Quotes About Prisoners

No matter that we were defending a Mafia club. The Stonewall was a symbol, just as the leveling of the Bastille had been. No matter that only six prisoners had been in the Bastille and one of those was Sade, who clearly deserved being locked up. No one chooses the right symbolic occasion; one takes what's available.

I have taken 60,000 prisoners, captured 120 pieces of cannon, more than ninety flags, and more than thirty generals.

I have taken 60,000 prisoners, captured 120 pieces of cannon, more than ninety flags,

Ele [Che] nunca deixou um prisioneiro sem cuidados, mas lhe deram apenas uma aspirina para curar um tiro.

Bran nodded at Charles. Charles looked at the prisoners and smiled. Asil had practiced in a mirror, trying to get that smile. His own were very good, but he hadn't gotten quite the same "I'd rather rip you to little pieces, but my father says I can't—yet" effect. Asil was better at the "I'm crazy, and you are about to die.

As a rule the prisoners of the inquisition ask for death as a boon and wherever possible commit suicide; for torture made of every one a hopeless cripple unfit for either work or enjoyment of life, even though he might be released

Some people go through their whole life free on the outside but prisoners in their hearts, enslaved to sin and bondage. These men face the most miserable existence possible inside prison, but on the inside they are as free as birds gliding over the mountain tops!

As long as the government can arbitrarily decide which substances are legal and which are illegal, then those who remain behind bars for illegal substances are political prisoners

Amnesty International should list all daughters as prisoners of war.

We're not very good as a species at looking into the future. It's much easier to look back at the past. We can edit out the bits we don't like, reinvent ourselves. But there's nothing about the future we can edit or reinvent. Most people are prisoners of the future just as much as they are prisoners of their genes.

When the Canaanite king of Arad, who lived in the Negev, heard that Israel was coming along the road to Atharim, he attacked Israel and captured some prisoners.

Some sat in darkness and in the shadow of death, prisoners in affliction and chains,

They will be gathered together like prisoners in a pit. They will be confined to a dungeon and punished after many days.

All of them come bent on violence; their hordes advance like the east wind; they gather prisoners like sand.

When it was decided that we would sail for Italy, Paul and some other prisoners were handed over to a centurion named Julius, who belonged to the Imperial Regiment.

The soldiers planned to kill the prisoners so none of them could swim to freedom.

Greet Andronicus and Junia, my fellow countrymen and fellow prisoners. They are outstanding among the apostles, and they were in Christ before I was.

For it seems to me that God has displayed us apostles at the end of the procession, like prisoners appointed for death. We have become a spectacle to the whole world, to angels as well as to men.

Remember those in prison as if you were bound with them, and those who are mistreated as if you were suffering with them.