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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's at stake, isn't it?–your captivity and the captivity of the world.Daniel Quinn
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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 the soul, lies at the heart of humanness; to be deprived of it is to be dehumanized, to be cleaved from, and cast below, mankind.Laura Hillenbrand
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Please wake me when I'm free I cannot bear captivity4 I would rather be stricken blind Than 2 live without expression of mindTupac Shakur
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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 friends of his, then the Lord smiled upon him, and loosed his captivityCharles Haddon Spurgeon
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From the pavement, I could see the window of Albertine’s room, that window, formerly quite black, at night, when she was not staying in the house, which the electric light inside, dissected by the slats of the shutters, striped from top to bottom with parallel bars of gold.Marcel Proust
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The years in captivity fuels character developmentLailah Gifty Akita
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I lost my freedom for so many years. Until he entered my cage. Him, with the black eyes and blacker soul.Pepper Winters
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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
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Without dignity, identity is erased. In its absence, men are defined not by themselves, but by their captors and the circumstances in which they are forced to live.Laura Hillenbrand
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Cage an eagle and it will bite at the wires, be they ofiron or of gold.Henrik Ibsen
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To live with unforgiveness is to become a captive cultured citizen whose taxation is that of demonically ticketed torment.Tracey Bond