Prisoner Quotes

A person may dwell so long upon a thought that it may take him a prisoner.
Edward F. Halifax

Long, Person, May

As far as those kinds of things, I also played at the concert to call for the release of Nelson Mandela when he was a political prisoner in South Africa. We were celebrating his 70th birthday and calling for his release.
Jackson Browne

Birthday, Political, Far

American POWs from the last Iraq war, who were held prisoner and tortured by Iraq, are now being prevented by our government from suing the Iraqis who tortured them.
Dana Rohrabacher

War, Government, American

In prison, those things withheld from and denied to the prisoner become precisely what he wants most of all.
Eldridge Cleaver

Become, Wants, Prison

Among those people lucky enough, if you will, to have actually been brought to trial as a political prisoner, several historians have said there has not been one acquittal since the Bolshevik Revolution.
Barbara Amiel

Political, Revolution, Enough

That means presenting the issues in certain ways that will appeal to those people and then becoming a prisoner of your own language and thought process. That has always happened - it's just been intensified.
Robert Scheer

Thought, Means, Language

You feel like a prisoner if you don't create. You're jailed up inside of yourself.
Edie Brickell

Yourself, Create, Inside

Playing a prisoner of war trapped in Pakistan for three years was a novelty for me. We made sure that we didn't talk about India versus Pakistan but about the emotions of people on both sides and how terrorism affects us all.
Akshay Kumar

War, Made, Talk

I've wanted somehow to convey to you the sensations - the atmospheric pressure, you might say - of what it is to be seriously a long-term prisoner in an American prison.
Jack Henry Abbott

Wanted, American, Might

We are no more free agents than the queen of clubs when she victoriously takes prisoner the knave of hearts.
Mary Wortley Montagu

Free, She, Takes

I was never a prisoner to my footballing status.
Michel Patini

Every invalid is a prisoner.
Marguerite Yourcenar

Nobody wants a political prisoner, but a political emigrant is no problem.
Alexei Navalny

Political, Problem, Nobody

And don't forget, a prisoner's wife must always think good thoughts.
Nazim Hikmet

Good, Wife, Forget

I am George Rogers Clark. You have just become a prisoner of the Commonwealth of Virginia.
George Rogers Clark

Become, Virginia, Clark

I view my pitching on how confident I was out there, period. And if I lose that confidence, I can become a prisoner of my own mind.
Barry Zito

Mind, Confidence, Become

Terrorism is not a matter that can be left to law enforcement, with its deliberative process, built-in delays, and safeguards that may let the prisoner go free on procedural grounds.
George P. Shultz

I know that I'm already in the history books and that people are going to remember me as the prisoner of war and the fabricated stories, but you know, to me I was just another soldier over there doing my job.
Jessica Lynch

History, War, Job

I'm not an ordinary prisoner.
Mikhail Khodorkovsky

Prison service vans that travel 90 miles to take a prisoner 90 yards; paedophiles free to leer at children in the very parks where they have committed horrific crimes.
Trevor Phillips

Travel, Children, Free

I have become a prisoner of the peace movement. But you can't say that the termination is coming and then say that you are going back to your own garden to dig.
E. P. Thompson

Peace, Become, Coming

It would be like the films I've seen where wardens would decide to be in a jail cell for a week, to get a sense of what it would be like to be a prisoner.
Gregory Hines

Sense, Week, Seen

A defence in the Inquisition is of little use to the prisoner, for a suspicion only is deemed sufficient cause of condemnation, and the greater his wealth the greater his danger.
John Foxe

Wealth, Cause, Danger

A prisoner in the Inquisition is never allowed to see the face of his accuser, or of the witnesses against him, but every method is taken by threats and tortures, to oblige him to accuse himself, and by that means corroborate their evidence.
John Foxe

Him, Against, Means

Rock 'n' roll was two pegs below being a prisoner of war back then.
Ronnie Hawkins

Due to the fact that I experienced personally the situation of a political prisoner, I have an historical commitment to all those that were or are prisoners just because they expressed their views, their public opinion, their own opinions.
Dilma Rousseff

Political, Opinion, Fact

People come from a certain generation and a certain whole way of looking at things, and you really do become a prisoner of your own world.
Matthew Shipp

Become, Whole, Looking

To be a prisoner means to be defined as a member of a group for whom the rules of what can be done to you, of what is seen as abuse of you, are reduced as part of the definition of your status.
Catharine MacKinnon

Done, Means, Group

To Mr. Seward: It is my desire that, in case Maximillian will surrender, he be sent here a prisoner of war, but that in the event of his continuing the war, or refusing to surrender, then he be shot.
Joshua A. Norton

War, Here, Desire

I will be a model prisoner, as I have been a model citizen.
Edwin Edwards

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