Prisoner Quotes - Page 2

• An artist must never be a prisoner. Prisoner? An artist should never be a prisoner of himself, prisoner of style, prisoner of reputation, prisoner of success, etc.

  Henri Matisse

  Art, Style, Etc

  Henri Matisse (2011). “Matisse: Drawing Life”, Queensland Art Gallery

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• We are products of our past, but we don't have to be prisoners of it.

  Rick Warren

  Change, Past, Growth

  Twitter post from Oct 15, 2010

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• A cement mixer collided with a prison van on the Kingston Pass. Motorists are asked to be on the lookout for 16 hardened criminals.

  Ronnie Corbett

  Criminals, Prison, Funny Jokes

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• Everyone is a prisoner of his own experiences. No one can eliminate prejudices - just recognize them.

  Edward R. Murrow

  Honesty, Hate, Integrity

  Television broadcast, December 31, 1955.

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• I am a prisoner of a gaudy and unlivable present, where all forms of human society have reached an extreme of their cycle and there is no imagining what new forms they may assume.

  Italo Calvino

  May, Assuming, Form

  Italo Calvino (2010). “Invisible Cities”, p.123, Random House

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• In the final choice a soldier's pack is not so heavy as a prisoner's chains.

  Dwight D. Eisenhower

  Strength, Peace, War

  Eisenhower, Dwight D. (1960). “Public Papers of the Presidents of the United States: Dwight D. Eisenhower, 1953”, p.5, Best Books on

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  Every time you are tempted to react in the same old way, ask if you want to be a prisoner of the past or a pioneer of the future.

  Deepak Chopra

  Inspirational, Inspiring, Break Up

  FaceBook post by Deepak Chopra from Dec 16, 2011

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• I asked a man in prison once how he happened to be there and he said he had stolen a pair of shoes. I told him if he had stolen a railroad he would be a United States Senator.

  Mother Jones

  Men, Shoes, Economic Inequality

  "Autobiography of Mother Jones" by Mary Harris Jones, edited by Mary Field Parton, (p. 46), 2004.

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• I prayed to dispel my fear, until suddenly, and I do not know how the idea came to me, I began to pray for others. I prayed for everyone who came into my thoughts - - people with whom I had traveled, those who had been in prison with me, my school friends of years ago. I do not know how long I continued my prayer, but this I do know - - my fear was gone! Interceding for others had released me!

  Corrie Ten Boom

  Prayer, Fear, School

  Corrie ten Boom, Judith Couchman (2003). “Anywhere He Leads Me”

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• Modern man is a prisoner who thinks he is free because he refrains from touching the walls of his dungeon.

  Nicolas Gomez Davila

  Wall, Freedom, Men

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• No one truly knows a nation until one has been inside its jails. A nation should not be judged by how it treats its highest citizens but its lowest ones.

  Nelson Mandela

  Inspiring, Inspiration, Compassion

  "Long Walk to Freedom". Book by Nelson Mandela, 1995.

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• The word 'religion' takes on a sinister cast when one examines its root, religare, meaning 'to bind,' which in turn means 'to hold, to make prisoner, to restrain.

  Annie Laurie Gaylor

  Mean, Roots, Religion

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• What will a Hillary Clinton presidency look like? The answer by now seems obvious: It will look like her presidential campaign, which in turn looks increasingly like the first Clinton presidency. Which is to say, high-minded ideals, lowered execution, half truths, outright lies (and imaginary flights), take-no prisoners politics, some very good policy ideas, a presidential spouse given to wallowing in anger and self-pity, and a succession of aides and surrogates pushed under the bus when things don't go right. Which is to say, often.

  Carl Bernstein

  Lying, Self, Ideas

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• When you release the wrongdoer from the wrong, you cut a malignant tumor out of your inner life. You set a prisoner free, but you discover that the real prisoner was yourself.

  Lewis B. Smedes

  Life, Freedom, Real

  "Forgiveness: You Can’t Have It Both Ways" by Maria Mayo, www.huffingtonpost.com. May 22, 2012.

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• If you care too much about what other people think, you will always be their prisoner. Lao Tzu

  Avan Jogia

  Thinking, People, Laos

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• As you look at me and listen to me, please remember the often repeated truth that one prisoner of conscience is one too many.

  Aung San Suu Kyi

  Looks, Remember, Look At Me

  Aung San Suu Kyi's Nobel Lecture in Oslo, Norway, www.nobelprize.org. June 16, 2012.

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• Free all the prisoners everywhere, all they want is truth and justice, all they need is love and care.

  John Lennon

  Peace, Justice, Special

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  The past is a great place and I don't want to erase it or to regret it, but I don't want to be its prisoner either.

  Mick Jagger

  Clever, Regret, Past

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• Arrival = Prison, and the artist must never be a prisoner.

  Henri Matisse

  Art, Prison, Arrivals

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• As I travel through my country, people often ask me how it feels to have been imprisoned in my home -first for six years, then for 19 months. How could I stand the separation from family and friends? It is ironic, I say, that in an authoritarian state it is only the prisoner of conscience who is genuinely free. Yes, we have given up our right to a normal life. But we have stayed true to that most precious part of our humanity-our conscience.

  Aung San Suu Kyi

  Country, Home, Years

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• I want to confess as best I can, but my heart is void. The void is a mirror. I see my face and feel loathing and horror. My indifference to men has shut me out. I live now in a world of ghosts, a prisoner in my dreams.

  Ingmar Bergman

  Dream, Heart, Men

  "Fictional character: Antonius Block". "The Seventh Seal", 1957.

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• I had a song called "Folsom Prison Blues" that was a hit just before "I Walk The Line." And the people in Texas heard about it at the state prison and got to writing me letters asking me to come down there. So I responded and then the warden called me and asked if I would come down and do a show for the prisoners in Texas.

  Johnny Cash

  Song, Writing, Texas

  Source: wrvo.org

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• Of course, no state accepts [that it should call] the people it is imprisoning or detaining for political reasons, political prisoners. They don't call them political prisoners in China, they don't call them political prisoners in Azerbaijan and they don't call them political prisoners in the United States, U.K. or Sweden; it is absolutely intolerable to have that kind of self-perception.

  Julian Assange

  Self, Azerbaijan, People

  Source: www.zerohedge.com

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• Prepare yourself for the coming astral journey of death by daily riding in the balloon of God-perception. Through delusion you are perceiving yourself as a bundle of flesh and bones, which at best is a nest of troubles. Meditate unceasingly, that you may quickly behold yourself as the Infinite Essence, free from every form of misery. Cease being a prisoner of the body; using the secret key of KRIYA, learn to escape into Spirit.

  Lahiri Mahasaya

  Journey, Keys, Essence

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