12 Quotes Tagged: prisoners

Prison is designed to break one's spirit and destroy one's resolve. To do this, the authorities attempt to exploit every weakness, demolish every initiative, negate all signs of individuality — all with the idea of stamping out that spark that makes each of us human and each of us who we are.

And Adam ruled, for he was the King. Until the day his will to be King deserted him. Then he died, food for a stronger. And the strongest was always the King, not by strength alone, but King by cunning and luck and strength together. Among the rats.

We are all prisoners but some of us are in cells with windows and some without.

You don't have to be very bright to carry a handbarrow. So the squad leader gave such work to people who'd been in positions of authority.

Morality is not man's prison but rather the divine element in him.

"The days rolled by in the camp — they were over before you could say "knife." But the years, they never rolled by; they never moved by a second."

The captured soldiers should be kindly treated and kept.

Now prisoners will come back home, and two Russias will look each other in the eye,
the one that put in prison and
the one that was put in prison.

They are not free at all. They are essentially our prisoners.

I saw a lot of men die there. Most men. Do you know what killed them?”…”Despair,” said Finney. “They believed themselves to be prisoners. I lived with those men, ate the same maggot-infested food, slept in the same beds, did the same back-breaking work. But they died and I lived. Do you know why?” “You were free.” “I was free. Milton was right…the mind is its own place. I was never a prisoner. Not then, not now.

It is not only the prisoners who grow coarse and hardened from corporeal punishment, but those as well who perpetrate the act or are present to witness it.

rip the prisons
open
put the
convicts
on
television