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
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
Books are like imprisoned souls till someone takes them down from a shelf and frees them.
Samuel Butler
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
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
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
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
I don't believe in depriving myself of any food or being imprisoned by a diet.
Joely Fisher
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
Imprisoned in every fat man a thin man is wildly signaling to be let out.
Cyril Connolly
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
It is impossible to go through life without trust: that is to be imprisoned in the worst cell of all, oneself.
Graham Greene
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
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
Men might as well be imprisoned, as excluded from the means of earning their bread.
John Stuart Mill
Most of us are imprisoned by something. We're living in darkness until something flips on the switch.
Wynonna Judd
No dictator, no invader, can hold an imprisoned population by force of arms forever.
J. Michael Straczynski
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
Our houses are such unwieldy property that we are often imprisoned rather than housed by them.
Henry David Thoreau
People should not be imprisoned without having the ability to challenge the legality of that imprisonment.
Jeff Bingaman
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