#prisoner

Women are strong now. Women are dominating the charts, and women are doing it for themselves. We're kicking butt and taking no prisoners. ↗

— Patti LaBelle

#doing #dominating #kicking #now #prisoners

A prisoner in the Inquisition is never allowed to see the face of his accuser, or of the witnesses against him, but every method is taken by threats and tortures, to oblige him to accuse himself, and by that means corroborate their evidence. ↗

— John Foxe

#accuser #against #allowed #every #evidence

You shouldn't be a prisoner of your own ideas. ↗

— Sol LeWitt

#own #prisoner #you #your

Hundreds of political prisoners still suffer in Tibetan prisons. Freedom of speech is not allowed in any sense. It is illegal to possess a photo of the Dalai Lama. ↗

— Joanna Lumley

#any #dalai #dalai lama #freedom #freedom of speech

To be a prisoner means to be defined as a member of a group for whom the rules of what can be done to you, of what is seen as abuse of you, are reduced as part of the definition of your status. ↗

— Catharine MacKinnon

#defined #definition #done #group #means

Otherwise, to be a movie star, it's a lot of compromise and also a lot of headaches. You can't do what you want. You become a prisoner of your fame. This happened to me in France and I don't want it. ↗

— Olivier Martinez

#become #compromise #fame #france #happened

There are times when I flick through magazines and think I'm in danger of becoming a prisoner of my own hair. ↗

— Brian May

#danger #flick #hair #i #magazines

I believe that free and civilized societies do not hold prisoners incommunicado. ↗

— Tom McClintock

#civilized #free #hold #i #i believe

The prisoner is not the one who has commited a crime, but the one who clings to his crime and lives it over and over. ↗

— Henry Miller

#crime #his #lives #over #prisoner

I was never a prisoner to my footballing status. ↗