Quotes About Innocent Prisoners

#1. there are times when children
might seem like innocent prisoners, condemned, not
to death, but to life,

Arthur Schopenhauer

#2. I'm not interested in playing characters who see the world through my prism; I think the journey of understanding any character is to see how they tick and how they differ from you.

Cate Blanchett

#3. The most familiar precepts are not always the truest.

Marcel Proust

#4. It has never demonstrated any desire to provide humane treatment to captured Americans. If anything, the murders of Nicholas Berg and Daniel Pearl declare al Qaeda's intentions to kill even innocent civilian prisoners.

John Yoo

#5. When the British General, Allenby, victoriously entered Jerusalem in October 1917 he declared "today the Crusades have ended".

Anonymous

#6. But a man is a frivolous and incongruous creature, and perhaps, like a chess player, loves the process of the game, not the end of it.

Fyodor Dostoyevsky

#7. I wonder about prisoners. They're told, "You are free, you are innocent, you can go anywhere." I'm sure they usually feel nothing. They don't burst into tears or hysterics or joy or "I told you so." It's nothing. To be on the straight path isn't a bloody thing. It's just ordinary.

Diana Vreeland

#8. The intrinsic brightness of theSun is fully 5,000 times as great as if the whole surface were formed of the molten steel just issuing from the Bessemer converter.

Robert Stawell Ball

#9. What ever it is, I know I have to find it, instead of waiting for it to find me.

Michael Cho

#10. This Court has never held that the Constitution forbids the execution of a convicted defendant who has had a full and fair trial but is later able to convince a habeas court that he is 'actually' innocent.

Antonin Scalia

#11. I used to get a lot of letters from prisoners. It used to get on my nerves. Especially family members. Everybody's innocent.

Terry McMillan

#12. However bad life may seem, there is always something you can do and succeed at. Where there's life, there's hope.

Stephen Hawking