Prisoner Quotes

507 quotes by 407 authors

Help! I'm being held prisoner by my heredity and environment. — Unknown Author
I went back to work right away [after prison]. I was very lucky â€” a friend of mine created a job for me at his… — Piper Kerman
It was both odd and unjust, a real example of pitiful arbitrariness of existance, that you were born into a particular time & held prisoner… — Daniel Kehlmann
Because it would be too agonizing to cope with the possibility that anyone, including ourÂ selves, could become a prisoner, we tend to think of… — Angela Davis
The line that connects the bombing of civilian populations to the mountain removed by strip mining ... to the tortured prisoner seems to run pretty… — Wendell Berry
Having found the bomb we have used it. We have used it against those who attacked us without warning at Pearl Harbor, against those who… — Harry S. Truman
Pain dies quickly, and lets her weary prisoners go; the fiercest agonies have shortest reign. — William C. Bryant
Torture has been privatized now, so you have obviously the whole scandal in America about the abuse of prisoners and the fact that, army people… — Arundhati Roy
Is the prisoner a prisoner because he lives in a cage or because he knows that he lives in a cage? — Michael Moorcock
I love my mother, not as a prisoner of atherosclerosis, but as a person; and I must love her enough to accept her as she… — Madeleine L'Engle
Those who build walls are their own prisoners. I'm going to go fulfill my proper function in the social organism. I'm going to unbuild walls. — Ursula K. Le Guin
Freedom is an elusive concept. Some men hold themselves prisoner even when they have the power to do as they please and go where they… — Brian Herbert
As you look at me and listen to me, please remember the often repeated truth that one prisoner of conscience is one too many. — Aung San Suu Kyi
I should be judged as a captain who went from Spain to the Indies to conquer a people numerous and warlike, whose manners and religion… — Christopher Columbus
If there is anything that is important to America, it is that you are not a prisoner of the past. — David Halberstam
Fill your bowl to the brim and it will spill. Keep sharpening your knife and it will blunt. Chase after money and security and your… — Laozi
To gain customer insights, we must understand that we are prisoners of what we know and what we believe. — Unknown Author
"Who is secure in all his basic needs? Who has work, spiritual care, medical care, housing, food, occasional entertainment, free clothing, free burial, free everything?… — Erik von Kuehnelt-Leddihn
Education has become a prisoner of contemporaneity. It is the past, not the dizzy present, that is the best door to the future. — Camille Paglia
We have not come here to take prisoners But to surrender ever more deeply To freedom and joy. — Hafez

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