Captive Quotes

145 quotes by 133 authors

Because the regime is captive to its own lies, it must falsify everything. It falsifies the past. It falsifies the present, and it falsifies the… — Vaclav Havel
Neither this nation nor this party can afford a candidate so captive to the demands of the intolerant right that we end up re-electing a… — Arlen Specter
You're not free until you've been made captive by supreme belief. — Marianne Moore
The analytic psychotherapist thus has a threefold battle to wage -- in his own mind against the forces which seek to drag him down from… — Sigmund Freud
A man whose mind feels that it is captive would prefer to blind himself to the fact. But if he hates falsehood, he will not… — Simone Weil
How have I been able to live so long outside Nature without identifying myself with it? Everything lives, moves, everything corresponds; the magnetic rays, emanating… — Gerard De Nerval
That's how it goes, my friend. The problem is not falling a captive, it's how to avoid surrender. — Naz?m Hikmet
I never find myself even catching lyrics until something in the sound has taken me captive. Thinking about anything else is just the pleasurable byproduct… — Greil Marcus
We're captive on the carousel of time, we can't return we can only look behind. — Joni Mitchell
Glory drags all men along, low as well as high, bound captive at the wheels of her glittering car. — Horace
Heav'n first taught letters for some wretch's aid, Some banish'd lover, or some captive maid. — Alexander Pope
I've become a captive of my own ambitions. — Patsy Cline
Anything you strive to hold captive will hold you captive, and if you desire freedom you must give freedom. — Peace Pilgrim
When we ignore the prostituted child, we actually lend our hand to their abuse. When we ignore the widow and the orphan in their distress,… — Joel Houston
Bad art is never really enjoyed in the same sense in which good art is enjoyed. It is only "liked": it never startles, prostrates, and… — C.S. Lewis
It seems that it is madder never to abandon one's self than often to be infatuated; better to be wounded, a captive and a slave,… — Margaret Fuller
Anarchism is the great liberator of man from the phantoms that have held him captive; it is the arbiter and pacifier of the two forces… — Emma Goldman
Seek freedom and become captive of your desires. Seek discipline and find your liberty. — Frank Herbert
I never thought I could learn much from a dog or cat. They sleep when we sleep. They eat when we eat. I'm into observing… — Dominic Monaghan
The liberal intelligentsia has allowed its party to become a captive of corporate interests. — Ralph Nader

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