Hostages Quotes

43 quotes by 41 authors

We are all hostages, and we are all terrorists. This circuit has replaced that other one of masters and slaves, the dominating and the dominated,… — Jean Baudrillard
Without general elections, without unrestricted freedom of press and assembly, without a free struggle of opinion, life dies out in every public institution, becomes a… — Rosa Luxemburg
I have a wife, I have sons; all these hostages have I given to fortune. — F L Lucas
When death gives us a long lease of life, it takes as hostages all those whom we have loved. — Suzanne Curchod
I guess my biggest failure was not getting reelected. [The loss taught me] not to ever let American hostages be held for 444 days in… — Jimmy Carter
From the sons of Ith, the first of the Gael to get his death in Ireland, there came in the after time Fathadh Canaan, that… — Lady Gregory
If people are informed they will do the right thing. It's when they are not informed that they become hostages to prejudice. — Charlayne Hunter-Gault
Yet who can say how our souls have been stamped by witnessing such a cruel drama? All souls are hostages to their human envelopes, but… — Gregory Maguire
Perhaps it is not-being that is the true state, and all our dream of life is inexistent; but, if so, we feel that these phrases… — Marcel Proust
At the time weâ€™re stuck in it, like hostages locked in a Turkish bath, high school seems the most serious business in the world to… — Stephen King
We who are engaged in the sacred cause of education are entitled to look upon all parents as having given hostages to our cause. — Horace Mann
Death is a scandal. The machine is functioning, we are all hostages — Elias Canetti
Recently , crowds of thousands gathered throughout the Muslim world - burning European embassies, issuing threats, taking hostages, even killing people - in protest over… — Sam Harris
What you forget when you're planning a hijack by yourself is somewhere along the line, you might need to neglect your hostages just long enough… — Chuck Palahniuk
Oddly enough, I find the best hostages are the live ones. - Karl — Kelley Armstrong
Alcoholics donâ€™t have relationships-they take hostages. — Michael Robotham
Some historians trace the start of the War on Terror to November 4, 1979, the day the hostages were taken in Tehran. — Stephen Rodrick
I have a wife, I have sons: all of them hostages given to fate. — Lucan
At the beginning, because the lives of the hostages were at stake, then during this silent period we have taken several measures like not accepting… — Alberto Fujimori
You must avoid giving hostages to fortune, like getting an expensive wife, an expensive house, and a style of living that never lets you aford… — Irwin Shaw

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