everywhere women have resisted it, often at the cost of physical torture, imprisonment, psychosurgery, social ostracism, and extreme poverty. -- Adrienne Rich
The same means that have supported every other popular belief have supported Christianity. War, imprisonment, and falsehood; deeds of unexampled and incomparable atrocity have made it what it is. -- Percy Bysshe Shelley
Questioning the status quo can result in banishment, imprisonment, ridicule or being burned at the stake, depending on your era, your locale, and the sacred cows you wish to butcher. -- Gene Spafford
Psychological imprisonment was no less uncomfortable than its physical counterpart. In some ways, it was even worse; it provided the illusion of physical freedom, but garnered none of the benefits of it. -- Nenia Campbell
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 policy on imprisonment...Our imprisonment policies are counterproductive. -- William J. Clinton
... imprisonment itself, entailing loss of liberty, loss of citizenship, separation from family and loved ones, is punishment enough for most individuals, no matter how favorable the circumstances under which the time is passed. -- Mary B. Harris
Let today be the day you finally release yourself from the imprisonment of past grudges and anger. Simplify your life. Let go of the poisonous past and live the abundantly beautiful present... today. -- Steve Maraboli
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 the Holocaust is up to five years' imprisonment. -- Ward Churchill
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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 seem to bemoan their imprisonment, rooted in the ground. -- Ralph Waldo Emerson
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 to arrest, imprisonment, seizure of property, and so on. -- Gore Vidal
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 poor, the ignorant and the underprivileged members of society. -- Thurgood Marshall
As president, I watched in wonder as Nelson Mandela had the remarkable capacity to forgive his jailers following 26 years of wrongful imprisonment - setting a powerful example of redemption and grace for us all. -- George H. W. Bush
The severest prosecutions have never been followed by revelations changing a divine law, obedience to which brought imprisonment or martyrdom. Though I go to prison, God will not change his law of celestial marriage. -- Lorenzo Snow
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 highest freedom when it can secure justice to others. -- Jenkin Lloyd Jones
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 it does to have full life imprisonment without parole. -- Ralph Nader
If we went back to the imprisonment rate we had in the early 70s, something like four out of five people employed in the prison industry would lose their jobs. Thats what youre up against. -- Eugene Jarecki

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