#imprisonment

So I departed and was free from imprisonment. ↗

— William Adams

#free #i #imprisonment

People should not be imprisoned without having the ability to challenge the legality of that imprisonment. ↗

— Jeff Bingaman

#challenge #having #imprisoned #imprisonment #legality

Three hundred years ago a prisoner condemned to the Tower of London carved on the wall of his cell this sentiment to keep up his spirits during his long imprisonment: 'It is not adversity that kills, but the impatience with which we bear adversity. ↗

— James Keller

#ago #bear #carved #cell #condemned

The burning of an author's books, imprisonment for opinion's sake, has always been the tribute that an ignorant age pays to the genius of its time. ↗

— Joseph Lewis

#always #author #been #books #burning

The worst of it is that I am perpetually being punished for nothing; this governor loves to punish, and he punishes by taking my books away from me. It's perfectly awful to let the mind grind itself away between the upper and nether millstones of regret and remorse without respite; with books my life would be livable -- any life. ↗

— Oscar Wilde

#imprisonment #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

Fashion should be a form of escapism, and not a form of imprisonment. ↗

— Alexander McQueen

#fashion #form #imprisonment #should

I could not have the honour of being a German soldier because of my imprisonment in the First World War. And in this world war the Fuehrer refuses to allow me to serve as a soldier. ↗

— Fritz Sauckel

#because #being #could #first #first world

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

— Zebulon Pike

#demand #fines #imprisonment #justice #personal