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  • Of one thing, however, I am certain. Just as an execution without adequate safeguards is unacceptable, so too is an execution when the condemned prisoner can prove that he is innocent. The execution of a person who can show that he is innocent comes perilously close to simple murder.

  • 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.

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

    Past   Mind   Your Past  
    Augusten Burroughs (2012). “This Is How: Proven Aid in Overcoming Shyness, Molestation, Fatness, Spinsterhood, Grief, Disease, Lushery, Decrepitude & More. For Young and Old Alike.”, p.96, Macmillan
  • We are all prisoner, but the name of our cure is not freedom

    Names   Cures   Prisoner  
    Iris Murdoch (1987). “The Unicorn”, p.76, Penguin
  • John Kerry announced his plan for how to handle those poor naked prisoners. His wife is going to buy them all a $1,000 Armani suit.

    Wife   Suits   Naked  
  • We are, each of us, our own prisoner. We are locked up in our own story.

    Maxine Kumin (1978). “The retrieval system: poems”, Viking Pr
  • If there is no God, then man and the universe are doomed. Like prisoners condemned to death, we await our unavoidable execution. There is no God, and there is no immortality. And what is the consequence of this? It means that life itself is absurd. It means that the life we have is without ultimate significance, value, or purpose.

    Atheist   Mean   Men  
    "Reasonable Faith: Christian Truth and Apologetics". Book by William Lane Craig, 1994.
  • 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.

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

    Law   Enforcement   Delay  
  • And if Bradley Manning really did as he is accused, he is a hero, an example to us all and one of the world's foremost political prisoners.

    Hero   Political   World  
    Official Statement by Julian Assange from the Ecuadorian Embassy, www.wikileaks.org. August 19, 2012.
  • Music at its best...is the grand archeology into and transfiguration of our guttural cry, the great human effort to grasp in time our deepest passions and yearnings as prisoners of time. Profound music leads us--beyond language--to the dark roots of our scream and the celestial heights of our silence.

    Passion   Dark   Roots  
  • I have taken a moment here to rest, to steal a view of the glorious vista that surrounds me, to look back on the distance I have come.

    Nelson Mandela (2011). “Nelson Mandela By Himself: The Authorised Book of Quotations”, p.158, Pan Macmillan
  • Patriotism, in the trenches, was too remote a sentiment, and at once rejected as fit only for civilians, or prisoners. A new arrival who talked patriotism would soon be told to cut it out.

    Cutting   Fit   Trenches  
    Robert Graves (1980). “Good-Bye to All That: With a Prologue and an Epilogue”, Octagon Press, Limited
  • Oh, the inmates and the prisoners I found they were my kind And it was there inside the bars I found my peace of mind But the jails they were too crowded Institutions overflowed So they turned me loose to walk upon Life's hurried tangled road

    Jail   Tangled   Mind  
    Song: Ballad of Donald White
  • I had been pretty well made a prisoner by school, by society. I had been given this description of the world that I couldn't accept.

    School   World   Rama  
  • For God's love, take things patiently, have sense, Think! We are prisoners and shall always be. Fortune has given us this adversity, Some wicked planetary dispensation, Some Saturn's trick or evil constellation Has given us this, and Heaven, though we had sworn The contrary, so stood when we were born. We must endure it, that's the long and short.

    Geoffrey Chaucer (1966). “The Canterbury Tales”
  • 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 (1995). “Collected Writings”, p.649, Library of America
  • You could eat sushi off my bookshelf. My cleaning regime is like a battleground. I'm Genghis Khan and my cleaning products are my Mongolian army and I take no prisoners. The rest of my life is an experiment in chaos so I like to keep my flat neat.

    Army   Sushi   Cleaning  
    "Is this it?". www.theguardian.com. November 14, 2008.
  • 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 (1985). “The Adding Machine: Collected Essays”, Calder Publications
  • Only free men can negotiate; prisoners cannot enter into contracts. Your freedom and mine cannot be separated.

    Statement from prison, 10 Feb. 1985
  • The word 'religion' takes on a sinister cast when one examines its root, religare, meaning 'to bind,' which in turn means 'to hold, to make prisoner, to restrain.

    Mean   Roots   Religion  
  • The ever-present phenomenon ceases to exist for our senses. It was a city dweller, or a prisoner, or a blind man suddenly given his sight, who first noted natural beauty.

    Beauty   Men   Sight  
  • Confined on the ship, from which there is no escape, the madman is delivered to the river with its thousand arms, the sea with its thousand roads, to that great uncertainty external to everything. He is a prisoner in the midst of what is the freest, the openest of routes: bound fast at the infinite crossroads. He is the Passenger par excellence: that is, the prisoner of the passage. And the land he will come to is unknown—as is, once he disembarks, the land from which he comes. He has his truth and his homeland only in that fruitless expanse between two countries that cannot belong to him.

    Country   Sea   Land  
    Michel Foucault (2001). “Madness and Civilization: A History of Insanity in the Age of Reason”, p.9, Psychology Press
  • It is as if the soul of the continent is weeping. Why does it weep? It weeps for the bones of the buffalo. It weeps for magic that has been forgotten. It weeps for the decline of poets.It weepsfor the black people who think like white people.It weepsfor the Indians who think like settlers.It weepsfor the children who think like adults.It weepsfor the free who think like prisoners.Most of all, it weepsfor the cowgirls who think like cowboys.

  • 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.

    Dream   Character   Paris  
  • I believe that free and civilized societies do not hold prisoners incommunicado.

  • Even when one sits in the prisoner's dock, it is interesting to hear talk about oneself.

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

    Mahatma Gandhi (1958). “Collected Works”
  • As so often happens in marriage, roles that had begun almost playfully, to give line and shape to our lives, had hardened like suits of armor and taken us prisoner.

    Molly Haskell (2000). “Love and Other Infectious Diseases: A Memoir”, p.12, iUniverse
  • One of the men attached to the prison was the occasion of great amusement on the part of the prisoners, as well as the spectators, by taking a large lump of ice to show these strangers from the tropics

    Men   Ice   Prison  
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