Captive Quotes
145 quotes by 133 authors
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What white woman, however lonely, was ever captive or insulted by me? Yet they say I am a bad Indian.
— Sitting Bull
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I would have the Constitution torn in shreds and scattered to the four winds of heaven. Let us destroy the Constitution and build on its…
— William Wells Brown
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If as the friends of colonization hope, the present and coming generations of our countrymen shall by any means, succeed in freeing our land from…
— Abraham Lincoln
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Captive Greece took captive her savage conqueror.
— Horace
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Religion has treated knowledge sometimes as an enemy, sometimes as a hostage; often as a captive and more often as a child; but knowledge has…
— Charles Caleb Colton
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By being with yourself, the 'I am', by watching yourself in your daily life with alert interest, with the intention to understand rather than judge,…
— Sri Nisargadatta Maharaj
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So long as we need to control other people, however benign our motives, we are captive to that need. In giving them freedom, we free…
— Marilyn Ferguson
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Yet, in holding scientific research and discovery in respect, as we should, we must also be alert to the equal and opposite danger that public…
— Dwight D. Eisenhower
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Unless I am convicted by Scripture and plain reason-I do not accept the authority of popes and councils, for they have contradicted each other-my conscience…
— Martin Luther
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Americans love their captivity. There's no responsibility. When you're a captive, you don't have to make a decision about anything, though you have no Liberty.…
— Eustace Mullins
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The resurrection power of Jesus broke Satan's captive power. When He led the Old Testament saints from paradise to heaven, He led captivity captive!
— Leon Morris
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You are eternity's hostage A captive of mine.
— Boris Pasternak
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Oh, Jacques, we're used to each other, we're a pair of captive hawks caught in the same cage, and so we've grown used to each…
— Tennessee Williams
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What breadth, what beauty and power of human nature and development there must be in a woman to get over all the palisades, all the…
— Alexander Herzen
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How many of us would be able to overcome our desires and resist the temptation of sin? How many of us even lower our gaze…
— Ibn Taymiyyah
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They say when opportunity knocks you should let it in and invite it to sit at your table. F*** that -- when opportunity knocks, you…
— Tracy Morgan
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If I had to choose a single destination where I'd be held captive for the rest of my time in New York, I’d choose the…
— Tim Gunn
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Ever since I gave up therapy, it's my only time with a captive audience.
— Noah Wyle
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Even if I am simply one more woman laying one more brick in the foundation of a new and more humane world, it is enough…
— Judy Chicago
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Well, I would have to say as a Christian that I believe any belief system, any world view, whether its Zen Buddhism or Hinduism or…
— Albert Mohler
Who Wrote These Captive Quotes
133 authors contributed a total of 145 Captive Quotes, led by these top contributors: