Prisoner Quotes - Page 29

• Not all political prisoners are innocents.

  David Remnick

  Political, Political Prisoners

  "Ask the Author Live: David Remnick on Mikhail Khodorkovsky". The New Yorker Live Chat, www.newyorker.com. December 10, 2010.

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• People like myself say, 'Fix the problem. Put him in the general [prison] population. The moral prisoners will deal with him in a way we don't have the nerve to do.'

  Stockwell Day

  Prison Population, People, Nerves

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• John Kerry announced his plan for how to handle those poor naked prisoners. His wife is going to buy them all a $1,000 Armani suit.

  Craig Kilborn

  Wife, Suits, Naked

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• Many of us who walk to and fro upon our usual tasks are prisoners drawing mental maps of escape.

  Loren Eiseley

  Drawing, Usual, Tasks

  Loren Eiseley (2016). “The Night Country: A Library of America eBook Classic”, p.165, Library of America

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• Concrete, Steel & Paint portrays the core values of restorative justice-respect, responsibility and relationships-expressed through art. it is art that involves victims, offenders and communities in a dialogue that is sometimes difficult and painful, sometimes reconciling, but always engaging. As one prisoner says in the film, 'We have come together collectively through art.' It will be a great discussion tool for college classes, community groups and others interested in issues of justice, community-building, conflict resolution and socially-engaged art.

  Howard Zehr

  Art, Responsibility, College

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• But black folks have never really been optimists. We've been prisoners of hope, and hope is qualitatively different from optimism in the way that there's a difference between The Blues and Lawrence Welk. The Blues and Jazz have to do with hope while the other is sugarcoated music which has to do with sentimental optimism.

  Cornel West

  Differences, Optimism, Black

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• People come from a certain generation and a certain whole way of looking at things, and you really do become a prisoner of your own world.

  Matthew Shipp

  People, Generations, World

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• The word which is best said came nearest to not being spoken at all, for it is cousin to a deed which the speaker could have better done. Nay, almost it must have taken the place of a deed by some urgent necessity, even by some misfortune, so that the truest writer will be some captive knight, after all. And perhaps the fates had such a design, when, having stored Raleigh so richly with the substance of life and experience, they made him a fast prisoner, and compelled him to make his words his deeds, and transfer to his expression the emphasis and sincerity of his action.

  Henry David Thoreau

  Inspirational, Cousin, Taken

  Henry David Thoreau (2014). “A Week On The Concord And Merrimack Rivers (Annotated Edition)”, p.87, Jazzybee Verlag

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• ... all Americans are the prisoners of racial prejudice.

  Shirley Chisholm

  Racism, Prejudice, Racial Prejudice

  Shirley Chisholm (2010). “Unbought and Unbossed: Expanded 40th Anniversary Edition”, p.151, Take Root Media

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• If you look at what the factors were going into the decision, of course there are competing interests and values. And one of our values is we bring everybody home off the battlefield the best we can. It doesn't matter how they ended up in a prisoner of war situation... It does not matter.

  Hillary Clinton

  War, Home, Reality

  "CNN Newsroom" with Christian Paul and Victor Blackwell, edition.cnn.com. June 7, 2014.

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• We are prisoners of the world's demented sink.
  The soft enchantments of our years of innocence
  Are harvested by accredited experience
  Our fondest memories soon turn to poison
  And only oblivion remains in season.

  John Ashbery

  Life, Memories, Years

  John Ashbery (1986). “Selected Poems”

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• Ninety percent of what most yoga teachers do is teach asana practice. While asana discharges stress and so forth, it was never intended to be a standalone practice. The true intent of yoga is personal transformation. What we get out of the privilege of teaching prisoners is the opportunity to focus on our own personal development. You can be of service, and, while helping others transform their lives, you have the deeper opportunity to transform your own. What we teach in prison is how we live our lives.

  James Fox

  Teacher, Stress, Teaching

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• That's for the best. Otherwise they might realize they're in prison. It can't be helped. You women are used to harems and prisons. A person can spend his whole life between four walls. If he doesn't think or feel that he's a prisoner, then he's not a prisoner. But then there are people for whom the whole planet is a prison, who see the infinite expanse of the universe, the millions of stars and galaxies that remain forever inaccessible to them. And that awareness makes them the greatest prisoners of time and space.

  Vladimir Bartol

  Stars, Wall, Thinking

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• We are the prisoners of ideas. They catch us up for moments into their heaven, and so fully engage us, that we take no thought forthe morrow, gaze like children, without an effort to make them our own.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Children, Ideas, Effort

  Ralph Waldo Emerson (1979). “Emerson's Literary Criticism”, p.61, U of Nebraska Press

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• The unhappy are prisoners of a single round of thought.

  Mason Cooley

  Unhappy, Unhappiness, Rounds

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• If trees can create art, if they can encircle the globe seven times in one year, if prisoners can grow plants and raise frogs, then perhaps there are other static entities that we hold inside ourselves, like grief, like addictions, like racism, that can also change.

  Nalini Nadkarni

  Art, Grief, Years

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• Many working families are both prisoners and architects of the time bind in which they find themselves.

  Arlie Russell Hochschild

  Time, Architect

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• And the ideologies trailed after these impossible events like condemned prisoners, as ideologies do when they've had their day. Because they have no heart of their own. They're the whores and angels of our striving selves.

  John le Carre

  Heart, Angel, Self

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• There are few prisoners more closely guarded than princes.

  Christina, Queen of Sweden

  Royalty, Guarded

  Christina (Queen of Sweden) (1753). “The Works of Christina Queen of Sweden: Containing Maxims and Sentences in Twelve Centuries, and Reflections on the Life and Actions of Alexander the Great”, p.98

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• If any of my men kill prisoners, I'll kill them.

  Rutherford B. Hayes

  War, Men, Ifs

  Rutherford B. Hayes (2016). “Conspicuous Gallantry: Civil War Diary and Letters of Rutherford B. Hayes (Abridged)”, p.63, BIG BYTE BOOKS

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• Crime is a social problem, and education is the only real deterrent. Look at all of us in prison; we were all truants and dropouts, a failure of the educational system. Look at your truancy problem, and you're looking at your future prisoners. Put the money there.

  Wilbert Rideau

  Teacher, Real, Educational

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• I find nothing healthful or exalting in the smooth conventions of society. I do not like the close air of saloons. I begin to suspect myself to be a prisoner, though treated with all this courtesy and luxury. I pay a destructive tax in my conformity.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Air, Luxury, Pay

  Ralph Waldo Emerson, David Mikics (2012). “The Annotated Emerson”, p.280, Harvard University Press

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• The Prisoner's Wife echoes Edwidge Danticat's Farming of the Bones in the urgency in which it reminds us of the possibility of love even amidst the ruins. This is a terrifying, heart-breaking and, ultimately, important book.

  Junot Diaz

  Book, Heart, Echoes

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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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