{"quotes":[{"text":"My blood was boiling, which is not a good thing for a coldblood.Dracula was dead. Rex was dying or dead.Breakfast was dying. And I was caring about it all. Meanwhile, that blasted Gunnar did nothing but sit and stare at his teevee all day. He was the reason we were all here, the reason we were suffering and dying, and he barely noticed us.I hissed so hard it hurt.","author":"Patrick Jennings","tags":["animal-rights","animals","captivity","ethics","humans","pets"],"id":16566,"author_id":"Patrick+Jennings"},{"text":"The years in captivity fuels character development.","author":"Lailah Gifty Akita","tags":["captivity","character","imprison","philsophy","slavery","suffering","wise-words"],"id":24474,"author_id":"Lailah+Gifty+Akita"},{"text":"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.","author":"Laura Hillenbrand","tags":["captivity","complex-ptsd","dehumanization","dehumanize","held-captive","inhumane","no-longer-human","prisoners-of-war","self-respect","survivors-of-war","traumatic-experiences","traumatized","war","worthlessness"],"id":47774,"author_id":"Laura+Hillenbrand"},{"text":"Places of confinement providing free food and medical care are called prisons.","author":"John Lilly","tags":["animal-rights","animals","captivity","orcas","sea-world","zoology","zoos"],"id":49427,"author_id":"John+Lilly"},{"text":"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 captivity.","author":"Charles Haddon Spurgeon","tags":["captivity","prayer","spurgeon"],"id":88039,"author_id":"Charles+Haddon+Spurgeon"},{"text":"You are my son Dantés! You are the child of my captivity. My priestly office condemned me to celibacy: God sent you to me both to console the man who could not be a father and the prisoner who could not be free.","author":"Alexandre Dumas","tags":["abbe-faria","alexandre-dumas","captivity","count-of-monte-cristo","edmond-dantes","emotional","father","free","freedom","monte-cristo","prisoner","sad"],"id":94806,"author_id":"Alexandre+Dumas"},{"text":"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.","author":"Patrick Jennings","tags":["captivity","ethics","freedom","pet","reptile","snake","snakes"],"id":96998,"author_id":"Patrick+Jennings"},{"text":"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're getting nowhere. ","author":"Sting","tags":["blind-faith","captivity","critical-thinking","freedom","history","politics"],"id":117321,"author_id":"Sting"},{"text":"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.","author":"Laura Hillenbrand","tags":["captivity","captor","captors","dignity","held-captive","imprisoned","stocholm-syndrome","survivors"],"id":146711,"author_id":"Laura+Hillenbrand"},{"text":"The rulers of your minds indulge in proverbs, but they've forgotten the main one, that love cannot be forced, and they have a deeply rooted habit of liberating people and making them happy, especially those who haven't asked for it. You probably fancy that there's no better place in the world for me than your camp and your company. I probably should even bless you and thank you for my captivity, for your having liberated me from my family, my son, my home, my work, from everything that's dear to me and that I live by.","author":"Boris Pasternak","tags":["itarianism","ity","captivity","communism","politics","religion","soviet-russia","war"],"id":159412,"author_id":"Boris+Pasternak"}],"pagination":{"page":1,"page_size":10,"total":25,"pages":3,"next":"?page=2\u0026page_size=10"}}