Imprison
To put in prison or jail; To arrest and detain in custody; to confine.
To limit, restrain, or confine in any way.
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Imprison Quotations
Nothing can be more abhorrent to democracy than to imprison a person or keep him in prison because he is unpopular. This is really the test of civilization.
Winston Churchill
You can chain me, you can torture me, you can even destroy this body, but you will never imprison my mind.
Mahatma Gandhi
I refuse to imprison our acts in the rigid mould of sentences.
Ella Maillart
If you strike at, imprison, or kill us, out of our prisons or graves we will still evoke a spirit that will thwart you, and perhaps, raise a force that will destroy you! We defy you! Do your worst!
James Connolly
Negation is the mind's first freedom, yet a negative habit is fruitful only so long as we exert ourselves to overcome it, adapt it to our needs; once acquired it can imprison us.
Emile M. Cioran
The vote is the most powerful instrument ever devised by man for breaking down injustice and destroying the terrible walls which imprison men because they are different from other men.
Lyndon B. Johnson
There is no man who desires as passionately as a Russian. If we could imprison a Russian desire beneath a fortress, that fortress would explode.
Joseph De Maistre
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
Every one with this writ may be a tyrant; if this commission be legal, a tyrant in a legal manner, also, may control, imprison, or murder any one within the realm.
James Otis
If the word has the potency to revive and make us free, it has also the power to blind, imprison, and destroy.
Ralph Ellison
Imprison Translations
imprison in Dutch is gevangen zetten, opsluiten
imprison in French is confiner
imprison in German is einkerkern
imprison in Italian is carcerare
imprison in Norwegian is fengsle
imprison in Spanish is recluir, encarcelar
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