Top Imprison Quotes
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.
Mohandas Gandhi
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
I refuse to imprison our acts in the rigid mould of sentences.
Ella Maillart
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
James Otis 
Willa Cather 
Ralph Ellison 
Winston Churchill All Imprison Quotes
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 
78% of people like this quote
You can chain me, you can torture me, you can even destroy this body, but you will never imprison my mind.
Mohandas Gandhi
62% of people like this quote
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
60% of people like this quote
I refuse to imprison our acts in the rigid mould of sentences.
Ella Maillart
58% of people like this quote
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
56% of people like this quote
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
55% of people like this quote
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
54% of people like this quote
If the word has the potency to revive and make us free, it has also the power to blind, imprison, and destroy.
Ralph Ellison
53% of people like this quote