Prisoners Quotes

241 quotes by 208 authors

Through my illness I learned rejection. I was written off. That was the moment I thought, Okay, game on. No prisoners. Everybody's going down. — Lance Armstrong
You go to London, you see a TV set in every cell and the sign up that all the officers must treat prisoners with dignity.… — Joe Arpaio
On average, drug prisoners spend more time in federal prison than rapists, who often get out on early release because of the overcrowding in prison… — Michael Badnarik
In the decline of the day, near Kentucky river, as we ascended the brow of a small hill, a number of Indians rushed out of… — Daniel Boone
My main point here is that if you are the child of God and God is a part of you, the in your imagination God… — John Henrik Clarke
It is true you cannot eat freedom and you cannot power machinery with democracy. But then neither can political prisoners turn on the light in… — Corazon Aquino
Most men in a concentration camp believed that the real opportunities of life had passed. Yet, in reality, there was an opportunity and a challenge.… — Viktor E. Frankl
Every time we sign a treaty with another country, the treaty (should) include prisoner transfer provisions.... Under these provisions, the country in which the crimes… — Kathleen Brown
Teach us to pray that we may cause The enemy to flee, That we his evil power may bind, His prisoners to free. — Watchman Nee
In the depths of every heart, there is a tomb and a dungeon, though the lights, the music, and revelry above may cause us to… — Nathaniel Hawthorne
There is only one rule by which to judge if God is near us or is far away - the rule that God's word is… — John F. Kennedy
We are the prisoners of ideas. — Ralph Waldo Emerson
This so-called ill treatment and torture in detention centers, stories of which were spread everywhere among the people, and later by the prisoners who were… — Rudolf Hoss
When news of the surrender first reached our lines our men commenced firing a salute of a hundred guns in honor of the victory. I… — Ulysses S. Grant
Sometimes animals may suffer more because of their more limited understanding. If, for instance, we are taking prisoners in wartime we can explain to them… — Peter Singer
I rap for listeners, blunt heads, fly ladies and prisoners — Nas
Each of the Iraqi children killed by the United States was our child. Each of the prisoners tortured in Abu Ghraib was our comrade. Each… — Arundhati Roy
We are all conceived in close prison; in our mothers wombs, we are close prisoners all; when we are born, we are born but to… — John Donne
Frankly, I don't think you should perform in a plaza where thousands of Cubans have been subjected to the death penalty, by firing squad, including… — Zoe Valdes
In the wake of newly-alleged prisoner abuse this week, Senator John McCain said that continued mistreatment of Iraqi prisoners is hurting the nation's image. Also… — Amy Poehler

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