Prisoner Quotes - Page 9

• Visual supervision is a joke for development workers. Visual supervision is for prisoners.

  Tom DeMarco

  Development, Supervision, Workers

  Tom DeMarco, Tim Lister (2013). “Peopleware: Productive Projects and Teams”, p.164, Addison-Wesley

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• No person shall be restrained of his liberty but by regular process from a court of justice, authorized by a general law. . . . On complaint of an unlawful imprisonment to any judge whatsoever, he shall have the prisoner immediately brought before him and shall discharge him if his imprisonment be unlawful. The officer in whose custody the prisoner is shall obey the order of the judge, and both judge and officer shall be responsible civilly and criminally for a failure of duty herein.

  Thomas Jefferson

  Law, Order, Justice

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• Auschwitz was one of the wealthiest places in the world. Everyone who was deported there had been in such a hurry that they were only able to take along the things they loved the most. Well, of course, a musician would take along her instrument. But then they would take these precious possessions away from the prisoners once they arrived. All these things were kept in a part of the camp the prisoners called "Canada." It was like a giant warehouse.

  Anita Lasker-Wallfisch

  Musician, Giants, Precious Possessions

  Source: www.spiegel.de

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• The torture and other sadistic abuses of prisoners in Iraq have done immense damage already to America's reputation in the world, and the worst may be yet to come. Shamefully, we now learn that Saddam's torture chambers reopened under new management: U.S. management.

  Edward Kennedy

  Iraq, America, Abuse

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• Only a prisoner who has been confined for long behind high walk can appreciate the extraordinary psychological value of these outside walks and open views.

  Jawaharlal Nehru

  Views, Long, Appreciate

  Jawaharlal Nehru (1955). “Jawaharlal Nehru, an autobiography: with musings on recent events in India”

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• 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.

  Nelson Mandela

  Men, Hatred, Prejudice

  Nelson Mandela (2012). “Notes to the Future: Words of Wisdom”, p.44, Simon and Schuster

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• Private Manning is the world's pre-eminent prisoner of conscience, having remained true to the Nuremberg principle that every soldier has the right to 'a moral choice.' His suffering mocks the notion of the land of the free.

  John Pilger

  Land, Choices, Soldier

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• One prisoner of conscience is one too many.

  Aung San Suu Kyi

  Conscience

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

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• Our motto should be: let us make peace so that we can concentrate on the really important work that needs to be done. That is, alleviating the plight of the poor and the defenceless, for as long as most of humanity feels the pain of poverty we all remain prisoners.

  Nelson Mandela

  Pain, Long, Humanity

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• The world is starving for leaders who are not afraid to dismantle the sacred and precious beliefs, which hold us as prisoners of the past.

  Bryant H. McGill

  Past, Leader, World

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• Mud can make you prisoner and the plains can make you dry. Snow can burn your eyes but only people make you cry.

  Alan Jay Lerner

  Eye, People, Snow

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• There is no way around the contradictions and dangers inherent in Israel's decision to free over 1,000 prisoners in order to liberate Gilad Shalit.

  Elliott Abrams

  Israel, Order, Decision

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• The fate of all of us here has been to know that we are prisoners of power. No one knows why us in particular, but what a great fortune!

  Carlos Castaneda

  Fate, Fortune, Particular

  Carlos Castaneda (2013). “Tales of Power”, p.287, Simon and Schuster

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• If you're going to be a prisoner of your own mind, the least you can do is make sure it's well furnished.

  Peter Ustinov

  Mind, Wells, Can Do

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• An institution like Guantanamo in its present form cannot and must not exist in the long term. We must find different ways of dealing with prisoners. As far as I'm concerned there's no question about that.

  Angela Merkel

  Long, Way, Different

  Source: www.spiegel.de

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• I cannot be an optimist but I am a prisoner of hope.

  Cornel West

  Optimist

  Twitter post from Jan 12, 2013

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• Racism oppresses its victims, but also binds the oppressors, who sear their consciences with more and more lies until they become prisoners of those lies. They cannot face the truth of human equality because it reveals the horror of the injustices they commit.

  Alveda King

  Lying, Racism, Faces

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• There is no greater hell than to be a prisoner of fear.

  Ben Jonson

  No Fear, Hell, Greater

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• I have to say when we talk about the treatment of these prisoners that I would guess that these prisoners wake up every morning thanking Allah that Saddam Hussein is not in charge of these prisons.

  James Inhofe

  Morning, Wake Up, Hussein

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• God help us from those who believe that they are the sole possessors of truth. How we manage at times to agree willingly to become prisoners within our own minds and souls of beliefs and ideas on which we can never be flexible.

  King Hussein I

  Believe, Ideas, Soul

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• If people around the world knew how well people at Guantanamo Bay are treating prisoners, they would not fall prey to the accusations that some in our Chamber are making. They are all receiving judicial review.

  Robin Hayes

  Fall, People, Judicial Review

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• Iran's continued, widespread persecution of ethnic minorities, human rights defenders and political prisoners is a disgrace and stands as a shameful indictment of Iran's leaders.

  William Hague

  Rights, Iran, Leader

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• I've always been opposed myself to prisoners having the vote.

  William Hague

  Vote

  "The Andrew Marr Show", news.bbc.co.uk. February 6, 2011.

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• Your secret is your prisoner; once you reveal it, you become its slave.

  Solomon Ibn Gabirol

  Secret, Slave

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• When it shall be said in any country in the world my poor are happy; neither ignorance nor distress is to be found among them; my jails are empty of prisoners, my streets of beggars; the aged are not in want; the taxes are not oppressive; the rational world is my friend, because I am a friend of its happiness: When these things can be said, there may that country boast its Constitution and its Government

  Thomas Paine

  Happiness, Country, Ignorance

  Thomas Paine (1995). “Collected Writings”, p.649, Library of America

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