“ Hostage is a crucifying aloneness. It is a silent, screaming slide into the bowels of ultimate despair. Hostage is a man hanging by his fingernails over the edge of chaos, feeling his fingers slowly straightening. Hostage is the humiliating stripping away of every sense and fiber of body and mind and spirit that make us what we are… ”
- Brian Keenan- Copy
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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… ”
- Margaret Mead- Copy
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“ People are capable of doing an awful lot when they have no choice and I had no choice. Courage is when you have choices. ”
- Terry Anderson- Copy
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“ 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; then you leave an exit through which both the captor and the captive can walk with sincerity and dignity. ”
- Terry Waite- Copy
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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- Copy
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“ 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, the exploiters and the exploited. It is worse than the one it replaces, but at least it liberates us from liberal nostalgia and the ruses of history. ”
- Jean Baudrillard- Copy
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“ I have to say when we talk about the treatment of these prisoners that I would guess that these prisoners wake up every morning thanking Allah that Saddam Hussein is not in charge of these prisons. ”
- James Inhofe- Copy
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“ Watchin' Dan Rather do the news, he looks like he's making a hostage tape. They should have guys in ski masks and AK-47s just standing off to the side. ”
- Don Imus- Copy
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“ He that hath wife and children hath given hostages to fortune; for they are impediments to great enterprises, either of virtue or mischief. ”
- Francis Bacon- Copy
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“ A few months ago I told the American people I did not trade arms for hostages. My heart and my best intentions still tell me that's true, but the facts and the evidence tell me it is not. ”
- Ronald Reagan- Copy
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“ If a person with multiple personalities threatens suicide, is that considered a hostage situation. ”
- Steven Wright- Copy
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