Quotes About Imprisonment

I am in jail for defending human rights, not independence.

I thought of 24 Sussex Drive as the crown jewel of the federal penitentiary system.

Referring to the imprisonment of Oscar Wilde] ... Will civilization never reach humane ideals? Will men always punish most severely the sins they do not understand and which hold forth for them no temptation? Did Jesus suffer in vain?

While the body may be trapped in this place, the mind is always free to roam wherever it feels safe.

cercava di sostituire la parola scrivania con la parola tavolo … in scrivania sentiva prigionia, agonia, tirannia. Mentre in tavolo sentiva il fruscio di un refolo, il sibilo del volo. Tavolo fluttuava, scrivania no.

The Prison-House of Language

Words aren't meant to be kept inside, you see. They are free creatures, and if locked away will unsettle the stomach.

A prisoner could be convinced that they lived in a paradise, if the prison was pretty enough.

Frailty, thy name is Alcatraz

It's funny, Vasher thought, How many things begin with my getting thrown into prison.

And which would you rather live in? The fake prison where you think you are free, or the real prison where you spend each day in drudgery?

What is happening? The king put Dalinar's heir in here?" "The king didn't have anything to do with it," the jailer said. "Brightlord Adolin insisted. So long as you were in here, he wouldn't leave. We tried to stop him, but the man's a prince. We can't storming make him do anything, not even leave. He locked himself away in the cell and we just had to live with it." Impossible.

Under a goverment which imprisons any unjustly, the true place for a just man is also a prison

The Harivansa says, An abode without birds is like a meat without seasoning. Such was not my abode, for I found myself suddenly neighbor to the birds; not by having imprisoned one, but having caged myself near them.

Under a government which imprisons unjustly, the true place for a just man is also a prison.

did not for a moment feel confined, and the walls seemed a great waste of stone and mortar.

Sotto un governo che imprigiona ingiustamente non importa chi, il vero posto dove può vivere un uomo giusto è la prigione.

I have you fast in my fortress, And will not let you depart, But put you down into the dungeon, In the round-tower of my heart, And there will I keep you forever, Yes, forever and a day, Till the walls shall crumble to ruin, And moulder in the dust away!

I have you fast in my fortress, And will not let you depart, But put you down into the dungeon In the round-tower of my heart. And there will I keep you forever, Yes, forever and a day, Till the walls shall crumble to ruin, And moulder in dust away.

I still remember, 40 years ago, when I was shackled and put in prison... Being an American citizen didn't mean a thing.

What made Guantanamo such a travesty - and what still makes it such - is that it is a system of indefinite detention whereby human beings are put in cages for years and years without ever being charged with a crime.

I like to describe my characters as though they were all trapped in a glass box.

I feel an image is a creeping jail growing all around you without you even realising it. Suddenly, you are trapped, and an actor should never be trapped.

To think that any animal would be trapped makes me so sad. It's like living in your bedroom for your entire life and never being able to go outside.