Prisoner Quotes - Page 18

• I have always had plenty of friends, and now at age sixty, I face four walls as a common prisoner.

  Albert Kesselring

  Wall, Age, Faces

  "The Nuremberg Interviews" by Leon Goldensohn, Robert Gellately, 2004.

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• I got very well acquainted with Joe Stalin, and I like old Joe! He is a decent fellow. But Joe is a prisoner of the Politburo.

  Harry S. Truman

  Decent, Wells, Fellows

  Harry S. Truman, Steve Neal (2003). “Miracle of Forty-eight”, p.26, SIU Press

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• So many people of my generation who served in the government were prisoners of the Cold War culture, still are.

  Stewart Udall

  War, Government, People

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• I cherish my own freedom dearly, but I care even more for your freedom. Too many have died since I went to prison. Too many have suffered for the love of freedom. I owe it to their widows, to their orphans, to their mothers and their fathers, who have grieved and wept for them ..... Not only have I suffered during these long lonely wasted years. I am no less life-loving than you are. But I cannot sell the birthright of the people to be free ....... Only free men can negotiate. Prisoners cannot enter into contracts. Your freedom and mine cannot be separated.

  Nelson Mandela

  Mother, Lonely, Father

  Nelson Mandela (2003). “Nelson Mandela: from freedom to the future : tributes and speeches”, Jonathan Ball Publishers

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• When I wrote my eighth thriller, Inside Out, in 2009, the villains were a group of CIA and other government officials who colluded to destroy a series of tapes depicting Americans torturing war-on-terror prisoners.

  Barry Eisler

  War, Government, Groups

  "Interrogators Speak Out: Why Not a Torture Turing Test?" by Barry Eisler, www.huffingtonpost.com. April 30, 2012.

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• We are prisoners of our own metaphors, metaphorically speaking.

  R. Buckminster Fuller

  Metaphor

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• You probably heard about the big prisoner swap with Cuba. A man who has been incarcerated in Havana for five years is back home in the United States. And we sent them some prisoners. The deal still has to be approved by President Obama and Bud Selig.

  David Letterman

  Home, Men, Years

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• President Obama has reduced the sentences of 22 federal prisoners who were arrested for drug-related crimes - eight of whom were serving life sentences. It marks the first time someone has said 'Thanks Obama' but actually meant it.

  Jimmy Fallon

  Eight, Drug, President

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• Hope and optimism are different. Optimism tends to be based on the notion that there's enough evidence out there to believe things are gonna be better, much more rational, deeply secular, whereas hope looks at the evidence and says, "It doesn't look good at all. Doesn't look good at all. Gonna go beyond the evidence to create new possibilities based on visions that become contagious to allow people to engage in heroic actions always against the odds, no guarantee whatsoever." That's hope. I'm a prisoner of hope, though. Gonna die a prisoner of hope.

  Cornel West

  Believe, Odds, People

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• I was a prisoner, but I always felt free because I was not frightened So for me real freedom is freedom from fear.

  Aung San Suu Kyi

  Real, Frightened, Felt

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• The creatures with whom we share the planet and whom, in our arrogance, we wrongly patronize for being lesser forms, they are not brethren, they are not underlings, they are other nations, caught with ourselves in the net of life and time, fellow prisoners of the splendour and travail of the Earth.

  Henry Beston

  Sea, Fishing, Rivers

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• I had been pretty well made a prisoner by school, by society. I had been given this description of the world that I couldn't accept.

  Frederick Lenz

  School, World, Rama

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• The Lord showed me by vision and revelation what would happen if we did not stop this practice... all ordinances would be stopped... many men would be made prisoners... I went before the Lord, and I wrote what the Lord told me to write.

  John Andreas Widtsoe

  Writing, Men, Practice

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• As a prisoner of conscience committed to peaceful transition to democracy, I urge Europe to apply economic sanctions against Ethiopia. What short-term pain may result will be compensated by long-term gain. A pledge to re-engage energetically with a democratic Ethiopia would act as a catalyst for reform.

  Eskinder Nega

  Pain, Europe, Economic Sanctions

  "A prisoner of conscience's call for sanctions against Ethiopia" by Eskinder Nega, www.theguardian.com. September 6, 2013.

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• Prisoners do different things. Some write, some read. Some engage in athletic events and working out and some do all of that. Some get involved in the religious groups that they're part of. Some get involved in hobbies that are permitted in prison. There are plenty of ways to stay busy. You're never going to survive in prison unless you start getting busy.

  Jack Abramoff

  Religious, Writing, Work Out

  "Jack Abramoff's prison advice for Bob McDonnell". Interview with Jeremy Diamond, www.cnn.com. January 6, 2015.

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• Dear God, Please teach me to forgive myself and others. Remove the walls that keep love out, behind which I am a prisoner. Heal my guilt and remove my anger, that I might be reborn. Make gentle my heart and strong my spirit and show me how to love. Please show me how to honor myself. Please teach me how to listen to myself.
  "Please program my mind to know itself, that I might at last be free. Teach me to appreciate your spirit that lives within me. Show me how to be good to myself, that I might know more fully the goodness of life. Amen

  Marianne Williamson

  Strong, Wall, Heart

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• It is not the prisoners who need reformation, it is the prisons.

  Oscar Wilde

  Needs, Prison, Reformation

  Oscar Wilde, Isobel Murray (1999). “The Soul of Man, and Prison Writings”, p.164, Oxford University Press, USA

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• Only a free West can help the prisoners of today's left- and right-wing dictatorships.

  Barbara Amiel

  Wings, Today, West

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• You could eat sushi off my bookshelf. My cleaning regime is like a battleground. I'm Genghis Khan and my cleaning products are my Mongolian army and I take no prisoners. The rest of my life is an experiment in chaos so I like to keep my flat neat.

  Ryan Adams

  Army, Sushi, Cleaning

  "Is this it?". www.theguardian.com. November 14, 2008.

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• It is kindness that makes one strong and brave; and so we are kind to our prisoners.

  L. Frank Baum

  Strong, Kindness, Brave

  L. Frank Baum (2013). “Oz, the Complete Collection Volume 3 bind-up: The Patchwork Girl of Oz; Tik-Tok of Oz; The Scarecrow of Oz”, p.102, Simon and Schuster

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• The spring wakes us, nurtures us and revitalizes us. How often does your spring come? If you are a prisoner of the calendar, it comes once a year. If you are creating authentic power, it comes frequently, or very frequently.

  Gary Zukav

  Spring, Years, Creating

  "Gary Zukav On Spiritual Spring Cleaning" by Gary Zukav, www.huffingtonpost.com. May 18, 2012.

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• I began to feel that, in a sense, we were all prisoners of our own history.

  Roland Joffe

  Feels

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• Great stories, well written and heartfelt. Prisoner of SouthernRock is an engaging and entertaining celebration of southern music, musicians and characters.

  Chuck Leavell

  Character, Southern, Heartfelt

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• As so often happens in marriage, roles that had begun almost playfully, to give line and shape to our lives, had hardened like suits of armor and taken us prisoner.

  Molly Haskell

  Marriage, Taken, Suits Of Armor

  Molly Haskell (2000). “Love and Other Infectious Diseases: A Memoir”, p.12, iUniverse

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• This is really the common mentality of prisoners: they read with great attention all the articles that deal with illnesses and send away for treatises and "be your own doctor" or "emergency treatments" and end up by discovering that they have at least 300 or 400 illnesses, whose symptoms they are experiencing.

  Antonio Gramsci

  Doctors, Attention, Emergencies

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