“ Everyone is a prisoner of his own experiences. No one can eliminate prejudices — just recognize them. ”
- Edward R. Murrow- Copy
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“ In a consumer society, there are inevitably two kinds of slaves: the prisoners of addiction and the prisoners of envy. ”
- Ivan Illich- Copy
- 2.7K
“ Imprisoned in every fat man, a thin one is wildly signaling to be let out. ”
- Cyril Connolly- Copy
- 790
“ Seek freedom and become captive of your desires, seek discipline and find your liberty. ”
- Frank Herbert- Copy
- 2.4K
“ By the will art thou lost, by the will art thou found, by the will art thou free, captive, and bound. ”
- Angelus Silesius- Copy
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“ The first step toward success is taken when you refuse to be a captive of the environment in which you first find yourself. ”
- Mark Caine- Copy
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“ You're not free until you've been made captive by supreme belief. ”
- Marianne Moore- Copy
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“ Man is not imprisoned by habit. Great changes in him can be wrought by crisis — once that crisis can be recognized and understood. ”
- Norman Cousins- Copy
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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- Copy
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“ Only free men can negotiate; prisoners cannot enter into contracts. Your freedom and mine cannot be separated. ”
- Nelson Mandela- Copy
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“ Consequences are unpitying. Our deeds carry their terrible consequences, quite apart from any fluctuations that went before — consequences that are hardly ever confined to ourselves. ”
- George Eliot- Copy
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“ I must create a system or be enslaved by another man's; I will not reason and compare: my business is to create. ”
- Sir William Blake- Copy
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“ We conquered France, but felt our captive's charms, Her arts victorious triumph'd o'er our arms. ”
- Alexander Pope- Copy
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“ According to them, the poet is confined to the provinces with his mouth broken on his own syllabic trapeze. ”
- Salvatore Quasimodo- Copy
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“ I am a President held prisoner, that I haven't resigned and I will not resign. ”
- Hugo Chavez- Copy
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“ We are powerfully imprisoned in these Dark Ages simply by the terms in which we have been conditioned to think. ”
- Buckminster Fuller- Copy
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“ The human mind will not be confined to any limits. ”
- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe- Copy
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“ Governments need armies to protect them against their enslaved and oppressed subjects. ”
- Leo Tolstoy- Copy
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“ There's a very fine line between a groove and a rut; a fine line between eccentrics and people who are just plain nuts. ”
- Christine Lavin- Copy
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“ Whose words all ears took captive. - All 's Well that Ends Well. Act v. Sc. 3. ”
- William Shakespeare- Copy
- 3.9K
“ In the decline of the day, near Kentucky river, as we ascended the brow of a small hill, a number of Indians rushed out of a thick cane-brake upon us, and made us prisoners. ”
- Daniel Boone- Copy
- 2.9K
“ The freer that women become, the freer men will be. Because when you enslave someone, you are enslaved. ”
- Louise Nevelson- Copy
- 2.1K
“ His name is John Mason, a British national incarcerated in The Rock in 1962. ”
- Sean Connery- Copy
- 3.9K
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