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Prisoner Quotes - Page 4

We are the prisoners of ideas.

Ralph Waldo Emerson (2004). “A Dream Too Wild: Emerson Meditations for Every Day of the Year”, Unitarian Universalist Association of Congregations

It is not the prisoners who need reformation, it is the prisons.

Oscar Wilde, Isobel Murray (1999). “The Soul of Man, and Prison Writings”, p.164, Oxford University Press, USA

A jailer is as much a prisoner as his prisoner.

Mahatma Gandhi (2012). “The Essential Gandhi: An Anthology of His Writings on His Life, Work, and Ideas”, p.302, Vintage

John McCain was a prisoner of war.

2008 Republican National Convention Address, Delivered 2 September 2008, Minneapolis-Saint Paul, Minnesota

I'm not an optimist. I'm a prisoner of hope.

"Post-Apartheid South Africa". "Religion & Ethics Newsweekly" with Fred de Sam Lazaro, www.pbs.org. July 2, 2010.

Not all political prisoners are innocents.

"Ask the Author Live: David Remnick on Mikhail Khodorkovsky". The New Yorker Live Chat, www.newyorker.com. December 10, 2010.

We are all prisoners of our time and place.

David Henry Hwang (1988). “M. Butterfly”, p.38, Dramatists Play Service Inc

One prisoner of conscience is one too many.

Aung San Suu Kyi's Nobel Lecture in Oslo, Norway, www.nobelprize.org. June 16, 2012.

Prisoners at the bar, have you anything to say in your defence?

Agatha Christie (1977). “Masterpieces of murder”, Dodd Mead