#prisoner

In the final choice a soldier's pack is not so heavy as a prisoner's chains. ↗

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

An artist must never be a prisoner. Prisoner? An artist should never be a prisoner of himself, prisoner of style, prisoner of reputation, prisoner of success, etc. ↗

— Henri Matisse

#etc #himself #must #never #prisoner

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

We are no more free agents than the queen of clubs when she victoriously takes prisoner the knave of hearts. ↗

— Mary Wortley Montagu

#clubs #free #free agents #hearts #knave

If we go to Chihuahua we must be considered as prisoners of war? ↗

— Zebulon Pike

#considered #go #must #prisoners #war

Not all political prisoners are innocents. ↗