“ Today more Americans are imprisoned for drug offenses than for property crimes. ”
- George F. Will- Copy
- 3.5K
“ 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- Copy
- 120
“ What was any art but a mould in which to imprison for a moment the shining elusive element which is life itself - life hurrying past us and running away, too strong to stop, too sweet to lose. ”
- Willa Cather- Copy
- 1.3K
“ 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. ”
- Emil Cioran- Copy
- 3.6K
“ If you strike at, imprison, or kill us, out of our prisons or graves we will still evoke a spirit that will thwart you, and perhaps, raise a force that will destroy you! We defy you! Do your worst! ”
- James Connolly- Copy
- 1.9K
“ Do you wish to imprison the Native Americans in a re-invented primitive culture? ”
- John McCarthy- Copy
- 2.2K
“ Some statesmen go to Congress and some go to jail. It is the same thing, after all. ”
- Eugene Field- Copy
- 293
“ You have to have a lot more dedication to what I'll call 'the machine,'... I have 20 percent dedication. What's needed is 110 percent. You can't have it with the level of apathy I have. ”
- Janeane Garofalo- Copy
- 4K
“ Imprisoned in every fat man, a thin one is wildly signaling to be let out. ”
- Cyril Connolly- Copy
- 522
“ It is impossible to go through life without trust: That is to be imprisoned in the worst cell of all, oneself. ”
- Graham Greene- Copy
- 2.1K
“ A man will be imprisoned in a room with a door that's unlocked and opens inwards, as long as it does not occur to him to pull rather than push. ”
- Ludwig Wittgenstein- Copy
- 1.2K
“ Under a government which imprisons any unjustly, the true place for a just man is also a prison. ”
- Henry David Thoreau- Copy
- 1.8K
“ Fear imprisons, faith liberates; fear paralyzes, faith empowers; fear disheartens, faith encourages; fear sickens, faith heals; fear makes useless, faith makes serviceable. ”
- Harry Emerson Fosdick- Copy
- 3.9K
“ If the word has the potency to revive and make us free, it has also the power to blind, imprison, and destroy. ”
- Ralph Ellison- Copy
- 808
“ Our houses are such unwieldy property that we are often imprisoned rather than housed in them. ”
- Henry David Thoreau- Copy
- 1.5K
“ Let your imagination release your imprisoned possibilities. ”
- Robert Schuller- Copy
- 3.6K
“ Man is not imprisoned by habit. Great changes in him can be wrought by crisis — once that crisis can be recognized and understood. ”
- Norman Cousins- Copy
- 4K
“ 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- Copy
- 623
“ Sweet Benjamin, since thou art young, and hast not yet the use of tongue, make it thy slave, while thou art free; Imprison it, lest it do thee. ”
- John Hoskins- Copy
- 506
“ 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- Copy
- 1.2K
“ An old Arabian fable tells of a prince imprisoned in a castle which had thirteen windows. Twelve of these windows overlooked lovely scenes, while the thirteenth looked down on the black ash heaps of the city. Ignoring the twelve windows, the prince always looked out through the thirteenth. ”
- James Keller- Copy
- 962
“ The North American system only wants to consider the positive aspects of reality. Men and women are subjected from childhood to an inexorable process of adaptation; certain principles, contained in brief formulas are endlessly repeated by the Press, the radio, the churches, and the schools, and by those kindly, sinister beings, the North American mothers and wives… ”
- Octavio Paz- Copy
- 1.5K
“ Truth lies within ourselves: it takes no rise from outward things, whatever you may believe. There is an inmost center in us all, where truth abides in fullness and to know rather consists in opening out a way whence the imprisoned splendor may escape than in effecting entry for light supposed to be without. ”
- Robert Browning- Copy
- 700
“ Open your newspaper - any day of the week - and you will find a report from somewhere in the world of someone being imprisoned, tortured or executed because his opinions or religion are unacceptable to his government. ”
- Peter Benenson- Copy
- 1.4K
“ I do not come bearing a party label on my sleeve - or a quick fix in my back pocket. I do not come with a rigid ideology in my heart - or a soul that tells me to go it alone. I do not come to uproot tradition - or to be imprisoned by it. ”
- Ted Kulongoski- Copy
- 4K
“ The Chinese pianist Liu Chi Kung was imprisoned for seven years during the Cultural Revolution, during which time he had no access to a piano. When he returned to giving concerts again after he was released, his playing was better than ever. Asked how this was possible since he had not practice for seven years, he replied: "I did practice, every day… ”
- Bernie Zilbergeld- Copy
- 2.1K
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