Eingesperrt / Imprisoned Zitate auf Englisch

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I was imprisoned in Missouri in 1854 for preaching the gospel to Negroes, though I was never subjected to violence. Hiram Rhodes Revels

Bradley Manning has been imprisoned without charge, under torture, which is what solitary confinement is.

Noam Chomsky

We are imprisoned in the realm of life, like a sailor on his tiny boat, on an infinite ocean.

Anna Freud

I had been imprisoned three times and had twice been incarcerated in a madhouse.

Joseph Brodsky

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

Imprisoned by its war on terror framework, the Bush administration supported Israel in a disastrous war against Hezbollah in Lebanon in the summer of 2006.

Peter Bergen

I think history is continuous. It doesn't begin or end on Pearl Harbor Day or the day Lyndon Johnson withdraws from the presidency or on 9/11. You have to learn from the past but not be imprisoned by it. You need to take counsel of history but never be imprisoned by it.

Richard Holbrooke

Imprisoned in every fat man a thin man is wildly signaling to be let out.

Cyril Connolly

Very few men imprisoned for economic crimes or even crimes of passion against the oppressor feel that they are really guilty.

George Jackson

With my somewhat vague aspiring mind, to be imprisoned in the rude details of a most material life was often irksome.

Edward Carpenter

Books are like imprisoned souls till someone takes them down from a shelf and frees them.

Samuel Butler

Our houses are such unwieldy property that we are often imprisoned rather than housed by them.

Henry David Thoreau

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

John Stuart Mill

Even today, when the Obama administration has liberalized travel to Cuba - and failed to reverse that liberalization when Alan Gross was imprisoned - there are limits.

Elliott Abrams

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

Joely Fisher

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

I was imprisoned in Missouri in 1854 for preaching the gospel to Negroes, though I was never subjected to violence.

Hiram Rhodes Revels

Today more Americans are imprisoned for drug offenses than for property crimes.

George Will

It is impossible to go through life without trust: that is to be imprisoned in the worst cell of all, oneself.

Graham Greene

Most of us are imprisoned by something. We're living in darkness until something flips on the switch.

Wynonna Judd

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

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

Similarly, the Marquis is presented in this film as someone who would disturb the status quo and therefore must be kept imprisoned.

Philip Kaufman

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

Through my work with PETA, I have learned a great deal about chimpanzee behavior and the plight of chimpanzees imprisoned in laboratories.

Woody Harrelson

No dictator, no invader, can hold an imprisoned population by force of arms forever.

J. Michael Straczynski

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

Jeff Bingaman

It is true that a large percentage of the Western world hopes that I am imprisoned or dead. But all my people, the Palestinians and the Arabs, wish me long life and freedom.

Abu Abbas

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

The practice of shaving makes its first appearance in the Bible in connection with the story of Joseph, who as a young man was sold by his brothers into slavery in Egypt, where he was subsequently imprisoned on false charges.

Meir Soloveichik

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

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

Prostitution, although hounded, imprisoned, and chained, is nevertheless the greatest triumph of Puritanism.

Emma Goldman

And also I didn't want my future to be just sitting in a room and be imprisoned in my four walls and just cooking and giving birth to children. I didn't want to see my life in that way.

Malala Yousafzai

Whistleblowers are typically rendered incommunicado, either because they're in hiding, or advised by their lawyers to stay silent, or imprisoned. As a result, the public hears only about them, but never from them, which makes their demonization virtually inevitable.

Glenn Greenwald

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'll do as I please. My mind is not to be imprisoned.

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