Captives Quotes
27 quotes by 25 authors
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Sick, our nature demanded to be healed; fallen, to be raised up; dead, to rise again... Closed in the darkness, it was necessary to bring…
— Gregory of Nyssa
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To the captives, 'come out,' -- and to those in darkness, 'be free.'
— George W. Bush
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The spirit of Lincoln still lives; that spirit born of the teachings of the Nazarene, who promised mercy to the merciful, who lifted the lowly,…
— Martin Luther King, Jr.
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Without passion, men are not willing to pay any price or bear any burden to set the captives free.
— Joseph Campbell
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We are all captives of the picture in our head - our belief that the world we have experienced is the world that really exists.
— Walter Lippmann
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At the risk of quoting Mephistopheles I repeat: Welcome to hell. A hell erected and maintained by human-governments, and blessed by black robed judges. A…
— Mumia Abu-Jamal
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In the 21st Century, the anti-traditional marriage community is in league with the anti-life community, and together with the NAACP and other sympathizers, they are…
— Alveda King
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Regulation has gone astray. . . . Either because they have become captives of regulated industries or captains of outmoded administrative agencies, regulators all too…
— Edward Kennedy
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The air is annoyingly potted with a multitude of minor vertical disturbances which sicken the passengers and keep us captives of our seat belts. We…
— Ernest K. Gann
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For the sake of a dying, suffering world count the cost, pay the price and set the captives free
— John G. Lake
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We are all captives of a story.
— Daniel Quinn
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We are captives of what we love, what we desire, and what we are.
— Mahmoud Darwish
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Use gentle methods to get whatever good you can from priests and monks who are slaves, as well as from merchants and captives. Resort to…
— Vincent de Paul
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We're all time's captives, hostages to eternity.
— Boris Pasternak
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I've been reading a lot lately about Indian captives. One woman who had been captured by the Indians and made a squaw was resentful when…
— Stephen Vincent Benet
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The universe is illusion merely, not one speck of it real, and we are not only its victims, falling always into or smashed by a…
— Annie Dillard
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Take up the White Man's burden -- send forth the best ye breed -- go, bind your sons to exile to serve your captives need.
— Rudyard Kipling
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Raphael painted, Luther preached, Corneille wrote, and Milton sang; and through it all, for four hundred years, the dark captives wound to the sea amid…
— W. E. B. Du Bois
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The children themselves, before they get access to a car, are captives of their suburb, save for those families where the housewives surrender continuity in…
— David Riesman
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As long as we're dependent on those fossil fuels, we're dependent on the Middle East. If we are not victims, we're certainly captives.
— John M. McHugh
Who Wrote These Captives Quotes
25 authors contributed a total of 27 Captives Quotes as follows: