Quotes of Inmate - somelinesforyou

“ In a consumer society, there are inevitably two kinds of slaves: the prisoners of addiction and the prisoners of envy. ”

- Ivan Illich

“ There is a tendency to judge a race, a nation or any distinct group by its leastworthy members. ”

- Eric Hoffer

“ There is no greater hell than to be a prisoner of fear. ”

- Ben Johnson

“ The bottom line is that there are 400,000 frozen embryos in the United States, and a large percentage of those are going to be thrown out. Regardless of what you think the moral status of those embryos is, it makes sense to me that it's a better moral decision to use them to help people than just to throw them out… ”

- James Thomson

“ I have to say when we talk about the treatment of these prisoners that I would guess that these prisoners wake up every morning thanking Allah that Saddam Hussein is not in charge of these prisons. ”

- James Inhofe

“ I'm not obsessed by looks. I think you can become a prisoner of your own image. ”

- Juliette Binoche

“ Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban. ”

- Emma Watson

“ Whatever we think of the past, we must not be prisoners to it. ”

- Barack Obama

“ Prisoners of hope. ”

- Bible

“ Better to make prime ministers out of prisoners than prisoners out of prime ministers. ”

- Lord Caradon

“ We are the prisoners of history. Or are we? ”

- Robert Penn Warren

“ We are the prisoners of ideas. ”

- Ralph Waldo Emerson

“ Were such things here as we do speak about? Or have we eaten on the insane root that takes the reason prisoner? ”

- William Shakespeare

“ In prison, those things withheld from and denied to the prisoner become precisely what he wants most of all. ”

- Eldridge Cleaver

“ We are products of our past, but we don't have to be prisoners of it. ”

- Rick Warren

“ Men are not prisoners of fate, but only prisoners of their own minds. ”

- Franklin D. Roosevelt

“ I became chairman of the inmates committee. Got into a lot of trouble. Was accused of fomenting a riot. Was accused of plotting to kill the warden. ”

- Clifford Irving

“ Oxford is — Oxford: not a mere receptacle for youth, like Cambridge. Perhaps it wants its inmates to love it rather than to love one another. ”

- Edward M. Forster

“ Old age realizes the dreams of youth: look at Dean Swift; in his youth he built an asylum for the insane, in his old age he was himself an inmate. ”

- Soren Kierkegaard

“ Civilization today reminds me of an ape with a blowtorch playing in a room full of dynamite. It looks like the monkeys are about to operate the zoo, and the inmates are taking over the asylum. ”

- Vance Havner

“ A vacant mind invites dangerous inmates, as a deserted mansion tempts wandering outcasts to enter and take up their abode in its desolate apartments. ”

- Nicholas Hilliard

“ My occupation now, I suppose, is jail inmate. ”

- Theodore Kaczynski

“ Hollywood - a place where the inmates are in charge of the asylum. ”

- Laurence Stallings

“ We are particularly concerned about the health of detainees who may have escaped this narrow definition of a hunger-striker. They may not be receiving any medical treatment. We urge that independent medical experts be given access to detainees. ”

- Susan Lee

“ MAD, adj. Affected with a high degree of intellectual independence; not conforming to standards of thought, speech and action derived by the conformants from study of themselves; at odds with the majority; in short, unusual. It is noteworthy that persons are pronounced mad by officials destitute of evidence that themselves are sane… ”

- Ambrose Bierce
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