“ Everyone is a prisoner of his own experiences. No one can eliminate prejudices — just recognize them. ”
- Edward R. Murrow- Copy
- 1.7K
“ Only free men can negotiate; prisoners cannot enter into contracts. Your freedom and mine cannot be separated. ”
- Nelson Mandela- Copy
- 3.8K
“ 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
- 1.5K
“ I am a President held prisoner, that I haven't resigned and I will not resign. ”
- Hugo Chavez- Copy
- 3.1K
“ Men are not prisoners of fate, but only prisoners of their own minds. ”
- Franklin D. Roosevelt- Copy
- 1.6K
“ A person may dwell so long upon a thought that it may take him a prisoner. ”
- Edward F. Halifax- Copy
- 2.2K
“ 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- Copy
- 2.5K
“ 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- Copy
- 1.8K
“ 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- Copy
- 1.9K
“ I never saw a man who looked with such a wistful eye upon that little tent of blue which prisoners call the sky. ”
- Oscar Wilde- Copy
- 642
“ In prison, those things withheld from and denied to the prisoner become precisely what he wants most of all. ”
- Eldridge Cleaver- Copy
- 2.3K
“ Pain dies quickly, and lets her weary prisoners go; the fiercest agonies have shortest reign. ”
- William C. Bryant- Copy
- 3.4K
“ 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- Copy
- 2.1K
“ 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- Copy
- 1.4K
“ We are no more free agents than the queen of clubs when she victoriously takes prisoner the knave of hearts. ”
- Lady Mary Wortley Montagu- Copy
- 1.6K
“ Your secret is your prisoner; once you reveal it, you become its slave. ”
- Ibn Gabirol- Copy
- 2K
“ A prisoner of war is a man who tries to kill you and fails, and then asks you not to kill him. ”
- Winston Churchill- Copy
- 2.3K
“ In the final choice a soldier's pack is not so heavy as a prisoner's chains. ”
- Dwight D. Eisenhower- Copy
- 566
“ When you look at the startling ruins of Nuremberg, you are looking at a result of the war. When you look at the prisoners on view in the courthouse, you are looking at 22 of the causes. ”
- Janet Flanner- Copy
- 1.3K
“ The witty woman is a tragic figure in American life. Wit destroys eroticism and eroticism destroys wit, so women must choose between taking lovers and taking no prisoners. ”
- Florence King- Copy
- 1.5K
“ Take up the White Man's burden — send forth the best ye breed — go, bind your sons to exile to serve your captives need. ”
- Rudyard Kipling- Copy
- 443
“ We are all captives of the picture in our head — our belief that the world we have experienced is the world that really exists. ”
- Walter Lippmann- Copy
- 3.5K
“ We conquered France, but felt our captive's charms, Her arts victorious triumph'd o'er our arms. ”
- Alexander Pope- Copy
- 2.6K
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