Hostage Quotes

135 quotes by 123 authors

Comrades! The kulak uprising in your five districts must be crushed without pity. You must make example of these people. (1) Hang (I mean hang… — Vladimir Lenin
Unprovoked attacks on Israel's borders, murdering Israeli soldiers, taking Israeli hostages and showering rockets targeting and killing Israeli civilians are not furthering any legitimate goal. — Alcee Hastings
In a land of freedom we are held hostage by the tyranny of political correctness. — Robert Griffin III
As long as we're tied to Middle Eastern oil we're tied to Middle Eastern politics. We're hostages to the terrorists and nutcases who want to… — Ben Bova
America Held Hostage won 24 Emmys for ABC News, but someone forgot to include my name on the list of people responsible for the show. — Pierre Salinger
Change is the sum of the universe, and what is of nature ought not to be feared. But one gives it hostages, and lays one's… — Mary Renault
God can and will break the labels that have held you hostage. — Craig Groeschel
The issue of terrorism must be dealt with firmly. We must work very hard to avoid loss of life. We must work very hard to… — Ahmed Chalabi
If you're robbing a bank and your pants fall down, I think it's okay to laugh, and let your hostages laugh too, because come on… — Jack Handey
Freeing hostages is like putting up a stage set, which you do with the captors, agreeing on each piece as you slowly put it together;… — Terry Waite
In fact, this is a blackmail of the terrorists at the expense of the suffering of the hostages. — Alberto Fujimori
The main reason we are held hostage by the most destructive technology on earth is simple: the complete lack of international resolve to ban nuclear… — C. G. Weeramantry
Uranium is the raw material of a power-elite who has taken Mother Earth's every living creature hostage. — Petra Kelly
Continuity holds the best writer hostage of the worst. — Marv Wolfman
Although the District of Columbiahas had a ban on handgun sale and possession since 1976, Washingtonresidents are held hostage by the lax gun laws of… — Josh Sugarmann
If your happiness depends on your children being happy, that makes them your hostages. So stay out of their business, stop using them for your… — Byron Katie
Art means nothing if it simply decorates the dinner table of power which holds it hostage. — Adrienne Rich
I have given up the ambition to be a great scholar. I want to be more- simply a human. . . . We are not… — Albert Schweitzer
What the hell am I doing...? Escape holding myself as a hostage...? I won't be able to make it like that.. — Tsugumi Ohba
I believe it's a real tedious hostage negotiation to have a marriage be what it is. — Brad Garrett

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