Quotes and Sayings About Captivity
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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
