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Captivity is the greatest of all evils that can befall one. -- Miguel de Cervantes
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
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
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
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
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
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
Captivity ends when creativity begins -- Constance Chuks Friday
Prisoner of Her Own Captivity -- Brandalynn Davis
I can't mate in captivity. -- Gloria Steinem
Fear of joy is the darkest of captivities. -- Phil Kay
The voice is a wild thing. It can't be bred in captivity. -- Willa Cather
So every bondman in his own hand bears The power to cancel his captivity. -- William Shakespeare
Familiarize yourself with the chains of bondage and you prepare your own limbs to wear them. -- Abraham Lincoln
Ambition begat simony; simony begat the pope and his brethren, about the time of the Babylonish captivity -- Martin Luther
Hope is necessary in every condition. The miseries of poverty, sickness and captivity would, without this comfort, be insupportable. -- Samuel Johnson
I became very critical of zoos and circuses and keeping animals in captivity. I wish it was against the law. -- Christopher Walken
That there is also freedom in captivity, only a prisoner can claim. Coming from a prison guard, this statement would be blasphemy. -- Friedrich Durrenmatt
The guns on the walls that surround the prison accurately, though unwittingly, index the true character of the penitentiary in our day. -- Eugene V. Debs
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
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
For animals that are overworked, underfed, and cruelly treated; for all wistful creatures in captivity that beat their wings against bars; for any that are hunted or lost or deserted or frightened or hungry; for all that must be put to death...and for those who deal with them we ask a heart of compassion and gentle hands and kindly words. -- Albert Schweitzer
A person does not lightly elect to oppose his society. One would much rather be at home among one's compatriots than be mocked and detested by them. And there is a level on which the mockery of people, even their hatred, is moving, because it is so blind: It is terrible to watch people cling to their captivity and insist on their own destruction. -- James A. Baldwin
Many animals experience pain, anxiety and suffering, physically and psychologically, when they are held in captivity or subjected to starvation, social isolation, physical restraint, or painful situations from which they cannot escape. Even if it is not the same experience of pain, anxiety, or suffering undergone by humans- or even other animals, including members of the same species- an individual's pain, suffering, and anxiety matter. -- Marc Bekoff
I've always had a repulsion going in a place where animals are in captivity. -- Marion Cotillard
Federal legislation is urgently needed to stop this insanity of wild animals in captivity. -- Tippi Hedren
Hope is necessary in every condition. The miseries of poverty, sickness and captivity would, without this comfort, be insupportable. -- Samuel Johnson
After being in captivity for so long, I can't begin to describe how wonderful it feels to be home in Canada. -- Amanda Lindhout
I hate to witness animals in captivity - or see circus elephants paraded down the streets. When animals are caged, it's a loss of what they are. -- K. A. Applegate
I think we have a real obligation when we do have animals in captivity to understand their needs and to care for them as well as we can. -- K. A. Applegate
Sea World's killer whale collection needs constant replenishing. The average life span of the animals in captivity is less than half the average for killer whales in the ocean. -- Nina Easton
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
My faith in human decency was sorely tested at times during my captivity; however, after my release, I am humbly reminded that mankind is inherently good by the tremendous efforts and support of fellow Canadians. -- Amanda Lindhout
In August 1914, my father was called to war and then taken prisoner. He died in captivity in Germany on March 27, 1915. My youth - indeed, my entire life - was deeply marked by this, directly and indirectly. -- Maurice Allais
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
There are nations, where people live in captivity, fear and silence. I believe, one day from prison camps and torture cells and from exile the leaders of freedom will emerge. The world should stand with those oppressed people until the day of their freedom finally arrives. -- Tsakhiagiin Elbegdorj
Attempts to defend amusement parks and circuses on the grounds that they 'educate' people about animals should not be taken seriously. Such enterprises are part of the commercial entertainment industry. The most important lesson they teach impressionable young minds is that it is acceptable to keep animals in captivity for human amusement. -- Peter Singer
Isaiah is by far the finest and least objectionable of the seventeen prophets whose supposed productions form the latter part of the Old Testament. A distinctly higher moral tone appears in the writings called by his name, and this is especially noticeable in the 'Second Isaiah,' who wrote after the Babylonish captivity. -- Annie Besant
It was wrong to capture wild animals and confine them in captivity for people to go and gawk at them. And that's basically how zoos got started. But once you do that, and once you have animals that have been bred in captivity, you're really stuck with them in some sense. You can't return them to the wild. -- Peter Singer
There is no sorrow except in captivity. -- Rajneesh
freedom is anathema to dreams nurtured in captivity. -- Gary Shteyngart
What people mistook for safety was in fact captivity. -- Louise Penny
I realized that poverty was a kind of captivity. -- Nancy E. Turner
...a butterfly is like the soul of a person, it dries out in captivity. -- Marlene Van Niekerk
Love, sought as an escape from the burden of the self, turns rapidly into a captivity. -- Hugh MacLennan
The more serious you are about spiritual life, the more you keep your mind in captivity. -- Radhanath Swami
The notion that one can liberate another soul from captivity is an illusion of the very young. -- Iris Murdoch
We are responsible for our captivity to sin. In our foolishness, we forget God. However, God intervenes! -- Louie Giglio
We get into captivity because of our foolishness and we are more foolish that we want to admit. -- Louie Giglio
I am thankful for the kind treatment during my captivity and I ask God to accept me with mercy. -- Hans Frank
We tend to seek captivity because we are used to seeing freedom as something that has neither frontiers nor responsibilities. -- Paulo Coelho
Stop going to the zoos! Don't take your children to the zoos! No creature ever deserves captivity without any crime! -- Mehmet Murat ildan
In peace, continue your art; in war, continue your art; in freedom, continue your art; in captivity, continue your art! -- Mehmet Murat ildan
Release your majestic mind, embrace your untamed inner spirit. Break free from captivity, avoid society.. You were born to be free. -- Melanie Muller
It was like a page torn from a history book, from some historical novel about the captivity of babylon or Spanish Inquisition. -- Elie Wiesel
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. -- Vasily Grossman
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." -- Vasily Grossman
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
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. -- Joseph Addison
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! -- Leon Morris
Beavers bred in captivity, inhabiting a concrete pool, will, if given the timber, fatuously go through all the motions of damming an ancestral stream. -- Evelyn Waugh
If fame came near to you to get you, you must run away from it very fast! Because this is a matter of freedom and captivity! -- Mehmet Murat ildan
Once again Toll-by-Night had burst out of its captivity, like a monstrous jack from an innocent-looking box. And this time Mosca was a part of it. -- Frances Hardinge
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. -- Elizabeth Cook-Lynn
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
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. -- Jeremy Taylor
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
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 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. -- Sam Smith
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. -- Hal Roach
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. -- Lyman Abbott
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. -- Richard Allen
The same men who are placing all these outrageous restrictions on womenâ??s freedoms in southern Somalia â?? that type of mentality â?? thatâ??s what I had to deal with in captivity. -- Amanda Lindhout
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

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