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

Silence has built walls, walls that I attempt to break by pedaling faster, only to be imprisoned a hundred feet down the road. — Doug Cooper

We must be afraid of neither poverty nor exile nor imprisonment; of fear itself only should we be afraid. — Epictetus

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

It is likely to make us think we are not caged. We cannot feel the bars unless we push against them. — Erin Morgenstern

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

It is as reasonable to represent one kind of imprisonment by another as it is to represent anything that really exists by that which exists not. — Daniel Defoe

The torment of imprisonment lies in not being able to escape from oneself at any time. — Kobo Abe

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

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

Imprisonment is as irrevocable as death. — George Bernard Shaw

You're not my type for long-term imprisonment. — Suzanne Brockmann

The worst prisons were not constructed of warped steel and stone. They were carved out of expectations and lies, judgment and corruption. — Kelseyleigh Reber

Man is a creature who gets used to everything, and that, I think, is the best definition of him. — Fyodor Dostoyevsky

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

Imprisonment in the contemporary is the worst of all intellectual tyrannies. — Weston La Barre

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

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

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

In the criminal law [ ... ] imprisonment should be resorted to only after the most anxious consideration. — Pius Langa

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

Never let your mind imprison your achievements by imposing disbelief on you. — Israelmore Ayivor

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

A prisoner should know that there are thousands of imprisoned freemen living in this world ... jailed in their own society, handcuffed by duties.. — Munia Khan

Charles, throughout his imprisonment, had had to pay heavily for his bad food, and for his guard, and towards the living of the poorer prisoners. — Charles Dickens

Lose your freedom, and become a slave by borrowing. — Auliq Ice

In satyagraha, a courted imprisonment carries its own praise. — Mahatma Gandhi

Blame is very tricky in that it seems like a way out when it is really a form of imprisonment. — Bryant McGill

Has every line inside of you been crossed? Is there anything left unviolated? Are you so comfortable with your imprisonment you feel free? — Bryant McGill

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

I had as lief have the foppery of freedom as the morality of imprisonment. — William Shakespeare

By Strict Father morality, harsh prison terms for criminals and life imprisonment for repeat offenders are the only moral options. — George Lakoff

Sleep frees our imaginations from the confines of its imprisonment. Last night I dreamt of penguins — B.B. Taylor

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

Like all the men of Babylon, I have been proconsul; like all, I have been a slave. I have known omnipotence, ignominy, imprisonment. — Jorge Luis Borges

Imprisoned peace sets the war free — Munia Khan

what's the point in threatening them with imprisonment if they break the terms of their parole? The threat has no meaning for them." He — Jon Ronson

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

Security is a double-edged sword: While a fence sure protects the fenced; it also imprisons the protected. — Mokokoma Mokhonoana

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

Can I take a few things?
Mementos. How fucked up was that? I wanted reminders of my imprisonment. — Kitty Thomas

Asia is an entertainment, Europe is a dream, America is an imprisonment and Rest is a nightmare. — Santosh Kalwar

Without action to back them, your affirmations become the soundtrack of your personal imprisonment; the creed of your stagnancy. — Steve Maraboli

True wisdom comes in understanding that sometimes, you are both the prison and the key. — Johnathan Jena

To be in the middle of composing a book is almost always to feel oneself in a state of confusion, doubt and mental imprisonment ... — Joseph Epstein

They were four desperate men, made hard by life, cruel by nature, and driven to desperation by imprisonment. — Louis L'Amour

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

Imprisonment of the body is bitter; imprisonment of the mind is worse — Thornton Wilder

Never be a good prisoner. Not unless you want to collude in your own imprisonment. — Orna Ross

Most of us are imprisoned by something. We're living in darkness until something flips on the switch. — Wynonna Judd

Too much freedom given to those who didn't know how to wield it resulted in imprisonment for those who did. — Sarah Brownlee

Anne entered it with a sinking heart, anticipating an imprisonment of many months, and anxiously saying to herself, "Oh! when shall I leave you again? — Jane Austen

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

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

Comfort ... was the key ingredient to making the prisoner crave the prison. — Ashim Shanker

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

The more we construct lives that prioritize safety, the bigger the prison we construct around ourselves. — Craig D. Lounsbrough

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

But I am chained to Time, and cannot thence depart! — Percy Bysshe Shelley

So I departed and was free from imprisonment. — William Adams

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

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

Capital punishment turns the state into a murderer. But imprisonment turns the state into a gay dungeon-master. — Jesse Jackson