Prisoners Quotes

“Fences and borders make prisoners of us all.”

— Raymond C. Nolan

The Germans are prisoners of their past.

— Daniel Barenboim

We are all prisoners of our time and place.

— David Henry Hwang

We are the prisoners of ideas.

— Ralph Waldo Emerson

Those who build walls are their own prisoners.

— Ursula K. Le Guin

We're not prisoners of the past.

— Martin Seligman

“None of us should be prisoners of our own fear.”

— Bill Connington

We are the prisoners of history. Or are we?

— Robert Penn Warren

The African prisoners are orderly and peaceable among themselves.

— Lewis Tappan

There are few prisoners more closely guarded than princes.

— Christina, Queen of Sweden

Yes. And release prisoners who are incarcerated for pot.

— Mark Cuban

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

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

— Kurt Vonnegut

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

— Rick Warren

Mordovian prisoners are afraid of their own shadows. They are completely terrified.

— Nadezhda Tolokonnikova

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

The aim has got to be to maximize the opportunities for prisoners, having got themselves clean and got themselves some training, to…

— Crispin Blunt

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

— Mahmoud Abbas

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

— Patti LaBelle

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

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

— Philip Davies

I didn't spend a lot of time with prison guards, but my father was an assistant district attorney for a long time…

— Taylor Schilling

“There was a great joke that was forever doing the rounds in the jail and it was probably funny not because it…

— H.M. Forester

I wonder about prisoners. They're told, "You are free, you are innocent, you can go anywhere." I'm sure they usually feel nothing.…

— Diana Vreeland

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

— Sekou Odinga

“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

“Everything was so arranged in the camp that the prisoners egged one another on. It was like this: either you got a…

— Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn

It is important that people support prisoners of the Italian state like Joe in whatever way they can. I was not allowed…

— John Blair

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

— Fiona Archer

Prisoners do different things. Some write, some read. Some engage in athletic events and working out and some do all of that.…

— Jack Abramoff

“As I believe I have said, everyone in prison is an innocent man. Oh, they read the scripture the way those holy…

— Stephen King

“A kind of wonder takes Chaucer over as he pants up Fleet Street and past the walled orchards and gardens of this…

— Vanora Bennett

“ We couldn't trust them. They couldn't trust us. Mutual attempts at destruction are the only logical result . He thought of…

— Adrian Tchaikovsky

I find it weird that people who claim to speak for the prisoners basically want to keep them in cages all the…

— Peter Moskos

“Divided, cut up by borders, frontiers, fences and prohibitions, our wretched planet flew on, spinning into the icy emptiness of space, toward…

— Georgi Vladimov

“It is very difficult for an outsider to grasp how very little value was placed on human life in camp. The camp…

— Viktor E. Frankl

“They locked him in the stockade for four days. No other prisoners occupied the other cells that ran the length of the…

— Connie Brockway

With Pussy Riot - this was a prank! It was a brilliant, artistically gifted prank. But they didn't expect to go to…

— Masha Gessen