Top Prisoner Quotes
There is no greater hell than to be a prisoner of fear.
Ben Jonson
I am not a prisoner of my sexuality like men younger than myself although I write about being a prisoner.
Al Goldstein
We are no more free agents than the queen of clubs when she victoriously takes prisoner the knave of hearts.
Mary Wortley Montagu
To Mr. Seward: It is my desire that, in case Maximillian will surrender, he be sent here a prisoner of war, but that in the event of his continuing the war, or refusing to surrender, then he be shot.
Joshua A. Norton
Among those people lucky enough, if you will, to have actually been brought to trial as a political prisoner, several historians have said there has not been one acquittal since the Bolshevik Revolution.
Barbara Amiel
Dwight D. Eisenhower 
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Henri Matisse 
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There was a war crimes trial because an American prisoner had been shot trying to escape. He had obviously been recaptured and shot, and that violated the Geneva Convention.
Charles Guggenheim 
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That means presenting the issues in certain ways that will appeal to those people and then becoming a prisoner of your own language and thought process. That has always happened - it's just been intensified.
Robert Scheer
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In prison, those things withheld from and denied to the prisoner become precisely what he wants most of all.
Eldridge Cleaver
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A political prisoner is someone who is out fighting for his or her people's rights and freedom and is imprisoned for that alone.
Leonard Peltier
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Your secret is your prisoner; once you reveal it, you become its slave.
Solomon Ibn Gabirol
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It so happened that I was on a German sailing vessel on the way to Australia when the ship was captured, and on the high seas I was made prisoner by the French.
Fritz Sauckel
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An artist must never be a prisoner. Prisoner? An artist should never be a prisoner of himself, prisoner of style, prisoner of reputation, prisoner of success, etc.
Henri Matisse
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Popular Prisoner Authors
Winston ChurchillDwight D. EisenhowerHenry MillerJuliette BinocheWarren ChristopherOlivier MartinezHenri MatisseBrian MayPeter SingerBen JonsonJackson BrowneMick JaggerGeorge SavileFritz SauckelBarbara Amiel
Sol LeWittDana RohrabacherRobert ScheerAl GoldsteinWilliam GurnallEdie BrickellMichel PatiniEdward R. MurrowMary Wortley MontaguJack Henry AbbottSolomon Ibn GabirolHugo ChavezJim BishopSinclair LewisEldridge Cleaver
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