Quotes About Captivity

Caged birds sing of freedom, free birds fly.

That there is also freedom in captivity, only a prisoner can claim. Coming from a prison guard, this statement would be blasphemy.

I preach deliverance to others, I tell them there is freedom, while I hear my own chains clang.

Animals see the unobstructed world with their whole eyes. But our eyes, turned back upon themselves, encircle and seek to snare the world, setting traps for freedom.

A person isn't a bird. You can't cage a person.

It is often safer to be in chains than to be free.

Anything you strive to hold captive will hold you captive, and if you desire freedom you must give freedom.

No, Freedom has a thousand charms to show That slaves, howe'er contented, never know.

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

Wild animals are not meant to be owned, any more than human beings are. Nobody has the right to pass a cougar or a gorilla on from hand to hand.

Always late: thus I make you the prisoner of my freedom.

Only to those who have been in prison does freedom have such great meaning.

He who is conceived in a cage, yearns for the cage.

We are all prisoner, but the name of our cure is not freedom

I am caught like a beast at bay. Somewhere are people, freedom, light, But all I hear is the baying of the pack, There is no way out for me.

Humans are born free then put into cages, then convinced freedom is what being in a cage is, and what freedom is, is being in a cage.

For why trap what is already trapped? It is only in flight that we know the freedom of the bird

How can a bird that is born for joySit in a cage and sing?

As unrefined and basic as an animal's emotional equipment may be, it is not insensitive to freedom. Somewhere in the archives of crudest instinct is recorded the truth that it is better to be endangered and free than captive and comfortable.

No one is free, even the birds are chained to the sky.

We're all the same inside the cage. When they put the collars on us.

Faith is unlearning the senseless worries and misguided beliefs that keep us captive."-Mark Batterson Quote Read: 3/22/19

But what we find is that flight becomes captivity: once we begin to flee the things that threaten and burden us, there is no end to fleeing.

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.