Fetters Quotes

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As for politics, I’m an anarchist. I hate governments and rules and fetters. Can’t stand caged animals. People must be free.

All human suffering springs from unbridled desire. Unless one extricates oneself from the clutch of greed, one will not free himself from the fetters of sorrow.

An oppressed people are authorized whenever they can to rise and break their fetters.

How strange now, looks the life he makes us lead; So free we seem, so fettered fast we are!

A free press stands as one of the great interpreters between the government and the people. To allow it to be fettered is to fetter ourselves.

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

The moment the slave resolves that he will no longer be a slave, his fetters fall. Freedom and slavery are mental states.

Everything sacred is a tie, a fetter.

The fetters of tyranny were not stricken from America for the sake of Americans alone.

Here the free spirit of mankind, at length, Throws its last fetters off; and who shall place A limit to the giant's unchained strength, Or curb his swiftness in the forward race?

Fetters of gold are still fetters, and the softest lining can never make them so easy as liberty.

True artistic renewal does not mean being stripped of fetters. It means moving into new fetters.

Who is't that to woman's beauty would submit, And yet refuse the fetters of their wit?

Their poverty secured their freedom, since our desires and our possessions are the strongest fetters of despotism.

Golden fetters are no less galling to a self-respecting man that iron ones; the sting lies in the fetters, not in the metal.

Poetry fettered fetters the human race.

True meditation gives us, as it were, wings for flight to a higher realm and thus detaches us from terrestrial fetters.

But he who is hated by the people, as the wolf by the dogs - is the free spirit, the enemy of fetters, the non-adorer, the dweller in the woods.

You have fettered yourself of your own free will, man - break the fetters!

To drag a man in fetters into the grand illuminated temple of liberty, and call upon him to join you in joyous anthems, were inhuman mockery and sacrilegious irony.

What fetters the mind and benumbs the spirit is ever the dogged acceptance of absolutes.

Your freedom when it loses its fetters becomes itself the fetter of a greater freedom.

No man loveth his fetters, be they made of gold.

To succeed in chaining the multitude, you must seem to wear the same fetters.

However weighed down and entangled in earthly fetters you may be, it can never be too late.

The repetition of a catchword can hold analysis in fetters for fifty years or more.

The reason Milton wrote in fetters when he wrote of Angels and God, and at liberty when of Devils and Hell, is because he was a true poet and of the Devil's party without knowing it.

I don't have opinions. Only if it is necessary for a particular action, I make a judgment. Opinions are fetters for your intelligence.

When a slave begins to take pride in his fetters and hugs them like precious ornaments, the triumph of the slave-owner is complete.

Count art by gold, and it fetters the feet it once winged.

Profuseness is a cruel and crafty demon, that gradually involves her followers in dependence and debt; that is, fetters them with irons that enter into their souls.

The fetters imposed on liberty at home have ever been forged out of the weapons provided for defense against real, pretended, or imaginary dangers from abroad.

Wealth: A cunning device of Fate whereby men are made captive, and burdened with responsibilites from which only Death can file their fetters.

Genius ... is necessarily intolerant of fetters.

The dream is the liberation of the spirit from the pressure of external nature, a detachment of the soul from the fetters of matter.

Blessed be all metrical rules that forbid automatic responses, force us to have second thoughts, free us from the fetters of Self.

There is a devilish mercy in the judge, if you'll implore it, that will free your life, but fetter you till death.

When you return, the youngest of the seers, Released from fetters of ancestral pose, There will be beauty waiting down the years Revisions of the ruby and the rose.

If we could only snap the fetters of the body that bind the feet of the soul, we shall experience a great joy. Then we shall not be miserable because of the body's sufferings. We shall become free.

Unless the gods deceive my mind , That man is forging fetters for himself.

Haste trips up its own heels, fetters and stops itself.

When the labourer co-operates systematically with others, he strips off the fetters of his individuality, and develops the capabilities of his species.

What use would wings be to a man bound in iron fetters? They would only drive him to even greater despair.

Evil is retributive: every trespass slips fetters on the will, holds the soul in durance till contrition and repentance restore it to liberty.

Tis Love alone can make our Fetters please.

Fondnesse it were for any being free, To covet fetters, though they golden bee.

True, the movement for woman's rights has broken many old fetters, but it has also forged new ones.

Why should a man be in love with his fetters, though of gold?

Things good in themselves ... perfectly valid in the integrity of their origins, become fetters if they cannot alter.

Many a one cannot loosen his own fetters, but is nevertheless his friend's emancipator.