Ingrid Betancourt Quotes

When you have no freedom, then your life becomes the life of an animal.

If you want total security, go to prison. There you're fed, clothed, given medical care and so on. The only thing lacking... is freedom.

In captivity, one loses every way of acting over little details which satisfy the essentials of life. Everything has to be asked for: permission to go to the toilet, permission to ask a guard something, permission to talk to another hostage - to brush your teeth, use toilet paper, everything is a negotiation.

During the period of house arrest, I had an electronic manacle around my leg for 24 hours a day, and for someone who has tried to give others liberty all their adult life, that is absolutely intolerable.

I don't want to live like a prisoner.

When you're doing a film, people are always telling you exactly what to do. Literally, your own decisions are taken away from you.

Sometimes the transition from being in control of your life to having absolutely no control is swift, but other times it is so gradual that you wonder exactly when it truly began.

My life is not unlike Truman's. I can't go anywhere.

I began to feel whatever narrow space I had in Saudi Arabia was getting narrower. I thought it would be better to get out and be safe.

Being in a five-by-seven every day for 365 days a year is more than what the average man could stand. You weren't built to be in a cage that long.

He loves to sit and hear me sing, Then, laughing, sports and plays with me; Then stretches out my golden wing, And mocks my loss of liberty.

I don't want to be a prisoner in a palace, living in such a constricted way - too tight!

Wherever any one is against his will, that is to him a prison.

The horror of being caged has lost its thrill.

Wine gives you liberty, love takes it away.

It is hard for a free fish to understand what is happening to a hooked one.

There is one kind of prison where the man is behind bars, and everything that he desires is outside; and there is another kind where the things are behind the bars, and the man is outside.

Captivity is the greatest of all evils that can befall one.

I don't like feeling hemmed in and I don't like feeling that I'm repeating myself.

I am kept in bondage by the moles of my beloved.

PRISON, n. A place of punishments and rewards. The poet assures us that - stone walls do not a prison make.

But now I am cabined, cribbed, confined, bound in To saucy doubts and fears.

Slavery is slavery. The chain of gold is quite as bad as the chain of iron. Is there a way out?

I built a jail in my closet and I would incarcerate my family from time to time.

Why do people hanker for the home? - security, safety. But in the name of security and safety, they don't make homes, they make prisons - and they are the jailed and they are the jailers, but because they have the keys in their own hands, they think they are free.