Prisoner Quotes

507 quotes by 407 authors

Its very comforting to know that you are faced with a difficult job. If someone gives you a job which shows every sign of being… — Raymond Aubrac
For the past seven years we have been cracking down on crime in Missouri, passing tougher laws for drug crimes and sex offenses and requiring… — Mel Carnahan
Yes. And release prisoners who are incarcerated for pot. — Mark Cuban
Unfortunately for ethical egoism, the claim that we will all be better off if every one of us does what is in his or her… — Peter Singer
Everywhere men have unlocked the prisoners within, and from under the disguising skins the apes have leapt joyfully out. — Osbert Sitwell
Man is a prisoner who has no right to open the door of his prison and run away. . . . A man should wait,… — Plato
On Sunday 8 April 1945, he had just finished conducting a service of worship at Schoenberg, when two soldiers came took him away. As he… — Dietrich Bonhoeffer
I am always sorry for the Puritan, for he guided his life against desire and against nature. He found what he thought was comfort, for… — Robert Henri
If anyone has it rough at Guantanamo, it is the guards. They are constantly harassed and threatened by some of these terrorists. Prisoners tell guards,… — Robin Hayes
He had drawn many a thousand of these rations in prisons and camps, and though he'd never had an opportunity to weight them on scales,… — Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn
American soldiers had to guard prisoners on the inside while receiving mortar and weapons fire from the outside. Guantanamo is distant from any battlefield, making… — John Yoo
It might be argued that genuine spontaneity is not really possible or desirable so long as printed scores of great works exist. All modern musicians… — Donal Henahan
Visiting the Holocaust Memorial Museum in Washington, D.C., for example, I was struck by its marginalization of any other victims apart from the Jews, to… — Unknown Author
Holocaust Memorial Day is intended as an inclusive commemoration of all the individuals and communities who suffered as a result of the Holocaust - not… — Jack Straw
Health coverage for regular citizens isn't mandated by the Constitution, but we're obligated to provide adequate medical care for prisoners, whatever the cost. — Unknown Author
The first prison I ever saw had inscribed on it CEASE TO DO EVIL: LEARN TO DO WELL; but as the inscription was on the… — George Bernard Shaw
I saw deep in the eyes of the animals the human soul look out upon me. I saw where it was born deep down under… — Henry David Thoreau
And don't forget, a prisoner's wife must always think good thoughts. — Naz?m Hikmet
All the asylum clothing is made by the patients, but sewing does not employ one's mind. After several months' confinement the thoughts of the busy… — Nellie Bly
In regeneration, the mind is enlightened in the knowledge of spiritual things... The will is renewed... The will is cured of its utter inability to… — Thomas Boston

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