#prisoner

A prisoner of war is a man who tries to kill you and fails, and then asks you not to kill him. ↗

— Winston Churchill

#fails #him #kill #man #prisoner

I am George Rogers Clark. You have just become a prisoner of the Commonwealth of Virginia. ↗

— George Rogers Clark

#become #clark #commonwealth #george #i

My main point here is that if you are the child of God and God is a part of you, the in your imagination God suppose to look like you. And when you accept a picture of the deity assigned to you by another people, you become the spiritual prisoners of that other people. ↗

— John Henrik Clarke

#another #assigned #become #child #deity

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

— Eldridge Cleaver

#denied #most #precisely #prison #prisoner

A defence in the Inquisition is of little use to the prisoner, for a suspicion only is deemed sufficient cause of condemnation, and the greater his wealth the greater his danger. ↗

— John Foxe

#condemnation #danger #deemed #defence #greater

Your secret is your prisoner; once you reveal it, you become its slave. ↗

— Solomon Ibn Gabirol

#once #prisoner #reveal #secret #slave

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

#because #been #convention #crimes #escape

If anyone has it rough at Guantanamo, it is the guards. They are constantly harassed and threatened by some of these terrorists. Prisoners tell guards, we know where your families are. We know where your wife is, your children, and we are going to kill them. ↗

— Robin Hayes

#children #constantly #families #going #guantanamo

If they're in cell block 1A or 1B, these prisoners - they're murderers, they're terrorists, they're insurgents. Many of them probably have American blood on their hands. And here we're so concerned about the treatment of those individuals. ↗

— James Inhofe

#american #block #blood #cell #concerned

Without history we are the prisoners of the accident of where and when we were born. ↗

— Donald Kagan

#born #history #prisoners #were #where