Captivity Is Always Captivity Quotes

#1. Captivity is always captivity, no matter how gentle the jailer.

John Hargrove

#2. Melancholy has ceased to be an individual phenomenon, an exception. It has become the class privilege of the wage earner, a mass state of mind that finds its cause wherever life is governed by production quotas.

Gunter Grass

#3. If we seek solace in the prisons of the distant past
Security in human systems we're told will always always last
Emotions are the sail and blind faith is the mast
Without the breath of real freedom we're getting nowhere fast.
(History Will Teach Us Nothing)

Sting

#4. Georgia is not just a European country, but one of the most ancient European countries.

Mikheil Saakashvili

#5. Anybody who has traveled this far on a fool's errand," said Salo, "has no choice but to uphold the honor of fools by completing the errand.

Kurt Vonnegut Jr.

#6. We all have skeletons in our closets. Some of us are just better at hiding them behind the hangers filled with clothes." "Yeah, right, you don't seem like the type of guy who has a pile of femur bones stuffed behind your collared shirts and navy blue blazers." Nick and Wilson

Gretchen De La O

#7. People who blame are always looking to "get out" of something, but like quicksand, the more they struggle the more they are captive.

Bryant McGill

#8. On entering a place where animals are bred, my first thoughts are always about enslavement. Force. Captivity.

Alice Walker

#9. Stability and order have always been paid for with captivity and blood. (76)

Mary Doria Russell

#10. I've always had a repulsion going in a place where animals are in captivity.

Marion Cotillard

#11. The burden of the self is lightened with I laugh at myself.

Rabindranath Tagore

#12. MONDAY morning found Tom Sawyer miserable. Monday morning always found him so - because it began another week's slow suffering in school. He generally began that day with wishing he had had no intervening holiday, it made the going into captivity and fetters again so much more odious.

Mark Twain

#13. That was what made fighting so easy - you could always choose death rather than captivity.

Cornelia Funke

#14. Our everyday language has become encumbered, Germanic, artificial, bureaucratic, inorganic. It may not be exaggerated to say that by now American writers face but two alternatives: write English, or write gobbledygook.

John Lukacs

#15. Come, Holy Spirit, living in Mary. Unite my will to the will of the Immaculata, which is one with your will.

Michael Gaitley