The voluntary captive The speechless the prisoner Which I hide in my very depths... — Anne Desclos Copy Share Image
There are few prisoners more closely guarded than princes. — Christina, Queen of Sweden Copy Share Image
But now, like a fallen sparrow On a golden chain, I'm forever bound in shadow, A prisoner to my pain. — Walter Dean Myers Copy Share Image
“Our hearts are all prison walls when we hold people captive with chains of unforgiveness.” — Ikechukwu Izuakor Copy Share Image
The thoughts of a prisoner - they're not free either. They keep returning to the same things. — Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn Copy Share Image
A political prisoner is someone who is out fighting for his or her people's rights and freedom and is imprisoned for that… — Leonard Peltier Copy Share Image
Power said to the world, "You are mine." The world kept it prisoner on her throne. Love said to the world, "I… — Rabindranath Tagore Copy Share Image
Prayer is helplessness casting itself on Power, infirmity leaning on Strength, misery reaching to Mercy, and a prisoner clamoring for Relief. — Fulton J. Sheen Copy Share Image
When a prisoner sees the door of his dungeon open, he dashes for it without stopping to think where he shall get… — George Bernard Shaw Copy Share Image
When people laugh at your institutions and convince you that you have to adopt theirs - adopt their dress, adopt their taste… — John Henrik Clarke Copy Share Image
Only a prisoner who has been confined for long behind high walk can appreciate the extraordinary psychological value of these outside walks… — Jawaharlal Nehru Copy Share Image
This is what happens in prisons I think you're not giving the prisoners the credit for how ingenious they are. — Philip Davies Copy Share Image
“Freedom awaits the person who chooses to move forward and to those who refuse to remain a prisoner or victim of their… — Germany Kent Copy Share Image
The same things that we hurray and support in other places, like people like Nelson Mandela, our prisoners were doing the same… — Sekou Odinga Copy Share Image
The Supreme Court of Canada has given prisoners the "right" to vote. Is it not time that non-jailed citizens were given reciprocity… — Brian Day Copy Share Image
“His voice was so faint that it was audible only to those in the first rows. “I haven’t got much to say,… — Kimberly Tilley Copy Share Image
We need to 'go out,' then, in order to experience our own anointing, its power and its redemptive efficacy: to the 'outskirts'… — Pope Francis Copy Share Image
Music at its best...is the grand archeology into and transfiguration of our guttural cry, the great human effort to grasp in time… — Cornel West Copy Share Image
The Communist torturers often said, 'There is no God, no hereafter, no punishment for evil. We can do what we wish.' I… — Richard Wurmbrand Copy Share Image
He’s being held prisoner on a ceramic-lined cookie sheet in the oven,” Thomas said. “I figured he couldn’t jigger his way out… — Jim Butcher Copy Share Image
One out of every eight prisoners in the world is an African American. We are warehousing people as a profit to shareholders… — Randall Robinson 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
We must admit that today conformity is on the Left. To be sure, the Right is not brilliant. But the Left is… — Albert Camus Copy Share Image
...and every Wednesday the perfumed young lady slips me a hundred-crown note to leave her alone with the convict. And by Thursday… — Italo Calvino Copy Share Image
“I was thinking what it must feel like to be a prisoner going to die; you stand there looking at the sun… — Shirley Jackson Copy Share Image
I should be judged as a captain who went from Spain to the Indies to conquer a people numerous and warlike, whose… — Christopher Columbus 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
“All of this seemed equally trifling to him now. And when he thought again about the world of free people, the difference… — Andreï Makine Copy Share Image
I find it weird that people who claim to speak for the prisoners basically want to keep them in cages all the… — Peter Moskos Copy Share Image
