#prisoner

The middle class, that prisoner of the barbarian 20th century. ↗

— Sinclair Lewis

#barbarian #century #class #middle #middle class

In Vietnam we have no political prisoners. No one is arrested or jailed for his or her speech or point of view. They are put in jail because they violated the law. ↗

— Nong Duc Manh

#because #her #his #jail #jailed

Bush sees the evil as out there in the wider world, residing in people who 'hate freedom'. Look at his immediate response to the pictures of prisoner abuse; this is not what Americans do, these are not our values. ↗

— Peter Singer

#bush #evil #freedom #hate #his

I live a very dull life here... indeed I think I am more like a state prisoner than anything else. ↗

— Martha Washington

#anything #dull #else #here #i

You go to London, you see a TV set in every cell and the sign up that all the officers must treat prisoners with dignity. What about your dedicated soldiers that have helped fight in Afghanistan and Iraq? They're living in tents and our soldiers are living in tents. So it's OK for soldiers to live in tents, in hot tents, but it's wrong for inmates? ↗

— Joe Arpaio

#afghanistan #cell #dedicated #dignity #every

I'm not obsessed by looks. I think you can become a prisoner of your own image. ↗

— Juliette Binoche

#i #i think #image #looks #obsessed

The reporter is the daily prisoner of clocked facts. On all working days, he is expected to do his best in one swift swipe at each story. ↗

— Jim Bishop

#clocked #daily #days #each #expected

It is important that people support prisoners of the Italian state like Joe in whatever way they can. I was not allowed contact with a lawyer for the first 24 hours, and no phone calls were permitted, but apparently telegrams have been getting through to Joe. ↗

— John Blair

#apparently #been #calls #contact #first

The vast majority of prisoners at Abu Ghraib, even after interrogation, had no further intel value whatsoever. ↗

— Janis Karpinski

#after #even #further #ghraib #had

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