Hostage Quotes - Page 8

• Death is a scandal. The machine is functioning, we are all hostages

  Elias Canetti

  Machines, Scandal

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• The debate we won't be having is whether or not the debt ceiling should be raised. We will not have a situation where people will hold the American economy hostage in order to achieve a specific agenda - at least not until 2013. So we think that is incredibly important as a matter of economic good.

  Jay Carney

  Thinking, Order, People

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• If I were to be taken hostage, I would not plead for release nor would I want my government to be blackmailed. I think certain government officials, industrialists and celebrated persons should make it clear they are prepared to be sacrificed if taken hostage. If that were done, what gain would there be for terrorists in taking hostages?

  Margaret Mead

  Taken, Thinking, Government

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• Neither dead nor alive, the hostage is suspended by an incalculable outcome. It is not his destiny that awaits for him, nor his own death, but anonymous chance, which can only seem to him something absolutely arbitrary. He is in a state of radical emergency, of virtual extermination.

  Jean Baudrillard

  Destiny, Arbitrary, Alive

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• 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 mere semblance of life, in which only the bureaucracy remains as the active element. Public life gradually falls asleep, a few dozen party leaders of inexhaustible energy and boundless experience direct and rule. Such conditions must inevitably cause a brutalization of public life: attempted assassinations, shootings of hostages, etc.

  Rosa Luxemburg

  Fall, Party, Struggle

  Rosa Luxemburg (1961). “The Russian Revolution, and Leninism Or Marxism?”, p.71, University of Michigan Press

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• I guess my biggest failure was not getting re-elected. And I learned two things; one is that you ought not to ever let American hostages be held for 444 days in a foreign country without extracting them. I did the best I could, but I failed.

  Jimmy Carter

  Country, Loss, Taught

  "Jimmy Carter's Biggest Failure as President". Interview with Andrea Useem, bigthink.com. November 30, 2010.

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• I don't encourage any act of murder nor do I glorify in anybody's death, but I do think that when the white public uses its press to magnify the fact that there are the lives of white hostages at stake, they don't say "hostages," every paper says "white hostages." They give me the impression that they attach more importance to a white hostage and a white death, than they do the death of a human being, despite the color of his skin.

  Malcolm X

  Thinking, White, Color

  Malcolm X's speech at the Oxford Union debate (December 3, 1964) as quoted in Saladin Ambar "Malcolm X at Oxford Union: Racial Politics in a Global Era" (p. 174), 2013.

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• You and I both know that as long as our representatives are held hostage to their funders - and their funders are not all of us - our system will not work

  Lawrence Lessig

  Long, Representatives, Knows

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• We've clearly seen that Tea Party Republicans are willing to take our economy hostage just to score political points, but I'm not willing to do that.

  Martin Heinrich

  Party, Political, Tea

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• Heroes? Vietnam Vets are heroes. The guys who tried to rescuse our hostages in Iran are heroes. I'm just a hockey player.

  Mike Eruzione

  Hero, Hockey, Player

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• Again, we saw in Bosnia - we had U.N. peacekeepers tied to trees, being taken hostage. The fact is they don't have the type of deliberate and authoritative rule that I think is needed to get the job done.

  Peter King

  Jobs, Taken, Thinking

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• I have a wife, I have sons: all of them hostages given to fate.

  Lucan

  Fate, Son, Wife

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• Last thing you want to do with a good movie is hold the audience hostage. As an entertainer myself, I just know it's better when you leave 'em wanting more than to stick around too long.

  Simon Kinberg

  Long, Good Movie, Ems

  Source: www.hollywoodreporter.com

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• I have led an unusual life. I have buried a father killed at age 50 and two brothers killed in the prime of their lives. I raised my children as a single mother when my husband was arrested and held for eight years without a conviction - a hostage to my political career.

  Benazir Bhutto

  Mother, Brother, Children

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• Almost all our suffering is the product of our thoughts. We spend nearly every moment of our lives lost in thought, and hostage to the character of those thoughts. You can break this spell, but it takes training just like it takes training to defend yourself against a physical assault.

  Sam Harris

  Character, Training, Suffering

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• 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

  People, Prejudice, Ifs

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• In a land of freedom we are held hostage by the tyranny of political correctness.

  Robert Griffin III

  Land, Political, Tyranny

  Twitter post from Apr 30, 2013

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• Uranium is the raw material of a power-elite who has taken Mother Earth's every living creature hostage.

  Petra Kelly

  Mother, Taken, Raw Materials

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• You can either be a Host to God, or a Hostage to your ego!

  Wayne Dyer

  Ego, Host

  Wayne W. Dyer (2010). “The Power of Intention”, p.142, Hay House, Inc

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• In a democracy, hostage tactics are the last resort for those who can’t otherwise win their fights through elections, can’t win their fights in Congress, can’t win their fights for the Presidency, and can’t win their fights in Courts. For this right-wing minority, hostage-taking is all they have left – a last gasp of those who cannot cope with the realities of our democracy.

  Elizabeth Warren

  Fighting, Winning, Reality

  "Elizabeth Warren: ‘Hostage Taking’ Is All Republicans Have Left" by Paige Lavender, www.huffingtonpost.com. October 1, 2013.

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