Best 138 quotes in «prisoner quotes» category

A jailer is as much a prisoner as his prisoner.

... all Americans are the prisoners of racial prejudice.

Both sides were supposed to release all their prisoners, those were unconditional. There was some prisoner release that took place but it's not been satisfactory.

If anyone has it rough at Guantanamo, it is the guards. They are constantly harassed and threatened by some of these terrorists. Prisoners tell guards, we know where your families are. We know where your wife is, your children, and we are going to kill them.

Don't be a prisoner of your own style!

Everywhere men have unlocked the prisoners within, and from under the disguising skins the apes have leapt joyfully out.

Freedom is an elusive concept. Some men hold themselves prisoner even when they have the power to do as they please and go where they choose, while others are free in their hearts, even as shackles restrain them.

Help! I'm being held prisoner by my heredity and environment.

I am a President held prisoner, that I haven't resigned and I will not resign.

Bring on the shackles - I'm your prisoner

Dinner with water is dinner for prisoners

I gained an inner peace, the serenity of a prisoner, so to speak.

It is not the prisoners who need reformation, it is the prisons.

I live a very dull life here... indeed I think I am more like a state prisoner than anything else.

I rap for listeners, blunt heads, fly ladies and prisoners

My obsessions used to be my protectors, but now they have taken me prisoner.

John McCain was a prisoner of war.

Listen, just do what you think is right, and we'll support it." ~ Sticky Washington, The Prisoner's Dilemma

Many working families are both prisoners and architects of the time bind in which they find themselves.

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

I was always mortified.Didn't they know they were tying thier mothers to the ground? Weren't chains ashamed of their prisoners?

Ours is a civil fight, and imprisonment as a civil prisoner has got to be earned by the strict observance of the programme.

Never did a prisoner, released from his chains, feel such relief as I shall on shaking off the shackles of power.

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

Personal lyricism is the outcry of prisoner to prisoner from the cell in solitary where each is confined for the duration of his life.

Prison life, fortunately, I spent a lot of years, about 18 years with other prisoners, and, as I say, they enriched your soul.

There are few prisoners more closely guarded than princes.

The hazards of the generalized prisoner's dilemma are removed by the match between the right and the good.

The lives of prisoners of war after they are returned is almost never discussed, never explored.

The prisoner falls in love with his chains.

The prisoner is not the one who has commited a crime, but the one who clings to his crime and lives it over and over.

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

The unhappy are prisoners of a single round of thought.

The West has political prisoners.

The voluntary captive The speechless the prisoner Which I hide in my very depths.

Those who build walls are their own prisoners.

Those who build walls are their own prisoners. I'm going to go fulfill my proper function in the social organism. I'm going to unbuild walls.

When those pictures of Abu Ghraib came out, I thought, my gosh, this is like the tiger cages for prisoners in Vietnam all over again. Only we were actually doing it ourselves, we weren't hiring another government to do it.

To me I just, I'm a geek when it comes to cinematographers . And when it comes to Robert and when it comes to someone like Roger Deakins who shot Prisoners and he shot Jarhead.

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

We have not come here to take prisoners But to surrender ever more deeply To freedom and joy.

What I have experienced is nothing compared to what political prisoners in prisons suffer.

When we are attentive to our actions we are not prisoners to our habits.

Timeless is the creature who is wise. And timeless is the prisoner in disguise.

What are you? Stupid? Of course they have a guard. What part of ‘You’re a prisoner’ did you miss? (Delphine)

You cannot be a prisoner of your past against your will. Because you can only live in the past inside your mind.

Yes. And release prisoners who are incarcerated for pot.

A doctor once asked me: 'Charlie, what do you think your problem is?' “Doc,' I said, '…you’re the problem!

You're a tourist in sexual perversion. I'm a prisoner there.

You're a prisoner of your own illusions - about yourself and about the world.