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Quotes About Captivity

Empty your birdcage, empty your aquarium! To love is to give freedom; to love is to refuse the prisons!
~ Mehmet Murat Ildan
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!
~ Mehmet Murat Ildan
Let us free all the animals in the zoos to show them that we are not animals!..
~ Mehmet Murat Ildan
No flower is happy in a vase, because vase is nothing but an ornate coffin for the flower.
~ Mehmet Murat Ildan
Stop going to the zoos! Don't take your children to the zoos! No creature ever deserves captivity without any crime!
~ Mehmet Murat Ildan
Those ignoramuses who think that birds are happy in their cages know not a single thing about freedom!
~ Mehmet Murat Ildan
You mean people pay you to do this to them? I thought you had captured these people and brought them here against their will! How do I become a dentist?
~ Michael Buckley
Zoos are becoming facsimiles - or perhaps caricatures - of how animals once were in their natural habitat. If the right policies toward nature were pursued, we would need no zoos at all.
~ Michael J. Fox
And as you see, poor Idris was...persuaded,shall we say? Yes,persuaded to tell me about Tyre and his own route back to Al-Kal'as from there. Faysal, reveal to her his pain." The Captain of the Guard dragged Idris forward. Faysal then ripped away his shirt, and Aminah gasped. Angry scars laced his bare chest, some of the burns still crusted and weeping. Tears tumbled down Aminah's face, but Idris did not raise his head to see them. "Forgive me" he mumered.
~ Unknown
It [marriage] happens as with cages: the birds without despair to get in, and those within despair of getting out.
~ Michel de Montaigne
De cierto que no, y no por su bella gracia, sino porque la mujer es pájaro que no se aviene a vivir sin jaula, y porque pocos serían los leños que traigo a memeches para rompérselos encima —
~ Unknown
Tr?im într-o puÈ™c?rie fermec?toare, nu mai puÈ›in magic? decât orice ne putem închipui.
~ Unknown
Power needs a captive audience.
~ Moisés Naím
Varl?klar?n? özür diler gibi suçlu duygularla k?vranarak ya?ayan, ancak sevilirlerse dünya taraf?ndan ba???lanacaklar?n? dü?ünen, bütün o bedbaht kad?nlar?n, o dipsiz sevilme ve ?efkat ihtiyac? sonuçta esaretleri oluyor.
~ Unknown
Deliverance is not the same as freedom. Deliverance is release from the oppressor, but freedom is deliverance from oppression.
~ Myles Munroe
Sill. Their horses and weapons were confiscated, and they were imprisoned. In a field just
~ N. Scott Momaday
From the earliest writings we have, it was seen as the direct and necessary result of the creator God overthrowing on the cross the powers that had kept the nations captive. Up to now the nations had been enslaved; the cross had opened the gates to freedom.
~ Unknown
Ahora que ha llegado el momento, resulta que no puedo decir adiós, que no puedo soportar la idea de dejarte ir. Es una necesidad egoísta y obstinada, pero soy su cautiva.
~ Nalini Singh
Something bad happened to me, didn't it?" Worse than the captivity, worse than the torture after she created the labyrinth. Kaleb knew he'd made a major tactical error. But he'd promised Sahara he'd never lie to her, so he said, "Yes," and waited. "I'm not ready yet." Her hand fell to his shoulder. "Not strong enough yet. But I will be soon.
~ Nalini Singh
Vuelve conmigo, Max —le dijo en voz queda. —¿Cómo voy a resistirme? —La miró con seriedad y le dio un beso con tal emoción que a Sophia le dolió el alma—. Tienes cautivo mi corazón.
~ Nalini Singh
Wir müssen das Stundenglas zerbrechen, denn es ist nur ein verlockender Käfig, der uns in der Zeit gefangen hält.
~ Nalini Singh
I realized that poverty was a kind of captivity.
~ Nancy E. Turner
THE LORD REVEALED to the prophet Habakkuk that he was about to do a purifying work among his people by raising up the Babylonians to take them into captivity.
~ Unknown
Indians captured in "just wars," and "strangers as willingly sell themselves, or are sold to us." The "strangers," in this case, were indentured servants from outside the colony as well as imported African slaves.44
~ Unknown