Better to make prime ministers out of prisoners than prisoners out of prime ministers. — Lord Caradon Copy Share Image
People like myself say, 'Fix the problem. Put him in the general [prison] population. The moral prisoners will deal with him in… — Stockwell Day Copy Share Image
I will not remain silent, resigned to watch as my fellow prisoners collapse under the strain of slavery-like conditions. — Nadezhda Tolokonnikova Copy Share Image
“The days rolled by in the camp—they were over before you could say "knife." But the years, they never rolled by; they… — Alexander Solzhenitsyn Copy Share Image
Both sides were supposed to release all their prisoners, those were unconditional. There was some prisoner release that took place but it's… — Warren Christopher Copy Share Image
Prisoners learn how to make do with less, and many of them want to take this ingenuity that they've learned to the… — Jeff Smith Copy Share Image
“Kill all the prisoners, because they’re costing us too much money. Wait! No, kill all the politicians, because they’re spending too much… — Jarod Kintz Copy Share Image
The prisoners eyed the clothes some time, and laughed a good deal among themselves before they put them on. — Lewis Tappan Copy Share Image
What a strange world it is, where prisoners are left their weapons and the written word is a mortal danger. — Megan Whalen Turner Copy Share Image
There was humiliations, cruelty, abuse, violence. And they were all the time trying to put to fight the prisoners one against the… — Ingrid Betancourt Copy Share Image
You want everyone to be a full character. No one is just evil, or very few people are, hopefully. They're characters, so… — Jenji Kohan Copy Share Image
“To outsmart you they thought up work squads—but not squads like the ones outside the camps, where everyone is paid his separate… — Alexander Solzhenitsyn Copy Share Image
And in the general hardening of outlook that set in ... practices which had been long abandoned ... -- imprisonment without trial,… — George Orwell Copy Share Image
“Now that you’re here, now that they know you exist, you’ll never be free again. Ever. We’re prisoners to our books, our… — Angela Parkhurst Copy Share Image
When those pictures of Abu Ghraib came out, I thought, my gosh, this is like the tiger cages for prisoners in Vietnam… — Tom Harkin Copy Share Image
If trees can create art, if they can encircle the globe seven times in one year, if prisoners can grow plants and… — Nalini Nadkarni Copy Share Image
I'll tell you what I think is not okay. Have you ever seen that show on MSNBC, 'Lockup?' It's a reality show… — Seth MacFarlane Copy Share Image
“That's for the best. Otherwise they might realize they're in prison. It can't be helped. You women are used to harems and… — Vladimir Bartol Copy Share Image
“Most of our readers will remember, that, until within a very few years past, there was a kind of iron cage in… — Charles Dickens Copy Share Image
“Some prisoners spent more than ten years buried in solitary cells the size of coffins, hearing nothing but clanging bars or footsteps… — Eduardo Galeano Copy Share Image
“As the prisoners saw Lucy, they reached their hands out piteously to her, some begging her for food, others merely mouthing their… — Susanna Calkins Copy Share Image
“On the average, only those prisoners could keep alive who, after years of trekking from camp to camp, had lost all scruples… — Viktor E. Frankl Copy Share Image
“Political prisoners describe: - extreme physical and emotional torture - distortion of language, truth, meaning and reality - sham killings - begin… — Laurie Matthew Copy Share Image
“Mirrors on the ceiling, The pink champagne on ice And she said 'We are all just prisoners here, of our own device'… — The Eagles Copy Share Image
“Since 1865, when the [Thirteenth] Amendment was passed, Black men were getting charged, set up, arrested, and convicted for the pettiest of… — Amy Watkins Copy Share Image
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![“Some prisoners spent more than ten years buried in solitary cells the size of coffins, hearing nothing but clanging bars or footsteps in the corridors. . .[they] survived because they could talk to each other by tapping on the wall. In that way they told of dreams and memories, fallings in and out…” quote by Eduardo Galeano](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/5a4/eduardo-galeano-1015_dreams_some-prisoners-spent-more-than-ten-years_2456066.jpg)
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