"You're captives of a civilizational system that more or less compels you to go on destroying the world in order to live. … You are captives—and you have made a captive of the world itself. That's what..."
- Daniel Quinn
"[Marriage] happens as with cages: the birds without despair to get in, and those within despair of getting out."
- Michel de Montaigne
"Bitterness is captivity."
- Lailah Gifty Akita
"But on Kwajalein, the guards sought to deprive them of something that had sustained them even as all else had been lost: dignity. This self-respect and sense of self-worth, the innermost armament of t..."
- Laura Hillenbrand
"If we seek solace in the prisons of the distant pastSecurity in human systems we're told will always always lastEmotions are the sail and blind faith is the mastWithout the breath of real freedom we'r..."
- Sting
"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
"Please wake me when I'm freeI cannot bear captivity4 I would rather be stricken blindThan 2 live without expression of mind"
- Tupac Shakur
"There can be no question that parrots have more intellect than any other kind of bird, and it is this that makes them such favourite pets and brings upon them so many sorrows. ...Men will buy them ......"
- E.H. Aitken
"I was once in captivity but now I am saved by grace."
"Remember how it is written of Job, “The Lord turned the captivity of Job, when he prayed for his friends.” While he prayed for himself, he remained a captive; but when he prayed for those unfriendly f..."
- Charles Haddon Spurgeon