"Captive Greece took captive her savage conqueror." — Horace

More Captive Quotes

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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
• I would have the Constitution torn in shreds and scattered to the four winds of heaven. Let us destroy the… — William Wells Brown
• If as the friends of colonization hope, the present and coming generations of our countrymen shall by any means, succeed… — Abraham Lincoln
• Religion has treated knowledge sometimes as an enemy, sometimes as a hostage; often as a captive and more often as… — Charles Caleb Colton
• By being with yourself, the 'I am', by watching yourself in your daily life with alert interest, with the intention… — Sri Nisargadatta Maharaj
• So long as we need to control other people, however benign our motives, we are captive to that need. In… — Marilyn Ferguson
• Yet, in holding scientific research and discovery in respect, as we should, we must also be alert to the equal… — Dwight D. Eisenhower
• Unless I am convicted by Scripture and plain reason-I do not accept the authority of popes and councils, for they… — Martin Luther
• Americans love their captivity. There's no responsibility. When you're a captive, you don't have to make a decision about anything,… — Eustace Mullins
• The resurrection power of Jesus broke Satan's captive power. When He led the Old Testament saints from paradise to heaven,… — Leon Morris
• You are eternity's hostage A captive of mine. — Boris Pasternak
• Oh, Jacques, we're used to each other, we're a pair of captive hawks caught in the same cage, and so… — Tennessee Williams

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