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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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Taken together, the narratives of how the animals ended up at Lowry Park revealed as much about Homo sapiens as they revealed about the animals themselves. The precise details—how and where each was born, how they were separated from their mothers and taken into custody, all they had witnessed and experienced on their way to becoming the property of this particular zoo—could have filled an encyclopedia with insights into human behavior and psychology, human geopolitics and history and commerce. Lowry Park’s very existence declared our presumption of supremacy, the ancient belief that we have been granted dominion over other creatures and have the right to do with them as we please. The zoo was a living catalogue of our fears and obsessions, the ways we see animals and see ourselves, all the things we prefer not to see at all. Every corner of the grounds revealed our appetite for amusement and diversion, no matter what the cost. Our longing for the wildness we have lost inside ourselves. Our instinct to both exalt nature and control it. Our deepest wish to love and protect other species even as we scorch their forests and poison their rivers and shove them toward oblivion.All of it was on display in the garden of captives.

Thomas French, Zoo Story: Life in the Garden of Captives
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The people’s silence is a tyrant’s greatest advocate. The less captives talked, the less they knew; the less they knew, the more they feared; and the more they feared, the more easily others could manipulate them to their own ends, the more easily the captives could be controlled.

John Kramer, Blythe
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Aren't we all in varying degrees, captives in our own personal prisons, bound by our limiting habits?

Ruthy Alon, Mindful Spontaneity: Lessons in the Feldenkrais Method
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Though the captives' resistance was dangerous, through such acts, dignity was preserved, and through dignity, life itself.

Laura Hillenbrand, Unbroken: A World War II Story of Survival, Resilience, and Redemption
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...you go back to liberate the captives and sadly realize, some want to remain tied down in the cave...

John Geddes, A Familiar Rain
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Remember that light becomes evident in darkness. We do not create light by avoiding those who are captives of darkness

but we become light by illuminating the night. Remember that always.
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Just make sure that the thing you're living for is worth dying for." --Levi

Jill Williamson, Captives
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Take up the white man's burden - Send forth the best ye breed - Go bind your sons to exile To serve your captives' need.

Rudyard Kipling
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I got him' is nonsense in terms of love relationships, and so is 'I lost him'. If we could stop thinking in terms of capture, we would not have to fear the loosening of the captives' bonds and our failing beauty, and he would not have ulcers about being outsrtipped or belittled.

Germaine Greer, The Female Eunuch
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