Prisoner Quotes - Page 28

• When you look at the startling ruins of Nuremberg, you are looking at a result of the war. When you look at the prisoners on view in the courthouse, you are looking at 22 of the causes.

  Janet Flanner

  War, Views, Looks

  "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• Every invalid is a prisoner.

  Marguerite Yourcenar

  Marguerite Yourcenar (1957). “Hadrian's Memoirs”

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• Terrorism is not a matter that can be left to law enforcement, with its deliberative process, built-in delays, and safeguards that may let the prisoner go free on procedural grounds.

  George P. Shultz

  Law, Enforcement, Delay

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• You feel like a prisoner if you don't create. You're jailed up inside of yourself.

  Edie Brickell

  Freedom, Feels, Ifs

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• If I'm tapping anything, it's the frustration of people who have something to say at work or home or in some social setting and just can't do it. I do it for them. I don't take prisoners.

  Neal Boortz

  Home, Frustration, People

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• In the marketing society, we seek fulfillment but settle for abundance. Prisoners of plenty, we have the freedom to consume instead of our freedom to find our place in the world.

  Clive Hamilton

  Marketing, World, Abundance

  Clive Hamilton (2004). “Growth Fetish”

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• Workers of France, it is for the freedom of the prisoners that you will go to work in Germany! It is for our country that you will go in large numbers!

  Pierre Laval

  Country, Numbers, Germany

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• The world is a philosophical prison and Man is the philosophical prisoner.

  Kedar Joshi

  God, Philosophical, Men

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• He that discovers himself, till he hath made himself master of his desires, lays himself open to his own ruin, and makes himself prisoner to his own tongue.

  Francis Quarles

  Desire, Tongue, Ruins

  Francis Quarles (1844). “Enchiridion Institutions, Essays and Maxims, political, moral & divine. Divided into four centuries. By Francis Quarles”, p.5

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• We're not prisoners of the past.

  Martin Seligman

  Past

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• I have committed myself to joy. I have come to realize that those who make space for joy, those who prefer nothing to joy, those who desire the utter reality, will most assuredly have it. We must not be afraid to announce it to refugees, slum dwellers, saddened prisoners, angry prophets. Now and then we must even announce it to ourselves. In this prison of now, in this cynical and sophisticated age, someone must believe in joy.

  Richard Rohr

  Believe, Reality, Space

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• The people have said yes to change and reform. The majority of the Palestinians have said yes to the slogan, 'Islam is the solution.' The people also voted in favor of our policy of resistance and against the occupation. Our policy is designed to defend Jerusalem, achieve the right of return for all refugees and the release of our prisoners.

  Ismail Haniyeh

  People, Islam, Majority

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• Since my life as a prisoner has begun I have heard the teachings of the white man's religion, and in many respects believe it to be better than the religion of my fathers

  Geronimo

  Father, Believe, Teaching

  Geronimo (2010). “My Life: The Autobiography of Geronimo”, p.153, Fireship Press

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• In this, our age of infamy Man's choice is but to be A tyrant, traitor, prisoner: No other choice has he.

  Alexander Pushkin

  Men, Tyrants, Choices

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• Ordinary men died, men of iron were taken prisoner: I only brought back with me men of bronze.

  Napoleon Bonaparte

  Taken, Army, Men

  "Napoleon's Cavalry and its Leaders". Book by David Johnson, 1978.

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• There was never in my mind a desire to give in on the subject of freeing the political prisoners.

  Robert Bourassa

  Giving, Political, Mind

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• If you surrender you shall be treated as prisoners of war, but if I haveto storm your works you may expect no quarter.

  Nathan Bedford Forrest

  War, Storm, May

  Thomas Jordan, Nathan Bedford Forrest, J P. Pryor (1868). “The campaigns of lieut.-gen. N.B. Forrest, and of Forrest's cavalry, by T. Jordan and J.P. Pryor”, p.411

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• You can judge a country by the way it treats its prisoners, and you can always judge a show by the way it treats people coming on to do these guest shots.

  Donal Logue

  Country, People, Judging

  "Donal Logue Talks SONS OF ANARCHY, How His Role Came About and His Possible Return Next Season, Plus His Experience in VIKINGS and SILENT NIGHT". Interview with Christina Radish, collider.com. December 4, 2012.

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• I had an empathy for prisoners and did concerts for them back when I thought that it would make a difference - you know? - that they really were there to be rehabilitated.

  Johnny Cash

  Differences, Empathy, Making A Difference

  Source: www.npr.org

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• To men who only aim at escaping felony, nothing short of the prisoner's dock is disgrace.

  George Eliot

  Men, Escaping, Docks

  George Eliot (1873). “Wise, Witty, and Tender Sayings in Prose and Verse: Selected from the Works of George Eliot”, p.290

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• Forbes magazine has named Mel Gibson this year's most powerful celebrity. ... Forbes' least powerful celebrity? [Miller displayed the widely circulated image from the Lynndie England photographs of a hooded Iraqi prisoner with wires attached to his outstretched arms] You're looking at him. Screw this guy. ... [He's a] bad guy.

  Dennis Miller

  Powerful, Years, Guy

  "The Dennis Miller Show", June 22, 2004.

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• Most men are prisoners at best, Who some strong habit every drag about Like chain and ball.

  Garrison Keillor

  Strong, Men, Balls

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• Those who build walls are their own prisoners.

  Ursula K. Le Guin

  Wall, Disapproval

  Ursula K. LeGuin (2015). “The Dispossessed”, p.143, Hachette UK

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• To revolt within society in order to make it a little better, to bring about certain reforms, is like the revolt of prisoners to improve their life within the prison walls; and such revolt is no revolt at all, it is just mutiny. Do you see the difference? Revolt within society is like the mutiny of prisoners who want better food, better treatment within the prison; but revolt born of understanding is an individual breaking away from society, and that is creative revolution.

  Jiddu Krishnamurti

  Wall, Order, Differences

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• The only subject fewer authentic Americans cared about than the treatment of prisoners at Guantanamo was World Cup Soccer. America is an epic global battle with ruthless savages who seek our destruction, and liberals are feeling sorry for the terrorists.

  Ann Coulter

  Soccer, Sorry, Epic

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