#imprison

Lucy seemed to be imprisoned by a legion of people in her life who always wanted what was right for her. And as a result, in the eyes of everyone, she had everything... and yet she always, always felt she had nothing. No one. ↗

— C. JoyBell C.

#imprisoned #loneliness #saint-paul-trois-châteaux- #life

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 of violence in our culture. It is a cruel and useless substitute for the elimination of those conditions--poverty, unemployment, homelessness, desperation, racism, greed--which are at the root of most punished crime. The crimes of the rich and powerful go mostly unpunished. It must surely be a tribute to the resilience of the human spirit that even a small number of those men and women in the hell of the prison system survive it and hold on to their humanity. ↗

— Howard Zinn

#criminal-justice-system #cycle-of-violence #desperation #greed #homelessness

The fundamental sense of freedom is freedom from chains, from imprisonment, from enslavement by others. The rest is extension of this sense, or else metaphor. ↗

— Isaiah Berlin

#else #enslavement #extension #freedom #freedom from

What was any art but a mould in which to imprison for a moment the shining elusive element which is life itself - life hurrying past us and running away, too strong to stop, too sweet to lose. ↗

— Willa Cather

#art #away #element #elusive #hurrying

Saddam's fate should be in the hands of his country men. They were the major victims of his brutal reign and should decide his life, death, or permanent imprisonment. Personally, I would lock him away forever. ↗

— Ronnie James Dio

#brutal #country #death #decide #fate

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

— Joely Fisher

#any #being #believe #depriving #food

You can chain me, you can torture me, you can even destroy this body, but you will never imprison my mind. ↗

— Mahatma Gandhi

#chain #destroy #even #imprison #me

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

— John Stuart Mill

#earning #excluded #imprisoned #means #men

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. ↗

— Ma Jian

#allowed #apology #been #being #chinese

An individual who breaks a law that conscience tells him is unjust, and who willingly accepts the penalty of imprisonment in order to arouse the conscience of the community over its injustice, is in reality expressing the highest respect for the law. ↗

— Martin Luther King, Jr.

#accepts #arouse #breaks #community #conscience