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Quotes About Captivity

No," Ivy cried out, struggling against Rowan. "Let go of me.
~ Jan Moran
The least I can do is speak out for the hundreds of chimpanzees who, right now, sit hunched, miserable and without hope, staring out with dead eyes from their metal prisons. They cannot speak for themselves.
~ Jane Goodall
The first time I saw adult chimpanzees in these five-by-five foot cages... tears began to trickle down under my mask, and [JoJo, a chimp,] just reached out this gentle finger and wiped them away... And then the veterinarian came. He knelt down beside me and put his arm around me. He said, I have to face this every day.
~ Jane Goodall
I was always mortified.Didn't they know they were tying thier mothers to the ground? Weren't chains ashamed of their prisoners?
~ Janet Fitch
Weren't chains ashamed of their prisoners? But
~ Janet Fitch
And if we capture any of these ISIS killers alive, they are going to Guantanamo Bay, Cuba, and we're going to find out everything they know, because when I'm president, unlike Barack Obama, we will keep this country safe.
~ Marco Rubio
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
It's sort of what the Johnny and Devi stories are about, the idea of always being a slave to something.
~ Jhonen Vasquez
These poor wretches were stolen from their homes, carried to a strange country, and sold to servitude, from which they sought to escape on the first occasion which offered.
~ Philip Hone
I want to stay in the ocean. I'm not going to be able to do that from some holding cell in Japan.
~ Paul Watson
I can say I have forgiven my captors. That being said, I never want to see them again. I'm not OK with they did to me.
~ Elizabeth Smart
What a lot of the public doesn't know, and I'm sure my fans aren't aware of, orcas have died living at Sea World, and that has not been from old age.
~ Noah Cyrus
The girl laughed again. The joy of a caged bird was in her voice.
~ Oscar Wilde
The joy of a caged bird was in her voice.
~ Oscar Wilde
I never saw a man who looked With such a wistful eye Upon that little tent of blue Which prisoners call the sky
~ Oscar Wilde
I walked around as you do, investigating the endless star, and in my net, during the night, I woke up naked, the only thing caught, a fish trapped inside the wind.
~ Pablo Neruda
Soy prisionero con la puerta abierta, con el mundo abierto.
~ Pablo Neruda
Who else would I take as prisoners of my high sanctity before my life was over?
~ Pat Conroy
Let me out, or she dies!
~ Dan Brown
Perhaps Nemes and her kind will keep it in a zoo to hunt it when they are bored.
~ Dan Simmons
I'm like an animal who's been locked out of his nice, safe cage.
~ Daniel Keyes
You're captives of a civilizational system that more or less compels you to go on destroying the world in order to live... I think there are many among you who would be glad to release the world from captivity... This is what prevents them: They're unable to find the bars of the cage.
~ Daniel Quinn
You're captives of a civilizational system that more or less compels you to go on destroying the world in order to live.
~ Daniel Quinn
The world is not going to survive very much longer as humanity's captive.
~ Daniel Quinn