#prisoners

All the asylum clothing is made by the patients, but sewing does not employ one's mind. After several months' confinement the thoughts of the busy world grow faint, and all the poor prisoners can do is to sit and ponder over their hopeless fate. ↗

— Nellie Bly

#asylum #busy #clothing #confinement #does

If anyone has it rough at Guantanamo, it is the guards. They are constantly harassed and threatened by some of these terrorists. Prisoners tell guards, we know where your families are. We know where your wife is, your children, and we are going to kill them. ↗

— Robin Hayes

#children #constantly #families #going #guantanamo

If they're in cell block 1A or 1B, these prisoners - they're murderers, they're terrorists, they're insurgents. Many of them probably have American blood on their hands. And here we're so concerned about the treatment of those individuals. ↗

— James Inhofe

#american #block #blood #cell #concerned

Military police know what to do, they know the Geneva Conventions, and their objective is to provide a safe, secure, fair environment for prisoners under their control. ↗

— Janis Karpinski

#conventions #environment #fair #geneva #know

If this is the way Queen Victoria treats her prisoners, she doesn't deserve to have any. ↗

— Oscar Wilde

#humor

Workers of France, it is for the freedom of the prisoners that you will go to work in Germany! It is for our country that you will go in large numbers! ↗

— Pierre Laval

#france #freedom #germany #go #large

Better to make prime ministers out of prisoners than prisoners out of prime ministers. ↗

— Lord Caradon

#make #ministers #out #prime #prime ministers

Individual rights always go along with the interests of the society. I want to add that 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

#along #always #arrested #because #go

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

#everyday #here #home #how #i

Men are not prisoners of fate, but only prisoners of their own minds. ↗

— Franklin D. Roosevelt

#men #minds #only #own #prisoners