Prisoners Quotes

Your notions of friendship are new to me; I believe every man is born with his quantum, and he cannot give to one without robbing another. I very well know to whom I would give the first place in my friendship, but they are not in the way, I am condemned to another scene, and therefore I distribute it in pennyworths to those about me, and who displease me least, and should do the same to my fellow prisoners if I were condemned to a jail. - Jonathan Swift

You want to send a message, you're going to meet these guys later in the playoffs. It's going to be a physical contest between us, and we're going to take no prisoners. - Les Borsheim

You have to take a breath and relax, and understand that -- particularly someone in Duke Cunningham's position -- they're not going into a prison with a lot of violent and dangerous prisoners. - Knut Johnson

You have more contact with the prisoners this way. If they need something, they usually just tell us face-to-face. - Maria Martinez

You always worry about the possibility of aggression against other prisoners, or against the jailers themselves... And if you've got 140 prisoners in your jail, it just gets worse. That's why it's so important to have a good working relationship with other departments who can provide backup in those situations. - Kevin Bryant

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

Woe unto them that decree unrighteous decrees, and that write grievousness which they have prescribed; / To turn aside the needy from judgment, and to take away the right from the poor of my people, that widows may be their prey, and that they may rob the fatherless! / And what will ye do in the day of visitation, and in the desolation which shall come from far? to whom will ye flee for help? and where will ye leave your glory? / Without me they shall bow down under the prisoners, and they shall fall under the slain. For all this his anger is not turned away, but his hand is stretched out still. - Bible