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Yes. And release prisoners who are incarcerated for pot. — Mark Cuban

I have learned some things. Modern life is warfare without end: take no prisoners, leave no wounded, eat the dead
that's environmentally sound. — James Crumley

We're nothing more than prisoners to your desire. — Jessie Burton

There is no way around the contradictions and dangers inherent in Israel's decision to free over 1,000 prisoners in order to liberate Gilad Shalit. — Elliott Abrams

I rap for listeners, blunt heads, fly ladies and prisoners — Nas

The past is the one thing we are not prisoners of. We can do with the past exactly what we wish. What we can't do is to change its consequences. — John Berger

All three of us are prisoners of our early indoctrinations, for it is hard, very nearly impossible, to shake off one's earliest training. — Robert A. Heinlein

Through my illness I learned rejection. I was written off. That was the moment I thought, Okay, game on. No prisoners. Everybody's going down. — Lance Armstrong

Only prisoners have time to read, and if you want to engage in a twenty-year long research project funded by the state, you will have to kill someone. — Mark Fisher

The prisoners still keep killing each other thay hung six yesterday thay fight all most every night in the stockade. — Joseph Williams

Most peoples are prisoners of other people's thoughts. — Debasish Mridha

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

Prejudice makes prisoners of both the hated and the hater. — Randy Shilts

Sometimes I doubt that anyone with a philosophical turn of mind is fit to judge anyone. He never comprehends the concept of guilt. — Jack Henry Abbott

Of the seventeen thousand prisoners who passed through Tuol Sleng, only seven survived. — Reif Larsen

Free and civilized societies do not hold prisoners incommunicado. — Tom McClintock

Here's how I think of my money - as soldiers - I send them out to war everyday. I want them to take prisoners and come home, so there's more of them. — Kevin O'Leary

Will you boys please escort the prisoners to our aircar on the roof? When we reach 5000 feet on the way home, let them escape... — Hal Stryker

If we go to Chihuahua we must be considered as prisoners of war? — Zebulon Pike

And if Bradley Manning really did as he is accused, he is a hero, an example to us all and one of the world's foremost political prisoners. — Julian Assange

More than 90 percent of all the prisoners in our American prisons have been abused as children. — John A. Powell

Laughter and irony are at heart reminders that we are not prisoners in this world, but voyagers through it. — Eben Alexander

Seven severely depressed prisoners were listed as having died of nostalgia. — Tony Horwitz

All Americans are the prisoners of racial prejudice. — Shirley Chisholm

We are all prisoners but some of us are in cells with windows and some without. — Kahlil Gibran

One of the prisoners, Grigoryev, went mad as soon as he was untied, and never regained his sanity. — Fyodor Dostoyevsky

Your Village may be different from other people's Villages, but we are all prisoners. — Patrick McGoohan

I get a lot of letters from prisoners. They say things you can't imagine. — Lela Rochon

To gain customer insights, we must understand that we are prisoners of what we know and what we believe. — Mohanbir Sawhney

I used to get a lot of letters from prisoners. It used to get on my nerves. Especially family members. Everybody's innocent. — Terry McMillan

Not all political prisoners are innocents. — David Remnick

If you surrender you shall be treated as prisoners of war, but if I haveto storm your works you may expect no quarter. — Nathan Bedford Forrest

I will say, the one thing Mexico does well is punish prisoners. They do. They're good at that. — Tucker Carlson

Without history we are the prisoners of the accident of where and when we were born. — Donald Kagan

Maybe prisoners in isolation feel what I feel: they hate their guards, but a beating now and then is at least some human contact. — Hugh Howey

The lives of prisoners of war after they are returned is almost never discussed, never explored. — Gideon Raff

Like I'm listening to a garden seashell for the echo of her take-no-prisoners affection, I lay my head against Mom's cold pillow. — Rodney Ross

[To a group of women prisoners:] You're luckier than I am. You're wanted and I'm not. — Nancy Astor

The fate of all of us here has been to know that we are prisoners of power. No one knows why us in particular, but what a great fortune! — Carlos Castaneda

We cannot run away from the needs of LGBTI, sex workers, drug users, prisoners, and people with a disability. — Michel Sidibe

Without turning prison life into something more meaningful, prisoners are more likely to reoffend. — Susan Hill

Most doctors are prisoners of their education and shackled by their profession. — Richard Diaz

I live on the limit, Vyvyan. The limit, because I'm a rider at the gates of dawn and I take no prisoners! — Rik Mayall

If the prisoner is beaten, it is an arrogant expression of fear. — Ghassan Kanafani

There were many peddlers like her among the prisoners: women who were only trying to make a living by selling vegetables, which was against the law. — Anonymous

The degree of a nation's civilization can be seen in the way it treats its prisoners — Fyodor Dostoevsky

John Kerry announced his plan for how to handle those poor naked prisoners. His wife is going to buy them all a $1,000 Armani suit. — Craig Kilborn

I think it's hard to learn democracy when we make children prisoners until they're nineteen years old. — Mimsy Sadofsky

The word deadline is defined as "a boundary line in a prison that prisoners can cross only at the risk of being shot." I — Gary Reilly

Only a free West can help the prisoners of today's left- and right-wing dictatorships. — Barbara Amiel

we Do as the ascendants to GOD ; the prisoners and the unemployeds Do , we Forget the Pain & Raise Hope ~ — Mahmoud Darwish

The African prisoners are orderly and peaceable among themselves. — Lewis Tappan

They kept me in a cage for too long because now every room I am standing in is just another cell. — Raegan Butcher

Prisoners!" Finan shouted, and I suspected he was shouting at me because I had so blatantly ignored my own insistence that we take men captive. — Bernard Cornwell

This is what happens in prisons I think you're not giving the prisoners the credit for how ingenious they are. — Philip Davies

The unhappy are prisoners of a single round of thought. — Mason Cooley

We are all prisoners of our thoughts. — Sam Harris

Love took prisoners no matter what the circumstances; it broke open the heart with no regard for consequences. — Andrea Hurst

Dinner with water is dinner for prisoners — Adam Gopnik

Those who build walls are their own prisoners. I'm going to go fulfill my proper function in the social organism. I'm going to unbuild walls. — Ursula K. Le Guin

You are as free as a prisoner in an open air prison — Bangambiki Habyarimana

Most men are prisoners at best, Who some strong habit every drag about Like chain and ball. — Garrison Keillor

We are products of our past, but we don't have to be prisoners of it. — Rick Warren

You don't have to be very bright to carry a handbarrow. So the squad leader gave such work to people who'd been in positions of authority. — Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn

Bad breath and butt smell; that is prison, in a nutshell. — Raegan Butcher

I began to feel that, in a sense, we were all prisoners of our own history. — Roland Joffe

Only prisoners were ever granted easy passage into a prison. — Scott Lynch

We must not allow ourselves to be the prisoners of our societal conformity. — Debasish Mridha

Pain dies quickly, and lets her weary prisoners go; the fiercest agonies have shortest reign. — William C. Bryant

We're not prisoners of the past. — Martin Seligman

There are few prisoners more closely guarded than princes. — Christina, Queen Of Sweden

We are prisoners of our own metaphors, metaphorically speaking ... — R. Buckminster Fuller

All modern U.S. presidents are perforce politicians, prisoners of their past pronouncements, their party, their constituency, and their colleagues. — Tony Judt

They were dealt with as in war, and they naturally employed the means that were used against them. — Leo Tolstoy

The mad joy over the prisoners who were saved, had astounded him scarcely less than the mad ferocity against those who were cut to pieces. — Charles Dickens

Weren't chains ashamed of their prisoners? But — Janet Fitch

They came to know the incorrigible sorrow of all prisoners and exiles, which is to live in company with a memory that serves no purpose. — Albert Camus

We differ on several issues. And this may include settlement, the release of prisoners, the wall closing institutions in Jerusalem. — Mahmoud Abbas

Women are dominating the charts, and women are doing it for themselves. We're kicking butt and taking no prisoners. — Patti LaBelle

The prisoners eyed the clothes some time, and laughed a good deal among themselves before they put them on. — Lewis Tappan

A society is measured by the treatment of its prisoners — Winston S. Churchill

Prisoners are the greatest audience that an entertainer can perform to. — Johnny Cash

Many working families are both prisoners and architects of the time bind in which they find themselves. — Arlie Russell Hochschild

Only the prisoners who were hit. An undamaged — Jonas Jonasson

They are not free at all. They are essentially our prisoners. — Michael Crichton

We all suffer in our different ways from being prisoners of birth. — Jeffrey Archer

When mom and dad went to war the only prisoners they took were the children — Pat Conroy

Eleven hundred defenceless prisoners of both sexes and all ages had been killed by the populace; — Charles Dickens

Morality is not man's prison but rather the divine element in him. — Pope Benedict XVI

Swaraj does not depend on jail going. If it did, there are thousands of prisoners in jail today. It depends on everyone doing his or her own task. — Mahatma Gandhi

Teach us to pray that we may cause The enemy to flee, That we his evil power may bind, His prisoners to free. — Watchman Nee

Still, it's a nice, cynical book for those who like atrocity scenes - starving prisoners forced to eat their girlfriends, etc. — H.P. Lovecraft

Maybe we're just prisoners of our biology. — Jonathan Kellerman

There was never in my mind a desire to give in on the subject of freeing the political prisoners. — Robert Bourassa

The blues aren't pessimistic. We're prisoners of hope but we tell the truth and the truth is dark. — Cornel West

Slaves of Plastic! Leather-shoe chino-pants prisoners! Haircut junkies! Dacron-shiffers! — Allen Ginsberg

the slaughterhouse where we had been locked up at night as prisoners of war. — Kurt Vonnegut Jr.

Prison life, fortunately, I spent a lot of years, about 18 years with other prisoners, and, as I say, they enriched your soul. — Nelson Mandela

Most of the prisoners told the interpreter that they are from Mandingo. — Lewis Tappan

It was clearly a prisoner's craftwork; that is, the most painstaking work in the world, for prisoners have nowhere to hurry to. — Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn