#captivity

The merrel also knew its wing had not healed. But I could reach a great height once more before it failed me, it said. And from there I would fold my wings and plummet to the earth as if a hare or a fawn had caught my eye; but it would be myself I stooped toward. It would be a good flight and a good death. And so I eat their dead things cut up on a pole, dreaming of my last flight. ↗

— Robin McKinley

#freedom #injury #suicide #death

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

#captivity #critical-thinking #freedom #history #politics

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

#ethics #freedom #pet #reptile #snake

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. ↗

— Sam Brownback

#china #figures #government #holding #innocent

All the intelligence and talent in the world can't make a singer. The voice is a wild thing. It can't be bred in captivity. It is a sport, like the silver fox. It happens. ↗

— Willa Cather

#captivity #fox #happens #intelligence #like

Federal legislation is urgently needed to stop this insanity of wild animals in captivity. ↗

— Tippi Hedren

#federal #insanity #legislation #needed #stop

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

#aware #birth #captivity #getting #give

I've always had a repulsion going in a place where animals are in captivity. ↗

— Marion Cotillard

#captivity #going #had #i #place

The caged eagle become a metaphor for all forms of isolation, the ultimate in imprisonment. A zoo is prison. ↗

— Nadine Gordimer

#zoo #life

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

— Michel de Montaigne

#captivity #freedom #marriage #married-life #matrimony