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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. Peter Benenson | top
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Books are like imprisoned souls till someone takes them down from a shelf and frees them. Samuel Butler | top
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With my somewhat vague aspiring mind, to be imprisoned in the rude details of a most material life was often irksome. Edward Carpenter | top
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Imprisoned in every fat man a thin man is wildly signaling to be let out. Cyril Connolly | top
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Man is not imprisoned by habit. Great changes in him can be wrought by crisis - once that crisis can be recognized and understood. Norman Cousins | top
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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. Jeffrey Eugenides | top
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I don't believe in depriving myself of any food or being imprisoned by a diet. Joely Fisher | top
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We are imprisoned in the realm of life, like a sailor on his tiny boat, on an infinite ocean. Anna Freud | top
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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. Wilhelm Frick | top
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Prostitution, although hounded, imprisoned, and chained, is nevertheless the greatest triumph of Puritanism. Emma Goldman | top
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It is impossible to go through life without trust: that is to be imprisoned in the worst cell of all, oneself. Graham Greene | top
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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. Thom Gunn | top
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Very few men imprisoned for economic crimes or even crimes of passion against the oppressor feel that they are really guilty. George Jackson | top
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Most of us are imprisoned by something. We're living in darkness until something flips on the switch. Wynonna Judd | top
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Similarly, the Marquis is presented in this film as someone who would disturb the status quo and therefore must be kept imprisoned. Philip Kaufman | top
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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. Ted Kulongoski | top
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Men might as well be imprisoned, as excluded from the means of earning their bread. John Stuart Mill | top
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Everybody seems to be imprisoned in their own sectarian or political affiliations. They don't seem to be able to rise above these things. Adnan Pachachi | top
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A political prisoner is someone who is out fighting for his or her people's rights and freedom and is imprisoned for that alone. Leonard Peltier | top
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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. Sun Ra | top
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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. Akbar Hashemi Rafsanjani | top
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No dictator, no invader, can hold an imprisoned population by force of arms forever. J. Michael Straczynski | top
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Today more Americans are imprisoned for drug offenses than for property crimes. George Will | top
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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. Marianne Williamson | top
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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. Ludwig Wittgenstein | top