Quotes About Prisoners
The overwhelming majority of Coloradans don't want Guantanamo Bay detainees in the United States or Colorado.
~ Cory Gardner
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According to the California Penal Code, prisoners have the legal right to marry. The prison approved Richard's marriage, and his and Doreen's names were added to the list of ten inmates marrying that day, three from death row. It was quickly pointed out to a curious journalist by San Quentin's public relations department that prisoners on death row do not have the right to conjugal visits.
~ Philip Carlo
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Waste not, want not' is the Engineers' motto, Miss. Properly processed human ordure makes very useful fuel for our city's engines. And we are experimenting with ways of turning it into a tasty and nutritious snack. We feed our prisoners on nothing else. Unfortunately they keep dying. But that is just a temporary setback, I'm sure.
~ Philip Reeve
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I've always been opposed myself to prisoners having the vote.
~ William Hague
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Clive's point was that the criminal justice system is supposed to repair harm, but most prisoners—young, black—have been incarcerated for acts far less emotionally damaging than the injuries we noncriminals perpetrate upon one another all the time—bad husbands, bad wives, ruthless bosses, bullies, bankers.
~ Jon Ronson
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Mesa, adorno de marfil, arcoíris, cebolla, peinado, molusco, Sabbat, violencia, cutícula, melodrama, cuneta, miel, pañuelo... Nada la conmovía. (...) Nada conseguía ser más de lo que era en realidad. Eran solo cosas, prisioneras de su propia esencia.
~ Jonathan Safran Foer
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As Rollo's death drew near, he went mad and had a hundred Christian prisoners beheaded in front of him in honour of the gods whom he had worshipped, and in the end distributed a hundred pounds of gold around the churches in honour of the true God in whose name he had accepted baptism.
~ Adémar de Chabannes
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Why didn't God do anything to stop it? Here is God's answer: "I did do something. I sent Jesus to be the light so you could see what to do. He came to bring good news to the poor, to set the prisoners free, and to unfasten every yoke that burdens your fellow children and holds them down.
~ Adam Hamilton
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Katakan pada saya, Ibu, nama ibu yang sebenarnya. Kami datang untuk mengenali Ibu, untuk mengetahui keadaan Ibu, dan ingin membantu Ibu bila kami mampu dan berkesempatan melakukannya. Ingin berbuat sesuatu yang patut untuk Ibu, biarpun kami hanya tahanan, tidak punya kebebasan. Katakanlah nama Ibu, sebutkanlah.
~ Pramoedya Ananta Toer
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We are prisoners of our own metaphors, metaphorically speaking.
~ R. Buckminster Fuller
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Law enforcement's biased view of the Irish lives on in the nickname we still use for the vehicles we use to transport groups of prisoners. It is, after all, the 'paddy wagon.' The Irish had tough times, but little compares to the experience on our soil of black Americans.
~ James Comey
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What I have experienced is nothing compared to what political prisoners in prisons suffer.
~ Aung San Suu Kyi
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In the name of God!" said Gurth, "how came they prisoners? and to whom?" "Our master was too ready to fight," said the Jester, "and Athelstane was not ready enough, and no other person was ready at all.
~ Walter Scott
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Ernst Junger agreed that the defender had no moral right to surrender in these circumstances: "the defending force, after driving their bullets into the attacking one at five paces' distance, must take the consequences. A man cannot change his feelings again during the last rush with a veil of blood before his eyes. He does not want to take prisoners but to kill." During
~ Dave Grossman
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When U.S. prisoners were killed, it was "murder in flagrant disregard of the Geneva Conventions." But when Americans murdered Others, "they had it coming to them.
~ James D. Bradley
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It is apparent that prisoners of war are among the most vulnerable of people. Not only are they completely under the control of their captors, but in a time of conflict, the hatred and brutality of the battlefield are very likely to be mirrored within military prison walls.
~ James Earl Carter, Jr.
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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
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Before the war on terror, the U.S. military had a well-earned reputation for the humane treatment of prisoners of war.
~ James Risen
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He had had a terribly therapeutic yell at his prisoners and was now feeling quite relaxed and ready for a little callousness. The prisoners sat in Poetry Appreciation chairs—strapped in. Vogons suffered no illusions as to the regard their works were generally held in. Their early attempts at composition had been part of a bludgeoning insistence that they be accepted as a properly evolved and cultured race
~ Douglas Adams
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I prigionieri erano legati alle sedie di Degustazione Poetica. I vogon non si facevano illusioni riguardo all'accoglienza che le loro opere ricevevano generalmente. All'inizio i loro tentativi di composizione poetica avevano fatto parte del generale tentativo minaccioso e violento di farsi accettare come razza normalmente evoluta e civile, ma adesso l'unica cosa che li induceva a insistere nelle loro creazioni era esclusivamente la loro crudeltà.
~ Douglas Adams
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We are Prisoners of this Body. We are Prisoners of this Mind. Who are we? On Realization, the Truth we will find!
~ AiR Atman in Ravi
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Cruelty to prisoners the Nazis could abide. But not cruelty to animals.
~ Alan Gratz
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We differ on several issues. And this may include settlement, the release of prisoners, the wall closing institutions in Jerusalem.
~ Mahmoud Abbas
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It is also asserted that the election settled the matters of the war and the torture of prisoners. These are dead issues that no longer need be addressed.
~ Andrew Greeley
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