We are the prisoners of ideas.

We are the prisoners of ideas. They catch us up for moments into their heaven, and so fully engage us, that we take no…

— Ralph Waldo Emerson

We are all prisoners of the ideas of the times we live in.

— Svetlana Alexievich

Without history we are the prisoners of the accident of where and when we were born.

— Donald Kagan

Most men in a concentration camp believed that the real opportunities of life had passed. Yet, in reality, there was an opportunity and a…

— Viktor E. Frankl

Prisoners learn how to make do with less, and many of them want to take this ingenuity that they've learned to the outside ...…

— Jeff Smith

Yes. And release prisoners who are incarcerated for pot.

— Mark Cuban

What a tragic realm this is, he reflected. Those down here are prisoners, and the ultimate tragedy is that they don't know it; they…

— Philip K. Dick

We are all conceived in close prison; in our mothers wombs, we are close prisoners all; when we are born, we are born but…

— John Donne

The West has political prisoners.

— Julian Assange

Of course, no state accepts [that it should call] the people it is imprisoning or detaining for political reasons, political prisoners. They don't call…

— Julian Assange

This is what happens in prisons I think you're not giving the prisoners the credit for how ingenious they are.

— Philip Davies

What a strange world it is, where prisoners are left their weapons and the written word is a mortal danger.

— Megan Whalen Turner

Prisoners at the bar, have you anything to say in your defence?

— Agatha Christie

They came to know the incorrigible sorrow of all prisoners and exiles, which is to live in company with a memory that serves no…

— Albert Camus

The same things that we hurray and support in other places, like people like Nelson Mandela, our prisoners were doing the same thing, and…

— Sekou Odinga