“Living in the past, can only hold those who live there, as its prisoners.” — Ellen J. Barrier Copy Share Image
“We are all prisoners of our past. It shapes and defines us and can no more be forgotten than changed.” — Leonard Goldberg Copy Share Image
A duty to the public must be to stop prisoners reoffending through successful rehabilitation. — Sadiq Khan Copy Share Image
“Of the 3 million prisoners taken by the Soviets during the war, more than a third died in captivity.” — Keith Lowe Copy Share Image
Without history we are the prisoners of the accident of where and when we were born. — Donald Kagan Copy Share Image
It is not only the prisoners who grow coarse and hardened from corporal punishment, but those as well who perpetrate the act… — Anton Chekhov Copy Share Image
I have never understood the liberal assumption that if there were justice in the world, there would be fewer rather than more… — Anthony Daniels Copy Share Image
“Her view of men was one-dimensional, but not inaccurate: men were prisoners of their genitalia and women were the keepers of the… — Pat Conroy Copy Share Image
I know, as a former serving officer, that our troops are extremely well disciplined and well led, and they take the correct… — Nicholas Soames Copy Share Image
The fate of all of us here has been to know that we are prisoners of power. No one knows why us… — Carlos Castaneda Copy Share Image
Prisoners have benefited disproportionately from 'rights inflation' - the expansion of human rights into unforeseen nooks and crannies. — Dominic Raab Copy Share Image
I don't take no prisoners, even in training. I do like to wind up the big teams, and sometimes they fall for… — Ashley Barnes Copy Share Image
I have not worked with farmers. I have not worked with prisoners. I have only worked with human beings. I didn't see… — Jaggi Vasudev Copy Share Image
Individual rights always go along with the interests of the society. I want to add that in Vietnam we have no political… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Of course, no state accepts [that it should call] the people it is imprisoning or detaining for political reasons, political prisoners. They… — Julian Assange Copy Share Image
“It is the task of the enlightened not only to ascend to learning and to see the good but to be willing… — Plato Copy Share Image
“In short, from then on, we accepted our status as prisoners; we were reduced to our past alone and even if a… — Albert Camus Copy Share Image
“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 Copy Share Image
“The camp lived up to expectations as warmly dressed guards forced them to undress outside the gate where they searched them for… — George Levy Copy Share Image
A number of frail girls... prisoners in the top room of a circular tower, embroidering a kind of tapestry which spilled out… — Thomas Pynchon Copy Share Image
The anti-apartheid prisoners on the island, like so many in every age and nation, found that Shakespeare had a peculiar ability to… — Daniel Hannan Copy Share Image
“For each man kills the thing he loves yet each man does not die he does not die a death of shame… — Oscar Wilde Copy Share Image
I went back to work right away [after prison]. I was very lucky — a friend of mine created a job for… — Piper Kerman Copy Share Image
“The prisons in the United States had long been an extreme reflection of the American system itself: the stark life differences between… — Howard Zinn Copy Share Image
“There are hundreds of political prisoners right now in America’s jails who were so taken by Malcolm [X’s} spirit that they became… — Cornel West Copy Share Image
“No one is my enemy or the Gospel's... just prisoners of war that Christ longs to set free.” — Bill Myers Copy Share Image
If this is the way Queen Victoria treats her prisoners, she doesn't deserve to have any. — Oscar Wilde Copy Share Image
“It is not possible for others to keep us prisoners if we want to be free” — Mimi Novic Copy Share Image
The degree of a nation’s civilization can be seen in the way it treats its prisoners — Fyodor Dostoevsky Copy Share Image
Mirrors on the ceiling and pink champagne on ice, we are just prisoners here of own device. — The Eagles Copy Share Image
We are all prisoners but some of us are in cells with windows and some without. — Khalil Gibran Copy Share Image
Men are not prisoners of fate, but only prisoners of their own minds. — Franklin D. Roosevelt Copy Share Image
There was never in my mind a desire to give in on the subject of freeing the political prisoners. — Robert Bourassa Copy Share Image
What I have experienced is nothing compared to what political prisoners in prisons suffer. — Aung San Suu Kyi Copy Share Image
Men are prisoners of their genitalia and women are the keepers of the keys to paradise. — Pat Conroy Copy Share Image
![“Of course, no state accepts [that it should call] the people it is imprisoning or detaining for political reasons, political prisoners. They don't call them political prisoners in China, they don't call them political prisoners in Azerbaijan and they don't call them political prisoners in the…” quote by Julian Assange](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/ffb/julian-assange-1566_accepting_of-course-no-state-accepts-that-it-shoul_302066.jpg)
![“I went back to work right away [after prison]. I was very lucky — a friend of mine created a job for me at his company. Most prisoners who come home face really significant challenges when it comes to finding work. It’s very, very hard for most people who have a criminal record to get a job. I…” quote by Piper Kerman](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/2ba/piper-kerman-8613_back-to-work_i-went-back-to-work-right-away-after-pri_2503972.jpg)
![“There are hundreds of political prisoners right now in America’s jails who were so taken by Malcolm [X’s} spirit that they became warriors and the powers that be understood them as warriors. They knew that a lot of these other middle-class [black] leaders were not warriors; they were…” quote by Cornel West](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/f59/cornel-west-708_african-american-his_there-are-hundreds-of-political-prisoner_3220269.jpg)
