Prisoner Quotes - Page 26

• I believe that it is only through empathy, that the pain experienced by an Algerian woman, a North Korean dissident, a Rwandan child or an Iraqi prisoner, becomes real to me and not just passing news. And it is at times like this when I ask myself, am I prepared - like Huck Finn - to give up Sunday school heaven for the kind of hell that Huck chose?

  Azar Nafisi

  Children, Giving Up, Pain

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• First doubt your doubts before you doubt your faith. We must never allow doubt to hold us prisoner and keep us from the divine love, peace, and gifts that come through faith in the Lord Jesus Christ.

  Dieter F. Uchtdorf

  Jesus, Doubt, Firsts

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• As our country bled . . . its leader's wife came to this podium piously to call for a new human order, this when thousands of Filipinos were political prisoners.

  Corazon Aquino

  Country, Order, Wife

  Corazon Cojuangco Aquino (1986). “Democracy by the Ways of Democracy: Speeches of President Corazon C. Aquino, Official Visit to the United States of America September 15-24, 1986”

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• Cease being a prisoner of the body; using the secret key of Kriya, learn to escape into Spirit.

  Lahiri Mahasaya

  Keys, Secret, Body

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• Fill your bowl to the brim and it will spill. Keep sharpening your knife and it will blunt. Chase after money and security and your heart will never unclench. Care about people's approval and you will be their prisoner. Do your work, then step back. The only path to serenity.

  Laozi

  Money, Heart, Knives

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• Passion has overthrown tyrants and freed prisoners and slaves. Passion has brought justice where there was savagery. Passion has created freedom where there was nothing but fear. Passion has helped souls rise from the ashes of their horrible lives and build something better, stronger, more beautiful.

  Jim Butcher

  Beautiful, Passion, Tyrants

  Jim Butcher (2010). “The Dresden Files Collection 7-12”, p.1694, Penguin

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• All modern U.S. presidents are perforce politicians, prisoners of their past pronouncements, their party, their constituency, and their colleagues.

  Tony Judt

  Party, Past, President

  Tony Judt (2008). “Reappraisals: Reflections on the Forgotten Twentieth Century”, p.299, Penguin

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• We need to 'go out,' then, in order to experience our own anointing, its power and its redemptive efficacy: to the 'outskirts' where there is suffering, bloodshed, blindness that longs for sight, and prisoners in thrall to many evil masters.

  Pope Francis

  Sight, Order, Evil

  Pope Francis (2016). “Men of Mercy: Pope Francis Speaks to Priests”, p.12, BookBaby

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• It was during those long and lonely years that my hunger for the freedom of my own people became a hunger for the freedom of all people, white and black. I knew as well as I knew anything that the oppressor must be liberated just as surely as the oppressed. A man who takes away another man's freedom is a prisoner of hatred, he is locked behind the bars of prejudice and narrow-mindedness. I am not truly free if I am taking away someone else's freedom, just as surely as I am not free when my freedom is taken from me. The oppressed and the oppressor alike are robbed of their humanity.

  Nelson Mandela

  Lonely, Taken, Men

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

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• Due to the fact that I experienced personally the situation of a political prisoner, I have an historical commitment to all those that were or are prisoners just because they expressed their views, their public opinion, their own opinions.

  Dilma Rousseff

  Commitment, Views, Political

  "Dilma Rousseff: can Brazil's fighter survive the turmoil?" by Jonathan Watts and Bruce Douglas, www.theguardian.com. August 22, 2015.

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• Depression is a prison where you are both the suffering prisoner and the cruel jailer.

  Dorothy Rowe

  Inspirational, Depression, Depressing

  Dorothy Rowe (2003). “Depression: The Way Out of Your Prison”, p.1, Psychology Press

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• The African prisoners are orderly and peaceable among themselves.

  Lewis Tappan

  Orderly

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• Most of the prisoners told the interpreter that they are from Mandingo.

  Lewis Tappan

  Interpreter

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• One of the men attached to the prison was the occasion of great amusement on the part of the prisoners, as well as the spectators, by taking a large lump of ice to show these strangers from the tropics

  Lewis Tappan

  Men, Ice, Prison

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• The curiosity to see the prisoners appears to be unabated

  Lewis Tappan

  Curiosity

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• Once upon a time there were mass media, and they were wicked, of course, and there was a guilty party. Then there were the virtuous voices that accused the criminals. And Art (ah, what luck!) offered alternatives, for those who were not prisoners to the mass media.

  Umberto Eco

  Art, Media, Voice

  Umberto Eco (2014). “Travels in Hyperreality”, p.161, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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• Avoid trouble with those who are fanatics; they remain imprisoned in exclusivism and deserve compassion just as any other prisoner.

  Chico Xavier

  Compassion, Trouble, Fanatics

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• My obsessions used to be my protectors, but now they have taken me prisoner.

  Mason Cooley

  Taken, Obsession, Used

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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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• 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 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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• In my judgement, this new paradigm renders obsolete Geneva's strict limitations on questioning of enemy prisoners and renders quaint some of its provisions.

  Alberto Gonzales

  Judgement, Enemy, Politics

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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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• Love cannot be held prisoner because it is a river and will overflow its banks.

  Paulo Coelho

  Love, Rivers, Overflow

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• The unfortunate are not as miserable as the world imagines. That urchins, the handicapped, orphans, prisoners and others are much happier than people think. And that language is a trap, that a dark evolutionary force has created languages to limit human thought. That writers are overrated fools. That all religions come from ancient comic writers. And the ultimate goal of comics is same as the purpose of humanity – to break free from language.

  Manu Joseph

  Dark, Thinking, People

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