Imprisonment Quotes - Page 2

• 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

  Philosophy, Punishment, Political

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• Liberals love to say things like, "We're just asking everyone to pay their fair share." But government is not about asking. It is about telling. The difference is fundamental. It is the difference between making love and being raped, between working for a living and being a slave. The Internal Revenue service is not asking anybody to do anything. It confiscates your assets and puts you behind bars if you don't pay.

  Thomas Sowell

  Government, Differences, Making Love

  Thomas Sowell (1999). “Barbarians Inside the Gates--and Other Controversial Essays”, Hoover Inst Press

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

  Mahatma Gandhi

  Death, Men, Fearless

  Mahatma Gandhi, Mohandas Karamchand (2010). “Wof : Mohandas Karamchand Gandhi”, p.40, Penguin Books India

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• 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

  Friendship, War, Distance

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• 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

  Men, Good Man, Departure

  Matthew Henry, Leslie F. Church (1992). “The NIV Matthew Henry Commentary in One Volume: Based on the Broad Oak Edition”, p.8250, Harper Collins

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

  C. S. Lewis

  Reality, Self, Giving

  C. S. Lewis (2003). “A Mind Awake: An Anthology of C. S. Lewis”, p.112, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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

  Robert Green Ingersoll

  Justice, Atheism, Culprit

  Robert Green Ingersoll (1907). “The works of Robert G. Ingersoll”, p.103, Library of Alexandria

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• 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

  Country, Government, Two

  The Amnesty International Annual Report (p. 22), 2002.

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• Americans like to humiliate wrongdoers...We like, in short, to punish. It makes us feel good. By every conceivable metric - arrests, prosecutions, duration of sentences, conditions of imprisonment - the United States is by far the most punitive rich democracy.

  Chris Hayes

  Feel Good, Democracy, Rich

  Source: www.macleans.ca

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

  Weston La Barre

  Intellectual, Tyranny, Worst

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• 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

  Jobs, People, Four

  "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• In a growing number of states, you're actually expected to pay back the costs of your imprisonment. Paying back all these fees, fines, and costs may be a condition of your probation or parole. To make matters worse, if you're one of the lucky few who actually manages to get a job following release from prison, up to 100% of your wages can be garnished to pay back all those fees, fines and court costs. One hundred percent.

  Michelle Alexander

  Jobs, Numbers, Pay

  Source: www.truth-out.org

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• 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

  Friendship, War, Distance

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• 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

  Giving, Bars, Streets

  Source: www.motherjones.com

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

  Lakhdar Boumediene

  Glad, Justify

  Source: www.motherjones.com

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• Because it would be too agonizing to cope with the possibility that anyone, including our­ selves, could become a prisoner, we tend to think of the prison as disconnected from our own lives. This is even true for some of us, women as well as men, who have already experienced imprisonment.

  Angela Davis

  Men, Thinking, Self

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• Capital punishment turns the state into a murderer. But imprisonment turns the state into a gay dungeon-master.

  Jesse Jackson

  Gay, Punishment, Dungeons

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• Every court of criminal justice must have the power of correcting the greatest and dangerous of all abuses of the forms of law - that of the protracted imprisonment of the accused, untried, perhaps not intended ever to be tried, it may be, not informed of the nature of the charge against him, or the name of the accuser.

  David Hume

  Law, Names, Justice

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

  Emanuel Celler

  Men, Roots, Hatred

  "You Never Leave Brooklyn: The Autobiography of Emanuel Celler".

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• An unjust law is itself a species of violence. Arrest for its breach is more so. Now the law of nonviolence says that violence should be resisted not by counter-violence but by nonviolence. This I do by breaking the law and by peacefully submitting to arrest and imprisonment.

  Mahatma Gandhi

  Spiritual, Law, Unjust

  Mahatma Gandhi, Thomas Merton (1965). “Gandhi on Non-violence”, p.71, New Directions Publishing

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• 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

  Frustration, Power, Grace

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• I worked 12 hours a day, seven days a week for years. Being a comic book artist is like sentencing yourself to life imprisonment at hard labor in solitary confinement. I don't think I'd do it again.

  Wally Wood

  Book, Artist, Thinking

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• 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

  World, God Love, Release

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• It was only when I lay there on the rotting prison straw that I sensed within myself the first stirrings of good. Gradually it was disclosed to me that the line separating good and evil passes not between states nor between social classes nor between political parties, but right through every human heart, through all human hearts. And that is why I turn back to the years of my imprisonment and say, sometimes to the astonishment of those about me, bless you, prison, for having been a part of my life.

  Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn

  Party, Heart, Years

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• It's habits that can imprison you and it's habits that can free you. But when thanks to God becomes a habit - so joy in God becomes your life.

  Ann Voskamp

  Joy, Thanks, Habit

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