Quotessence
Home / Topics / Kidnapping Quotes

Kidnapping Quotes

Browse 150 quotes about Kidnapping.

Related topics

MurderPeopleIfs

Kidnapping Quotes

“These bible people remind me of another calamity similar to this missionary scheme, when our people, or any christian power would go to Africa for the pious purpose of kidnapping negroes, the mother would cry out to her children "run, run, the christians are coming," so when ever you hear "bibles," run for your life, if you do not want your pockets picked, or to be insulted and slandered as I was... and if you hear "hopeful conversions" or the "gospel," don't stop to look behind you.”

PeopleIfsWantLooksChildrenRunningChristianMotherPurposeBehindsAtheismCryPositive AtheismConversionHopefulPocketsMissionarySchemesCalamityBehind YouPiousInsultedKidnapping
Author:Anne Royall
Create image

“Mexico has many more kidnappings than the United States. The U.S. has very few kidnappings.The reason is, in the United States, we don't pay ransom. We turn it over to the FBI. They catch the person. And then, of course, we used to have the death penalty for it. Now it's life in prison. In Mexico, everybody pays. It's a business.”

PersonsStatesReasonUsedTurnsCoursesUnitedPayUnited StatesPrisonMexicoPenaltiesDeath PenaltyFbiKidnappingRansom
Author:Rudy Giuliani
Create image

“You guys (Boko Haram) are trying so hard to convince everybody that you're such badasses. But all you've done with this kidnapping is highlight who the real badasses are, the kids you kidnapped. Compared to a teenager who knows that her desire for an education could get her dragged into a snake infested jungle to be sold as a bribe to some demented, stick-chewing cartoon villain but still gets up and goes to class everyday, fully aware of that danger - compared to their courage - I'd say Boko Haram is a bunch of little girls. But, you know what? You don't deserve that compliment.”

KnowsTryingLittlesStillsRealHardDoneKidsDesireGuyGirlClassDangerDeserveSticksEverydayBunchGet UpTeenagerConvinceComplimentVillainCartoonSnakesJungleBadassHighlightsBribeKidnappingChewingKidnappedDementedTrying So HardBoko HaramHaram
Author:Jon Stewart
Create image

“I've worked with farmers in Zimbabwe who've lost their lands. I've worked with people in Venezuela, under threat of kidnappings, whose external world is unstable. But they have very strong social connections with their family and friends. And as a result, they're able to maintain a greater level of happiness and optimism than I've seen from bankers, consultants, or salespeople who are on the road all the time, who follow jobs separated from their families, and, as a result, find themselves missing out on the happiness that comes from those very connections that they severed.”

PeopleWorldAbleJobsLostStrongSocialLevelsResultsGreaterLandMissingConnectionsOptimismThreatFarmersVery StrongFamily And FriendsBankersUnstableKidnappingVenezuelaConsultantsZimbabweMissing OutSalespeople
Author:Shawn Achor
Create image

“The television screen is the lens through which most children learn about violence. Through the magnifying power of this lens, their everyday life becomes suffused by images of shootings, family violence, gang warfare, kidnappings, and everything else that contributes to violence in our society. It shapes their experiences long before they have had the opportunity to consent to such shaping or developed the ability to cope adequately with this knowledge.”

ChildrenLongOpportunityAbilityViolenceTelevisionShapesEverydayScreensShootingOur SocietyWarfareConsentEveryday LifeLensesGangKidnappingMagnifyingFamily Violence
Author:Sissela Bok
Create image

“I have fantasy jobs like working in retail at a department store just selling rich housewives outfits and saying 'this looks fabulous on you! Let me find a matching handbag!' Then, the other is being like some sort of Vice or taskforce, law enforcement, undercover [person]. Or possibly someday becoming a guerilla activist - I'm kind of in-training for that now anyways. So, maybe my retirement will be jumping on ships, kidnapping, and [participating in] espionage. I still fantasize.”

LooksKindPersonsStillsJobsLawFantasyRichBecomingTrainingLet MeVicesStoresSellingShipsDepartmentSomedayActivistRetirementLaw EnforcementFabulousEnforcementJumpingHousewifeEspionageParticipatingRetailOutfitsKidnappingMatchingHandbagsUndercoverDepartment Stores
Author:Mike Ness
Create image

“Little kids' minds are very, very strong. They bend. There's a lot of tensile strength and they don't break. We start our kids off on things like "Hansel and Gretel," which features child abandonment, kidnapping, attempted murder, forcible detention, cannibalism, and finally murder by cremation. And the kids love it.”

MindChildrenLittlesKidsStrongBreakMurderFeaturesVery StrongLittle KidKidnappingCannibalismDetentionKids LoveCremationHansel And Gretel
Author:Stephen King
Create image

“Executing a murderer is the only way to adequately express our horror at the taking of an innocent life. Nothing else suffices. To equate the lives of killers with those of victims is the worst kind of moral equivalency. If capital punishment is state murder, then imprisonment is state kidnapping and restitution is state theft.”

IfsWayKindStatesMoralWorstHorrorMurderVictimPunishmentInnocentKillersMurdererTheftImprisonmentCapital PunishmentKidnappingExecutingRestitutionInnocent Life
Author:Don Feder
Create image

“Islamic ethics is based on 'limits and proportions,' which means that the answer to an offensive cartoon is a cartoon, not the burning of embassies or the kidnapping of people designated as the enemy. Islam rejects guilt by association. Just as Muslims should not blame all Westerners for the poor taste of a cartoonist who wanted to be offensive, those horrified by the spectacle of rent-a-mob sackings of embassies in the name of Islam should not blame all Muslims for what is an outburst of fascist energy.”

PeopleShouldMeanWantedNamesEnergyAnswersPoorEnemyTasteLimitsEthicsBlameGuiltIslamBurningProportionIslamicRejectsAssociationOffensiveCartoonFascistsCartoonistKidnappingWesternersOutburstEmbassySackingPoor Taste
Author:Amir Taheri
Create image

“Well, the role of our "allies," in my view, is a scandal. 53 other countries cooperated in the kidnapping, "extraordinary rendition," of suspected terrorists to black sites where they were administered enhanced interrogation techniques, which by the way is a direct, literal translation of "verschärfte Vernehmung" right out of the Gestapo manual.”

WayWellsCountryBlackViewsRolesDirectExtraordinaryTechniqueTerroristAlliesOther CountriesSiteScandalTranslationsLiteralManualsKidnappingInterrogationGestapoInterrogation Techniques
Author:Ray McGovern
Create image

“For many years, they said the drug lords in Colombia were unbeatable, but all the same, we've eliminated all the big capos (as the drug lords are called in Colombia). The homicide rate is as low as it was 40 years ago and the kidnapping rate has dropped to the level of 1964. Now we'll be able to bring down the street criminals specializing in extortion and robbery.”

YearsSaidBigsAbleLevelsLordStreetsDrugLowsYears AgoRateCriminalsThey SaidColombiaRobberyKidnappingHomicideUnbeatableExtortion
Author:Juan Manuel Santos
Create image

“The new iPhone has encryption that protects the contents of the phone. This means if someone steals your phone - if a hacker or something images your phone - they can't read what's on the phone itself, they can't look at your pictures, they can't see the text messages you send, and so forth. But it does not stop law enforcement from tracking your movements via geolocation on the phone if they think you are involved in a kidnapping case, for example.”

IfsThinkingLooksMeanDoeLawCasesExampleMovementInvolvedProtectMessagesPhonesStealingLaw EnforcementEnforcementIphoneHackersKidnappingTrackingEncryptionText Message
Author:Edward Snowden
Create image

“Assassination, kidnappings and suicide attacks have become too much the standard operating procedure in the Islamic world. So much so that the name of Islam itself has been diminished in the eyes of many people. It is the responsibility of all of us, and particularly those in the Islamic world who care about their religion, to rescue it from its increased association with violence.”

PeopleWorldEyeCareResponsibilityViolenceSuicideIslamIslamicKidnapping
Author:John F. Kerry
Create image

“That was Sydney Sage," said Lissa. "I thought they were all in West Virginia. Why isn't she with Rose?" "That," said Abe darkly, "is an excellent question." "Because they were apparently kidnapping Jill Mastrano in Detroit," said Christian. "Which is weird. But not the craziest thing I can think of Rose doing.”

ThinkingSaidI CanChristianRoseWestExcellentSageVirginiaDetroitSydneyKidnappingSydney SageCraziestWest VirginiaAbe
Book:Last Sacrifice: A Vampire Academy Novel
Create image

“Some of the fae have an odd idea of bride send-offs," he explained "including, according to Zee, kidnapping." "I forgot about that." And I was appalled because I knew better. "Bran and Samuel are probably more of a danger than any of the fae," I told him. "Someday, I'll tell you about some of the more spectaculare wedding antics Samuel's told me about." Some of them made kidnapping look mild.”

LooksMadeIdeasDangerIncludingOddSomedayBridesFaeKidnappingAntics
Author:Patricia Briggs
Create image

“Piracy is robbery with violence, often segueing into murder, rape and kidnapping. It is one of the most frightening crimes in the world. Using the same term to describe a twelve-year-old swapping music with friends, even thousands of songs, is evidence of a loss of perspective so astounding that it invites and deserves the derision it receives.”

WorldYearsSongTermLossViolenceCrimePerspectiveEvidenceDeserveMurderInvitesTwelveFrighteningRobberyKidnappingPiracyDerisionSwapping
Author:Nick Harkaway
Create image

“I don’t want to be a Princess,” she said finally. “You can’t make me be one.” She knew very well what became of Princesses, as Princesses often get books written about them. Either terrible things happened to them, such as kidnappings and curses and pricking fingers and getting poisoned and locked up in towers, or else they just waited around till the Prince finished with the story and got around to marrying her. Either way, September wanted nothing to do with Princessing.”

WayWantWellsSaidBookStoriesWantedWrittenHappenedTerribleFingersFinishedCursePrincessLockedTowersSeptemberTerrible ThingsMarryingLocked UpKidnappingMarrying Her
Book:The Girl Who Fell Beneath Fairyland and Led the Revels There
Create image

“For me to sit here and give all kinds of excuses to make it right, I can't do. But what I want to ask everyone out there, everyone that has a child, everyone that has a brother, a sister: if your child or family member was abducted today, if a mad man came in, a terrorist came in, abducted your family member or your child and if I said to you I can bring your child home...does it matter how I bring them home?”

IfsMenWayWantGivingKindChildrenDoeSaidI CanMatterHomeTodayAsksFamilyCrimeBrotherMembersOur ChildrenMadExcuseCriminalsTerroristAll KindsOur FamilyYour ChildrenSisterFamily MembersOutlawKidnappingMad MenBikersDoes It MatterKidnappedAbduction
Author:Sam Childers
Create image

“I have a suggestion that I think would help fight serious crime. Signs. There are lots of signs for minor infractions: No Smoking, Stay Off the Grass, Keep Out, and they seem to work fairly well. I think we should also have signs for major crimes: Murder Strictly Prohibited, NO Raping People, Thank You for Not Kidnapping Anyone. It's certainly worth a try. I'm convinced Watergate would never have happened if there had just been a sign in the Oval Office that said, Malfeasance of Office Is Strictly Against the Law, or Thank You for Not Undermining the Constitution.”

PeopleIfsThinkingShouldTryingWellsSaidHelpingHumorSeemsLawFightingHappenedCrimeSeriousOfficeMajorsConstitutionMurderConvincedGrassSmokingMinorsSuggestionsKidnappingUnderminingWatergateOvalNo SmokingMalfeasance
Book:3 x Carlin: An Orgy of George including Brain Droppings, Napalm and Silly Putty, and When Will Jesus Bring the Pork Chops?
Create image