Prisoner Quotes - Page 28

• 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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• 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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• 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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• 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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• 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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• Karma is often wrongly confused with the notion of a fixed destiny. It is more like an accumulation of tendencies that can lock us into particular behavior patterns, which themselves result in further accumulations of tendencies of a similar nature... But is is not necessary to be a prisoner of old karma.

  Jon Kabat-Zinn

  Karma, Confused, Destiny

  "Radiant Mind: Essential Buddhist Teachings and Texts". Book by Jean Smith, 1999.

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• We are all prisoners at one time or another in our lives, prisoners to ourselves or to the expectations of those around us. It is a burden that all people endure, that all people despise, and that few people ever learn to escape.

  R. A. Salvatore

  People, Expectations, Burden

  R.A. Salvatore (2009). “Exile: The Legend of Drizzt”, p.176, Wizards of the Coast

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• And in the general hardening of outlook that set in ... practices which had been long abandoned ... -- imprisonment without trial, the use of war prisoners as slaves, public executions, torture to extract confessions, the use of hostages and the deportation of whole populations -- not only became common again, but were tolerated and even defended by people who considered themselves enlightened and progressive.

  George Orwell

  War, Practice, Long

  George Orwell (2003). “1984”, Plume Books

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• At Poltersberg, there is a lake similarly cursed. If you throw a stone into it, a dreadful storm immediately arises, and the whole neighboring district quakes to its centre. 'Tis the devils kept prisoner there.

  Martin Luther

  Religious, Humor, Lakes

  Martin Luther (1862). “The Life of Luther Written by Himself”, p.321

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• There was never in my mind a desire to give in on the subject of freeing the political prisoners.

  Robert Bourassa

  Giving, Political, Mind

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• If you surrender you shall be treated as prisoners of war, but if I haveto storm your works you may expect no quarter.

  Nathan Bedford Forrest

  War, Storm, May

  Thomas Jordan, Nathan Bedford Forrest, J P. Pryor (1868). “The campaigns of lieut.-gen. N.B. Forrest, and of Forrest's cavalry, by T. Jordan and J.P. Pryor”, p.411

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• To men who only aim at escaping felony, nothing short of the prisoner's dock is disgrace.

  George Eliot

  Men, Escaping, Docks

  George Eliot (1873). “Wise, Witty, and Tender Sayings in Prose and Verse: Selected from the Works of George Eliot”, p.290

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• Forbes magazine has named Mel Gibson this year's most powerful celebrity. ... Forbes' least powerful celebrity? [Miller displayed the widely circulated image from the Lynndie England photographs of a hooded Iraqi prisoner with wires attached to his outstretched arms] You're looking at him. Screw this guy. ... [He's a] bad guy.

  Dennis Miller

  Powerful, Years, Guy

  "The Dennis Miller Show", June 22, 2004.

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• Most men are prisoners at best, Who some strong habit every drag about Like chain and ball.

  Garrison Keillor

  Strong, Men, Balls

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• Those who build walls are their own prisoners.

  Ursula K. Le Guin

  Wall, Disapproval

  Ursula K. LeGuin (2015). “The Dispossessed”, p.143, Hachette UK

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• Technologies of easy travel "give us wings; they annihilate the toil and dust of pilgrimage; they spiritualize travel! Transition being so facile, what can be any man's inducement to tarry in one spot? Why, therefore, should he build a more cumbrous habitation than can readily be carried off with him? Why should he make himself a prisoner for life in brick, and stone, and old worm-eaten timber, when he may just as easily dwell, in one sense, nowhere,-in a better sense, wherever the fit and beautiful shall offer him a home?

  Nathaniel Hawthorne

  Beautiful, Home, Technology

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• Right now you are a prisoner of each application you use. You have only the options that were given you by the developer of that application.

  Ted Nelson

  Use, Given, Application

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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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• 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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• 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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• 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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• Mordovian prisoners are afraid of their own shadows. They are completely terrified.

  Nadezhda Tolokonnikova

  Shadow, Terrified

  "Pussy Riot's Nadezhda Tolokonnikova: Why I have gone on hunger strike" by Nadezhda Tolokonnikova, www.theguardian.com. September 23, 2013.

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• Johnny Cash was a rebel, not only just in the musical sense, but he was somebody who was for the people, and an advocate for labor, for workers, for prisoners, people who have been trapped by the criminal justice system.

  Michael Franti

  People, Justice, Musical

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• Like a prisoner awaiting his release, like a schoolboy when the end of term is near, like a migrant bird ready to fly south ... I long to be gone.

  Malcolm Muggeridge

  Long, Bird, Migrants

  Malcolm Muggeridge (2005). “Conversion: The Spiritual Journey of a Twentieth Century Pilgrim”, p.149, Wipf and Stock Publishers

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• It is the everlasting disgrace of the Clinton Administration that it has chosen to betray America's heritage as a beacon of freedom, and instead to act as the ally and agent of a police state in retrieving one of its prisoners.

  David Horowitz

  America, Police, Allies

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