A Quote by Ghassan Kanafani

If the prisoner is beaten, it is an arrogant expression of fear.

Ghassan Kanafani

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Ghassan Kanafani
Palestinian - Writer
April 9, 1936 - July 8, 1972

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

I do not accept being a prisoner of fear. Of Communism, of fascism. That, one can bear. But of one's fear. No. Never.

Adam Michnik

As long as you hate your enemy, a jail door is closed and a prisoner is taken. But when you try to understand and release your foe from your hatred, then the prisoner is released and that prisoner is you.

Max Lucado

There is no greater hell than to be a prisoner of fear.

Ben Jonson

Fear can hold you prisoner. Hope can set you free.

Stephen King

Revenge is the concern of those who are at some point or other beaten. I am not beaten, I told myself. No, not beaten. And victory is far more interesting to contemplate than revenge.

Anne Rice

You can't help people being right for the wrong reasons...This fear of finding oneself in bad company is not an expression of political purity; it is an expression of a lack of self-confidence.

Arthur Koestler

I've spent most of my life in prison. I was a prisoner of my fear and my low self-esteem.

Gerry Cooney

I wear the black for the poor and the beaten down, Livin' in the hopeless, hungry side of town, I wear it for the prisoner who has long paid for his crime, But is there because he's a victim of the times. I wear the black for those who never read

Johnny Cash

If I maintain my silence about my secret it is my prisoner...if I let it slip from my tongue, I am ITS prisoner.

Arthur Schopenhauer

Forgiveness is setting the prisoner free, only to find out that the prisoner was me.

Corrie Ten Boom

No one complains of being a prisoner of love who has ever been a prisoner of loneliness.

Robert Breault

A prisoner unaware is the kind of prisoner most vulnerable to her captors, the easiest prey there is.

Beth Moore

You look at the top five right now and see guys like Kelvin Gastelum, who I've beaten, Carlos Condit, who I've beaten, Robbie Lawler, who I've beaten. How are those guys more notable than I am, and I'm the champion of the world?