Captivity Quotes
Reflections on confinement, hope, and freedom
This set of captivity quotes moves between deeply personal wartime loss and public debate over animals held in zoos and circuses. One speaker recalls a father who was taken prisoner and never came home, a hardship echoed in Comfort quotes.
Hope is necessary in every condition. The miseries of poverty, sickness and captivity would, without this comfort, be insupportable.
It is time for the government of China to stop holding innocent religious figures in captivity merely for peacefully protesting China's occupation of Tibet.
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Israeli society's inability to tolerate even a single soldier held in captivity results in popular movements that have tremendous impact on strategic decisions made by the government. The issue has become a generator of history rather than an outcome of...
In August 1914, my father was called to war and then taken prisoner. He died in captivity in Germany on March 27, 1915. My youth - indeed, my entire life - was deeply marked by this, directly and indirectly.
Being Quotes
I hate to witness animals in captivity - or see circus elephants paraded down the streets. When animals are caged, it's a loss of what they are.
I think we have a real obligation when we do have animals in captivity to understand their needs and to care for them as well as we can.
If I should ever be captured, I want no negotiation - and if I should request a negotiation from captivity they should consider that a sign of duress.
After being in captivity for so long, I can't begin to describe how wonderful it feels to be home in Canada.
