Monica Bellucci

In so many places in the world, women have been prisoners for so long that they feel they have to scream about their rights. But when you scream, nobody listens to you. Real authority comes when you no longer need to scream - and that's something we women still need to learn.

Italian Actress

Alissa Quart

Part of why daycare is so poorly paid is because the sense that they're prisoners of love, that daycare workers love their work so much that they don't need to be paid fairly. It's this sense of, 'Oh well, labor and love are two different things.

American Writer

William S. Burroughs

Hemingway was a prisoner of his style. No one can talk like the characters in Hemingway except the characters in Hemingway. His style in the wildest sense finally killed him.

Dolley Madison

And now, dear sister, I must leave this house or the retreating army will make me a prisoner in it by filling up the road I am directed to take.

American First Lady

Matthew Shipp

People come from a certain generation and a certain whole way of looking at things, and you really do become a prisoner of your own world.

American Musician

Chris Grayling

I want to see prisoners getting support that is every bit as good as that which they would receive from the NHS in the community.

British Politician

Martha Washington

I live a very dull life here... indeed I think I am more like a state prisoner than anything else.

Gerry Cooney

I've spent most of my life in prison. I was a prisoner of my fear and my low self-esteem.

American Athlete

Nadezhda Tolokonnikova

Mordovian prisoners are afraid of their own shadows. They are completely terrified.

Russian Artist

Aung San Suu Kyi

I think I was the healthiest prisoner of conscience in the world.

Burmese Activist

‘Prisoner’ implies that the person has faced legal judgment and is serving time.

Legal Outcome

The term does not specify the length of imprisonment; it could be days or life.

Length of Stay

Can refer to being controlled by emotions or situations, not just physically held.

Not Always Physical

Used metaphorically, it expresses a lack of freedom in various life situations.

Constraints Beyond Jail

Can indicate a psychological state, suggesting emotional or mental restrictions.

Emotional Implications

Specific to military situations, involving capture by an enemy force.

War Context

Refers to rules about how 'prisoners of war' should be treated.

Geneva Conventions

This captures individuals held for their beliefs or activism, not criminal acts.

Political Context

Such 'prisoners' may be detained without the due process of law.

Uncertain Legality

 Picked two the most normal, the most healthy. Randomly assigned them to be prisoner and guard. So on day one, we knew we had good apples. I'm going to put them in a bad situation. And secondly, we know there's no difference between the boys who will be guards and those who will be prisoners. To the prisoners, we said,

The psychology of evil PIPE...

 to enlist the help of prisoners, of incarcerated men and women to help me learn how to grow mosses for the horticulture trade. They have time, many of them have space, you don't need sharp tools to grow mosses. And so in fact this turned out to be a fabulous project. The incarcerated men and women

This Is Your Brain on...

 But when a British destroyer came to collect the prisoners, they found an unexpected survivor - a black and white cat clinging to a floating plank. For the next several months this cat hunted rats and raised British morale - until a sudden torpedo strike shattered the hull and sank the ship.

The history of the world...

 like what's that and a guy asked me if I played stocks I hadn't even heard the word before tell me say you know this is what why people keep their money I mean he said that alcohol like I stumbled across something here is their regulation that a prisoner can not invest in the stock market

Wall Street in prison PIPE...

 by examining concepts like justice, truth and beauty. In the allegory, a group of prisoners have been confined in a cavern since birth, with no knowledge of the outside world. They are chained, facing a wall, unable to turn their heads, while a fire behind them gives off a faint light.

Plato’s Allegory of the...

 the dictator reluctantly agrees to let you visit the island and speak to the prisoners under the following you may only make one statement, and you cannot tell them any new information. What can you say to help free the prisoners without incurring the dictator's wrath?

Can you solve the...

 focuses on changing the self-defeating attitudes people form about their life circumstances. There's also Viktor Frankl's logotherapy. Informed by Frankl's own time as a concentration camp prisoner, logotherapy is based on the Stoic principle

The philosophy of...

 "Multiple accounts show his army's brutality going beyond ripping unborn children from mothers' wombs, using prisoners as human shields, or moat fillers to support siege engines, taking all women from conquered towns--"

History vs. Genghis Khan...

 but criminals, debtors, or prisoners of war from rival tribes. By selling them, kings enriched their own realms, and strengthened them against neighboring enemies. African kingdoms prospered from the slave trade,

The Atlantic slave...

 in defense of the trail the ants take no prisoners but even an innocuous looking insect can be surprisingly dangerous