For the past seven years we have been cracking down on crime in Missouri, passing tougher laws for drug crimes and sex… — Mel Carnahan Copy Share Image
When you forgive, some deeper, divine generosity takes you over... When you cannot forgive, you are a prisoner of the hurt done… — John O'Donohue Copy Share Image
“I shouldn't trust him. He was a soldier. But he was a prisoner, too. And that ought to mean we were on… — Alwyn Hamilton Copy Share Image
The will of man without the grace of God is not free at all, but is the permanent prisoner and bondslave of… — Martin Luther Copy Share Image
Terrorism is not a matter that can be left to law enforcement, with its deliberative process, built-in delays, and safeguards that may… — George P. Shultz Copy Share Image
We cannot run away from the needs of LGBTI, sex workers, drug users, prisoners, and people with a disability. — Michel Sidibe Copy Share Image
You are brave, kicking a chained prisoner. They must sing heroic ballads about you on winter nights!" (Alanna) — Tamora Pierce Copy Share Image
I have become a prisoner of the peace movement. But you can't say that the termination is coming and then say that… — E. P. Thompson Copy Share Image
I think it's important to visit people in prison. And if you know anyone in prison, I would encourage you very much… — John Waters Copy Share Image
If you look at what the factors were going into the decision, of course there are competing interests and values. And one… — Hillary Clinton Copy Share Image
These 2.3 million prisoners, somehow we've convinced ourselves that's normal and rational, more prisoners than soldiers, more prisoners than China, more than… — Peter Moskos Copy Share Image
Bush sees the evil as out there in the wider world, residing in people who 'hate freedom'. Look at his immediate response… — Peter Singer 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
The plane seems exultant now, even arrogant. We did it, we did it! We're up, above you. We were dependant on you… — Anne Morrow Lindbergh Copy Share Image
Because it would be too agonizing to cope with the possibility that anyone, including our selves, could become a prisoner, we tend… — Angela Davis Copy Share Image
“The nature of psychological compulsion is such that those who act under constraint remain under the impression that they are acting on… — Aldous Huxley Copy Share Image
The word which is best said came nearest to not being spoken at all, for it is cousin to a deed which… — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
The widespread abuse of prisoners is a virtually foolproof indication that politicians are trying to impose a system--whether political, religious or economic--that… — Naomi Klein Copy Share Image
You think you know what is just and what is not. I understand. We all think we know." I had no doubt,… — J. M. Coetzee Copy Share Image
“There is too much emotion in our own public life. The English could never be accused of that. They lock us up,… — Paul Scott Copy Share Image
I'm not a movie star like other actors in the way that I need to walk around with a bodyguard. My goal… — Olivier Martinez Copy Share Image
One of the first signs of the beginning of understanding is the wish to die. This life appears unbearable, another unattainable. One… — Franz Kafka Copy Share Image
“I am not going to let him win, Guillaume. Not this time. I could not keep him from making my mother pay… — Sharon Kay Penman Copy Share Image
“I was a prisoner inside my own body. I felt desperate, angry, stupid, confused, ashamed, hopeless and absolutely alone... and that this… — Carl Sutton 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
“How can a prisoner understand their punishment to have been worthwhile to anyone, when it's dealt in a way so offhand and… — Piper Kerman Copy Share Image
“A child born in hell,” the white-haired prisoner said. “A child forged by suffering. Hardened by pain.” He shook his head sadly… — Greg Cox Copy Share Image
“They don’t need walls and water to keep the prisoners in, not when they’re trapped inside their own heads, incapable of a… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
The general public knows practically nothing about the prison and appears to be little concerned about how it is managed and how… — Eugene V. Debs Copy Share Image
It was spine tingling, actually, when you saw how people kept saying, "Release Nelson Mandela," and meaning really, "Release all of our… — Desmond Tutu 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." "And?"… — Megan Whalen Turner Copy Share Image
Its very comforting to know that you are faced with a difficult job. If someone gives you a job which shows every… — Raymond Aubrac Copy Share Image
If we can cultivate in the world the idea that aggressive war-making is the way to the prisoner's dock rather than the… — Robert H. Jackson Copy Share Image
The prisoner is not the one who has commited a crime, but the one who clings to his crime and lives it… — Henry Miller Copy Share Image
The red tape for family members who want to speak to a loved one is a reality, ... The warehousing of prisoners… — Christopher Bullock Copy Share Image
Prison service vans that travel 90 miles to take a prisoner 90 yards; paedophiles free to leer at children in the very… — Trevor Phillips Copy Share Image
At twenty your choices are almost unlimited. At fifty you're a prisoner of past decisions. At seventy you have no free will… — Helen McCloy Copy Share Image
“Trapped, cutting herself against the jagged edges of her emotions, she was a prisoner of her own spirit.” — Leigh Hershkovich Copy Share Image
There is no way around the contradictions and dangers inherent in Israel's decision to free over 1,000 prisoners in order to liberate… — Elliott Abrams Copy Share Image
Love withers with predictability; its very essence is surprise and amazement. To make love a prisoner of the mundane is to take… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
