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.
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.
People should not be imprisoned without having the ability to challenge the legality of that imprisonment.
Most of us are imprisoned by something. We're living in darkness until something flips on the switch.
A political prisoner is someone who is out fighting for his or her people's rights and freedom and is imprisoned for that alone.
Similarly, the Marquis is presented in this film as someone who would disturb the status quo and therefore must be kept imprisoned.
With my somewhat vague aspiring mind, to be imprisoned in the rude details of a most material life was often irksome.
It is impossible to go through life without trust: that is to be imprisoned in the worst cell of all, oneself.
I don't believe in depriving myself of any food or being imprisoned by a diet.
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.
Imprisoned in every fat man a thin man is wildly signaling to be let out.
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.
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.
Everybody seems to be imprisoned in their own sectarian or political affiliations. They don't seem to be able to rise above these things.
Man is not imprisoned by habit. Great changes in him can be wrought by crisis - once that crisis can be recognized and understood.
Very few men imprisoned for economic crimes or even crimes of passion against the oppressor feel that they are really guilty.
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.
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