Only free men can negotiate. A prisoner cannot enter into contracts. — Nelson Mandela Copy Share Image
“To forgive is to set a prisoner free and discover the prisoner was you.” — Anonymous Copy Share Image
“No one is a prisoner. Even you have the power to make your own choices.” — Dhonielle Clayton Copy Share Image
There was never in my mind a desire to give in on the subject of freeing the political prisoners. — Robert Bourassa Copy Share Image
What I have experienced is nothing compared to what political prisoners in prisons suffer. — Aung San Suu Kyi Copy Share Image
The degree of a nation’s civilization can be seen in the way it treats its prisoners — Fyodor Dostoevsky Copy Share Image
We have not come here to take prisoners But to surrender ever more deeply To freedom and joy. — Hafez Copy Share Image
A prisoner of war is a man who tries to kill you and fails, and then asks you not to kill him. — Winston Churchill Copy Share Image
We have peace with God as soon as we believe, but not always with ourselves. The pardon may be past the prince's… — William Gurnall Copy Share Image
I had been pretty well made a prisoner by school, by society. I had been given this description of the world that… — Frederick Lenz Copy Share Image
She's like a prisoner inside stone walls, and every day the walls get a little thicker, the doorways a little narrower. — Megan Whalen Turner Copy Share Image
“So I'm the Darkling's prisoner?" "You're under his protection." "What's the difference?" "Pray you never find out.” — Leigh Bardugo Copy Share Image
What freedom am I being offered while the organization of the people remains banned? Only free men can negotiate. A prisoner cannot… — Nelson Mandela Copy Share Image
In the name of God!" said Gurth, "how came they prisoners? and to whom?" "Our master was too ready to fight," said… — Walter Scott Copy Share Image
People like myself say, 'Fix the problem. Put him in the general [prison] population. The moral prisoners will deal with him in… — Stockwell Day Copy Share Image
There are times when I flick through magazines and think I'm in danger of becoming a prisoner of my own hair. — Brian May Copy Share Image
Besides writing, I have been teaching myself to 'develop' my own photographic plates, and I haven't a stick of clothing or an… — Bret Harte Copy Share Image
We get caught up in all the stress - 'Got to do this, is this the right thing for me to do?'… — Matt Dillon Copy Share Image
When the prisoner is brought down from Death Row he steps from the elevator directly into a "holding" room that adjoins the… — Truman Capote Copy Share Image
A number of frail girls... prisoners in the top room of a circular tower, embroidering a kind of tapestry which spilled out… — Thomas Pynchon Copy Share Image
“That’s what it’s like to be a prisoner of anything. You want your freedom until you get it, then you feel bare… — Tarryn Fisher Copy Share Image
We have all had injustice happen to us. It often shapes our failure narrative. For example, maybe you were fired and not… — Robert S. Kaplan Copy Share Image
If you want to test cosmetics, why do it on some poor animal who hasn't done anything? They should use prisoners who… — Ellen DeGeneres Copy Share Image
While people argue with one another about the specifics of Freud's work and blame him for the prejudices of his time, they… — Andrew Solomon Copy Share Image
“in spite of the men who gripped him by each shoulder, the prisoner stepped slightly aside to avoid a puddle on the… — George Orwell Copy Share Image
I would like you to understand completely, also emotionally, that I'm a political detainee and will be a political prisoner, that I… — Antonio Gramsci Copy Share Image
The life we led was a proof of man's capacity for adaptation.I think that even the condemned souls in purgatory after time… — Arthur Koestler Copy Share Image
With Pussy Riot - this was a prank! It was a brilliant, artistically gifted prank. But they didn't expect to go to… — Masha Gessen Copy Share Image
It was man who ended the Cold War in case you didn't notice. It wasn't weaponry, or technology, or armies or campaigns.… — John le Carre Copy Share Image
The requests started coming in from other prisoners all over the United States. And then the word got around. So I always… — Johnny Cash Copy Share Image
Although prison officials have long battled illegal cellphones, smartphones have changed the game. With Internet access, a prisoner can call up phone… — Kim Severson Copy Share Image
Every time we sign a treaty with another country, the treaty (should) include prisoner transfer provisions… Under these provisions, the country in… — Kathleen Brown Copy Share Image
If this is the way Queen Victoria treats her prisoners, she doesn't deserve to have any. — Oscar Wilde Copy Share Image
I fell in love with my country when I was a prisoner in someone else's. — John McCain Copy Share Image
Without history we are the prisoners of the accident of where and when we were born. — Donald Kagan Copy Share Image
I don't want to be a prisoner in a palace, living in such a constricted way - too tight! — Dalai Lama Copy Share Image
You feel like a prisoner if you don't create. You're jailed up inside of yourself. — Edie Brickell Copy Share Image
No one complains of being a prisoner of love who has ever been a prisoner of loneliness. — Robert Breault Copy Share Image