A ship in dock, surrounded by quays and the walls of warehouses, has the appearance of a prisoner meditating upon freedom in… — Joseph Conrad Copy Share Image
Those who build walls are their own prisoners. I'm going to go fulfill my proper function in the social organism. I'm going… — Ursula K. Le Guin Copy Share Image
“Man is often the prisoner of the culture he lives in. Question your culture to break the prison doors! Question it so… — Mehmet Murat ildan Copy Share Image
They came to know the incorrigible sorrow of all prisoners and exiles, which is to live in company with a memory that… — Albert Camus Copy Share Image
I would like to see the Iraqi government guarantee social insurance for the Yazidi women who were enslaved and to recognise their… — Yanar Mohammed Copy Share Image
“Right, my phone. When these things first appeared, they were so cool. Only when it was too late did people realize they… — David Mitchell Copy Share Image
The hazards of the generalized prisoner's dilemma are removed by the match between the right and the good. — John Rawls Copy Share Image
American soldiers had to guard prisoners on the inside while receiving mortar and weapons fire from the outside. Guantanamo is distant from… — John Yoo Copy Share Image
Freedom is an elusive concept. Some men hold themselves prisoner even when they have the power to do as they please and… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
“Every prisoner knows perfectly that he is a convict and a reprobate, and knows the distance which separates him from his superiors;… — Dostoieffsky Copy Share Image
When downed American pilots were first taken prisoner in North Vietnam in 1964, U.S. policy became pretty much to ignore them -… — Rick Perlstein Copy Share Image
Tortoise steps, slow steps, four steps like a tank with a tail dragging in the sand. Tortoise steps, land based, land locked,… — Terry Tempest Williams Copy Share Image
I grew up listening in awe to stories of their wartime adventures. My granny, Joan, was a journalist and wrote amazing letters… — Laura Carmichael Copy Share Image
It is precisely because a child's feelings are so strong that they cannot be repressed without serious consequences. The stronger a prisoner… — Alice Miller Copy Share Image
Worse, the bodies of women, minorities, children, disenfranchised bodies (prisoners, so-called nut cases, etc...) and their truths don't "count" as either present… — Lidia Yuknavitch Copy Share Image
School presents daily exercises in dis-association. It forces unwelcome associations on most of its prisoners. It sets petty, meaningless competitions in motion… — John Taylor Gatto Copy Share Image
One of the men attached to the prison was the occasion of great amusement on the part of the prisoners, as well… — Lewis Tappan Copy Share Image
“In situations of captivity the perpetrator becomes the most powerful person in the life of the victim, and the psychology of the… — Judith Lewis Herman Copy Share Image
Height of Addiction: Just b4 a prisoner was ready to be hanged to death the officer asked him about his last wish..!!… — Sadie Copy Share Image
My name is Katniss Everdeen. My home is District Twelve. Peeta was taken prisoner. He is thought to be dead. Most likely… — Suzanne Collins Copy Share Image
I've wanted somehow to convey to you the sensations - the atmospheric pressure, you might say - of what it is to… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
I am not a prisoner of conscious, but people try to make me one sometimes. It is both a gift and a… — Talib Kweli Copy Share Image
We are all prisoners of our past. It is hard to think of things except in the way we have always thought… — Charles Handy Copy Share Image
We learned that a former prisoner of war had more to teach us about what it takes to find a path to… — James C. Collins Copy Share Image
“The moon is jealous of you tonight. Your alluring charm and intoxicating beauty have immured me as a prisoner; I didn't even… — Avijeet Das Copy Share Image
Change your mind as often as possible. Just because you thought something yesterday doesn't mean you have to think it today. Don't… — Harvey Fierstein Copy Share Image
This country maintains that there is no political prisoners, that everybody is criminals, but it's just not true. — Sekou Odinga Copy Share Image
I love my mother, not as a prisoner of atherosclerosis, but as a person; and I must love her enough to accept… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
In the innermost recesses of humanism, as its very soul, there rages a frantic prisoner who, as a Fascist, turns the world… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
People come from a certain generation and a certain whole way of looking at things, and you really do become a prisoner… — Matthew Shipp Copy Share Image
The abuse of prisoners hurts America's cause in the war on terror, endangers US service members who might be captured by the… — John McCain Copy Share Image
Ours is a civil fight, and imprisonment as a civil prisoner has got to be earned by the strict observance of the… — Mahatma Gandhi Copy Share Image
Ninety percent of all prisoners in all jails get out some day. So why not give them a little levity in what's… — Jeff Ross Copy Share Image
I was getting money for showing one man killing another. Two lives were destroyed and I was getting paid for it. (On… — Eddie Adams Copy Share Image
Now there is no taboo; everything is allowed. But one cannot simply go back to tonality, it’s not the way. We must… — Gyorgy Ligeti Copy Share Image
So I had to be the doctor to these wounded men until we could remove them to the hospital. There were fifty-four… — Agnes Smedley Copy Share Image
Once upon a time there were mass media, and they were wicked, of course, and there was a guilty party. Then there… — Umberto Eco Copy Share Image
Forbes magazine has named Mel Gibson this year's most powerful celebrity. ... Forbes' least powerful celebrity? [Miller displayed the widely circulated image… — Dennis Miller Copy Share Image
American fighters of the Pacific War were not heroes. The desperation of island combat included exchanged barbarities of which no one would… — James Carroll Copy Share Image
The photographs of Iraqi prisoners being subjected to degrading and humiliating treatment by their captors, and the reports of acts of sexual… — Ed Markey Copy Share Image
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