Chains Quotes

He who has nothing—it has been said many times—has nothing to lose but his chains.

Revolt, for you have nothing to lose but your chains and your [refugee] tents!

All these words are just a front. What I would really like to do is chain you to my body, then sing for days & days & days.

The spectacle is the bad dream of a modern society in chains and ultimately expresses nothing more than its wish for sleep. The spectacle is the guardian of that sleep.

The chains of military despotism, once fastened upon a nation, ages might pass away before they could be shaken off.

Neither the chains of dictatorship nor the fetters of oppression can keep down the forces of freedom for long.

Drugs will have a huge effect on my work for the rest of my life, whether I'm using or not.

Whips and chains, handcuffs, smack a little body up with my belt. Scream, help play my game, dracula man, I'll get my fangs.

I get out, I get out of all your boxes. I get out, you can't hold me in these chains. I'll get out. Father free me from this bondage. Knowin' my condition is the reason I must change

Whether in chains or in laurels, liberty knows nothing but victories.

Socialism is the only answer and I urge all comrades to take this struggle to a victorious conclusion. Only this will free us from the chains of bigotry and exploitation.

Habit is the ballast that chains the dog to his vomit.

Sticks and stones may break my bones, but chains and whips excite me.

Neither rings, bright chains, nor bracelets, perfumes, flowers, nor well-trimmed hair, Grace a man like polished language, th' only jewel he should wear.

He's an enigma wrapped up in sensuality padlocked with a dozen chains of desire and topped off with a razor-sharp ribbon of danger. There are more layers to him than a billionaire's wedding cake.

I turned down a date once because I was looking for someone a little closer to the top of the food chain.

Slaves lose everything in their chains, even the desire of escaping from them.

Dignity and majesty have I seen but once, as it stood in chains, at midnight, in a dungeon in an obscure village of Missouri.

Crouch down and lick the hands which feed you. May your chains sit lightly upon you, and may posterity forget that you were our countrymen!

The imaginary flowers of religion adorn man's chains. Man must throw off the flowers, and also the chains.

Let the ruling classes tremble at a communist revolution. The proletarians have nothing to lose but their chains. They have a world to win. Workingmen of all countries, unite!

I was sentenced to life plus 30 years by an all-White jury. What I saw in prison was wall-to-wall Black flesh in chains. Women caged in cells. But we're the terrorists. It just doesn't make sense.

My watch say I made it, my chains say I'm rich. Diamonds in my mouth got me talking cash s**t.

It’s terrible to lie in chains, To rot in dungeon deep, But it’s still worse, when you are free To sleep, and sleep, and sleep.

Prayer breaks all bars, dissolves all chains, opens all prisons, and widens all straits by which God's saints have been held.

If the workers took a notion they could stop all speeding trains; every ship upon the ocean they can tie with mighty chains.

Being deceived into thinking the perks of slavery are a good thing, we can easily aquire a preference for chains and a taste for the slaves rations.

Everything I did in the jails - chain gangs, everything - I haven't changed the policy. I did it, I stand by it, and I'm not going to change.

Freedom is the dream you dream While putting thought in chains again --

Laziness grows on people; it begins in cobwebs and ends in iron chains

The totalitarian state is not a force unleashed, the truth is in chains.

It is the hour to rend thy chains, the blossom time of souls.

Most of us came here in chains and most of you came here to escape your chains. Your freedom was our slavery, and therein lies the bitter difference in the way we look at life.

Luxury! more perilous to youth than storms or quicksand, poverty or chains.

At the extremity of hardship comes relief and at the tightening of the chains of trials and tribulations comes ease.

One glorious chain of love, of giving and receiving, unites all creatures.

Disdain the chain, preserve your freedom; and maintain your independency: be industrious and free; be frugal and free.

Those who don't move don't notice their chains.

Men are freest when they are most unconscious of freedom. The shout is a rattling of chains, always was.

The thought "It's impossible" sets off a chain reaction of other thoughts to prove you're right.

I think that if people show up in jeans and chains, it's great that all parts of culture are interested in music. People forget sometimes that it's about the music, not how you act and dress.

By your hand, millions - billions - of lives will be altered, caught up in a chain of events begun by you this day.

To realize the spirit as spirit is practical religion. Everything else is good so far as it leads to this one grand idea.

O loss of sight, of thee I most complain! Blind among enemies, O worse than chains, Dungeon, or beggary, or decrepit age!

She was Daenerys Stormborn, the Unburnt, Khaleesi and queen, Mother of Dragons, slayer of warlocks, breaker of chains, and there was no one in the world that she could trust.

Memories are links in a golden chain that bind us until we meet again.

Let the blacksmith wear the chains he has himself made.

While over Alabama earth These words are gently spoken: Serve and hate will die unborn. Love and chains are broken.

Whatever worked in the past, build on it; whatever didn't work in the past, break the chain that binds you to it.

We never know which of us will start the chain reaction. But one of us will.