Quotes of: Political-prisoners Keyword

We have peace with God as soon as we believe, but not always with ourselves. The pardon may be past the prince's hand and seal, and yet not put into the prisoner's hand.

William Gurnall

In the deregulated realm of US banking and finance, crime does occasionally pay for its foul deeds, not in prison time but by making modest rebates to the victims.

William Greider

When you're going off to prison for the rest of your life, a lot of people do feel the need to explain themselves to all the people they have known.

Bryan Burrough

Playing the role of Christ was like being in a prison. It was the hardest part I've ever had to play in my life. I couldn't smoke or drink in public. I couldn't.

Max von Sydow

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

Martha Washington

One does not expect to be comfortable in prison. As a matter of fact, one's mental suffering is so much greater than any common physical distress that the latter is almost forgotten.

Emmeline Pankhurst

Angels, fairies, gods, hell-heaven, "mediating" messiahs, demons, spirits etc. - are but your cultural-isms. Free be of these prisons.

Fakeer Ishavardas

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

George Rogers Clark

Here she comes, running, out of prison and off the pedestal: chains off, crown off, halo off, just a live woman.

Charlotte Perkins Gilman

He offered her power, money, status... a giant prison, all in exchange for only...her soul.

Coco J. Ginger

Until we begin to wipe off the bitter memories from womb of our mind, we'll be living in the prison of embitterment

Ikechukwu Izuakor

Paranoia is an illness I contracted in institutions. It is not the reason for my sentences to reform school and prison. It is the effect, not the cause.

Jack Henry Abbott

I wrote a million words in the first year, and I could never have done that outside of prison.

Jeffrey Archer

Very few people deserted me when I went to prison. They stayed loyal.

Jeffrey Archer

A man’s spirit is free, but his pride binds him with chains of suffocation in a prison of his own insecurities

Jeremy Aldana

the black man today will only find solitude in one place: prison. ironically, he becomes most free while incarcerated.

Darnell Lamont Walker

America has the longest prison sentences in the West, yet the only condition long sentences demonstrably cure is heterosexuality.

Bruce Jackson

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

I want to be a figure for prison reform. I think that the criminal justice system is rotten.

Henry Louis Gates

Let us reform our schools, and we shall find little reform needed in our prisons.

John Ruskin

Find the window of unconditional love in your heart and liberate yourself from the prison of judgemental and conforming thoughts.

Debasish Mridha