Freedom And Captivity Quotes

#1. If fame came near to you to get you, you must run away from it very fast! Because this is a matter of freedom and captivity!

Mehmet Murat Ildan

#2. They were a proud people, cheerful in the face of hardship, strong in the depths of captivity, and ruthless in their pursuit of freedom.

Dan Wells

#3. I do not understand modern physics at all, but my colleagues who know a lot about the physics of very small things, like the particles in atoms, or very large things, like the universe, seem to be running into one queerness after another, from puzzle to puzzle.

Lewis Thomas

#4. Ultimately this issue is on us. We're the ones who make the decisions about what our kids eat.

Michelle Obama

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

Paulo Coelho

#6. To make a statement that one knows is false is more honest than to make a statement that one knows is true.

Lionel Suggs

#7. He who is a useful keeper of anything is also a better thief.

Plato

#8. In peace, continue your art; in war, continue your art; in freedom, continue your art; in captivity, continue your art!

Mehmet Murat Ildan

#9. Let's consider a series of lessons that lay the groundwork for our discussion of breaking free. I will list them as nine lessons about captivity and freedom. LESSON 1 The people of God can be oppressed by the enemy.

Beth Moore

#10. How can I fight so hard for freedom only to be enticed by captivity?

Kyra Davis

#11. Public awareness is the equinox of tyranny's rise; once one man learns of another's captivity, he will act to free him. It is the best and most certain part of man's nature.

John Kramer

#12. Truth needs not flowers of speech.

Alexander Pope

#13. So I'd been captured? So I was starving?
Did that mean I had to shrivel up and die?
I could still slither. I could still hiss.
Nothing had been stolen from me except my freedom.
What I needed was a new plan.

Patrick Jennings

#14. It is a rule that those who come into a Court of justice to seek redress, must come with clean hands, and must disclose a transaction warranted by law.

Sherrilyn Kenyon

#15. They had temporarily escaped the factories, the warehouses, the slaughterhouses, the car washes - they'd be back in captivity the next day but now they were out - they were wild with freedom. They weren't thinking about the slavery of poverty. Or the slavery of welfare and food stamps.

Charles Bukowski

#16. The evil of the Church is the doing of Church work in a spirit of business, something to be got through. The only way to avoid this is for the priest to be instant in prayer. If he is not, he will lose that touch of the supernatural, without which he has no right to be a priest at all.

Arthur Middleton

#17. He wanted this to show the raw power of volition. The man and woman he carved were his refuge against his despair over his captivity. They embodied freedom of spirit. They embodied reason rising up to triumph.

Terry Goodkind

#18. There is not an animal on this earth that if given the choice between freedom or captivity, would not choose to be free.

Patricia Engel

#19. [Marriage] happens as with cages: the birds without despair to get in, and those within despair of getting out.

Michel De Montaigne

#20. I like money, but it's never been about the money.

Jerry Seinfeld

#21. Freedom is anathema to dreams nurtured in captivity.

Gary Shteyngart

#22. There are nations, where people live in captivity, fear and silence. I believe, one day from prison camps and torture cells and from exile the leaders of freedom will emerge. The world should stand with those oppressed people until the day of their freedom finally arrives.

Tsakhiagiin Elbegdorj

#23. Please wake me when I'm free
I cannot bear captivity
4 I would rather be stricken blind
Than 2 live without expression of mind

Tupac Shakur

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

Friedrich Durrenmatt

#25. It's hard to enjoy practical jokes when your whole life feels like one.

Rick Riordan

#26. We can laugh from either joy or happiness, but we weep only from grief or joy ... Without the pain of farewell, there is no joy in reunion ... without the pain of captivity, we don't experience the joy of freedom.

George Vaillant

#27. 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

#28. Everybody's a bird, locked up in a pretty cage. Sometimes you fly to a slightly bigger one, but you never quite have the courage to abandon captivity completely.

Dave McKean