To tame the proud, the fetter'd slave to free, These are imperial arts. — John Dryden Copy Share Image
How strange now, looks the life he makes us lead; So free we seem, so fettered fast we are! — Robert Browning Copy Share Image
Who is't that to woman's beauty would submit, And yet refuse the fetters of their wit? — Aphra Behn Copy Share Image
Blessed be all metrical rules that forbid automatic responses, force us to have second thoughts, free us from the fetters of Self. — W. H. Auden Copy Share Image
Here the free spirit of mankind, at length, Throws its last fetters off; and who shall place A limit to the giant's… — William C. Bryant Copy Share Image
Evil is retributive: every trespass slips fetters on the will, holds the soul in durance till contrition and repentance restore it to… — Amos Bronson Alcott Copy Share Image
I don't have opinions. Only if it is necessary for a particular action, I make a judgment. Opinions are fetters for your… — Jaggi Vasudev Copy Share Image
When a slave begins to take pride in his fetters and hugs them like precious ornaments, the triumph of the slave-owner is… — Mahatma Gandhi Copy Share Image
Things good in themselves ... perfectly valid in the integrity of their origins, become fetters if they cannot alter. — Freya Stark Copy Share Image
Wealth: A cunning device of Fate whereby men are made captive, and burdened with responsibilites from which only Death can file their… — Elbert Hubbard Copy Share Image
There is a devilish mercy in the judge, if you'll implore it, that will free your life, but fetter you till death. — William Shakespeare Copy Share Image
There is no captive in a worse state than the one who is captivated by his worst enemy (Shaytan) and there is… — Ibn Qayyim Al-Jawziyya Copy Share Image
Whoever makes love grow boundless, and sets his mind for seeing the end of birth, his fetters are worn thin. If he… — Gautama Buddha Copy Share Image
Hate is of all things the mightiest divider, nay, is division itself. To couple hatred, therefore, though wedlock try all her golden… — John Milton Copy Share Image
Awake! thou that sleepest, arise from the dead! The Lord still lives today. His power has never abated. His Word has never… — Aimee Semple McPherson Copy Share Image
Basically, to sum up: We're a generation of anarchists, and we just haven't gotten our hands on the means of production yet… — Mark Pesce Copy Share Image
No one has ever explained why it is that parents and guardians consider dull people such safe matrimonial investments for their young… — Alice Duer Miller Copy Share Image
I also have in mind that seemingly wealthy, but most terribly impoverished class of all, who have accumulated dross, but know not… — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
But there is no such man; for, brother, men Can counsel and speak comfort to that grief Which they themselves not feel;… — William Shakespeare Copy Share Image
When a man is stimulated by his own thoughts, full of desire and dwelling on what is attractive, his craving increases even… — Gautama Buddha Copy Share Image
... there are no chains so galling as the chains of ignorance--no fetters so binding as those that bind the soul, and… — Maria W. Stewart Copy Share Image
It is well to fetter the wings of our fancy and restrain its flights. It is quite possible we may have formed… — Edward E. Barnard Copy Share Image
We have prayed, we have coaxed, we have begged, for the vote, with the hope that men, out of chivalry, would bestow… — Helen Keller Copy Share Image
“Life is a useless passion, an exciting journey of a mammal in survival mode. Each day is a miracle, a blessing unexplored… — Mohadesa Najumi Copy Share Image
Anecdote: A house that is rooted to one spot but can travel as quickly as you change your mind and is complete… — Virginia Woolf Copy Share Image
Oh the Broom, the yellow Broom, The ancient poet sung it, And dear it is on summer days To lie at rest… — Mary Howitt Copy Share Image
. . . for until that God who rules all the region of the sky . . . has freed you from… — Marcus Tullius Cicero Copy Share Image
Fondnesse it were for any being free, To covet fetters, though they golden bee. — Edmund Spenser Copy Share Image
Unless the gods deceive my mind , That man is forging fetters for himself. — Theognis of Megara Copy Share Image
To drag a man in fetters into the grand illuminated temple of liberty, and call upon him to join you in joyous… — Frederick Douglass Copy Share Image
Neither the chains of dictatorship nor the fetters of oppression can keep down the forces of freedom for long. — Angela Merkel Copy Share Image
But he who is hated by the people, as the wolf by the dogs - is the free spirit, the enemy of… — Friedrich Nietzsche Copy Share Image
“Any so-called fetters do not bind youngsters because they have the power and the tactics to break them in their own adroit… — Balroop Singh Copy Share Image
True, the movement for woman's rights has broken many old fetters, but it has also forged new ones. — Emma Goldman Copy Share Image
