#prisoner

In light of the Abu Ghraib prison scandal, critics are arguing that abuses of Iraqi prisoners are being produced by a climate of disregard for the laws of war. ↗

— John Yoo

#arguing #being #climate #critics #disregard

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

Seandainya saja takdir mempertemukan kita kembali, izinkan aku memelukmu walau hanya sekali, izinkan aku untuk mengakui bahwa aku mencintaimu. ↗

— Irin Sintriana

#prisoner #quote #love

Buku itu akan abadi, bersama dengan pesan yang disampaikan di dalamnya. Jadi semestinya, meskipun ragaku ini tidak akan abadi, aku bisa menulis untuk mengabadikan perasaanku padanya, bukan? ↗

— Irin Sintriana

#prisoner #quote #love

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

I needed a place to put the dogs. The prisoners ruined the jail, so I put the prisoners in the tents and I had a nice place to put the dogs. We treat the cats nice too, and horses. I have the inmates take care of the animals. It's therapy too, you see. ↗

— Joe Arpaio

#cats #dogs #had #horses #i

The most important issue is clearly not the quality of treatment and care of these prisoners; rather it is the perplexing issue of what we now do with them. ↗

— Charles Foster Bass

#clearly #important #important issue #issue #most

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

My main point here is that if you are the child of God and God is a part of you, the in your imagination God suppose to look like you. And when you accept a picture of the deity assigned to you by another people, you become the spiritual prisoners of that other people. ↗

— John Henrik Clarke

#another #assigned #become #child #deity