Captivity Quotes

Captivity Quote of the day

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.

I became very critical of zoos and circuses and keeping animals in captivity. I wish it was against the law.

Many of the white people [who] have been instruments in the hands of God for our good, even such as have held us in captivity, are now pleading our cause with earnestness and zeal.

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

No good ever comes from putting up walls. What people mistake for safety is in fact captivity. And few things thrive in captivity.

Release your majestic mind, embrace your untamed inner spirit. Break free from captivity, avoid society.. You were born to be free.

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.

Without dignity, identity is erased. In its absence, men are defined not by themselves, but by their captors and the circumstances in which they are forced to live.

It is time for the government of China to stop holding innocent religious figures in captivity merely for peacefully protesting China's occupation of Tibet.

The resurrection power of Jesus broke Satan's captive power. When He led the Old Testament saints from paradise to heaven, He led captivity captive!

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.

If I had my way... there wouldn't be a single lion or tiger in captivity anywhere in the world. They never take to it. They're never happy. They never settle down... You can see it in their eyes.

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

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

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

Dolphins : Animals that are so intelligent that, within a few weeks of captivity, they can train a man to stand on the edge of their pool and throw them food three times a day.

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.

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

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

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 don't want to be the oldest performer in captivity... I don't want to look like a little old man dancing out there.

[Marriage] happens as with cages: the birds without despair to get in, and those within despair of getting out.

Every time you go to the zoo, you prolong the captivity of the animals there! If no one goes to the zoos, there will be no zoos! Destroying the evil is very simple and it is in your hand!

Ambition begat simony; simony begat the pope and his brethren, about the time of the Babylonish captivity

Beavers bred in captivity, inhabiting a concrete pool, will, if given the timber, fatuously go through all the motions of damming an ancestral stream.

What people mistook for safety was in fact captivity.

The journey through another world, beyond bad dreams beyond the memories of a murdered generation, cartographed in captivity by bare survivors makes sacristans of us all.

There is no sorrow except in captivity.

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.

I have to thank the people, Congress and Government of the United States, for my liberation from captivity.

A man is saved no faster than he gets knowledge, for if he does not get knowledge, he will be brought into captivity by some evil power in the other world.

freedom is anathema to dreams nurtured in captivity.

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.

We get into captivity because of our foolishness and we are more foolish that we want to admit.

The more serious you are about spiritual life, the more you keep your mind in captivity.

In peace, continue your art; in war, continue your art; in freedom, continue your art; in captivity, continue your art!

I think of death as a glad awakening from this troubled sleep which we call life; as an emancipation from a world, which, beautiful though it may be, is still a land of captivity.

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.

Federal legislation is urgently needed to stop this insanity of wild animals in captivity.

When love's well-timed 'tis not a fault to love; The strong, the brave, the virtuous, and the wise, Sink in the soft captivity together.

Lust is a captivity of the reason and an enraging of the passions. It hinders business and distracts counsel. It sins against the body and weakens the soul.

The notion that one can liberate another soul from captivity is an illusion of the very young.

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.

After being in captivity for so long, I can't begin to describe how wonderful it feels to be home in Canada.

It was like a page torn from a history book, from some historical novel about the captivity of babylon or Spanish Inquisition.

Please wake me when I'm freeI cannot bear captivity4 I would rather be stricken blindThan 2 live without expression of mind

I was once in captivity but now I am saved by grace.