14 quotes found
“You're captives of a civilizational system that more or less compels you to go on destroying the world in order to live. You are captivesand you have made a captive of the world itself. That's wha...”
“But on Kwajalein, the guards sought to deprive them of something that had sustained them even as all else had been lost: dignity. This self-respect and sense of self-worth, the innermost armament o...”
“Please wake me when I'm freeI cannot bear captivity4 I would rather be stricken blindThan 2 live without expression of mind”
“Remember how it is written of Job, The Lord turned the captivity of Job, when he prayed for his friends. While he prayed for himself, he remained a captive; but when he prayed for those unfriendly ...”
“From the pavement, I could see the window of Albertines room, that window, formerly quite black, at night, when she was not staying in the house, which the electric light inside, dissected by the s...”
“The years in captivity fuels character development”
“I lost my freedom for so many years. Until he entered my cage. Him, with the black eyes and blacker soul.”
“So I'd been captured? So I was starving?Did that mean I had to shrivel up and die?I could still slither. I could still hiss. Nothing had been stolen from me except my freedom.What I needed was a ne...”
“Without dignity, identity is erased. In its absence, men are defined not by themselves, but by their captors and the circumstances in which they are forced to live.”
“Cage an eagle and it will bite at the wires, be they ofiron or of gold.”
“To live with unforgiveness is to become a captive cultured citizen whose taxation is that of demonically ticketed torment.”
“You're captives of a civilizational system that more or less compels you to go on destroying the world in order to live. … You are captives—and you have made a captive of the world itself. That's w...”
“Remember how it is written of Job, “The Lord turned the captivity of Job, when he prayed for his friends.” While he prayed for himself, he remained a captive; but when he prayed for those unfriendl...”
“From the pavement, I could see the window of Albertine’s room, that window, formerly quite black, at night, when she was not staying in the house, which the electric light inside, dissected by the ...”
