Quotes with prisoner

  • Your secret is your prisoner; once you reveal it, you become its slave.

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  • Solomon Ibn Gabirol Your secret is your prisoner; once you reveal it, you become its slave.
    Solomon Ibn Gabirol
    Andalusian poet and Jewish philosopher (1021 - 1058)
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  • Nelson Mandela A man who takes away another man's freedom is a prisoner of hatred, he is locked behind the bars of prejudice and narrow-mindedness.
    De lange weg naar vrijheid
    Nelson Mandela
    South African anti-apartheid revolutionary and political leader (1918 - 2013)
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  • Edward F. Halifax A person may dwell so long upon a thought that it may take him a prisoner.
    Edward F. Halifax
    British Conservative Statesman (1881 - 1959)
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  • Winston Churchill A prisoner of war is a man who tries to kill you and fails, and then asks you not to kill him.
    Winston Churchill
    English statesman (1874 - 1965)
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  • Barbara Amiel 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
    British journalist, writer, and socialite (1940 - )
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  • Angela Davis Because it would be too agonizing to cope with the possibility that anyone, including ourĀ­ selves, could become a prisoner, we tend to think of the prison as disconnected from our own lives. This is even true for some of us, women as well as men, who have already experienced imprisonment.
    Angela Davis
    American political activist, philosopher, academic, and author (1944 - )
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  • Sir Philip Sidney Come Sleep! Oh Sleep, the certain knot of peace, the baiting-place of wit, the balm of woe, the poor man's wealth, the prisoner's release, the indifferent judge between the high and low.
    Sir Philip Sidney
    British Author, Courtier (1554 - 1586)
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  • Camille Paglia Education has become a prisoner of contemporaneity. It is the past, not the dizzy present, that is the best door to the future.
    Camille Paglia
    American academic and social critic (1947 - )
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  • Edward R. Murrow Everyone is a prisoner of his own experiences. No one can eliminate prejudices - just recognize them.
    Edward R. Murrow
    American broadcast journalist and war correspondent (1908 - 1965)
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  • Italo Calvino I am prisoner of a gaudy and unlivable present, where all forms of human society have reached an extreme of their cycle and there is no imagining what new forms they may assume.
    Italo Calvino
    Italian writer (1923 - 1985)
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  • Eldridge Cleaver In prison, those things withheld from and denied to the prisoner become precisely what he wants most of all.
    Eldridge Cleaver
    American afro-amerikan leader, writer (1935 - 1998)
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  • William Shakespeare The jury, passing on the prisoner's life, may have in the sworn twelve a thief or two guiltier than him they try.
    William Shakespeare
    English playwright and poet (1564 - 1616)
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  • Albert Camus The only conception of freedom I can have is that of the prisoner or the individual in the midst of the State. The only one I know is freedom of thought and action.
    Albert Camus
    French writer, essayist and Nobel Prize winner in literature (1956) (1913 - 1960)
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  • Henry Miller The prisoner is not the one who has committed a crime, but the one who clings to his crime and lives it over and over.
    Henry Miller
    American writer (1891 - 1980)
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  • Ben Johnson There is no greater hell than to be a prisoner of fear.
    Ben Johnson
    English playwright and poet (1572 - 1637)
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  • Lady Mary Wortley Montagu We are no more free agents than the queen of clubs when she victoriously takes prisoner the knave of hearts.
    Lady Mary Wortley Montagu
    English writer (1689 - 1762)
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  • Benedict Arnold What do you think would be my fate if my misguided countrymen were to take me prisoner?
    Benedict Arnold
    American military officer (1741 - 1801)
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