Prisoners Quotes · Page 3

“rip the prisons open put the convicts on television”

— Norman Mailer

I've always been opposed myself to prisoners having the vote.

— William Hague

We are products of our past, but we don't have to be prisoners of it.

— Rick Warren

“the slaughterhouse where we had been locked up at night as prisoners of war.”

— Kurt Vonnegut

Prisoners at the bar, have you anything to say in your defence?

— Agatha Christie

I understand the importance which the Palestinian society attributes to the issue of prisoners.

— Ehud Olmert

Yes. And release prisoners who are incarcerated for pot.

— Mark Cuban

“Only free men can negotiate,prisoners can't enter in contracts”

— Nelson Mandela

This is what happens in prisons I think you're not giving the prisoners the credit for how ingenious they are.

— Philip Davies

One of America's greatest strengths is the soft power of our value system and how we treat prisoners of war, and we…

— Tom Ridge

Women are dominating the charts, and women are doing it for themselves. We're kicking butt and taking no prisoners.

— Patti LaBelle

We differ on several issues. And this may include settlement, the release of prisoners, the wall closing institutions in Jerusalem.

— Mahmoud Abbas

I used to interact with the fellow prisoners during recreation activity; I used to conduct an interactive session that we named 'Rajpal…

— Rajpal Yadav

I know from personal experience that the abuse of prisoners will produce more bad than good intelligence.

— John McCain

Prison life, fortunately, I spent a lot of years, about 18 years with other prisoners, and, as I say, they enriched your soul.

— Nelson Mandela

Military police know what to do, they know the Geneva Conventions, and their objective is to provide a safe, secure, fair environment…

— Janis Karpinski

“They say no one reads anymore, but I find that's not the case. Prisoners read. I guess they're not given much access…

— Rivka Galchen

“In short, from then on, we accepted our status as prisoners; we were reduced to our past alone and even if a…

— Albert Camus

Of course, no state accepts [that it should call] the people it is imprisoning or detaining for political reasons, political prisoners. They…

— Julian Assange

Individual rights always go along with the interests of the society. I want to add that in Vietnam we have no political…

— Anonymous

There was humiliations, cruelty, abuse, violence. And they were all the time trying to put to fight the prisoners one against the…

— Ingrid Betancourt

“So, you take no prisoners, huh?’ Flynn leaned in close. Her pulse clicked up a gear at the deliberate invasion of her…

— Fiona Archer

“It is not for me to pass judgement on those prisoners who put their own people above everyone else. Who can throw…

— Viktor E. Frankl

The same things that we hurray and support in other places, like people like Nelson Mandela, our prisoners were doing the same…

— Sekou Odinga

“The prisoners stand on the other side, three of whom require their own cages. He hands out the Eucharist through a sort…

— Kerry Weber

“In the early summer, Capt. Wirz issued to the prisoners picks and shovels, with which to dig wells for increased water supply.…

— Charles River Editors

“The prisons in the United States had long been an extreme reflection of the American system itself: the stark life differences between…

— Howard Zinn

I went back to work right away [after prison]. I was very lucky — a friend of mine created a job for…

— Piper Kerman

“For each man kills the thing he loves yet each man does not die he does not die a death of shame…

— Oscar Wilde

“Ako nisam kriv, onda su pogriješili, zatvorili su nedužna čovjeka. Ako me puste, priznaće svoju grešku, a to nije ni lako ni…

— Meša Selimović

It had long been true, and prisoners knew this better than anyone, that the poorer you were the more likely you were…

— Howard Zinn

There was zero time for reflection. We had to feed the prisoners three meals a day, deal with the prisoner breakdowns, deal…

— Philip Zimbardo

“she might be keeping a hundred secret prisoners. We might find Jimmy Hoffa down there. It’s”

— Nat Kozinn

I began to feel that, in a sense, we were all prisoners of our own history.

— Roland Joffe

Free and civilized societies do not hold prisoners incommunicado.

— Tom McClintock

The public don't want prisoners lying about being idle.

— Crispin Blunt

“They are not free at all. They are essentially our prisoners.”

— Michael Crichton

Better to make prime ministers out of prisoners than prisoners out of prime ministers.

— Lord Caradon

There was never in my mind a desire to give in on the subject of freeing the political prisoners.

— Robert Bourassa

What I have experienced is nothing compared to what political prisoners in prisons suffer.

— Aung San Suu Kyi