Quotes About Animal Captivity

#1. 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

#2. 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.

Hal Roach

#3. When you have those moments just think of me, call or text me when you feel weak and I will always be there for you. Nothing about this will be easy, life is hard, we just feel it more than most because our souls have been broken and are raw.

Raven K. Asher

#4. Twenty years ago, as I was completing my freshman year in college, I was a full-blown neoconservative. Except I didn't know it. Having concluded that I was not a leftist, I simply decided by process of elimination that I must be a Rush Limbaughian.

Thomas E. Woods Jr.

#5. S security expert Bruce Schneier has said, Making bits harder to copy is like making water that's less wet.

Cory Doctorow

#6. See this abdicated beast, once king
Of them all, nibble his claws:
Not anger enough left - no, nor despair -
To break his teeth on the bars.

Cecil Day-Lewis

#7. He didn't like to see animals in captivity. When he looked into their eyes, something in their eyes looked back at him.

Rick Yancey

#8. It seems increasingly dogs are attacking humans in response to their slavery ... AND, wildlife in captivity are also attacking their enslavers AND the public ... Their messages are loud and clear: LET US OUT AND LEAVE US ALONE!!!

Adela Popescu

#9. We never made it, did we?

Lang Leav

#10. Beauty with innocence is a double beauty!

Mehmet Murat Ildan

#11. I've had a love of animals from birth. I love getting to know other species. We should all be aware that there is not one thing we can give a wild animal in captivity that they need.

Tippi Hedren

#12. If there is no awe, there is no audience.

Orson Scott Card

#13. The plural of anecdotes is not data

Ben Goldacre

#14. Someone shouts, "Enough!" and I think too much and nothing at all.

Veronica Roth

#15. The pain and suffering that comes to us has a purpose in our lives-it is trying to teach us something. We should look for its lesson.

Peace Pilgrim

#16. Around the world, about a thousand dolphins are held in captivity, while millions have been killed in purse seine tuna nets and drift nets. Tens of thousands of others have been "sacrificed" in the name of scientific research, some marine mammals merely to find out what they've been eating.

Richard O'Barry

#17. Judaism is interesting in that there is something there that I think you just can't understand if you're not a Jew - it moves into a realm of true mystery.

Marianne Williamson

#18. I became very critical of zoos and circuses and keeping animals in captivity. I wish it was against the law.

Christopher Walken

#19. I want to take time for myself, because all my life is ta-ta-ta-ta. So I don't want nothing special, just to breathe. I'd like to work maybe a half day and then take my bicycle and go by the riverside.

Renzo Rosso

#20. If you find yourself plagued by a recurrent worry, train yourself to think of something else. Your conscious mind can concentrate on only one thought at a time, and driving the negativity away will free you up to move forward again.

Harvey MacKay

#21. I try to show what it is about language and music that enthralls, because I think those are the two elements of poetry.

Rita Dove

#22. Imagine if your kids had to carry a ladder to climb an apartheid wall to get to school everyday.

Omar Suleiman

#23. Places of confinement providing free food and medical care are called prisons.

John Lilly