Imprisonment Quotes - Page 4

• I was wondering how you were going to punish me for not confiding in you. Punishment, actually, is something I've thought about for a long time. What form of punishment would be enough for what I did? Imprisonment? Death? Something else? Something scarier? I could only think of so many horrible tortures before they stopped having meaning. But you' you've come up with a punishment I never considered. You're going to sulk me to death.

  Derek Landy

  Thinking, Punishment, Long

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

  Marianne Curley

  Marianne Curley (2012). “Old Magic”, p.158, A&C Black

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

  Robert Ringer

  Fashion, Desire, Form

  Robert Ringer (2004). “Action!: Nothing Happens Until Something Moves”, p.189, Rowman & Littlefield

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• Since I was a law student, I have been against the death penalty. It does not deter. It is severely discriminatory against minorities, especially since they're given no competent legal counsel defense in many cases. It's a system that has to be perfect. You cannot execute one innocent person. No system is perfect. And to top it off, for those of you who are interested in the economics it, it costs more to pursue a capital case toward execution than it does to have full life imprisonment without parole.

  Ralph Nader

  Law, Innocent Person, Perfect

  "Meet the Press" Interview, June 25, 2000.

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

  Nadine Gordimer

  Zoos, Eagles, Prison

  Nadine Gordimer (2012). “Get a Life”, p.159, A&C Black

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• We felt the imprisonment of being a girl, the way it made your mind active and dreamy, and how you ended up knowing which colors went together. We knew that the girls were our twins, that we all existed in space like animals with identical skins, and that they knew everything about us though we couldn’t fathom them at all. We knew, finally, that the girls were really women in disguise, that they understood love and even death, and that our job was merely to create the noise that seemed to fascinate them.

  Jeffrey Eugenides

  Girl, Jobs, Animal

  Jeffrey Eugenides (1993). “The Virgin Suicides: A Novel”, p.40, Macmillan

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• A lover knows only humility, he has no choice. He steals into your alley at night, he has no choice. He longs to kiss every lock of your hair, don't fret, he has no choice. In his frenzied love for you, he longs to break the chains of his imprisonment, he has no choice.

  Rumi

  Humility, Kissing, Night

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• 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.

  Edna O'Brien

  Self, Cells, People

  Edna O'Brien (1978). “Seven novels and other short stories”, HarperCollins

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

  Juvenal

  Mean, Dare, Worthy

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• Our nature is to worship, but unless that element is directed towards God it becomes "a senseless impersonal force, carrying us away in its momentum. It becomes a search for ecstasy - no matter what kind achieved through destruction...The worshipful integraton of nature in the person is inverted in a hellish imprisonment of the individual in nature."

  Olivier Clement

  Spiritual, Momentum, Elements

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• O thou that pinest in the imprisonment of the Actual, and criest bitterly to the gods for a kingdom wherein to rule and create, know this for a truth: the thing thou seekest is already here, "here or nowhere," couldst thou only see.

  Thomas Carlyle

  Powerful, Kingdoms, Knows

  Thomas Carlyle, Rodger L. Tarr, Mark Engel (2000). “Sartor Resartus: The Life and Opinions of Herr Teufelsdröckh in Three Books”, p.145, Univ of California Press

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• I resolve never to make any resolutions because all resolutions are restrictions for the future. All resolutions are imprisonments.

  Rajneesh

  Resolution, Restriction, Resolve

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• 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.

  Thurgood Marshall

  Fall, Punishment, Ignorant

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

  Siegbert Tarrasch

  Play, Principles, Bishops

  Siegbert Tarrasch (1935). “The Game of Chess”, p.279, Courier Corporation

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• Drugs. If they did not exist our governors would have invented them in order to prohibit them and so make much of the population vulnerable to arrest, imprisonment, seizure of property, and so on.

  Gore Vidal

  Order, Political, Drug

  Gore Vidal (2002). “Perpetual War for Perpetual Peace: How We Got to Be So Hated, Causes of Conflict in the Last Empire”, p.54, CLAIRVIEW BOOKS

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• What can my enemies do to me?
  I have in my breast both my Heaven and my Garden.
  If I travel they are with me, and they never leave me.
  Imprisonment for me is a religious retreat [khalwa].
  To be slain for me is martyrdom [shahada]
  And to be exiled from my land is a spiritual journey [siyaha].

  Ibn Taymiyyah

  Spiritual, Wisdom, Religious

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• Until you will stop the bombing, gassing, imprisonment and torture of my people we will not stop this fight. We are at war, and I am a soldier and now you too will taste the reality of this situation.

  Mohamed Khan

  War, Fighting, Reality

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• 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.

  Ralph Nader

  Doe, Cost, Execution

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• The star [Tycho's supernova] was at first like Venus and Jupiter, giving pleasing effects; but as it then became like Mars, there will next come a period of wars, seditions, captivity and death of princes, and destruction of cities, together with dryness and fiery meteors in the air, pestilence, and venomous snakes. Lastly, the star became like Saturn, and there will finally come a time of want, death, imprisonment and all sorts of sad things.

  Tycho Brahe

  Stars, War, Science

  "Patrick Moore's Data Book of Astronomy". p. 336, 2011.

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• Desire is our imprisonment. The man who wants nothing, who is absolutely contented as he is, is free of all bondage. He has attained to ultimate freedom, nirvana - and that is the goal of life. And it is only by attaining that freedom that you will know the significance of being, the song of being, the celebration of being. Your life will become a continuous bliss, and not only that YOU will be blissful, you will be able to bless others too. The whole existence will be blessed by you, by your very presence.

  Rajneesh

  Song, Freedom, Blessed

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• In Israel, the maximum legal penalty for denying the existence of God is one year in prison, while the punishment for denying the existence of the Holocaust is up to five years' imprisonment.

  Ward Churchill

  Israel, Years, Punishment

  Ward Churchill (1998). “A Little Matter of Genocide: Holocaust and Denial in the Americas 1492 to the Present”, p.15, City Lights Books

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• 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.

  Jenkin Lloyd Jones

  Justice, Soul, Cruelty

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

  Jeff Bingaman

  People, Challenges, Should

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• Afflictions, persecutions, imprisonments, and death, we must expect, according to the scriptures, which tell us that the blood of those whose souls were under the altar could not be avenged on them that dwell on the earth, until their brethren should be slain as they were.

  Joseph Smith, Jr.

  Blood, Soul, Affliction

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• 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

  Jesus, Blow, Suffering

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