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• Remember the story of the Spanish prisoner. For many years he was confined in a dungeon... One day it occurred to him to push the door of his cell. It was open; and it had never been locked.

  Winston Churchill

  Doors, Cells, Years

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• We are all prisoner, but the name of our cure is not freedom

  Iris Murdoch

  Names, Cures

  Iris Murdoch (1987). “The Unicorn”, p.76, Penguin

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• As long as you hate your enemy, a jail door is closed and a prisoner is taken. But when you try to understand and release your foe from your hatred, then the prisoner is released and that prisoner is you.

  Max Lucado

  God, Christian, Religious

  Max Lucado (2010). “Chronicles of the Cross Collection”, p.243, Harper Collins

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• Workers of France, it is for the freedom of the prisoners that you will go to work in Germany! It is for our country that you will go in large numbers!

  Pierre Laval

  Country, Numbers, Germany

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• Oxigen [oxygen], as you well know, is my hero as well as my foe, and being not only strong but inexhaustible in strategies and full of tricks, I was obliged to call up all my forces to lay hold of him, and make the subtle Being my prisoner.

  Christian Friedrich Schonbein

  Strong, Hero, Science

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• There is about as much educational benefit to be gained in studying dolphins in captivity as there would be studying mankind by only observing prisoners held in solitary confinement.

  Jacques Yves Cousteau

  Educational, Dolphins, Captivity

  "Marvel at wild animals -- from a distance" by Chris Palmer, www.cnn.com. February 26, 2010.

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• Forces of good and evil are massed and armed and opposed as rarely before in history. Freedom is pitted against slavery; lightness against the dark... In the final choice, a soldier's pack is not so heavy a burden as a prisoner's chains.

  Dwight D. Eisenhower

  War, Dark, Evil

  1953 Inaugural address, 20 Jan.

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• The degree of a nation’s civilization can be seen in the way it treats its prisoners

  Fyodor Dostoevsky

  Civilization, Degrees, Way

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• When a prisoner sees the door of his dungeon open, he dashes for it without stopping to think where he shall get his dinner outside.

  George Bernard Shaw

  Freedom, Thinking, Doors

  George Bernard Shaw (2007). “Back to Methuselah”, p.55, 1st World Publishing

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• Prejudice makes prisoners of both the hated and the hater.

  Randy Shilts

  Prejudice, Hated

  Randy Shilts (2011). “And the Band Played On: Politics, People and the AIDS Epidemic”, p.496, Souvenir Press

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• No one complains of being a prisoner of love who has ever been a prisoner of loneliness.

  Robert Breault

  Love, Loneliness, Complaining

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• Your notions of friendship are new to me; I believe every man is born with his quantum, and he cannot give to one without robbing another. I very well know to whom I would give the first place in my friendship, but they are not in the way, I am condemned to another scene, and therefore I distribute it in pennyworths to those about me, and who displease me least, and should do the same to my fellow prisoners if I were condemned to a jail.

  Jonathan Swift

  Friends, Believe, Men

  Jonathan Swift, Thomas Roscoe (1859). “The Works of Jonathan Swift, D.D.: With Copious Notes and Additions and a Memoir of the Author”, p.359

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• A ship in dock, surrounded by quays and the walls of warehouses, has the appearance of a prisoner meditating upon freedom in the sadness of a free spirit put under restraint.

  Joseph Conrad

  Wall, Sadness, Free Spirit

  Joseph Conrad (2015). “Under Western Eyes (Unabridged Deluxe Edition): An Intriguing Tale of Espionage and Betrayal in Czarist Russia From the Renowned Author of Heart of Darkness, Nostromo & The Secret Agent (Including Author’s Memoirs, Letters & Critical Essays)”, p.475, e-artnow

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• Hemingway was a prisoner of his style. No one can talk like the characters in Hemingway except the characters in Hemingway. His style in the wildest sense finally killed him.

  William S. Burroughs

  Character, Style

  William S. Burroughs (1985). “The Adding Machine: Collected Essays”, Calder Publications

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• The general public knows practically nothing about the prison and appears to be little concerned about how it is managed and how prisoners are treated.

  Eugene V. Debs

  People, Littles, Prison

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• Without history we are the prisoners of the accident of where and when we were born.

  Donald Kagan

  Born, Accidents

  Interview with Bruce Cole, www.neh.gov. May/June 2005.

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• New fathers, political prisoners, traumatised presidential aides, resolute schoolboys, MEPs addressing unfriendly chambers - we all find that Shakespeare has magically anticipated our precise circumstances. How he was possible, I still don't understand; but there isn't a day I'm not grateful that he speaks to me in my own language.

  Daniel Hannan

  Father, Grateful, Presidential

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• Each man is his own prisoner, in solitary confinement for life.

  Robert A. Heinlein

  Men, Prison, Solitary

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• There is none of my uncle's marks upon you; he taught me how to know a man in love; in which cage of rushes I am sure you are not prisoner.

  William Shakespeare

  Uncles, Men, Taught

  William Shakespeare, Cynthia Marshall (2004). “As You Like It”, p.186, Cambridge University Press

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• The dream of a writer is to be surprised by his characters. All of a sudden, they are living their own lives; they are not prisoners anymore. . . . Tati taught me how to observe, how to sit in a cafe in Paris and to look at the passersby and to guess what their story is, even a little moment of their story.

  Jean-Claude Carriere

  Dream, Character, Paris

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• It is not only the prisoners who grow coarse and hardened from corporal punishment, but those as well who perpetrate the act or are present to witness it.

  Anton Chekhov

  Math, Punishment, Coarse

  "A Journey to Sakhalin". Book by Anton Chekhov, 1895.

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• This is what happens in prisons I think you're not giving the prisoners the credit for how ingenious they are.

  Philip Davies

  Stupid, Thinking, Giving

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• Whatever we think of the past, we must not be prisoners to it.

  Barack Obama

  Past, Thinking

  A New Beginning: Speech at Cairo University, delivered 4 June 2009, Cairo, Egypt

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• This is a wonderful joke to play upon a prisoner, to promise forgiveness.

  Kate DiCamillo

  Play, Promise, Wonderful

  Kate DiCamillo (2013). “The Essential Kate DiCamillo Collection”, Candlewick Press

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• The Communist torturers often said, 'There is no God, no hereafter, no punishment for evil. We can do what we wish.' I have heard one torturer even say, 'I thank God, in whom I don't believe, that I have lived to this hour when I can express all the evil in my heart.' He expressed it in unbelievable brutality and torture inflected on prisoners.

  Richard Wurmbrand

  Believe, Heart, Punishment

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