Prisoner Quotes

Those who build walls are their own prisoners.

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

How could I stand the separation from family and friends? It is ironic, I say, that in an authoritarian state it is only the prisoner of conscience who is genuinely free. Yes, we have given up our right to a normal life. But we have stayed true to that most precious part of our humanity-our conscience.

The past is the one thing we are not prisoners of. We can do with the past exactly what we wish. What we can’t do is to change its consequences.

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