Captivity Quotes

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  • 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!

  • 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.

  • Liberty is one of the most precious gifts which heaven has bestowed on man; with it we cannot compare the treasures which the earth contains or the sea conceals; for liberty, as for honor, we can and ought to risk our lives; and, on for the other hand, captivity is the greatest evil that can befall man.

    Freedom   Men   Hands  
  • I lay there, no longer fighting, since my head was spinning too much. And because I wasn’t going to win anyway. And because I kind of liked the feeling of sensual captivity, at least by this particular jailer.

  • 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.

  • 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.

    Passion   Soul   Lust  
    Jeremy Taylor, Charles Page Eden, Reginald Heber, Alexander Taylor (1848). “The Whole Works of the Right Rev. Jeremy Taylor ...: Sermons”, p.138
  • 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.

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

    Willa Cather (2012). “The Song of the Lark”, p.133, Courier Corporation
  • Federal legislation is urgently needed to stop this insanity of wild animals in captivity.

  • Five score years ago, a great American, in whose symbolic shadow we stand today signed the Emancipation Proclamation. This momentous decree came as a great beacon light of hope to millions of Negro slaves who had been seared in the flames of withering injustice. It came as a joyous daybreak to end the long night of their captivity. But one hundred years later, we must face the tragic fact that the Negro is still not free.

    Change   Night   Light  
  • 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.

    Hands   White   People  
    Richard Allen (1880). “The Life, Experience, and Gospel Labors of the Rt. Rev. Richard Allen: To which is Annexed, the Rise and Progress of the African Methodist Episcopal Church in the United States of America : Containing a Narrative of the Yellow Fever in the Year of Our Lord 1793 : with an Address to the People of Color in the United States”
  • 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.

  • 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 (1998). “The Complete Short Stories and Selected Drawings”, Everyman's Library
  • We are responsible for our captivity to sin. In our foolishness, we forget God. However, God intervenes!

    Captivity   Sin   Forget  
  • Is there a more pitiable spectacle than that of a wife contending with others for that charm in her husband's sight which no philters and no prayers can renew when once it has fled forever? Women are so unwise. Love is like a bird's song beautiful and eloquent when heard in forest freedom, harsh and worthless in repetition when sung from behind prison bars. You cannot secure love by vigilance, by environment, by captivity. What use is it to keep the person of a man beside you if his soul be truant from you?

    Beautiful   Song   Prayer  
  • How pitiable is it to reflect, that although you were so fully convinced of the benevolence of the Father of Mankind, and of his equal and impartial distribution of these rights and privileges, which he hath conferred upon them, that you should at the same time counteract his mercies, in detaining by fraud and violence so numerous a part of my brethren, under groaning captivity and cruel oppression, that you should at the same time be found guilty of that most criminal act, which you professedly detested in others, with respect to yourselves

    Letter to Thomas Jefferson on slavery, August 19, 1791.
  • In peace, continue your art; in war, continue your art; in freedom, continue your art; in captivity, continue your art!

    Art   Peace   Freedom  
  • 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!

    Zoos   Animal   Simple  
  • 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.

    Zoos   Eye   Never Settle  
    Hugh Lofting (1922). “The Voyages of Doctor Dolittle”, p.62, Frederick A. Stokes
  • 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!

    Jesus   Easter   Heaven  
  • 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.

    "Marvel at wild animals -- from a distance" by Chris Palmer, www.cnn.com. February 26, 2010.
  • The notion that one can liberate another soul from captivity is an illusion of the very young.

    Iris Murdoch (1956). “The flight from the enchanter”, Viking Pr
  • Your superhuman power was to be able not to feel. Is it there inside everybody, this self that comes out while you are in captivity? You become the closest approximation of yourself that can tolerate living there.

    Numbness   Self   Able  
    Heather O'Neill (2014). “Lullabies for Little Criminals”, p.139, Hachette UK
  • I can't mate in captivity.

    Sex   Captivity   Mates  
    "Lesson 21: Gloria Steinem's Aphorisms; Fish, Power, Love, Bunnies, and Life" by Lea Carpenter, bigthink.com.
  • Americans love their captivity. There's no responsibility. When you're a captive, you don't have to make a decision about anything, though you have no Liberty. People don't want Liberty. Liberty is nothing but uncertainty. It's much easier to have someone tell you where you'll be, what you'll do and who you'll pay tomorrow than to worry about it yourself. The same goes for what you think

  • 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.

    Willa Cather (2013). “The Best of Willa Cather”, p.315, Simon and Schuster
  • Works of imagination excel by their allurement and delight; by their power of attracting and detaining the attention. That book is good in vain which the reader throws away. He only is the master who keeps the mind in pleasing captivity; whose pages are perused with eagerness, and in hope of new pleasure are perused again; and whose conclusion is perceived with an eye of sorrow, such as the traveller casts upon departing day.

    Book   Writing   Eye  
    Samuel Johnson (1854). “Lives of the Most Eminent English Poets: With Critical Observations on Their Works”, p.375
  • So every bondman in his own hand bears The power to cancel his captivity.

    Hands   Captivity   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
  • 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.

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