Men are not prisoners of fate, but only prisoners of their own minds.
Franklin D. Roosevelt
81 quotes about prisoners follow in order of popularity. Be sure to bookmark and share your favorites!
Only free men can negotiate; prisoners cannot enter into contracts. Your freedom and mine cannot be separated.
Nelson Mandela
Come Sleep! Oh Sleep, the certain knot of peace, the baiting-place of wit, the balm of woe, the poor man's wealth, the prisoner's release, the indifferent judge between the high and low.
Sir Philip Sidney
They're not kinder and gentler in the handling of prisoners; they think a bad guy is a bad guy, ... In many cases these guys are related to someone who has killed a police officer.
Chris Solinsky
Many of us who walk to and fro upon our usual tasks are prisoners drawing mental maps of escape.
Loren Eiseley
Two prisoners whose cells adjoin communicate with each other by knocking on the wall. The wall is the thing which separates them but is also their means of communication. It is the same with us and God. Every separation is a link.
Simone Weil
She pulled it off, ... It was her voice and that take-no-prisoners attitude when she's onstage, she was just out there, hungry to be the star.
Lamont Dozier
Some people can put up with the pressure of being locked up in a maximum-security environment with a large number of prisoners, and some can't, ... You really don't know until you put them in that situation. I think his size will be a great help to him.
Larry Campbell
Japanese treatment of Chinese and Allied citizens whom they captured, particularly if they suspected them of espionage, was horrific. I describe some of the barbaric treatment of British and American political prisoners in the book.
Bernard Wasserstein
We rely on police to keep their prisoners secure.
Bob Harris
I think it's hard to learn democracy when we make children prisoners until they're nineteen years old.
Mimsy Sadofsky
We're doing prison ministry by doing this, and our students are doing ministry by being there. And the prisoners are doing ministry to Vanderbilt folks. They're teaching us what it's like on the other side.
Harmon Wray
I thought the prisoners wouldn't want to sort through the rubbish. But they were happy to do it because of the environmental benefits.
Paul Cooper
The troops don't know what to do. They don't have the direction they need in order to supervise the prisoners.
John Murtha
We ended up feeling like prisoners at sea. It was awful.
Gayle Davis
We were tired of crime and living like prisoners. The normal way of living was behind iron bars and gates.
Michael Tristani
Our main difficulty, as before, is what will happen, supposedly, if India releases the prisoners. What will happen to the prisoners and hijackers; where will they go?
Abdul Wakil Muttawakil
There are many Albanian political prisoners in Serbia ... who have been kidnapped, and we know nothing about their fate.
Hashim Thaci
These people are prisoners of conscience, imprisoned solely on account of their non-violent opinions and activities.
Kolawole Olaniyan
For us what is significant is the way in which the prisoners are treated.
Nada Doumani
It's incredible that equipment used for pipe inspections can show us exactly what the prisoners were experiencing in that tunnel -- and capture and preserve a piece of history for us.
Sean Kelley
The enquiries have found out that despite the presence of security measures such as searching of prisoners when they enter or leave prison, security is occasionally exposed, because officers do not always conduct the searches diligently.
Anthony Mokento
We are prisoners of ideas.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
Convincingly details the abuse of female prisoners and powerfully documents the erosion of their human rights.
Michelle Phillips
It is expensive, but it's a commitment the county has made to keep prisoners in jail to serve sentences and to avoid overcrowding.
Michael Mccabe
It endorsed broader press freedom, released numerous political prisoners, and opened the door for genuine political pluralism and elections that are scheduled for this spring.
Harold Koh
It (Israel) is holding 9,000 prisoners. If they are not released, kidnappings will increase.
Mahmud Zahar
We put electrodes on the ears or testicles of prisoners.
Paul Aussaresses
[The event is being called] Killen Appreciation Day, ... It's an old-fashioned Mississippi homecoming. It's held for sports figures and beauty queens. Why not political prisoners?
Richard Barrett
A government that allows prisoners to be shot at should resign.
David Gamkrelidze
For some of the prisoners, art is a way for them to escape. Art is as varied and complicated as the human condition.
Stephen Hartnett
We will repeat these visits as we do for all prisoners of war and all civilians deprived of liberty in Iraq, regularly, at a rhythm that we choose, and as long as necessary.
Antonella Notari
I believe that free and civilized societies do not hold prisoners incommunicado.
Gloria Romero
You have to take a breath and relax, and understand that -- particularly someone in Duke Cunningham's position -- they're not going into a prison with a lot of violent and dangerous prisoners.
Knut Johnson
State laws may need to be changed to allow prisoners from other states to come in.
Leo Lalonde
A large number of pictures involving prisoners and poses with prisoners.
Joseph Darby
To board out all of our prisoners for one year will cost us approximately $1.86 million.
Legislator Dennis Korce
Prisoners in Israel have many privileges that were given to them by the courts. It is forbidden to carry out invasive body searches and they can have open visits.
Ofer Lefler
For a start, nurses who turn patients and wardens who guard prisoners aren't eligible.
Sara Wilson
That defined torture and showed that these acts were not torture and that these prisoners were not subject to the Geneva Conventions.
Guy Womack
The problems must be solved peacefully and politically, the prisoners must be arrested on legal ground. We are calling on the government to restart the negotiations with the opposition.
Beyene Petros
In my worst nightmares I never imagined that my people wouldn't care about the mitzvah of rescuing prisoners to such an extent that they would bring to power my former commander -- the man who betrayed and abandoned me for 21 years.
Jonathan Pollard
Reputable corrections people agree it is a very bad idea for prisoners to have influence over others.
David Fathi
The issue of releasing Palestinian prisoners is very unpopular in Israel, and if he goes too far, he'll suffer more than by his failure to reach an agreement.
Chemi Shalev
He is charged with entering the camps to kill, beat and physically abuse the prisoners.
Jim Landale
It's a step in the direction of releasing all Palestinian prisoners. Their continued stay in prison does not help Israel's interests.
Hassan Asfour
There's a huge crop of astronauts, captains of industry, and prisoners of war. And, although not every Naval Academy grad will be a war hero or the president of the United States, every grad can aspire to embrace the values espoused by our Distinguished Graduate Award recipients.
George Watt
Better to make prime ministers out of prisoners than prisoners out of prime ministers.
Lord Caradon
Seeing the small size of this tunnel which we estimated at 24 inches in diameter, we can now imagine what the 12 desperate prisoners were feeling and seeing as they plunged into it.
Jake Wells
We are calling for freedom for all political prisoners.
Laura Pollan
When I'm forced by circumstances to be in a crowd of prisoners, it's all I can do to refrain from attack.
Jack Henry Abbott
The human aspect could have prevailed, everything could have been set aside and acted as an anchor for the great leap they could have taken politically. But they have been the prisoners of the past.
Talat Masood
When it comes to the cause of justice, I take no prisoners and I don't believe in compromise.
Mary Frances Berry
Poland was the main base for CIA interrogations in Europe, while Romania played more of a role in the transfer of detained prisoners.
Marc Garlasco
If the Indian government does not accept or agree to the condition of the hijackers for the release of the prisoners, then our next step will be to ask the hijackers to leave Afghanistan, or we will force them to leave Afghanistan.
Abdul Wakil Muttawakil
For all the years the negotiations were going on in Paris fruitlessly, the big issue was prisoners of war and the missing.
Roger Shields
They only learned it when it ran on television. Then they said to me, you can get prisoners released.
Juergen Chrobog
On average, drug prisoners spend more time in federal prison than rapists, who often get out on early release because of the overcrowding in prison caused by the Drug War.
Michael Badnarik
He said to me, ''We are now going towards your friends, and if you attempt to run, or we are insulted, we will blow your brains out.'' When we had got into the road they formed a circle, and ordered the prisoners in the center, and to lead me in the front.
Paul Revere
Why did IPS forces need to be there unless they were carrying out exercises in attacking Palestinian prisoners, or the police want to turn the territories into a huge prison camp?
Barhoum Jaraisey
I want to enable prisoners to express themselves and get it out in public.
Stephen Hartnett
You have more contact with the prisoners this way. If they need something, they usually just tell us face-to-face.
Maria Martinez
Remission is for all prisoners without looking at the type of crimes which had been carried out.
Hamid Awaluddin
[Graner said he had intended for the leash to grip the prisoner's shoulders.] It slid off his shoulders around his neck, ... I asked her to hold it and then I took three photographs.
Lynndie England
As far as law enforcement goes, money is at the root of everything. We need more personnel, more equipment. The DA's office needs more people and money. The corrections department needs more people and space to house prisoners.
David Benelli
Nan will bring a no-nonsense, take no prisoners approach to the Senate. She can be a strong coalition builder or fiery opponent. I have no doubt that she will join our progressive friends in the Senate with a newfound passion for equality.
Chuck Bowen
It held civilians, northern and southern, it held Confederates and it held northern soldiers, POWs (prisoners of war).
Sue Curtis
We think the video arraignment is a great project. It's one of the best ideas the county has come up with. You don't have to transport the prisoners.
Jennifer Marlinga
These prisoners didn't choose poodles. They wanted tough, aggressive dogs, and they picked the best dog they could find, a dog which you heard evidence of is meaner than a pit bull.
Jim Hammer
There is still a chance for the government to reform, to release political prisoners, to change the cabinet, to arrest those people who acted to excess in Lebanon. That will make it more difficult for the international community to embarrass the regime.
Sami Moubayed
If I read this to you and did not tell you that it was an FBI agent describing what Americans had done to prisoners in their control, you would most certainly believe this must have been done by Nazis, Soviets in their gulags, or some mad regime - Pol Pot or others - that had no concern for human beings. Sadly, that is not the case.
Dick Durbin
It is a list for change and reform, composed of candidates from a new generation, our historic leaders as well as women and prisoners.
Ismail Haniya
And don't forget, a prisoner's wife must always think good thoughts.
Nazim Hikmet
In the eyes of many, America is no different than the former regime in Iraq that brutally tortured and intimidated prisoners.
Shelley Berkley
His life probably couldn't be any harder. He's on the lowest rung of anybody in the jail. He's constantly being victimized as a consequence of his conduct. You must be aware that certain prisoners endure the wrath of other prisoners, especially those that are involved in the deaths of children.
Richard Fowler
In our jails they haven't got cell phones - I hope. And they haven't got permission to call. They are prisoners. That's the whole story.
Ofer Lefler
The elections came and went, the official said, and the Americans continued leaving detainees at sites that held bruised, burned and limping prisoners.
Ellen Knickmeyer
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