Prisoners Quotes
241 Prisoners quotes by 201 unique authors
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I am well aware that there are prisoners of conscience in the Soviet Union, including some who have said they have chosen to resist the…
— Billy Graham
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Christopher Hitchens was a great warrior, a magnificent orator, a pugilist and a gentleman. He was kind, but he took no prisoners when arguing with…
— Richard Dawkins
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Pakistani prisoners are safe in Indian jails. We are a responsible government.
— Preneet Kaur
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In terms of the Japanese royal family, they were considered the direct descendants of a god. They are regarded as all-powerful and possessors of unimaginable…
— Kathryn Lasky
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I will not remain silent, resigned to watch as my fellow prisoners collapse under the strain of slavery-like conditions.
— Nadezhda Tolokonnikova
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Mordovian prisoners are afraid of their own shadows. They are completely terrified.
— Nadezhda Tolokonnikova
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It is also asserted that the election settled the matters of the war and the torture of prisoners. These are dead issues that no longer…
— Andrew Greeley
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The prisoners eyed the clothes some time, and laughed a good deal among themselves before they put them on.
— Lewis Tappan
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It is important that people support prisoners of the Italian state like Joe in whatever way they can. I was not allowed contact with a…
— John Blair
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The most important issue is clearly not the quality of treatment and care of these prisoners; rather it is the perplexing issue of what we…
— Charles Bass
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The vast majority of prisoners at Abu Ghraib, even after interrogation, had no further intel value whatsoever.
— Janis Karpinski
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Military police know what to do, they know the Geneva Conventions, and their objective is to provide a safe, secure, fair environment for prisoners under…
— Janis Karpinski
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If we go to Chihuahua we must be considered as prisoners of war?
— Zebulon Pike
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I began to feel that, in a sense, we were all prisoners of our own history.
— Roland Joffe
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Free and civilized societies do not hold prisoners incommunicado.
— Tom McClintock
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We differ on several issues. And this may include settlement, the release of prisoners, the wall closing institutions in Jerusalem.
— Mahmoud Abbas
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The anti-apartheid prisoners on the island, like so many in every age and nation, found that Shakespeare had a peculiar ability to gentle their condition.…
— Daniel Hannan
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Individual rights always go along with the interests of the society. I want to add that in Vietnam we have no political prisoners. No one…
— Unknown Author
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Not all political prisoners are innocents.
— David Remnick
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Memorial bracelets memorializing prisoners of war, missing in action, killed in action, and those who died of wounds or injuries sustained in a combat theater…
— James F. Amos
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At least 80 percent of American prisoners are grossly over-sentenced. The Supreme Court knows this, but shows scant concern for this human side of criminal…
— Conrad Black
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I had old bunk beds that my dad got from Seabrook Farms. They were first used by German prisoners during World War II, who were…
— David Mixner
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We Americans have a sense of ourselves as a moral people. We have led the way in the fight for human rights in the world.…
— Anthony Lewis
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We need another and a wiser and perhaps a more mystical concept of animals. Remote from universal nature, and living by complicated artifice, man in…
— Henry Beston
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When I'm forced by circumstances to be in a crowd of prisoners, it's all I can do to refrain from attack.
— Jack Henry Abbott
Who Wrote These Prisoners Quotes
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