Bondage Quotes

Although he may not always recognize his bondage, modern man lives under a tyranny of numbers.

There is nothing so degrading as the constant anxiety about one's means of livelihood.

From old habit, unconsciously he thanked God that he no longer believed in Him.

Follow your inclinations with due regard to the policeman round the corner.

It's asking a great deal that things should appeal to your reason as well as your sense of the aesthetic. - Of Human Bondage

Bondage is hoarse, and may not speak aloud.

A bond is necessary to complete our being, only we must be careful that the bond does not become bondage.

Fathers and husbands! do ye not also understand this fact? Do ye not see how, in the mental bondage of your wives and fair companions, ye yourselves are bound?

A man cannot be comfortable spiritually who is in bondage financially.

Advanced meditators are not even desirous of liberation anymore - that is just another attachment. There is no liberation. There is no bondage. These are just ideas of the mind.

To be concerned with the issue; soul versus non-soul, is to be in bondage to craving for becoming and non-becoming.

Collective freedom is one devoid of material bondage and one that supports the institutions necessary for democracy.

His bondage had softened him. Irresponsibility had weakened him. He had forgotten how to shift for himself. The night yawned about him.

Christianity is not a law of bondage; and if it respect the hand of God which sometimes raises up tyrants, it draws up where obedience degenerates into guilty cowardice.

Unhappiness is bondage; therefore, happiness is freedom.

My national service is part of my training for freeing my soul from the bondage of the flesh.

Women are still in emotional bondage as long as we need to worry that we might have to make a choice between being heard and being loved.

SM is an art. Doing it well requires more than a bag full of expensive whips and exotic electrical toys, a closet full of fetish clothes, or a basement filled with bondage furniture.

The awakening of the soul to its bondage and its effort to stand up and assert itself - this is called life.

If we, who have been redeemed, don't say what we have been redeemed from, how are those in the same bondage going to even know that there is hope.

You didn't hear Yello until later in the night in the bondage clubs. Things would start getting crazy and that's when you'd hear Yello. It was bad.

And without a doubt it is more comfortable to endure blind bondage than to work for one's liberation; the dead, too, are better suited to the earth than the living.

Give up bondage; become a son, be free, and then you can "see the Father", as did Jesus.

You see, money to you means freedom; to me it means bondage.

Great artists are a little too gifted to be bound by boxes and labels, and in saying that, the label 'artist' is to be used lightly.

Ah, Misha, he has a stormy spirit. His mind is in bondage. He is haunted by a great, unsolved doubt. He is one of those who don't want millions, but an answer to their questions.

When Israel was from bondage led,Led by the Almighty's handFrom out of foreign land,The great sea beheld and fled.

And then, the negro being doomed, and damned, and forgotten, to everlasting bondage, is the white man quite certain that the tyrant demon will not turn upon him too?

The most assiduous task of parenting is to divine the difference between boundaries and bondage.

The general tendency of evolution is from structure to function, from bondage to freedom of the individual elements.

It wasn't often you ran into bondage/Elvis/whorehouse-themed vampire club

You have to be more discerning, Lily, when experimenting with bondage." He wiggled his eyebrows. "I'd make a great master.

In light of 50 years of bondage of Eastern Europe, [invading the Soviet Union in 1948 to prevent it from acquiring nuclear weapons] was probably a reasonable thing to do.

Where are you looking at blessing as bondage, something you GET to do as something you've GOT to do?

God would come down and lead us out of bondage. And God led us out of bondage.

For me, bondage makes me feel powerless and annoyed. It's like, can you untie me?

... inherited collective mind-patterns ... have kept humans in bondage to suffering for eons.

Man hazards the condition and loses the virtues of a freeman, in proportion as he accustoms his thoughts to view without anguish or shame, his lapse into the bondage of debtor.

The liberty to live for self alone becomes in time a weary bondage.

Heaven's blessing must attend all, and freedom must soon be given to the pining millions under a ruthless bondage.

You yourself must make an effort. Buddhas are only show the way. The thoughtful who enter the way are freed from the bondage of defilements.

Of a new Prince, new bondage.

A man is in bondage to whatever he cannot part with that is less than himself.

There has never been a slave who did not choose to be a slave. Their choice may be between bondage and death, but the choice is always there.

One has neither independence nor freedom from bondage when he is obligated to others

It is a fact beyond question that there are two kinds of Christian experience, one of which is an experience of bondage, and the other an experience of liberty.

Thus I alone, where all my freedom grew, In prison pine with bondage and restraint; And with remembrance of the greater grief To banish the less, I find my chief relief.

If we go as far as we can into the darkness, regardless of the consequences, I believe a midnight truth will free us from our bondage to violence and bring us to the light of peace.

In fact, there are more slaves in the world today than at any other point in human history, with an estimated 27 million in bondage across the globe.

Who enslaves another's manhood with weak human power alone, Lays a heavier yoke of bondage thoughtlessly upon his own.