A Quote by Thornton Wilder

Imprisonment of the body is bitter; imprisonment of the mind is worse

Thornton Wilder

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Thornton Wilder
American - Novelist
April 17, 1897 - December 7, 1975

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

I believe life imprisonment is far worse than the death penalty.

Nick Yarris

Imprisonment, as it exists today, is a worse crime than any of those committed by its victims.

George Bernard Shaw

Those who have advanced rise to the mind which is in the head, - they have the play of their mental movements in the head itself. But all these are inside the body; man is, as it were, shut up in a box, his entire consciousness is confined within the organism. This imprisonment has to be undone.

Sri Aurobindo

No person shall be restrained of his liberty but by regular process from a court of justice, authorized by a general law. . . . On complaint of an unlawful imprisonment to any judge whatsoever, he shall have the prisoner immediately brought before him and shall discharge him if his imprisonment be unlawful. The officer in whose custody the prisoner is shall obey the order of the judge, and both judge and officer shall be responsible civilly and criminally for a failure of duty herein.

Thomas Jefferson

So I departed and was free from imprisonment.

William Adams

Imprisonment is as irrevocable as death.

George Bernard Shaw

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

Our thinking can create liberation or it can create imprisonment. It depends on how we use our mind.

Tenzin Palmo

What is imprisonment to the man who is fearless of death itself?

Mahatma Gandhi

Imprisonment in the contemporary is the worst of all intellectual tyrannies.

Weston La Barre

Dare to do things worthy of imprisonment if you mean to be of consequence.

Juvenal

In satyagraha, a courted imprisonment carries its own praise.

Mahatma Gandhi

In the 20th century, imprisonment of writers practically comes with the territory.

Joseph Brodsky

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 cause me trouble, for I bear on my body the marks of Jesus.

John Calvin

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