Held/people

Famous quotes containing the words held and/or people:

“Since long I’ve held silence a remedy for harm.”
—Aeschylus (525–456 B.C.)

“While the system of holding people in hostage is as old as the oldest war, a fresher note is introduced when a tyrannic state is at war with its own subjects and may hold any citizen in hostage with no law to restrain it.”
—Vladimir Nabokov (1899–1977)