Quotes About Captivity

most people would rather live in the predictability of captivity than risk the uncertainty that comes in a fight for freedom.

O, who shall from this dungeon raise A soul enslaved so many ways? With bolts of bones, that fettered stands In feet; and manacled in hands. Here blinded with an eye: and there Deaf with the drumming of an ear; A soul hung up, as 'twere, in chains Of nerves, and arteries, and veins; Tortured, besides each other part, In a vain head and double heart?

Zookeepers move the food around each day so the gorillas don't get bored. They turn it into an Easter-egg hunt. The gorillas need challenges. The lack of one makes 'em go nuts. We need someone to hide our food," I explain.

Being born is like being kidnapped. And then sold into slavery.

Your green eye is a reducing chamber. If I look into it long enough, I wil become as small as my own reflection, I will diminish to a point and vanish. I will be drawn down into that black whirlpool and be consumed by you. I shall become so small you can keep me in one of your osier cages and mock my loss of liberty.

The tiger sat still as a heraldic beast, in the pact he had made with his ferocity to do me no harm. He was far larger than I could have imagined, from the poor, shabby things I'd seen once, in the Czar's menagerie at Petersburg, the golden fruit of their eyes dimming, withering in the far North of captivity. Nothing about him reminded me of humanity.

she was doomed to luxuriate in the most immaculate of prisons.

Nature did not put whales on this earth to splash kids while stuck in a pen.

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.

Circuses don't treat their 'performers' very well - whipping them, trying to make them terrified.

The White House is the finest prison in the world.

When I finished the role of Christ, I felt as though I'd been let out on parole. A man who has served 18 months isn't eager to go back to prison.

A man man may dwell so long upon a thought that it may take him prisoner.

Every invalid is a prisoner.

I don't want to live like a prisoner.

I don't know how prisoners of war are ever heroes unless they escape.

If we go to Chihuahua we must be considered as prisoners of war?

People just don't know what civilian prisoners of war are.

My movies were the kind they show in prisons and airplanes, because nobody can leave.

It was our view of the worst that could befall our people if they were taken captive. So, what was fascinating to me was that somehow it appears the techniques that we have feared most in the world would be used on our people, we are using on people in our custody.

A lion is at liberty who can follow the laws of his own nature, who can eat when his stomach tells him, who can sleep when his fierce eyes grow weary, who can scratch long furrows in a forest tree when his claws feel so disposed. He is not at liberty when he lives in a cage, is fed on horseflesh at 4 p.m., and is compelled at the point of a red-hot poker to spell P-I-G – PIG, in the presence of a diverted crowd.

No woman or child was ever to be molested or carried away as captive, and all the spoil or plunder of war was to be equally divided.

People do crazy things when they're keeping girls locked up in their shed.

The cell was very dark. I could just about see a bunk bed, a sink and a john.