Top 1200 Political Prisoners Quotes & Sayings - Page 3

There's public health risks to doing large political gatherings, but in this country - and we do still live in America - we protect the right to free speech and we protect the right to political discourse and political events.

Our souls are prisoners of the terror of death, and the day is beautiful.

Heads of state are actually prisoners of special interest groups.

For achieving good governance political will is necessary. Good governance is a political process. Though role of civil society is critical, without political will and political process, sustainable good governance cannot be achieved.

Men are prisoners of their genitalia and women are the keepers of the keys to paradise.

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

The possibility of impeachment's always there, but impeachment's a political thing, not legal, despite how it's structured. And it's not gonna happen unless there's a political will for it, and by that I mean political will among the people.

Pakistani prisoners are safe in Indian jails. We are a responsible government.

When mom and dad went to war the only prisoners they took were the children

This is what happens in prisons I think you're not giving the prisoners the credit for how ingenious they are.

I read at least one periodical every month by a political group I dislike - to keep some sense of balance. The overwhelming stupidity of political movements is caused by the fact that political types never read anything but their own gang's agit-prop.

The public don't want prisoners lying about being idle.

Your village may be different from other people's villages but we are all prisoners.

I will say, the one thing Mexico does well is punish prisoners. They do. They're good at that.

I believe in political solutions to political problems. But man's primary problems aren't political; they're philosophical. Until humans can solve their philosophical problems, they're condemned to solve their political problems over and over and over again. It's a cruel, repetitious bore.

[To a group of women prisoners:] You're luckier than I am. You're wanted and I'm not.

I began to feel that, in a sense, we were all prisoners of our own history.

To gain customer insights, we must understand that we are prisoners of what we know and what we believe.

I've been offered political shows before, and I don't know anything about politics and I feel uncomfortable making political opinions - there's consequences to them. I often think I'm wrong, so I really don't like getting in political or religious discussions because of the giant possibility that I might be wrong.

I get a lot of letters from prisoners. They say things you can't imagine.

Political institutions are fair game in political debates in a democracy. Nothing is more fair game, in fact, than political matters of public concern.

Modern equalitarian societies whether democratic or authoritarian in their political forms, always base themselves on the claim that they are making life happier. Happiness thus becomes the chief political issue -- in a sense, the only political issue -- and for that reason it can never be treated as an issue at all.

I believe that free and civilized societies do not hold prisoners incommunicado.

If there are political programs on TV, yet it takes an artist to actually energize political debate, that tells you something really quite frightening about the level of the political debate happening on mainstream channels - right-wing-biased mothers.

It is kindness that makes one strong and brave; and so we are kind to our prisoners.

The African prisoners are orderly and peaceable among themselves.

Faith is not a political strategy and should not be a political strategy. If it is being used as a tool to garner votes, to convince people they should support one political party or the other, I think that is a huge mistake.

Mordovian prisoners are afraid of their own shadows. They are completely terrified.

I rap for listeners, blunt heads, fly ladies and prisoners

Political means so many things. We are political willy-nilly. Political poetry is an easy invitation to disaster. But then so is love poetry. But we are a little more patient with bad love poetry.

When I say the people around me, I mean the prisoners, the guards.

I've always been opposed myself to prisoners having the vote.

I don't know how prisoners of war are ever heroes unless they escape.

To me, a political song is also a personal song. Most political activism has been driven by empathy for other people and the desire for a world that's less divisive. Even if songs aren't overtly political, they can make a listener more empathetic.

The degree of a nation’s civilization can be seen in the way it treats its prisoners

I am a political human being. I have - that's one of my interests. I studied political science in college. I was actually going to get my Ph.D. in poli-sci. And a lot of my material from early on in my career dealt with politics, so I've always considered myself as somebody who enjoys political humor. So I'm not going to stop.

Three Days of the Condor is still an interesting film to watch not because it's political. It happens to be political. But that's not why the sales of the DVDs are as high as they are. It's because it's an entertaining thriller. In my opinion, Tootsie is a very political movie but truck drivers can go and laugh at it.

Remember, I'm the guy who didn't want the referendum - I wouldn't have had it if I'd been prime minister. But you have to respect how people voted because this was partly about political alienation, so if the response to political alienation is to ignore it, that's a recipe for more political alienation.

Free all the prisoners everywhere, all they want is truth and justice, all they need is love and care.

I think of the prisoners on 'Orange Is the New Black,' a lot of times, as uplifting.

The attempt to divide art and politics is a bourgeois which says good poetry, art, cannot be political, but since everything is … political, even an artist or work that claims not to have any politics is making a political statement by that act.

Some people feel that it's controversial if I say that because my dad is known as a political artist. But I don't really believe that he was a political artist. I think some of his songs were political, and I think they were incredible because he was able to make art that was political and that wasn't pedantic. But I think he was unique in being able to do that.

I try not to focus on politics too much - I would never be described as a hugely political woman - but the fact of the matter is, just me being a female, immigrant, stand-up comedian, single-mother ... that is political. We still live in a world where a woman with a voice is a political gesture.

The problem in the Syrian opposition is not between Islamists and non-Islamists. It was the lack of any political experience after 50 years of no political experience. The problem was a lack of political organizations that are truly effective and powerful. This is still a challenge now; it is a weakness in the reality of Syrian political life.

One of the more important things the Bernie Sanders campaign did is reach people who are political but not electorally political. They're political in either non-profits or community groups, but didn't see how important it was to get involved in electoral politics.

The worst illiterate is the political illiterate. He hears nothing, sees nothing, takes no part in political life. He doesn't seem to know that the cost of living, the price of beans, of flour, of rent, of medicines all depend on political decisions. He even prides himself on his political ignorance, sticks out his chest and says he hates politics. He doesn't know, the imbecile, that from his political non-participation comes the prostitute, the abandoned child, the robber and, worst of all, corrupt officials, the lackeys of exploitative multinational corporations.

The United States is in the midst of many spirited political debates about national priorities and public spending... However, we have found that science is an area where both political parties can find common ground, and in which political change does not necessarily create discontinuities.

Laughter and irony are at heart reminders that we are not prisoners in this world, but voyagers through it.

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

It is true I wished to escape; and so I wish still: is not this lawful for all prisoners?

We have not come here to take prisoners But to surrender ever more deeply To freedom and joy.

I understand the importance which the Palestinian society attributes to the issue of prisoners.

The definition of political cinema is one I don't agree with, because every film, every show, is typically political in nature. Political cinema is simply the brainchild of bad journalists.

Global warming is a political issue. It is as much a political issue to the left as abortion is. It's as big a political issue as health care is.

The prison system in Norway is fairly civilized, by world standards, and so are the prisoners and the guards.

Without history we are the prisoners of the accident of where and when we were born.

we all suffer in our different ways from being prisoners of birth.

A duty to the public must be to stop prisoners reoffending through successful rehabilitation.

There are few prisoners more closely guarded than princes.

What a strange world it is, where prisoners are left their weapons and the written word is a mortal danger.