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
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
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
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
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
Love fills everything. It cannot be desired because it is an end in itself. It cannot betray because it has nothing to… — Paulo Coelho Copy Share Image
“I was a prisoner, but the prison library was excellent. On one table in the corner, I found an e-reader with a… — Alex Flinn Copy Share Image
Intellectual traditions emerging from populations that have always been the constitutive other in the development of the properly free citizen - indigenous… — Dean Spade Copy Share Image
God is the treasure, and where the treasure is, there is the heart. By this we may test our love to God.… — Dallas Willard Copy Share Image
“After a week he was moved to a different wing and into a shared six-by-eight with a grizzled old con called Alf.… — R.D. Ronald Copy Share Image
I think that for example as a prisoner of course I was pressured to become very submissive and in a way the… — Ingrid Betancourt Copy Share Image
We have a responsibility in our time, as others have had in theirs, not to be prisoners of history but to shape… — Madeleine Albright Copy Share Image
You go to London, you see a TV set in every cell and the sign up that all the officers must treat… — Joe Arpaio Copy Share Image
Crime is a social problem, and education is the only real deterrent. Look at all of us in prison; we were all… — Wilbert Rideau Copy Share Image
“But you're a prisoner," said Thorne. "I prefer damsel in distress," she murmured. One side of Thorne's mouth quirked up, into that… — Marissa Meyer Copy Share Image
If anyone has it rough at Guantanamo, it is the guards. They are constantly harassed and threatened by some of these terrorists.… — Robin Hayes Copy Share Image
“When people become prisoners of daily habits and happen to be hostages of choices, which they made in the past, but which… — Erik Pevernagie Copy Share Image
If a passion for freedom is not in vogue, patriots may sound the alarm till they are weary. The Act of Habeas… — Horace Walpole Copy Share Image
We will stop the terrorist attacks before they occur because we will not be prisoners to political correctness. Rather, we will speak… — Ted Cruz Copy Share Image
“You were taken prisoner, you single-handedly escaped from the cells at Fortaine, and somehow managed to get Guion to switch sides on… — C.S. Pacat Copy Share Image
“I felt ancient and exhausted. I felt like a prisoner within myself and as if I was just watching a movie that… — J M Northup Copy Share Image
The line that connects the bombing of civilian populations to the mountain removed by strip mining ... to the tortured prisoner seems… — Wendell Berry Copy Share Image
“In the case of Albertine, I felt that I should never discover anything, that, out of that tangled mass of details of… — Marcel Proust Copy Share Image
It is the everlasting disgrace of the Clinton Administration that it has chosen to betray America's heritage as a beacon of freedom,… — David Horowitz Copy Share Image
I cured myself of shyness when it finally occurred to me that people didn't think about me half as much as I… — Lucille Ball Copy Share Image
For example, if you are a blogger who wrote something about a local official and you're going to prison for that, you're… — Masha Gessen Copy Share Image
Private Manning is the world's pre-eminent prisoner of conscience, having remained true to the Nuremberg principle that every soldier has the right… — John Pilger Copy Share Image
We can't just rail against crime. We must speak of the root problems - devastating family breakup, an insidious culture of violence… — Frank Wolf Copy Share Image
From long familiarity, we know what honor is. It is what enables the individual to do right in the face of complacency… — Mark Helprin Copy Share Image
“That's a good fellow,' Sturmhond said to Ivan. 'Now, I'll take the prisoner back to her quarters, and you can run off… — Leigh Bardugo Copy Share Image
Ignorance has been well represented under the similitude of a dungeon, where, though it is full of life, yet darkness and silence… — Horace Mann Copy Share Image
You probably heard about the big prisoner swap with Cuba. A man who has been incarcerated in Havana for five years is… — David Letterman Copy Share Image
This is really the common mentality of prisoners: they read with great attention all the articles that deal with illnesses and send… — Antonio Gramsci Copy Share Image
It may seem daunting, but I am a prisoner of hope. We are more connected than ever before, we have more knowledge,… — Desmond Tutu Copy Share Image
I remember when I was in the prisoner camp, I was a French prisoner. And I saw the first photograph from the… — Manfred Rommel Copy Share Image
There's been a lot of comparisons to "The Prisoner," and sometimes people take a negative tact on that, but to be really… — Remi Aubuchon Copy Share Image
In 1970, there were approximately 330,000 prisoners in the US. Today there are 2.3 million behind bars - more than any country… — Sam Branson Copy Share Image
A prisoner in the Inquisition is never allowed to see the face of his accuser, or of the witnesses against him, but… — John Foxe Copy Share Image
The things that make you a functional citizen in society - manners, discretion, cordiality - don't necessarily make you a good writer.… — Natalie Goldberg Copy Share Image
