Quotes About Imprisonment

He was the little mouse that I'd trained and fed with crumbs in my prison cell; the mouse that was crucified.

You can endure any sort of prison if you can apprehend a window in the dark.

I thought how unpleasant it is to be locked out; and I thought how it is worse, perhaps, to be locked in.

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

Nobody wants to get locked up, although 'locked up' is a matter of perspective. There can be people who are out who are in prison mentally and emotionally and worse off than those who are behind bars.

You can make a very good argument that society would be much worse off if you let 10 rapists and murderers free rather than put one poor, wrongly accused accountant in prison. And so my only point on that is that it should open up an argument. It should not sort of settle one, because nobody disagrees with it.

I'm the worst person to be stuck with in a traffic jam.

Tons of musicians who I love are imprisoned by their identity. That can be totally fine because they are so amazing in their technique, but for me, I'm a little too restless for that.

By the age of 24, I found myself convicted in prison in Egypt, being blacklisted from three countries in the world for attempting to overthrow their governments, being subjected to torture in Egyptian jails, and sentenced to five years as a prisoner of conscience.

Bradley Manning has been imprisoned without charge, under torture, which is what solitary confinement is.

Unfunny people should be locked up, the key tossed into a smelter.

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

She seemed imprisoned in her sadness.

Belle, so brave and noble—willing to take her father's place as a prisoner in the castle dungeon. What sort of woman would do that—give up her life so easily, sacrificing her freedom for her father's?

What happens when we start believing the world and what is important in it are only these reactions and prejudices? What kind of gulag is it when its inhabitants are too stupid to understand they are its prisoners?

We often miss the irony that the same Paul who writes "submit to the authorities" goes to jail and is condemned for subverting the authorities! He

The US has 5 percent of the world's population, and 25 percent of the world's prison population.

Fucked Up Set up Faced up Jacked up Sitting there in chokey 14 years old No lock on the door But no way out No joking No hoping No nothing Pinned Down.

Hey, times are tough, and thirty gold coins can do a lot of good. But I guess you wouldn't know about needing money, since you grew up like a little princ..." (Rapunzel glares) "Prin... soner. I mean, prisoner! A prisoner in a tower, such a shame, that.

Felix can't act his way out of a box." "Boxes are tricky," Felix said, frowning. "And sometimes they're taped shut.

It's like I live in a cage with no door and no key. And I have no way to tell someone how to get me out.

Childhood is the one prison from which there's no escape, the one sentence from which there's no appeal. We all serve our time.

Credit 47 Barbed-wire fences and guards prevented anyone from leaving the ghetto.

For a moment my soul was elevated from its debasing and miserable fears to which these sights were the monuments and the remembrances. For an instant I dared to shake off my chains, and look around me with a free and lofty spirit; but the iron had eaten into my flesh, and I sank again, trembling and hopeless, into my miserable self.