Captivity Quotes

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.

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.

Fear of joy is the darkest of captivities.

When a captive lion steps out of his cage, he comes into a wider world than the lion who has known only the wilds. While he was in captivity, there were only two worlds for him - the world of the cage, and the world outside the cage. Now he is free. He roars. He attacks people. He eats them. Yet he is not satisfied, for there is no third world that is neither the world of the cage nor the world outside the cage.

Stop going to the zoos! Don't take your children to the zoos! No creature ever deserves captivity without any crime!

All the intelligence and talent in the world can't make a singer. The voice is a wild thing. It can't be bred in captivity. It is a sport, like the silver fox. It happens.

Captivity is the greatest of all evils that can befall one.

That there is also freedom in captivity, only a prisoner can claim. Coming from a prison guard, this statement would be blasphemy.

The voice is a wild thing. It can't be bred in captivity.

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.

So every bondman in his own hand bears The power to cancel his captivity.

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.

I am thankful for the kind treatment during my captivity and I ask God to accept me with mercy.

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.

Familiarize yourself with the chains of bondage and you prepare your own limbs to wear them.

Hope is necessary in every condition. The miseries of poverty, sickness and captivity would, without this comfort, be insupportable.

We are responsible for our captivity to sin. In our foolishness, we forget God. However, God intervenes!

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.

The longer a nation's history, the more wars, invasions, wanderings, and periods of captivity it has seen-the greater the diversity of its faces.

We tend to seek captivity because we are used to seeing freedom as something that has neither frontiers nor responsibilities.

What people mistook for safety was in fact captivity.

Love, sought as an escape from the burden of the self, turns rapidly into a captivity.

If I should ever be captured, I want no negotiation - and if I should request a negotiation from captivity they should consider that a sign of duress.

I can't mate in captivity.

Mr. Wodehouse's idyllic world can never stale. He will continue to release future generations from captivity that may be more irksome than our own. He has made a world for us to live in and delight in.