It may be bad for you, but government has no role in dictating our lives. People should be free to imprison themselves.

Security is a double-edged sword: While a fence sure protects the fenced; it also imprisons the protected.

Has every line inside of you been crossed? Is there anything left unviolated? Are you so comfortable with your imprisonment you feel free?

I am convinced that imprisonment is a way of pretending to solve the problem of crime. It does nothing for the victims of crime, but perpetuates the idea of retribution, thus maintaining the endless cycle...

Mental ghettos are not mirages; they actually exist in palpable reality: being “open” inside one’s mental or intellectual ghetto does not open its door but simply allows one to harbour the illusion that there is...

The lover steals a kiss. He incurs life imprisonment. (L’amoureux vole un baiser. – Il encourt perpétuité.)

It is likely to make us think we are not caged. We cannot feel the bars unless we push against them.

…So we passed, handcuffed and in silence, through the streets of Washington, through the Captial of a nation, whose theory of government, we are told, rests on the foundation of man’s inalienable right to life,...

Lose your freedom, and become a slave by borrowing.

I have always been interested in this man. My father had a set of Tom Paine’s books on the shelf at home. I must have opened the covers about the time I was 13. And...

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

But life, they said, means life. Dying inside.The Devil was evil, mad, but I was the Devil’s wifewhich made me worse. I howled in my cell.If the Devil is gone then how could this be...

The bad parts of the statute are not judicially severable, I consider, from the rest of its provisions that deal with imprisonment. Their roots are entangled too tenaciously in the surrounding soil for a clean...

The views of the Courts in regard to imprisonment have however undergone modification in the last ten years. Imprisonment is seen more and more as a harsh and drastic punishment to be reserved for callous...

Shetani na wafuasi wake wako kifungoni sasa hivi kwa sababu dhambi walizotenda hazisameheki. Dhambi ya kumkana Mungu na kumkubali Shetani haisameheki. Kwa maana nyingine, ukimuuzia Shetani roho yako jina lako halitaandikwa katika kitabu cha uzima...

Don’t let people supervise your life, If you know who you are, you shouldn’t be living in that prison of dominance, live by your orders, you are your own soldier.

The history of man is simply the history of slavery, of injustice and brutality, together with the means by which he has, through the dead and desolate years, slowly and painfully advanced. He has been...

Silence has built walls, walls that I attempt to break by pedaling faster, only to be imprisoned a hundred feet down the road.

Niemand ist mehr Sklave, als der sich für frei hält, ohne es zu sein.None are more hopelessly enslaved than those who falsely believe they are free.

I’m convinced that most men don’t know what they believe, rather, they only know what they wish to believe. How many people blame God for man’s atrocities, but wouldn’t dream of imprisoning a mother for...

Imprisonment is the form of punishment which may detrimentally affect not only the offender but also his family and his employment and because of its duration it can seldom be kept from becoming general public...

Never let your mind imprison your achievements by imposing disbelief on you.

The difference between the past and the present is that individual freedom and security no longer fall to be protected solely through the D vehicle of common-law maxims and presumptions which may be altered or...

When failure imprisons you for not doing what you should have done, you have no option than to bail yourself on the promise of trying again! Try again!

In the criminal law […] imprisonment should be resorted to only after the most anxious consideration.

Oggi penso talvolta che il vicino dell’Elefante poteva essere il futuro ufficiale della Gestapo che lo avrebbe torturato durante gli interrogatori. L’Elefante non era fatto per stare in prigione perché membro di una qualche organizzazione...

True wisdom comes in understanding that sometimes, you are both the prison and the key.