“We are all prisoners of our past. It shapes and defines us and can no more be forgotten than changed.” — Leonard Goldberg Copy Share Image
[To a group of women prisoners:] You're luckier than I am. You're wanted and I'm not. — Nancy Astor Copy Share Image
A duty to the public must be to stop prisoners reoffending through successful rehabilitation. — Sadiq Khan Copy Share Image
I kind of miss the hatchet days of Mr. Fairchild at 'WWD', when they really took no prisoners and there was sort… — Hamish Bowles Copy Share Image
We now live in a country with a thousand political prisoners, a country where each week there are new trials, where people… — Alexei Navalny Copy Share Image
What a strange world it is, where prisoners are left their weapons and the written word is a mortal danger. — Megan Whalen Turner Copy Share Image
The prisoners eyed the clothes some time, and laughed a good deal among themselves before they put them on. — Lewis Tappan Copy Share Image
“Kill all the prisoners, because they’re costing us too much money. Wait! No, kill all the politicians, because they’re spending too much… — Jarod Kintz Copy Share Image
When I'm forced by circumstances to be in a crowd of prisoners, it's all I can do to refrain from attack. — Jack Henry Abbott Copy Share Image
If you surrender you shall be treated as prisoners of war, but if I haveto storm your works you may expect no… — Nathan Bedford Forrest Copy Share Image
I never saw a man who looked With such a wistful eye Upon that little tent of blue Which prisoners call the… — Oscar Wilde Copy Share Image
Two prisoners whose cells adjoin communicate with each other by knocking on the wall. The wall is the thing which separates them… — Simone Weil Copy Share Image
And in the general hardening of outlook that set in ... practices which had been long abandoned ... -- imprisonment without trial,… — George Orwell Copy Share Image
“To outsmart you they thought up work squads—but not squads like the ones outside the camps, where everyone is paid his separate… — Alexander Solzhenitsyn Copy Share Image
You want everyone to be a full character. No one is just evil, or very few people are, hopefully. They're characters, so… — Jenji Kohan Copy Share Image
If trees can create art, if they can encircle the globe seven times in one year, if prisoners can grow plants and… — Nalini Nadkarni Copy Share Image
I'll tell you what I think is not okay. Have you ever seen that show on MSNBC, 'Lockup?' It's a reality show… — Seth MacFarlane Copy Share Image
“Now that you’re here, now that they know you exist, you’ll never be free again. Ever. We’re prisoners to our books, our… — Angela Parkhurst Copy Share Image
When those pictures of Abu Ghraib came out, I thought, my gosh, this is like the tiger cages for prisoners in Vietnam… — Tom Harkin Copy Share Image
“Things have changed: now all one must do to keep society's members from caring its prisoners are abused is to question the… — Dwight E. Abbott Copy Share Image
“Only prisoners have time to read, and if you want to engage in a twenty-year long research project funded by the state,… — Mark Fisher Copy Share Image
The inmates and prisoners, I found they were my kind, and it was there inside the bars I found my peace of… — Bob Dylan Copy Share Image
You can judge a country by the way it treats its prisoners, and you can always judge a show by the way… — Donal Logue Copy Share Image
The prisoners still keep killing each other thay hung six yesterday thay fight all most every night in the stockade. — Joseph Williams Copy Share Image
“I never saw sad men who looked With such a wistful eye Upon that little tent of blue We prisoners called the… — Oscar Wilde Copy Share Image
I used to get a lot of letters from prisoners. It used to get on my nerves. Especially family members. Everybody's innocent. — Terry McMillan Copy Share Image
“The US has the highest incarceration rate in the world. I don’t want to release the prisoners—I want to lease them. If… — Jarod Kintz Copy Share Image
“Childbirth is nothing compared to exercise, and Gary was a big baby. This is what they should do to prisoners of war… — Cecelia Ahern Copy Share Image
“Any place you don’t want to stay becomes your prison! That’s why there are many prisoners all around the world who look… — Mehmet Murat ildan Copy Share Image
If you want prisoners to be tortured, you send them to Syria. If you want someone to disappear – never to see… — Robert Baer Copy Share Image
The vast majority of prisoners at Abu Ghraib, even after interrogation, had no further intel value whatsoever. — Janis Karpinski Copy Share Image
If you are deeply connected with yourself, with your energy, staying awake to yourself in the moment, other prisoners tend to leave… — James Fox Copy Share Image
The most important issue is clearly not the quality of treatment and care of these prisoners; rather it is the perplexing issue… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Ninety percent of all prisoners in all jails get out some day. So why not give them a little levity in what's… — Jeff Ross Copy Share Image
“Soldiers in the heat of battle; death-row prisoners; explorers stranded in deserts, jungles, on mountaintops; anyone sick or lost or just tired… — Marisa de los Santos Copy Share Image
'The Black Prism' is a story of emperors and prisoners and magic set in a Mediterranean, 1600-esque world. It's a fantasy story;… — Brent Weeks Copy Share Image
We are all prisoners of our past. It is hard to think of things except in the way we have always thought… — Charles Handy Copy Share Image
“We have more prisoners locked up on drug charges than the continent of Europe has in total prisoners. It’s” — Andrew Heaton Copy Share Image
“For months, the fifteen-year-old farmboy moved great mounds of earth alongside prisoners, many of whom were worked to death, their bodies buried… — Adrienne Berard Copy Share Image