Prisoner Quotes

507 Prisoner quotes by 407 unique authors

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
Within our own society, we jail more prisoners than any other country in the world, 85 percent of them people of nonwhite races — red,… — Robert Thurman
To deprive a gregarious creature of companionship is to maim it, to outrage its nature. The prisoner and the cenobite are aware that the herd… — John Wyndham
I think people would be happier if they admitted things more often. In a sense we are all prisoners of some memory, or fear, or… — Simon Van Booy
There was a war crimes trial because an American prisoner had been shot trying to escape. He had obviously been recaptured and shot, and that… — Charles Guggenheim
It appears that the murder rate inside prisons is ten times higher than that outside prisons. It must be due to all those Kalashnikov rifles… — Jeff Cooper
The blues aren’t pessimistic. We’re prisoners of hope but we tell the truth and the truth is dark. — Cornel West
The best way to keep a prisoner from escaping is to make sure he never knows he's in prison. — Fyodor Dostoevsky
Laughter and irony are at heart reminders that we are not prisoners in this world, but voyagers through it. — Eben Alexander
When you release the wrongdoer from the wrong, you cut a malignant tumor out of your inner life. You set a prisoner free, but you… — Lewis B. Smedes
God is the treasure, and where the treasure is, there is the heart. By this we may test our love to God. What are our… — Dallas Willard
A prisoner in the Inquisition is never allowed to see the face of his accuser, or of the witnesses against him, but every method is… — John Foxe
I'm not an optimist; I'm a prisoner of hope. — Desmond Tutu
...she needed to confirm its presence. Like the keeper of the lighthouse and the prisoner, she regarded it as a mooring, a checkpoint, some stable… — Toni Morrison
The Supreme Court of Canada has given prisoners the "right" to vote. Is it not time that non-jailed citizens were given reciprocity with a "right"… — Brian Day
When it comes to the cause of justice, I take no prisoners and I don't believe in compromise. — Mary Frances Berry

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