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Quotes About Prisoners

Why? Because the Master won't ever walk out and fail to return. If he works severely, he also works tenderly. His stockpiles of loyal love are immense. He takes no pleasure in making life hard, in throwing roadblocks in the way: 34-36 Stomping down hard on luckless prisoners, Refusing justice to victims in the court of High God, Tampering with evidence— the Master does not approve of such things.
~ Eugene H. Peterson
To the left and at the end of our small wing that held eight prisoners was an NYPD officer named Gilberto Valle, who'd been charged with conspiring to cook and eat his girlfriend. The press had dubbed him the "Cannibal Cop.
~ Bernard B. Kerik
The Hope & Glory would carry forty cases of muskets, 32,000 gunflints, coral necklaces, Aphrikan prints, bead jewellery, quills, papyrus, household objects such as kettles and musical instruments such as the talking drum, with which to barter for livestock. My host joked that the guns would encourage the Europanes to start more wars which would result in more prisoners offered up as slaves.
~ Bernardine Evaristo
Remember those in prison as if you were their fellow prisoners, and those who are mistreated as if you yourselves were suffering.
~ bible quotes v
No one is my enemy or the Gospel's... just prisoners of war that Christ longs to set free.
~ Bill Myers
Memorial bracelets memorializing prisoners of war, missing in action, killed in action, and those who died of wounds or injuries sustained in a combat theater are authorized.
~ James F. Amos
Still, it's a nice, cynical book for those who like atrocity scenes—starving prisoners forced to eat their girlfriends, etc.
~ H.P. Lovecraft
Ése era su culto y, según los prisioneros, siempre había existido y siempre existiría, oculto en lejanos desiertos y oscuros lugares repartidos por todo el mundo, hasta el momento en que el gran sacerdote Cthulhu se alzase de su oscura casa en la poderosa ciudad de R'lyeh, bajo las aguas, y tomase otra vez la Tierra bajo su égida. Algún día llamaría, cuando las estrellas fuesen propicias, y el culto secreto estaría siempre aguardando para liberarlo.
~ H.P. Lovecraft
For the past seven years we have been cracking down on crime in Missouri, passing tougher laws for drug crimes and sex offenses and requiring prisoners to serve more time.
~ Mel Carnahan
In a sense we are all prisoners of some memory, or fear, or disappointment—we are all defined by something we can't change.
~ Simon Van Booy
Two prisoners whose cells adjoin communicate with each other by knocking on the wall. The wall is the thing which separates them but is also their means of communication. It is the same with us and God. Every separation is a link.
~ Simone Weil
The world is the closed door. It is a barrier. And at the same time it is the way through. Two prisoners whose cells adjoin communicate with each other by knocking on the wall. The wall is the thing which separates them but it is also their means of communication. … Every separation is a link.
~ Simone Weil
Dios, que habita en su santo templo, es padre de los huérfanos y defensor de las viudas; Dios da a los solitarios un hogar donde vivir, libera a los prisioneros y les da prosperidad. SALMOS 68.5–6 (DHH)
~ Max Lucado
Prisoners! Finan shouted, and I suspected he was shouting at me because I had so blatantly ignored my own insistence that we take men captive.
~ Bernard Cornwell
Older prisoners are more expensive for prisons to house because they tend to require more health care over time.
~ Clint Smith
The message of Jesus is summed up partly in the Sermon on the Mount, and partly when he begins his ministry and quotes the passage from Isaiah: 'I have come to set free the prisoners and restore sight to the blind.' And certainly, his mission is also to bring hope. It was to heal people, to befriend the outcast.
~ Dan Wakefield
Prisoners do matter when analyzing the severity of racial inequality in the U.S. Yet because they are out of sight and out of mind, it is easy to imagine that we are making far more racial progress than we actually are.
~ Michelle Alexander
I will return when I feel safe there, when negotiations start, when political prisoners are released. Those will be the signs for me to come back safely.
~ Sviatlana Tsikhanouskaya
Traitez bien les prisonniers, nourissez-les comme vos propres soldats, afin qu'il se trouvent mieux chez vous qu'ils ne l'étaient dans leur propre camp ou dans leur patrie. (article II)
~ Sun Tzu
Cambia sus colores (de los soldados enemigos hechos prisioneros), utilízalos mezclados con los tuyos. Trata bien a los soldados y préstales atención. Los soldados prisioneros deben ser bien tratados, para conseguir que en el futuro luchen para ti. A esto se llama vencer al adversario e incrementar por añadidura tus propias fuerzas.
~ Sun Tzu
Los soldados prisioneros deben ser bien tratados, para conseguir que en el futuro luchen para ti.
~ Sun Tzu
After crushing the Marines, Kawaguchi planned to don his tailored white dress uniform and receive Vandegrift's sword in a surrender ceremony at the mouth of the Lunga River. Afterward his Marine prisoners would be flown to Tokyo and paraded through the streets.
~ Joseph Wheelan
During our stay in Newport Beach, the Iranian Revolution took place and a group of Americans were taken hostage in the American embassy in Tehran. Overnight, Iranians living in America became, to say the least, very unpopular. For some reason, many Americans began to think that all Iranians, despite outward appearances to the contrary, could at any given moment get angry and take prisoners.
~ Firoozeh Dumas
It takes a revolution to make a solution; Too much confusion, so much frustration, eh! So, my friend, I wish that you could see, Like a bird in the tree, the prisoners must be free, yeah! Never make a politician grant you a favor; They will always want to control you forever, Kill, cramp and paralyze all weak at conception; Wipe them out of creation Let righteousness cover the earth Like the water cover the sea, yeah.
~ Bob Marley