Shackles Quotes

Shackles Quote of the day

Do not let yourself be contaminated by others' ideas of what is best for you. Cast aside the shackles of destructive thinking.

Surrealism is destructive, but it destroys only what it considers to be shackles limiting our vision.

I refuse to accept that the shackles of slavery can ever be stronger than the quest for freedom.

Religious bondage shackles and debilitates the mind and unfits it for every noble enterprise, every expanded prospect.

I wished that I were the owner of every southern slave, that I might cast off the shackles from their limbs, and witness the rapture which would excite them in the first dance of their freedom.

Reality doesn’t impress me. I only believe in intoxication, in ecstasy, and when ordinary life shackles me. I escape, one way or another. No more walls.

Habit: A shackle for the free.

The greatest shackles we bear in thislife are those forged by our own fears

Serving others breaks you free from the shackles of self and self-absorption that choke out the joy of living.

Faced with the pain of freedom, man begs for his shackles.

There is little hope for us until we become tough-minded enough to break loose from the shackles of prejudice, half-truths, and down-right ignorance.

What is a habit? It’s just a shackle for ourselves.

When one is deprived of ones liberty, one is right in blaming not so much the man who puts the shackles on as the one who had the power to prevent him, but did not use it.

Anything I can not transform into something marvelous, I let go.

Your company should act as a springboard for ambitious employees, not a set of shackles.

My parents had broken through the shackles of dogma

Memories are not shackles, Franklin, they are garlands.

It is more difficult by far to be independent of our own inner shackles than it is of the shackles that others might place upon us.

The absurd duty, too often inculcated, of obeying a parent only on account of his being a parent, shackles the mind, and prepares it for a slavish submission to any power but reason.

The shackles and the chains, the violence and aggression, the pettiness and scorn, the jealousy and hatred, the tempest and discord.

To be truly free, it takes more determination, courage, introspection, and restraint than to be in shackles.

Commercial shackles are generally unjust, oppressive, and impolitic.

It is great To do that thing that ends all other deeds, Which shackles accidents and bolts up change.

The power of art can break the shackles that bind and divide human beings.

Books break the shackles of time, proof that humans can work magic.

I am so thirsty for the marvelous that only the marvelous has power over me. Anything I can not transform into something marvelous, I let go.

I do come shackled with whatever people think I am.

Slaves cannot breathe in England; if their lungs Receive our air, that moment they are free; They touch our country, and their shackles fall.

Make men large and strong and tyranny will bankrupt itself in making shackles for them.

The shackles of belief, when reinforced by fear, are difficult to break free from and rarely done.

Bring on the shackles - I'm your prisoner

I have to tell you I love living in a world without clocks. The shackles are gone. I’m a puppy unleashed in a meadow of time. -- Stargirl

If you take the shackles off your imagination, you can go anywhere with science fiction.

I own myself the friend to a very free system of commerce, and hold it as a truth, that commercial shackles are generally unjust, oppressive and impolitic.

I get freedom out of hip-hop. I get to be a true artist without any shackles or harnesses.

This nation's impulse is toward the future, and tradition seems more of a shackle to it than an inspiration.

When making a decision, focus on what feels "shackles off" versus "shackles on".

How much pleasure they lose (and even the pleasures of heroic poesy are not unprofitable) who take away the liberty of a poet, and fetter his feet in the shackles of a historian.

We have broken the shackles of conservative socialism. The growing middle classes want the kind of standard of living you enjoy in the West. So what I'm selling is a lifestyle.

Never did a prisoner, released from his chains, feel such relief as I shall on shaking off the shackles of power.

The circumstances that endanger the safety of nations are infinite, and for this reason no constitutional shackles can wisely be imposed on the power to which the care of it is committed.

It's time to believe again in the potential of private enterprise set free from the shackles of over-bearing federal government.

If forgiving depended on the culprit owning up, then the victim would always be at the mercy of the perpetrator. The victim would be bound in the shackles of victimhood.

The imagination is unleashed by constraints. You break out of the box by stepping into shackles.

Without devotion, action and knowledge are cold and dry and many even become shackles.

Expectations are the shackles that will not permit something to be what it actually is.

Please don't waste-away in front of a TV waiting to win a lottery during the precious few hours you are not imprisoned in corporate shackles.

Could you free yourself from the chains of the oppressors and learn to live in the beauty of YOU?

Slavery remains rife, the shackles are just different. Labels and desires have replaced the cuffs and chains.

Break free from the binding robes of passion that feels like a lump in your heart, perform that surgery today, and you'll be set free forever.