Prisoner Quotes - Page 27

• I just find it absolutely amazing that the narrative about this situation is not put out publically in the press, because it doesn't suit the Western establishment narrative - that yes, the West has political prisoners, it's a reality, it's not just me, there's a bunch of other people as well.

  Julian Assange

  Reality, People, Political

  Source: www.zerohedge.com

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• It appears that the murder rate inside prisons is ten times higher than that outside prisons. It must be due to all those Kalashnikov rifles that are issued to prisoners upon their incarceration.

  Jeff Cooper

  Rifles, Prison, Murder

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• There was a war crimes trial because an American prisoner had been shot trying to escape. He had obviously been recaptured and shot, and that violated the Geneva Convention.

  Charles Guggenheim

  War, Trying, Trials

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

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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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• It would be better to drown these prisoners in the Dead Sea if possible, since that's the lowest point in the world.

  Avigdor Lieberman

  Israel, Sea, Would Be

  "Palestinian PM's leadership at stake when he pleads with Bush to help free detainees" by Chris McGreal, www.theguardian.com. July 25, 2003.

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

  Mason Cooley

  Unhappy, Unhappiness, Rounds

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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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• 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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• 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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• 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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• 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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• ... 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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• 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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• 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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• 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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• 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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• 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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• 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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• 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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