Quotes of: Political-prisoners Keyword

'Fast Food Nation' isn't about my journey into the dark world of fast food and the prison book is not about my journey into the prison world. I'm not using myself as any kind of narrative link.

Eric Schlosser

Well I think after leaving prison, and having written three diaries about life in prison, it became a sort of a new challenge to write another novel, to write a new novel.

Jeffrey Archer

Human-rights advocates, for example, claim that the mistreatment of Iraqi prisoners is of a piece with President Bush's 2002 decision to deny al Qaeda and Taliban fighters the legal status of prisoners of war under the Geneva Conventions.

John Yoo

I have a lot of fans who are in the prison system, where ramen noodles are a kind of staple. Prisoners are always sending me recipes.

Chuck Palahniuk

By 1980, when I came out of prison, The Sun did a campaign to stop putting vice girls in prison. We've talked about it ever since and nothing has been done about it.

Cynthia Payne

It's up to us, the people, to break immoral laws, and resist. As soon as the leaders of a country lie to you, they have no authority over you. These maniacs have no authority over us. And they might be able to put our bodies in prison, but they can't...

Cindy Sheehan

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

We are the prisoners of our thoughts and we like to imprison everyone in the same prison and think that it will solve the problems of humanity. But everyone is unique, let them live freely and with harmony.

Debasish Mridha

Prison was tough on me. I saw people in prison that made me ashamed I was a human being. Some make Qaddafi and Idi Amin look like Sunday-school teachers.

Evel Knievel

I think of my brother just out of prison again. He will have spent ten years of the last 30 in prison.

Daniel Berrigan

Sirius Black: You know the man you truly are, Remus! This heart is where you truly live! This heart! Here! This flesh is only flesh!

Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban

Ron: [Hermione is walking towards the werewolf Lupin] Hermione... bad idea... bad idea...

Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban

Hermione: [to Harry] Look who it is... Madame Rosmerta. Ron fancies her! Ron: That's not true!

Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban

Hermione: [laughing, mocking Professor Trelawney] Broaden your minds! Use your inner eye to see the future!

Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban

Harry: It's not... happy. Well, it is, it's the happiest I've ever felt. But it's complicated. Professor Lupin: Is it strong?

Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban

Seamus Finnegan: [standing in front of the Fat Lady] She won't let me in! She just won't!

Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban

Hermione: [watches as Harry and Sirius are being attacked by Dementors from the other side of the lake] [speaks calmly] Hermione: This is horrible.

Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban

Aunt Marge: Still here, are you? Harry: Yes. Aunt Marge: Don't say 'yes' in that ungrateful way.

Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban

Brian: What will they do to me? Ben the Prisoner: Oh you'll probably get away with crucifixion. Brian: CRUCIFIXION? Ben the Prisoner: Yeah, first offense.

Life of Brian

Until the year 1967, it was a crime, for which you could be put in prison, to make homosexual love to someone in your own house. If they came in and caught you at it, you could be put into prison. This has changed - I'm talking about England, inciden...

Patrick Macnee

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.

Warren Christopher