I began to feel that, in a sense, we were all prisoners of our own history. — Roland Joffe Copy Share Image
“she might be keeping a hundred secret prisoners. We might find Jimmy Hoffa down there. It’s” — Nat Kozinn Copy Share Image
Many of us who walk to and fro upon our usual tasks are prisoners drawing mental maps of escape — Loren Eiseley Copy Share Image
It is true I wished to escape; and so I wish still: is not this lawful for all prisoners? — Joan of Arc Copy Share Image
We now live in a country with a thousand political prisoners, a country where each week there are new trials, where people… — Alexei Navalny Copy Share Image
If you surrender you shall be treated as prisoners of war, but if I haveto storm your works you may expect no… — Nathan Bedford Forrest Copy Share Image
I never saw a man who looked With such a wistful eye Upon that little tent of blue Which prisoners call the… — Oscar Wilde Copy Share Image
When I'm forced by circumstances to be in a crowd of prisoners, it's all I can do to refrain from attack. — Jack Henry Abbott Copy Share Image
Although each human rights victory energizes us to continue our work, there remains a deep sorrow for those prisoners still wrongfully languishing… — Nazanin Boniadi Copy Share Image
“You don't have to be very bright to carry a handbarrow. So the squad leader gave such work to people who'd been… — Alexander Solzhenitsyn Copy Share Image
In the battle of Kunu-ri, more than 5,000 American soldiers were killed, wounded or taken as prisoners of war. Ninety percent of… — Charles B. Rangel Copy Share Image
Most people are prisoners, thinking only about the future or living in the past. They are not in the present, and the… — Carlos Santana Copy Share Image
“Some people know they are condemned; some have time to pray, and others die struggling and screaming, fighting to their last breath.… — Hilary Mantel Copy Share Image
We are all conceived in close prison; in our mothers wombs, we are close prisoners all; when we are born, we are… — John Donne Copy Share Image
The day of my arrest I was first put in a room where there were already several other prisoners, most of them… — Albert Camus Copy Share Image
When I wrote my eighth thriller, 'Inside Out,' in 2009, the villains were a group of CIA and other government officials who… — Barry Eisler Copy Share Image
Two prisoners whose cells adjoin communicate with each other by knocking on the wall. The wall is the thing which separates them… — Simone Weil Copy Share Image
Cuban agents are assigned to a Catholic Church where their instructions are to beat, jail and intimidate the Ladies In White that… — Marco Rubio Copy Share Image
Johnny Cash was a rebel, not only just in the musical sense, but he was somebody who was for the people, and… — Michael Franti Copy Share Image
What do prisoners do? Write, of course; even if they have to use blood as ink, as the Marquis de Sade did.… — Alice Weaver Flaherty Copy Share Image
“See human beings as though they were in an underground cave-like dwelling with its entrance, a long one, open to the light… — Plato Copy Share Image
“From the window, I had a clear view of the farmyard and the Mayor’s home, which had been converted into an improvised… — Captain Hank Bracker, "Suppresed I Rise Copy Share Image
“Morrell, ever a true comrade, too had a splendid brain. In fact, and I who am about to die have the right… — Jack London Copy Share Image
It had long been true, and prisoners knew this better than anyone, that the poorer you were the more likely you were… — Howard Zinn Copy Share Image
“Prisoners of hope describes salespeople who have, for the most part, stopped working the sales process and ceased pursuing new opportunities because… — Mike Weinberg Copy Share Image
“In an isolated region from Iran there is this wall tower, windowless, doorless, not very tall. In its only room with arched… — jorge luis borges Copy Share Image
“The Comtesse's fellow prisoners in this antechamber to death were characteristic of the ill-assorted gatherings thrown together in Revolutionary prisons: duchesses and… — Stanley Loomis Copy Share Image
When President Nixon declared war on drugs on June 17, 1971, about 110 people per 100,000 in the population were incarcerated. Today,… — Maia Szalavitz Copy Share Image
“Instead of making prisoners out of our students, we ought to make students out of our prisoners.” — Paul W. Silver Copy Share Image
Pakistani prisoners are safe in Indian jails. We are a responsible government. — Preneet Kaur Copy Share Image
