Prisoner Quotes

• We are all here for some special reason. Stop being a prisoner of your past. Become the architect of your future.

  Robin Sharma

  Life, Positive, Time

  Robin Sharma (2016). “The Robin Sharma Pack”, p.214, Jaico Publishing House

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• To forgive is to set a prisoner free and discover that the prisoner was you.

  Lewis B. Smedes

  Inspirational, Happiness, Inspiring

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• A prisoner of war is a man who tries to kill you and fails, and then asks you not to kill him.

  Winston Churchill

  Funny, Sarcastic, Laughter

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• Ester asked why people are sad. "That’s simple," says the old man. "They are the prisoners of their personal history. Everyone believes that the main aim in life is to follow a plan. They never ask if that plan is theirs or if it was created by another person. They accumulate experiences, memories, things, other people's ideas, and it is more than they can possibly cope with. And that is why they forget their dreams.

  Paulo Coelho

  Life, Dream, Memories

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• Oh, the inmates and the prisoners I found they were my kind And it was there inside the bars I found my peace of mind But the jails they were too crowded Institutions overflowed So they turned me loose to walk upon Life's hurried tangled road

  Bob Dylan

  Jail, Tangled, Mind

  Song: Ballad of Donald White

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• Freedom of mind is the real freedom. A person whose mind is not free though he may not be in chains, is a slave, not a free man. One whose mind is not free, though he may not be in prison, is a prisoner and not a free man. One whose mind is not free though alive, is no better than dead. Freedom of mind is the proof of one's existence.

  B. R. Ambedkar

  Real, Men, Mind

  "Political Science for Civil Services Main Examination". Book by N.D. Arora, 2010.

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• The widespread abuse of prisoners is a virtually foolproof indication that politicians are trying to impose a system--whether political, religious or economic--that is rejected by large numbers of the people they are ruling. Just as ecologists define ecosystems by the presence of certain "indicator species" of plants and birds, torture is an indicator species of a regime that is engaged in a deeply anti-democratic project, even if that regime happens to have come to power through elections.

  Naomi Klein

  Religious, Numbers, Ecosystems

  Naomi Klein (2010). “The Shock Doctrine: The Rise of Disaster Capitalism”, p.156, Macmillan

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• 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

  Eye, Men, Blue

  The Ballad of Reading Gaol pt. 1, st. 3 (1898)

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• Under a government which imprisons any unjustly, the true place for a just man is also a prison.

  Henry David Thoreau

  War, Men, History

  Civil Disobedience (1849)

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• In prison, those things withheld from and denied to the prisoner become precisely what he wants most of all.

  Eldridge Cleaver

  Jail, Want, Prison

  Eldridge Cleaver (2015). “Target Zero: A Life in Writing”, p.42, Macmillan

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  After climbing a great hill, one only finds that there are many more hills to climb.

  Nelson Mandela

  Inspirational, Motivational, Inspiring

  Twitter post from Oct 27, 2015

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• Better to die fighting for freedom then be a prisoner all the days of your life.

  Bob Marley

  Encouraging, Memorial Day, Freedom

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

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• Men are not prisoners of fate, but only prisoners of their own minds.

  Franklin D. Roosevelt

  Inspirational, Motivational, Success

  Roosevelt, Franklin D. (1941). “Public Papers of the Presidents of the United States: F.D. Roosevelt, 1939, Volume 8”, p.242, Best Books on

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• We are victims of evil customs. It is a crime against humanity that our women are shut up within the four walls of the houses as prisoners. There is no sanction anywhere for the deplorable condition in which our women have to live.

  Muhammad Ali Jinnah

  Wall, Evil, House

  Speech at a meeting of the Muslim University Union, Aligarh, March 10, 1944.

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  For to be free is not merely to cast off one's chains, but to live in a way that respects and enhances the freedom of others.

  Nelson Mandela

  Inspirational, Positive, Inspiring

  Nelson Mandela (2011). “Nelson Mandela By Himself: The Authorised Book of Quotations”, p.158, Pan Macmillan

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• Forgiveness is unlocking the door to set someone free and realising you were the prisoner!

  Max Lucado

  Inspirational, Forgiveness, Doors

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• Laughter and irony are at heart reminders that we are not prisoners in this world, but voyagers through it.

  Eben Alexander

  Inspirational, Life, Laughter

  Eben Alexander (2012). “Proof of Heaven: A Neurosurgeon's Journey Into the Afterlife”, p.157, Simon and Schuster

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• Forgiveness is setting the prisoner free, only to find out that the prisoner was me.

  Corrie Ten Boom

  Settings, Setting

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• The greatest prison people live in is the fear of what other people think.

  David Icke

  Being Yourself, Fear, Thinking

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• I have walked that long road to freedom. I have tried not to falter; I have made missteps along the way. But I have discovered the secret that after climbing a great hill, one only finds that there are many more hills to climb. I have taken a moment here to rest, to steal a view of the glorious vista that surrounds me, to look back on the distance I have come. But I can only rest for a moment, for with freedom come responsibilities, and I dare not linger, for my long walk is not ended.

  Nelson Mandela

  Inspirational, Inspiring, Wisdom

  FaceBook post by Nelson Mandela from Mar 01, 2017

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• I will not be pushed, filed, stamped, indexed, briefed, debriefed, or numbered !My life is my own.

  Patrick McGoohan

  Life Is, My Own

  "The Prisoner". TV Series, www.imdb.com. 1967 - 1968.

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• Now there is no taboo; everything is allowed. But one cannot simply go back to tonality, it’s not the way. We must find a way of neither going back nor continuing the avant-garde. I am in a prison: one wall is the avant-garde, the other wall is the past, and I want to escape.

  Gyorgy Ligeti

  Wall, Past, Escaping

  "Ligeti" by Alex Ross, www.therestisnoise.com. June 12, 2000.

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• I have never regarded any man as my superior, either in my life outside or inside prison.

  Nelson Mandela

  Men, Jail, Prison

  Twitter post from Mar 04, 2017

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• Prison life, fortunately, I spent a lot of years, about 18 years with other prisoners, and, as I say, they enriched your soul.

  Nelson Mandela

  Years, Soul, Prison Life

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• The line that connects the bombing of civilian populations to the mountain removed by strip mining ... to the tortured prisoner seems to run pretty straight. We're living, it seems, in the culmination of a long warfare - warfare against human beings, other creatures and the Earth itself.

  Wendell Berry

  Running, Long, Mountain

  Wendell Berry's Commencement Address at Lindsey Wilson College in Columbia, Kentucky, May 14, 2005.

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