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Much of my life seems in retrospect to have been spent in the company of putative national leaders passing through the process of being denounced and Imprisoned for sedition, as part of the inevitable progression towards the Prime Ministership and the ritual tea-party at Windsor Castle.
james cameron— Point of Departure (London: Arthur Barker, 1967) p. 295.
Gems like these [The Aurora Pyramid of Hope] were not meant to be Imprisoned in a dark underground safe for the momentary pleasure of a few eyes. The true value of a collection is sharing it with as many people who are interested to experience nature’s diversity of expression . It’s thrilling to think that the collection will be seen by the 3.6 million visitors that come to the Natural History Museum each year.
— Alan Bronstein, in “Aurora Collection on Display at London's Natural History Museum”
Love without hope, as when the young bird-catcher Swept off his tall hat to the Squire's own daughter, So let the Imprisoned larks escape and fly Singing about her head, as she rode by.
— 'Love without Hope'.
Nullius liber homo capiatur, vel imprisonetur, aut dissaisiatur, aut utlagetur, aut exuletur, aut aliquo modo destruator, nec super eum ibimus, nec super eum mittemus, nisi per legale judicium parium suorum vel per legem terrae. No free man shall be taken or Imprisoned or dispossessed, or outlawed or exiled, or in any way destroyed, nor will we go upon him, nor will we send against him except by the lawful judgement of his peers or by the law of the land.
Magna Carta— 1215 Clause 39.
In the name of the Constitution,Cromwell took up arms, executed the king, dissolved Parliament, Imprisoned some, and beheaded others.
— 1934 In conversation with H G Wells, Moscow.
Long my Imprisoned spirit lay Fast bound in sin and nature's night; Thine eye diffused a quickening ray I woke, the dungeon flamed with light, My chains fell off, my heart was free, I rose, went forth, and followed thee.
Charles Wesley— 1738 Hymn.'And Can it Be'.
Much as we do not permit convicted pedophiles to teach kindergarten or convicted hijackers to board airplanes, common sense dictates that individuals who have been Imprisoned for plotting violence against abortion clinics should never again be permitted anywhere near such facilities.
jacob m. appel— "The Case for an Anti-Abortion Violence Registry," The Huffington Post (2009-06-29)
I see the possibility of being ‘made new’ again and the gift of rebirth is all that lets anyone really live.. ..The great secret.. .. is never to get stuck, Imprisoned in common social patterns. They always paralyse the real quality of life – the ‘going onward’ is all that matters, and the dead moments in one’s life through trying to be a unit in any society or social concept are terrifying really.
marsden hartley— letter to Adelaide Kuntz, September 7, 1933, as quoted in Marsden Hartley, by Gail R. Scott, Abbeville Publishers, Cross River Press, 1988, New York p. 168
As long as we continue to be Imprisoned within the corrupt and rancid norms of the intellect, it will be more than impossible to experience that which is not of the mind, that which is not of time, that which is real.
samael aun weor— Treatise of Revolutionary Psychology
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 it.
ludwig wittgenstein— p. 42e (Culture and Value (1980))
O magic sleep! O comfortable bird, That broodest o'er the troubled sea of the mind Till it is hush'd and smooth! O unconfined Restraint! Imprisoned liberty! great key To golden palaces.
john keats— John Keats, Endymion (1818), Book I, line 452.
By punishing the criminal the moral man hopes to dissuade the evil Imprisoned in his own breast from escaping. Fear of self is projected in hatred of the immoral other.
john carroll— p. 35 (Break-Out from the Crystal Palace (1974))
It is impossible to go through life without trust: that is to be Imprisoned in the worst cell of all, oneself.
graham greene— Bk. 1, ch. 3, sct. 2
Here at our sea-washed, sunset gates shall stand A mighty woman with a torch, whose flame Is the Imprisoned lightning, and her name Mother of Exiles.
Emma Lazarus— The New Colossus
At no time during my reign were there more than 3,164 so-called political prisoners, most of whom were terrorists. Since February, it is certain that tens of thousands of men and women have been arrested and Imprisoned under frequently inhumane conditions.
muhammad reza pahlavi— Page 198-199
The soul is Imprisoned in the body, and the Lord... built two windows in the wall of the prison... Unfortunately, the windows have curtains eyelids; and a man whose soul is impure, feeling himself scrutinized, lets down the curtains and conceals the soul.
isaac leib peretz— Mesiras Nefesh, quoted in M. Samuel. Prince of the Ghetto. Alfred A. Knopf, 1948, p. 22.
Today, every president is the target of criticism and mockery. It is inconceivable that even the most caustic critic would be Imprisoned for his or her words.
— Anthony Lewis, in Freedom for the Thought That We Hate : A Biography of the First Amendment (2007)
The spectacle of a clergyman Imprisoned for persistence in illegal ritualistic practices may shock the public conscience, and raise sympathy for a man who really deserves none, while the spectacle of a man suspended after due warning from an office, the laws attaching to which he disregards, or from a benefice obtained under conditions which he will not fulfil, is one which must commend itself to every reasonable man.
— Lord Thesiger, L.J., Martin v. Mackonochie (1879), L. R. 4 Q. B. 724.
Not like the brazen giant of Greek fame, With conquering limbs astride from land to land; Here at our sea-washed, sunset gates shall stand A mighty woman with a torch, whose flame Is the Imprisoned lightning, and her name Mother of exiles.
Emma Lazarus— The New Colossus (1883)
No one has a right to an audience or even to a sympathetic hearing, much less an engaged audience. But no one should be beaten or killed or Imprisoned simply for speaking their mind or praying to one god as opposed to the other or none at all or getting on with the small business of living their life in peaceful fashion. If we cannot or will not defend that principle with a full throat, then we deserve to choke on whatever jihadists of all stripes can force down our throats.
— Nick Gillespie (May 18, 2010). "Why We're Having an Everybody Draw Mohammed Contest on Thursday May 20". Reason magazine (reason.com).
Egyptian law states that a man who is caught with a prostitute is not Imprisoned; instead, his testimony is used to convict and imprison the prostitute.
— New Internationalist, Issue 252 - February 1994.
Much of my life seems in retrospect to have been spent in the company of putative national leaders passing through the process of being denounced and Imprisoned for sedition, as part of the inevitable progression towards the Prime Ministership and the ritual tea-party at Windsor Castle.
— Point of Departure (London: Arthur Barker, 1967) p. 295.
Today, every president is the target of criticism and mockery. It is inconceivable that even the most caustic critic would be Imprisoned for his or her words.
— Lewis, Anthony (2007). Freedom for the Thought That We Hate; A Biography of the First Amendment. New York: Basic Books. ISBN 9780465039173.
— Cited in: Waldron, Jeremy (May 29, 2008). "Free Speech & the Menace of Hysteria". The New York Review of Books (NYREV, Inc.).
That no Man, of what Estate or Condition that he be, shall be put out of Land or Tenement, nor taken, nor Imprisoned, nor disinherited, nor put to death, without being brought in answer by due-process of Law.
— 28 Edward III, Chapter 3, reported in Henry Booth Warrington, The Works of the Right Honourable Henry, Late Lord Delamer, and Earl of Warrington (1694), p. 102.
[W]e were inspired by the fierce dignity of Daw Aung San Suu Kyi, as she proved that no human being can truly be Imprisoned if hope burns in your heart. [...] You're the ones who are going to have to seize freedom, because a true revolution of the spirit begins in each of our hearts.
— Barack Obama, Yangon University Speech, Remarks by President Obama at the University of Yangon, Rangoon, Burma, (19 November 2012)
Suppose there should be a law made that all black men should be Imprisoned, it would be unreasonable. We have as little reason to quarrel with other men for being of different opinions than as for being of different complexions.
— James II of England, 1688 public speech, as recorded by an anonymous diarist. Source
We are powerfully Imprisoned in these Dark Ages simply by the terms in which we have been conditioned to think.
buckminster fuller— Buckminster Fuller, Cosmography (1992).
