“A prisoner of war is a man who tries to kill you and fails, and then asks you not to kill him.”
Winston Churchill
“I never saw a man who looked with such a wistful eye upon that little tent of blue which prisoners call the sky.”
Oscar Wilde
“In prison, those things withheld from and denied to the prisoner become precisely what he wants most of all.”
Eldridge Cleaver
“When a prisoner sees the door of his dungeon open he dashes for it without stopping to think where he shall get his dinner.”
George Bernard Shaw
“I've been a prisoner and lived in prison for a while; I've been a missionary in China; I've been a vampire and a priest in Poland in World War II. I guess without bragging or being too prideful about it I'm excited when I look back at these things that I've done. I've had lots of wonderful opportunities.”
Willem Dafoe
“Prison officials have been more concerned about sparing the sensitivities of executioners and witnesses than protecting the condemned prisoner from pain. They are more concerned with appearances than with the reality.”
Jamie Fellner
“(I want him to be sentenced to) life in prison. I don't want the death penalty. I want him to live to be an old man in prison and I want him to fear for his life every day, just as Julie feared for hers.”
Peggy White
