Quotes About Captivity

They came and bound me up and I had awful stretch marks. I hated my breasts after that.

Rooms without a view are like prisons for the people who have to stay in them.

When you encounter the unbelievers, blows to necks it shall be until, once you have routed them, you are to tighten their fetters.

Todo el mundo puede llegar hasta esa edad o más. Para ello basta con no morirse. Pero tengo entendido que los humanos viven más en cautiverio que en libertad.

Everyone stop moving!" he bellowed. "Especially you, chickens! CHICKENS, GIVE UP! WE'RE GOING TO EAT YOU! THERE'S NOTHING YOU CAN DO ABOUT IT! STOP RUNNING AWAY RIGHT NOW!" "SQUAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAWK

They are prisoners. But perhaps that is about to change.

When I was in a Guineaman, between the wars, there was a certain sorts of blacks called Whydaws, or Whydoos, that used to die by the dozen in the Middle Passage, out of mere despair at being taken away from their country and their friends. We used to save a good many by touching them up with a horse-whip in the mornings.

Ah, oui, pauvre papillon. C'est un de mes prisonniers

an ugly steel fence you might associate with a prison perimeter, twenty-five feet high, like nothing I had seen in any other country.

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

Each living art object, taken out of its native habitat so we can conveniently gaze at it, is like an animal in a zoo. Something about it has died in the removal.

There are no ugly loves nor handsome prisons.

where Ariana was being kept, nor under

The apes are, after all, behind the bars of their cages, and we are not. Eager for the experiments to begin, they are also impatient for their food to be served, and they seem impatient for little else. After undergoing years of punishing trials at the hands of determined clinicians, a few have been taught the rudiments of various primitive symbol systems. Having been given the gift of language, they have nothing to say. When two simian prodigies meet, they fling their placards at each other.

Una vez, equivocadamente pensamos que nuestra propia cautividad era una libertad. Igual y erróneamente, también consideramos el servir a Cristo como una pérdida. Pero la verdad llegó a resultar exactamente lo contrario de lo que habíamos pensado antes.

Mr Moss's courtyard is railed in like a cage, lest the gentlemen who are boarding with him should take a fancy to escape from his hospitality.

Denmark's a prison.

our cage We make a quire, as doth the prison'd bird, And sing our bondage freely.

Out of this wood do not desire to go; Thou shalt remain here whether thou wilt or no.

dreaming about being captured by

Las aves domésticas se distinguen de las de corral en que las guardamos en jaulas exclusivamente para satisfacer el placer estético. El nuestro, claro. Del placer que sienten las aves condenadas a ver a sus dueños, no sé nada.

We commonly say in the trade that the most dangerous animal in a zoo is Man.

animals don't escape from somewhere but from something

I don't mean to defend zoos. Close them all down if you want (and let us hope that what wildlife remains can survive in what is left of the natural world). I know zoos are no longer in people's good graces. Religion faces the same problem. Certain illusion about freedom plague them both.