There are few prisoners more closely guarded than princes. — Christina, Queen of Sweden Copy Share Image
Most men are prisoners at best, Who some strong habit every drag about Like chain and ball. — Garrison Keillor Copy Share Image
The blues aren’t pessimistic. We’re prisoners of hope but we tell the truth and the truth is dark. — Cornel West Copy Share Image
Modern man is a prisoner who thinks he is free because he refrains from touching the walls of his dungeon. — Nicolas Gomez Davila Copy Share Image
The jury passing on the prisoner's life may in the sworn twelve have a thief or two guiltier than him they try. — William Shakespeare Copy Share Image
It is true I wished to escape; and so I wish still: is not this lawful for all prisoners? — Joan of Arc Copy Share Image
To men who only aim at escaping felony, nothing short of the prisoner's dock is disgrace. — George Eliot Copy Share Image
“The Prisoner All right, Go ahead! What's in a name? I guess I'll be locked into As much as I'm locked out… — Edna St. Vincent Millay Copy Share Image
Some times I think this whole world Is one big prison yeard Some of us are prisoners The rest of us are… — Bob Dylan Copy Share Image
As long as the government can arbitrarily decide which substances are legal and which are illegal, then those who remain behind bars… — Paul Krassner Copy Share Image
With Prisoner of Conscience, the focus was - I've worked with Madlib, High Tech, Kanye West, J Dilla. I feel like I've… — Talib Kweli Copy Share Image
On average, drug prisoners spend more time in federal prison than rapists, who often get out on early release because of the… — Michael Badnarik Copy Share Image
“I've never been free in my whole life. Inside I've always chased myself. I've become intolerable to myself. I live in a… — Clarice Lispector Copy Share Image
If I were not a king, I would be a university man; and if it were so that I must be a… — King James I Copy Share Image
Avoid trouble with those who are fanatics; they remain imprisoned in exclusivism and deserve compassion just as any other prisoner. — Chico Xavier Copy Share Image
Personal lyricism is the outcry of prisoner to prisoner from the cell in solitary where each is confined for the duration of… — Tennessee Williams Copy Share Image
And the ideologies trailed after these impossible events like condemned prisoners, as ideologies do when they've had their day. Because they have… — John le Carre Copy Share Image
No person shall be restrained of his liberty but by regular process from a court of justice, authorized by a general law.… — Thomas Jefferson Copy Share Image
Of course, no state accepts [that it should call] the people it is imprisoning or detaining for political reasons, political prisoners. They… — Julian Assange Copy Share Image
...she needed to confirm its presence. Like the keeper of the lighthouse and the prisoner, she regarded it as a mooring, a… — Toni Morrison Copy Share Image
They say: sufferings are misfortunes," said Pierre. 'But if at once this minute, I was asked, would I remain what I was… — Leo Tolstoy Copy Share Image
A man is the prisoner of his power. A topical memory makes him an almanac; a talent for debate, disputant; skill to… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
Many guys see relationships with women as a zero-sum game: If she wins, he loses. Marriage is the ultimate contest: Her job… — Michael Kimmel Copy Share Image
The torture and other sadistic abuses of prisoners in Iraq have done immense damage already to America's reputation in the world, and… — Edward Kennedy Copy Share Image
In India you don't find propaganda against Pakistan. During the war there was a little of it, naturally, but even during the… — Indira Gandhi Copy Share Image
Dear God, Please teach me to forgive myself and others. Remove the walls that keep love out, behind which I am a… — Marianne Williamson Copy Share Image
“Just when I despaired -- she was there, filling me as a melody fills a cottage. I was with her, running beside… — Gene Wolfe Copy Share Image
Sometimes animals may suffer more because of their more limited understanding. If, for instance, we are taking prisoners in wartime we can… — Peter Singer Copy Share Image
It was during those long and lonely years that my hunger for the freedom of our own people became a hunger for… — Nelson Mandela Copy Share Image
The dark ages still reign over all humanity, and the depth and persistence of this domination are only now becoming clear. This… — R. Buckminster Fuller Copy Share Image
I speak and speak,” Marco says, “but the listener retains only the words he is expecting. The description of the world to… — Italo Calvino Copy Share Image
“I have rules,” she said to him. He stilled his pen, raised expressionless eyes to her face, and waited. “When you bring… — Kristin Cashore Copy Share Image
Technologies of easy travel "give us wings; they annihilate the toil and dust of pilgrimage; they spiritualize travel! Transition being so facile,… — Nathaniel Hawthorne Copy Share Image