Quotes About Prison Camps

#1. There are nations, where people live in captivity, fear and silence. I believe, one day from prison camps and torture cells and from exile the leaders of freedom will emerge. The world should stand with those oppressed people until the day of their freedom finally arrives.

Tsakhiagiin Elbegdorj

#2. I am aware of what you're talking about with FEMA camps. What is particularly disturbing about that is they are going to be on former military bases. A ton of people have expressed their concerns that what they're building are prison camps.

Matt Shea

#3. Churches were shut down and Stanislaw's father and three uncles had been sent to prison camps for speaking out.

Fannie Flagg

#4. People who spent the war in prison camps have written a lot of books about what a bad time they had," she said quietly, staring into the embers. "They don't know what it was like, not being in a camp.

Nevil Shute

#5. Why do men carry guns and build prison camps, when the nurturing earth is made for freedom?

Cynthia Ozick

#6. John Kerry gave the enemy for free what I and many of my comrades in North Vietnam in the prison camps took torture to avoid saying.

Paul Galanti

#7. A message of consolation to Greek brothers in their prison camps, and to my Haitian brothers and Nicaraguan brothers and Dominican brothers and South African brothers and Spanish brothers and to my brothers in South Vietnam, all in their prison camps: You are in the free world!

E.L. Doctorow

#8. You put your back into the work. For unless you could manage to provide yourself with the means of warming up, you and everyone else would give out on the spot.

Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn

#9. I'm trouble, but in a good way.

Amanda Seyfried

#10. Carl brushes a hand over his bald head. Flashing another charming smile at her,

Sarah Cohan

#11. Freedom meant one thing to him - home.
But they wouldn't let him go home.

Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn

#12. Shukhov had figured it all out. If he didn't sign he'd be shot. If he signed he'd still get a chance to live. So he signed.

Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn

#13. Current estimates are that 38,000 elephants are being slaughtered each year in Africa. At this rate, elephants on that continent will all be gone in less than twenty years.

Jodi Picoult

#14. In Russia, we have a long tradition of compassion for people who have been put into labor camps or prison.

Lyudmila Alexeyeva

#15. A man may be accused of cowardice for fleeing away from all manner of physical dangers but when things supernatural, insubstantial and inexplicable threaten not only his safety and well-being but his sanity, his innermost soul, then retreat is not a sign of weakness but the most prudent course.

Susan Hill

#16. That bowl of soup - it was dearer than freedom, dearer than life itself, past, present, and future.

Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn

#17. I'm not that squeamish, Mr. Stone."
"Ethan," he said. "I'm naked. I'm in a tub. You're wearing my nightshirt. You've already slept in my bed. I think you should call me Ethan.

Jo Goodman

#18. A couple of ounces ruled your life.

Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn

#19. The desert is an unpredictable place. One day you're sweating, the next you're freezing. One moment the air is damp and cloudy like when the tide is coming in, the next the entire world is orange and dusty. The desert must be a woman.

Dianna Skowera

#20. You don't have to be very bright to carry a handbarrow. So the squad leader gave such work to people who'd been in positions of authority.

Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn

#21. All these institutions [prisons] seemed purposely invented for the production of depravity and vice, condensed to such a degree that no other conditions could produce it, and for the spreading of this condensed depravity and vice broadcast among the whole population.

Leo Tolstoy

#22. I see myself as a scientist who is interested in what's going on inside of us.

Susumu Tonegawa

#23. You're scaring the dog, Trish pointed out. She rarely called me by name. They do that in
prisoner of war camps, I've heard. Depersonalization.

Garth Stein

#24. Creation and destruction in equal parts, neither more powerful than the other.

C.J. LaPolla

#25. We welcome passion, for the mind is briefly let off duty.

Mignon McLaughlin

#26. The kids are interested in the music of them. They're not interested in mop-tops and Beatle boots and crazy suits. It's all down to the music now - that's what they hear, and that's what they love.

Ringo Starr

#27. I might be in an airport, late or angry with a ticket person, and I'm going to sort of check myself, because part of me is seen as Eric Camden. We all need as much help as we can get. It's a role model to me as much as to anybody else.

Stephen Collins

#28. Here a man can live. All right, it's a 'special' camp. So what? Does it bother you to wear a number? They don't weigh anything, those numbers.

Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn

#29. Men have prayed in prison, men have prayed in slums and concentration camps. It's only the middle class who demand to pray in suitable surroundings.

Graham Greene