Captivity famous quotes
04-27-2025
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It seems increasingly dogs are attacking humans in response to their slavery... AND, wildlife in captivity are also attacking their enslavers AND the public... Their messages are loud and clear: LET US OUT AND LEAVE US ALONE!!!
-- Adela Popescu -
After being in captivity for so long, I can't begin to describe how wonderful it feels to be home in Canada.
-- Amanda Lindhout -
The same men who are placing all these outrageous restrictions on women’s freedoms in southern Somalia – that type of mentality – that’s what I had to deal with in captivity.
-- Amanda Lindhout -
I am aware of myself as a four-hundred-year-old woman, born in the captivity of a colonial, pre-industrial oral culture and living now as a contemporary New Yorker.
-- Bharati Mukherjee -
I couldn't go anywhere unless there was a security guard with me. That spoiled my life. It was like being in captivity. Those days are gone, and I don't ever want to see that happen to me again. Now I can wander around the streets of Los Angeles on my own. I like it that way.
-- Christine McVie -
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 what's at stake, isn't it?—your captivity and the captivity of the world.
-- Daniel Quinn -
Everybody's a bird, locked up in a pretty cage. Sometimes you fly to a slightly bigger one, but you never quite have the courage to abandon captivity completely.
-- Dave McKean -
Breathes life into a vital but oft-neglected chapter of our history. Amy Belding Brown has turned an authentic drama of Indian captivity into a compelling, emotionally gripping tale that is at once wrenching and soulful.
-- Eliot Pattison -
That there is also freedom in captivity, only a prisoner can claim. Coming from a prison guard, this statement would be blasphemy.
-- Friedrich Durrenmatt -
freedom is anathema to dreams nurtured in captivity.
-- Gary Shteyngart -
I am thankful for the kind treatment during my captivity and I ask God to accept me with mercy.
-- Hans Frank -
No family should have to depend on the labor of its children to put food on the table and no person should be forced to work in captivity.
-- Hilda Solis -
Love, sought as an escape from the burden of the self, turns rapidly into a captivity.
-- Hugh MacLennan -
There is about as much educational benefit to be gained in studying dolphins in captivity as there would be studying mankind by only observing prisoners held in solitary confinement
-- Jacques Yves Cousteau -
Your life may be messed and your foolishness may have put you into captivity but Jesus can do the whatever it is that is immeasurably more in your life.
-- Louie Giglio -
We are responsible for our captivity to sin. In our foolishness, we forget God. However, God intervenes!
-- Louie Giglio -
What people mistook for safety was in fact captivity.
-- Louise Penny -
Release your majestic mind, embrace your untamed inner spirit. Break free from captivity, avoid society.. You were born to be free.
-- Melanie Muller -
Captivity is the greatest of all evils that can befall one.
-- Miguel de Cervantes -
Federal legislation is urgently needed to stop this insanity of wild animals in captivity.
-- Tippi Hedren -
I've had a love of animals from birth. I love getting to know other species. We should all be aware that there is not one thing we can give a wild animal in captivity that they need.
-- Tippi Hedren -
When you tell yourself that there is nothing you can do to arrest the global slave trade, you underestimate your own potential and abandon hope for those trapped in captivity.
-- David Batstone -
...a butterfly is like the soul of a person, it dries out in captivity.
-- Marlene van Niekerk -
For men to be tied and led by authority, as it were with a kind of captivity of judgment, and though there be reason to the contrary not to listen unto it, but to follow like beasts the first in the herd, they know not, nor care not whither, this were brutish.
-- Richard Hooker
