Captivity Quotes

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

  Christopher Walken

  Zoos, Animal, Law

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

  Miguel de Cervantes

  Evil, Slavery, Be A Slave

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• 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.

  Willa Cather

  Sports, Voice, World

  Willa Cather (2013). “The Best of Willa Cather”, p.315, Simon and Schuster

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

  Abraham Lincoln

  Bondage, Limbs, Chains

  Abraham Lincoln (2012). “The Complete Papers And Writings Of Abraham Lincoln (Biographically Annotated Edition)”, p.679, Jazzybee Verlag

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• Fear of joy is the darkest of captivities.

  Phil Kay

  Joy

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• What people mistook for safety was in fact captivity.

  Louise Penny

  People, Safety, Facts

  Louise Penny (2015). “The Chief Inspector Gamache Series”, p.19, Macmillan

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

  Willa Cather

  Voice, Wild Things

  Willa Cather (2012). “The Song of the Lark”, p.133, Courier Corporation

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• Sharks have a deadly form of claustrophobia. It's not so much fear of enclosed spaces as it is inability to exist in them. No one knows why. Some say it's the metal in aquariums that throws their equilibrium off. But whatever it is, big sharks don't last long in captivity

  Neal Shusterman

  Sharks, Aquariums, Space

  Neal Shusterman (2009). “Unwind”, p.100, Simon and Schuster

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

  Louise Penny

  Wall, Mistake, People

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

  William Shakespeare

  Hands, Bears

  William Shakespeare, James Boswell, Edmond Malone, Samuel Johnson, Mr. Theobald (Lewis) (1821). “The Plays and Poems of William Shakspeare: With the Corrections and Illustrations of Various Commentators”, p.30

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• 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

  Jesus, May, Can Do

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• Who then is free? The one who wisely is lord of themselves, who neither poverty, death or captivity terrify, who is strong to resist his appetites and shun honors, and is complete in themselves smooth and round like a globe

  Horace

  Strong, Freedom, 4th Of July

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• There is no sorrow except in captivity.

  Rajneesh

  Sorrow

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• 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

  Educational, Dolphins, Would Be

  "Marvel at wild animals -- from a distance" by Chris Palmer, www.cnn.com. February 26, 2010.

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• 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.

  Sam Brownback

  Religious, Government, Hands

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

  Samuel Johnson

  Hope, Comfort, Poverty

  The Rambler No. 67

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

  Friedrich Durrenmatt

  Prison Guards, Would Be, Claims

  "About Tolerance" by Friedrich Dürrenmatt, 1977.

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• 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

  Security Guards, Gone, Want

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

  Paulo Coelho

  Responsibility, Used, Frontiers

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• 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

  Children, Should Have, Tables

  "Protecting Children and Workers Around the Globe" by Hilda Solis, www.huffingtonpost.com. December 15, 2010.

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

  Mehmet Murat Ildan

  Art, Peace, Freedom

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• ...a butterfly is like the soul of a person, it dries out in captivity.

  Marlene van Niekerk

  Butterfly, Soul, Persons

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• 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.

  Henry A. Kissinger

  Want, Duress, Negotiation

  U.S. News and World Report, October 7, 1985.

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• 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.

  Fred Astaire

  Inspiration, Men, Dancing

  "Personal Quotes/ Biography". www.imdb.com.

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• I can't mate in captivity.

  Gloria Steinem

  Sex, Mates, I Can

  "Lesson 21: Gloria Steinem's Aphorisms; Fish, Power, Love, Bunnies, and Life" by Lea Carpenter, bigthink.com.

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