#prisoners

Not all political prisoners are innocents. ↗

— David Remnick

#political #political prisoners #prisoners

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

— Patti LaBelle

#doing #dominating #kicking #prisoners #taking

The witty woman is a tragic figure in American life. Wit destroys eroticism and eroticism destroys wit, so women must choose between taking lovers and taking no prisoners. ↗

— Florence King

#american life #between #choose #destroys #eroticism

Torture has been privatized now, so you have obviously the whole scandal in America about the abuse of prisoners and the fact that, army people might be made to pay a price, but who are the privatized torturers accountable too? ↗

— Arundhati Roy

#abuse #accountable #america #army #been

The Pentagon said that these prisoners were kept in accordance with the Geneva Convention, and of course I was not reassured by that, but I couldn't prove that that was wrong; so we're clearer about that. ↗

— Peter Singer

#accordance #clearer #convention #course #geneva

Most of the prisoners told the interpreter that they are from Mandingo. ↗

— Lewis Tappan

#most #prisoners #told

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

— Lewis Tappan

#before #clothes #deal #eyed #good

Nay, a heart of love is treasure, and the best the world contains. ↗

— Florence Morse Kingsley

#prisoners-of-the-sea #love

When you look at the startling ruins of Nuremberg, you are looking at a result of the war. When you look at the prisoners on view in the courthouse, you are looking at 22 of the causes. ↗

— Janet Flanner

#courthouse #look #looking #nuremberg #prisoners

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