Quotes with prisoner

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• 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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• 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.

  Source: De lange weg naar vrijheid

  ― Nelson Mandela
  South African anti-apartheid revolutionary and political leader (1918 - 2013)
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• 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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• 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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• 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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• Because it would be too agonizing to cope with the possibility that anyone, including our­ 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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• 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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• 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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• 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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• 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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• 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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• 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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• 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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• 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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• There is no greater hell than to be a prisoner of fear.

  ― Ben Johnson
  English playwright and poet (1572 - 1637)
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• 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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• 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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Subjects in these quotes:

• narrow-mindedness
• contemporaneity
• imprisonment
• victoriously
• experiences
• prejudices

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