Quotes About Captivity And Freedom

#1. 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

#2. Are the most dangerous creatures the ones that use doors or the ones that don't?

David Wong

#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. Selma stood. "You can put a tuxedo on a goat, but it's still a goat."
"No, it's not," Bulahdeen said. "It's a completely different goat when you put a tuxedo on it.

Sarah Addison Allen

#5. 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

#6. Only equals make friends, every other relationship is contrived and off balance.

Maya Angelou

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

Friedrich Durrenmatt

#8. 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

#9. Do we really lack the delicacy to let God die quietly, on his own, like a dog?

Nick Land

#10. Dates are always hard. You don't want to be too dressed up or too casual.

Lauren Conrad

#11. 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

#12. Don't ever be afraid to step out and do something different.

Kim Alexis

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

Gary Shteyngart

#14. If the egalitarian wishes to realise his ideal, given the unpromising nature of his material, he might consider rendering all persons equally dead, for perhaps only thus could he eradicate any difference.

D. Michael Quinn

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

Michel De Montaigne

#16. 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

#17. I'm a hard guy to live with. I'm like a caged animal. I'm up all night walking around the living room. It's hard for me to come down from what I do.

Jim Carrey

#18. 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

#19. For a woman to be considered a celebrated beauty is not exactly a bad thing. I think we have to say that in all reality.

Raquel Welch

#20. 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

#21. It's hard for a fellow to keep a chip on his shoulder if you allow him to take a bow.

Billy Rose

#22. 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

#23. 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

#24. 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

#25. 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

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

Kyra Davis

#27. 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

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

Mehmet Murat Ildan

#29. The knife will only hurt for a moment. Then your choice will be made, and it will all be over.

Veronica Roth

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

Paulo Coelho

#31. Now, we occupy a lowly position, both in space and rank in comparison with the heavenly sphere, and the Almighty is Most High not in space, but with respect to absolute existence, greatness and power.

Maimonides