Imprisoned Quotes

Today more Americans are imprisoned for drug offenses than for property crimes.

No dictator, no invader, can hold an imprisoned population by force of arms forever.

The Chinese people have been forced to forget the Tiananmen massacre. There has been no public debate about the event, no official apology. The media aren't allowed to mention it. Still today people are being persecuted and imprisoned for disseminating information about it.

One of the striking features of the form of globalisation that has now been established is that it is based on the premise that goods and even capital should be free to roam but labour must remain imprisoned within the nation state.

In our natural state, we are glorious beings. In the world of illusion, we are lost and imprisoned, slaves to our appetites and our will to false power.

Open your newspaper - any day of the week - and you will find a report from somewhere in the world of someone being imprisoned, tortured or executed because his opinions or religion are unacceptable to his government.

A political prisoner is someone who is out fighting for his or her people's rights and freedom and is imprisoned for that alone.

It wasn't conscious, but I guess that one book is the reaction to the other. The first is so imprisoned in a male point-of-view, and the second is a point-of-view that can go anywhere it wants.

Very few men imprisoned for economic crimes or even crimes of passion against the oppressor feel that they are really guilty.

Prostitution, although hounded, imprisoned, and chained, is nevertheless the greatest triumph of Puritanism.

When al-Qaeda was on the run from Afghanistan crossing through Iran, some were arrested and they are imprisoned. Some of them are charged with some actions in Iran.

With my somewhat vague aspiring mind, to be imprisoned in the rude details of a most material life was often irksome.

Our houses are such unwieldy property that we are often imprisoned rather than housed by them.

Everybody seems to be imprisoned in their own sectarian or political affiliations. They don't seem to be able to rise above these things.

Man is not imprisoned by habit. Great changes in him can be wrought by crisis - once that crisis can be recognized and understood.

Men might as well be imprisoned, as excluded from the means of earning their bread.

I do not come bearing a party label on my sleeve - or a quick fix in my back pocket. I do not come with a rigid ideology in my heart - or a soul that tells me to go it alone. I do not come to uproot tradition - or to be imprisoned by it.

Imprisoned in every fat man a thin man is wildly signaling to be let out.

We are imprisoned in the realm of life, like a sailor on his tiny boat, on an infinite ocean.

Similarly, the Marquis is presented in this film as someone who would disturb the status quo and therefore must be kept imprisoned.

A man will be imprisoned in a room with a door that's unlocked and opens inwards; as long as it does not occur to him to pull rather than push.

But recently I began to feel that maybe I wouldn't be able to do what I want to do and need to do with American musicians, who are imprisoned behind these bars; music's got these bars and measures you know.

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

Books are like imprisoned souls till someone takes them down from a shelf and frees them.

By the fulfillment of my legal and moral duty I think I have earned punishment just as little as the tens of thousands of dutiful German officials who have now been imprisoned only because they carried out their duties.

It is impossible to go through life without trust: that is to be imprisoned in the worst cell of all, oneself.

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

I was at a benefit for some imprisoned students in the '60s at San Francisco State, and there were lots of poets reading for the benefit: one was Elizabeth Bishop.

I don't believe in depriving myself of any food or being imprisoned by a diet.