Alive Quote by Uzodinma Iweala

Kidnapping causes a long-term rupture in the psyche of those kidnapped and of those who wait for their return. It doesn't end.

— Uzodinma Iweala

If I were to be taken hostage, I would not plead for release nor would I want my government to be blackmailed. I think…

— Margaret Mead

“People souldn't be allowed to decide that they wished to remain a hostage”

— Ann Patchett

Neither dead nor alive, the hostage is suspended by an incalculable outcome. It is nothis destiny that awaits for him, nor his own death,…

— Jean Baudrillard

Hostages want to survive - they are very focused on their own little view of things.

— Ingrid Betancourt

“Thus, much of the ‘great apostasy’ or ‘great falling away’ will arise from fear. Richardson notes that the “Stockholm Syndrome” could cause many to…

— John Price

Terror is nothing more than justice, prompt, secure and inflexible.

— Maximilien Robespierre

Terror is nothing else than justice, prompt, severe, inflexible.

— Anonymous

Terror?often arises from a pervasive sense of disestablishment; that things are in the unmaking.

— Stephen King

How a kidnapping ends depends to a large degree on who the kidnappers are.

— Giuliana Sgrena

Naturally, it is a terrible, despicable crime when, as in Munich, people are taken hostage, people are killed. But probing the motives of those…

— Steven Spielberg

Terror consists mostly of useless cruelties perpetrated by frightened people in order to reassure themselves.

— Friedrich Engels