Prisoners Quotes

241 Prisoners quotes by 201 unique authors

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
Laughter and irony are at heart reminders that we are not prisoners in this world, but voyagers through it. — Eben Alexander
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
It was man who ended the Cold War in case you didn't notice. It wasn't weaponry, or technology, or armies or campaigns. It was just… — John le Carre
So I had to be the doctor to these wounded men until we could remove them to the hospital. There were fifty-four women and forty… — Agnes Smedley
I never saw a man who looked With such a wistful eye Upon that little tent of blue Which prisoners call the sky. — Oscar Wilde
More than 90 percent of all the prisoners in our American prisons have been abused as children. — John Powell
We are the prisoners of history. Or are we? — Robert Penn Warren
Hundreds of political prisoners still suffer in Tibetan prisons. Freedom of speech is not allowed in any sense. It is illegal to possess a photo… — Joanna Lumley
The unfortunate are not as miserable as the world imagines. That urchins, the handicapped, orphans, prisoners and others are much happier than people think. And… — Manu Joseph
In my judgement, this new paradigm renders obsolete Geneva's strict limitations on questioning of enemy prisoners and renders quaint some of its provisions. — Alberto Gonzales
It would be better to drown these prisoners in the Dead Sea if possible, since that's the lowest point in the world. — Avigdor Lieberman
I don't think that Israel has any legal or moral justification for their massive bombing of the entire nation of Lebanon. What happened is that… — Jimmy Carter
When he tries to extend his power over objects, those objects gain control of him. He who is controlled by objects loses possession of his… — Zhuangzi
Without territory, it does not even have the resources to provide detention facilities for prisoners, even if it were interested in holding captured POWs. — John Yoo
The dream of a writer is to be surprised by his characters. All of a sudden, they are living their own lives; they are not… — Jean-Claude Carriere
It is not only the prisoners who grow coarse and hardened from corporal punishment, but those as well who perpetrate the act or are present… — Anton Chekhov
Whatever we think of the past, we must not be prisoners to it. — Barack Obama
We are all prisoners of our time and place. — David Henry Hwang
Prison is an important part of life. We can't have violent people running around in the streets. (3 out of 4 federal prisoners are serving… — Howard Dean
The Communist torturers often said, 'There is no God, no hereafter, no punishment for evil. We can do what we wish.' I have heard one… — Richard Wurmbrand
Patriotism, in the trenches, was too remote a sentiment, and at once rejected as fit only for civilians, or prisoners. A new arrival who talked… — Robert Graves
New fathers, political prisoners, traumatised presidential aides, resolute schoolboys, MEPs addressing unfriendly chambers - we all find that Shakespeare has magically anticipated our precise circumstances.… — Daniel Hannan

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