My sense, and I'm sort of guessing, is that the journalists were being classified by the government as common criminals, and the… — Adam Braver Copy Share Image
My position on the POW issue has been widely misquoted and taken out of context. What I originally said and have continued… — Jane Fonda Copy Share Image
“A female prisoner who alleges sexual misconduct on the part of a guard is invariably locked in the SHU in "protective custody,"… — Piper Kerman Copy Share Image
I am an adamant feminist. It never occurred to me to take my husband's name when we married. I am a supporter… — Ayelet Waldman Copy Share Image
The creatures with whom we share the planet and whom, in our arrogance, we wrongly patronize for being lesser forms, they are… — Henry Beston Copy Share Image
Forces of good and evil are massed and armed and opposed as rarely before in history. Freedom is pitted against slavery; lightness… — Dwight D. Eisenhower Copy Share Image
If you look at all the lobbyists in Washington, this is not a democracy. This is ruled by special interest groups. That… — Deepak Chopra Copy Share Image
Since 1957, black people have experienced double-digit unemployment - in good times and bad times. Look at the population of African Americans… — Danny Glover Copy Share Image
External objects produce decided effects upon the brain. A man shut up between four walls soon loses the power to associate words… — Jules Verne Copy Share Image
I love the best of all the traditions. My discipline is the take-no-prisoners language of good poetry, but a language that actually… — David Whyte Copy Share Image
We are prisoners of the world's demented sink. The soft enchantments of our years of innocence Are harvested by accredited experience Our… — John Ashbery Copy Share Image
To some extent we are all the prisoners of stereotypes; we see each other in terms of distorted and oversimplified images. Better… — Chester Bowles Copy Share Image
I had old bunk beds that my dad got from Seabrook Farms. They were first used by German prisoners during World War… — David Mixner Copy Share Image
I forgive you, but only because you said 'please.'" Smartass, I thought. Then I groaned at the instant chorus of "Please!" mixed… — Jeaniene Frost Copy Share Image
The sacrifices of our people were very great. Out of a population of one million, 28,000 were killed, 12,600 wounded, 10,000 were… — Enver Hoxha Copy Share Image
There are several dozen political prisoners in Russia. When I cite that number people are often very surprised. They often think there… — Masha Gessen Copy Share Image
Prison officials have been more concerned about sparing the sensitivities of executioners and witnesses than protecting the condemned prisoner from pain. They… — Jamie Fellner Copy Share Image
It's very good of you--" "No, no, not at all. It's my hobby. Not proposing to people, I don't mean, but investigating… — Dorothy L. Sayers Copy Share Image
The Americans have always been more open to my ideas. In fact, I could earn a living in America just by lecturing.… — Colin Wilson Copy Share Image
As soon as I got out of jail, as soon as my trial was over, first of all, during the time I… — Angela Davis Copy Share Image
Karma is often wrongly confused with the notion of a fixed destiny. It is more like an accumulation of tendencies that can… — Jon Kabat-Zinn Copy Share Image
“The second ward was declared a temporary holding cell for their prisoner, the ba, who followed in the procession, bound to a… — Lois McMaster Bujold Copy Share Image
Torture has been privatized now, so you have obviously the whole scandal in America about the abuse of prisoners and the fact… — Arundhati Roy Copy Share Image
In Shakespeare Saved My Life, [author Laura Bates] said she got better papers from [prisoners] than she got from people in her… — Margaret Atwood Copy Share Image
There are three things we have to let go of. The first is the compulsion to be successful. Second, is the compulsion… — Richard Rohr Copy Share Image
The concentration camps, by making death itself anonymous (making it impossible to find out whether a prisoner is dead or alive), robbed… — Hannah Arendt Copy Share Image
If you love the justice of Jesus Christ more than you fear human judgment then you will seek to do compassion. Compassion… — Mechthild of Magdeburg Copy Share Image
Even when we tell kids to go play, what do the kids do? They come up with a set of constraints and… — Ian Bogost Copy Share Image
I had a song called "Folsom Prison Blues" that was a hit just before "I Walk The Line." And the people in… — Johnny Cash Copy Share Image
I remove the work should from my vocabulary forever. Should is a word that makes a prisoner of me. Every time I… — Louise Hay Copy Share Image
Frankly, I don't think you should perform in a plaza where thousands of Cubans have been subjected to the death penalty, by… — Zoe Valdes Copy Share Image
When a uniform exercise of kindness to prisoners on our part has been returned by as uniform severity on the part of… — Thomas Jefferson Copy Share Image
I find nothing healthful or exalting in the smooth conventions of society. I do not like the close air of saloons. I… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
“It is as if a person were a prisoner, and he had not only the intention to escape, which would perhaps be… — Franz Kafka Copy Share Image
See how he cowers and sneaks, how vaguely all the day he fears, not being immortal nor divine, but the slave and… — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
Even though conditions such as lack of sleep, insufficient food and various mental stresses may suggest that the inmates were bound to… — Viktor E. Frankl Copy Share Image
The closest thing I could think of that men go through is like a prisoner of war being tortured, and then coming… — Larkin Grimm Copy Share Image
Three hundred years ago a prisoner condemned to the Tower of London carved on the wall of his cell this sentiment to… — James Keller Copy Share Image
Pritkin kissed like he did everything else, straightforward, accepting no prisoners and with an intensity that left me breathless. It was hot… — Karen Chance Copy Share Image
Oh, the inmates and the prisoners I found they were my kind And it was there inside the bars I found my… — Bob Dylan Copy Share Image
![“My sense, and I'm sort of guessing, is that the journalists were being classified by the government as common criminals, and the political prisoners were so resistant to being that. Always keeping [the other prisoners] as murderers, thieves, that sort of thing, which has a certain irony to it, I…” quote by Adam Braver](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/img-quotes/717/adam-braver-47508_certain_my-sense-and-i-m-sort-of-guessing-is-tha_1085334.jpg)
![“In Shakespeare Saved My Life, [author Laura Bates] said she got better papers from [prisoners] than she got from people in her regular classes. Because she was teaching, of course, Macbeth, and a number of them had murdered people. The guy who wrote the best paper said, "You do have this, 'Is this…” quote by Margaret Atwood](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/img-quotes/441/margaret-atwood-40_cases_in-shakespeare-saved-my-life-author-laur_2156889.jpg)
