#prisoner

The anti-apartheid prisoners on the island, like so many in every age and nation, found that Shakespeare had a peculiar ability to gentle their condition. They used to gather clandestinely to read the plays; on one occasion, the book was passed around for each man to mark his favourite lines. ↗

— Daniel Hannan

#age #around #book #condition #each

It might be argued that genuine spontaneity is not really possible or desirable so long as printed scores of great works exist. All modern musicians are, for better or worse, prisoners of Gutenberg. ↗

— Donal Henahan

#better #desirable #exist #genuine #great

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

American POWs from the last Iraq war, who were held prisoner and tortured by Iraq, are now being prevented by our government from suing the Iraqis who tortured them. ↗

— Dana Rohrabacher

#being #government #held #iraq #iraq war

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

This is the most immediate fruit of exile, of uprooting: the prevalence of the unreal over the real. Everyone dreamed past and future dreams, of slavery and redemption, of improbable paradises, of equally mythical and improbable enemies; cosmic enemies, perverse and subtle, who pervade everything like the air. ↗

— Primo Levi

#exile #prisoner #dreams

Bukankah sangat menyenangkan jika kau bisa menciptakan sebuah dunia dan mengajak orang lain untuk tinggal di dalamnya? ↗

— Irin Sintriana

#novel #prisoner-of-ur-heart #love

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

— Mahmoud Abbas

#differ #include #institutions #issues #jerusalem

When I'm forced by circumstances to be in a crowd of prisoners, it's all I can do to refrain from attack. ↗

— Jack Henry Abbott

#circumstances #crowd #forced #i #i can

Among those people lucky enough, if you will, to have actually been brought to trial as a political prisoner, several historians have said there has not been one acquittal since the Bolshevik Revolution. ↗

— Barbara Amiel

#actually #among #been #bolshevik #brought