Top 161 Imprisonment Quotes & Sayings

Communism which feeds on aggression, hatred, and the imprisonment of men's minds and souls shall not take root in the United States.

No foteball player be used or suffered within the City of London and the liberties thereof upon pain of imprisonment.

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

Confiscatory taxation enforced by threat of imprisonment is 'stealing,' a practice strongly frowned upon by our Creator.

The caged eagle become a metaphor for all forms of isolation, the ultimate in imprisonment. A zoo is prison.

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.

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.

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

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.

Women today should have the same rights as men. And all citizens should have the right to speak their minds without fear of imprisonment.

When you have a nation that is suffering collectively from a situation of injustice - of violence, of imprisonment and closure and checkpoints, from a sense of vulnerability and of hopelessness - attitudes are going to be affected by these measures.

In satyagraha, a courted imprisonment carries its own praise.

I think enslavement has evolved to what may seem appropriate to this day's generation. Modern enslavement is imprisonment.

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.

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.

People should not be imprisoned without having the ability to challenge the legality of that imprisonment.

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.

Fashion should be a form of escapism, and not a form of imprisonment.

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 and to command obedience on pain of imprisonment even of those who never consented to the preposterous arrangement.

All lines of play which lead to the imprisonment of the bishop are on principle to be condemned.

Communism feeds on aggression, hatred, and the imprisonment of men's minds and souls. This shall not take root in the United States.

I have watched men suffer the anguish of imprisonment, defy appalling human cruelty... break for a moment, then recover inhuman strength to defy their enemies once more.

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

The price for Jarrod's freedom is to be my imprisonment.

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

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.

Research has shown that the availability of mental health care prior, during, and after imprisonment reduces violent offending drastically.

I had to face imprisonment and house arrests, but it made me tougher.

No force, oppression, imprisonment, jail... nothing will stop me.

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.

Imprisonment hit me so hard - much harder than I had thought.

Imprisonment has become the response of first resort to far too many of our social problems.

...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.

I question the negative connotations of fabric, of ribbon, of lace. I turn these symbols of our imprisonment around.

Poverty, disease, sorrow, imprisonment and other evils are the fruits borne by the tree of one's own sins.

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.

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.

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.

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.

That fierce imprisonment in the self is but the obverse of the self-giving which is absolute reality.

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.

Calisto, a companion of Ignatius, and who on recovering from a severe illness had heard of the imprisonment of Ignatius, hastened from Segnovia, where he was staying, and came to Alcala, that he, too, might be cast into prison.

A culture of dialogue is breaking down and giving way to a culture of threats and impunity, you can see the strategy already ... and what you have is essentially the threat of imprisonment in order to control people better.

Imprisonment is as irrevocable as death.

So I departed and was free from imprisonment.

The birth of a child is the imprisonment of a soul.

I'm glad my name stands for the principle that everyone has the right to force the government to justify his imprisonment.

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.

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.

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

For me the process works best with no interruptions, no breaks in the steady application, no letters to be answered, very little social life, no holidays; it is therefore a form of happy imprisonment.

Ours is a civil fight, and imprisonment as a civil prisoner has got to be earned by the strict observance of the programme.

Every pulpit is a pillory, in which stands a hired culprit, defending the justice of his own imprisonment.

Strict justice would demand total confiscation of your property, personal imprisonment and fines.

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.

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

The desire to impress others is one of the worst forms of mental imprisonment.

All my life I had feared imprisonment, the nun's cell, the hospital bed, the places where one faced the self without distraction, without the crutches of other people.

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

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.