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 ChurchillYou can chain me, you can torture me, you can even destroy this body, but you will never imprison my mind.
- Mohandas K. GandhiIf the word has the potency to revive and make us free, it has also the power to blind, imprison, and destroy.
- Ralph EllisonNegation 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.
- Alderman Dana McLendonYou can chain me, you can torture me, you can even destroy this body, but you will never imprison my mind.
- Mahatma GandhiWhat 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