Shackles Quotes · Page 2

A book is proof that humans are capable of working magic.

— Carl Sagan

Marriage to Fernando offered shelter and security, but the shackle was the price I'd pay.

— Esther Williams

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

— William Shakespeare

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

— Henry Ward Beecher

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

— Martha Beck

I am not free while any woman is unfree, even when her shackles are very different from my own.

— Audre Lorde

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

— Daisaku Ikeda

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

— Salvador Dali

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

— Allan Bloom

How much pleasure they lose (and even the pleasures of heroic poesy are not unprofitable) who take away the liberty of a…

— William Davenant

We have broken the shackles of conservative socialism. The growing middle classes want the kind of standard of living you enjoy in…

— Vijay Mallya

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

— Anais Nin

Everything, husband, wife, or even the body, is only illusory. These are all shackles of illusion. Unless you can free yourself from…

— Sarada Devi

“Thankfulness is far more than the key that tenderly and rather gracefully unshackles me from all that binds me. Rather, it is…

— Craig D. Lounsbrough

You may chain my hands, you may shackle my feet; you may even throw me into a dark prison; but you shall…

— Anonymous

I spent centuries I your arms. This time our joining will be controlled by me, and you will revel in the pleasure…

— Anonymous

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

— Desmond Tutu

Liberty is the first condition of growth. Your ancestors gave every liberty to the soul, and religion grew. They put the body…

— Swami Vivekananda

History has different yardsticks for the cruelty of the Northerners and the cruelty of the Southerners in the Civil War. A slave-owner…

— Leon Trotsky

Now they stumbled in the shackles of humanity, lived in a fear that never died, fretted by a law they could not…

— H. G. Wells

The genius of Christian spirituality is to integrate [the] spirit of possession with the spirit of dispossession. The spirit of dispossession implies…

— John Powell

My freedom will be so much the greater and more meaningful the more narrowly I limit my field of action and the…

— Igor Stravinsky

The Indian Bureau system is wrong. The only way to adjust wrong is to abolish it, and the only reform is to…

— Carlos Montezuma

They realize that in thirty-four months we have built up new instruments of public power. In the hands of a peoples Government…

— Franklin D. Roosevelt

the scientist's religious feeling takes the form of a rapturous amazement at the harmony of natural law, which reveals an intelligence of…

— Albert Einstein

It is more difficult by far to be independent of our own inner shackles than it is of the shackles that others…

— Anonymous

If you play without the shackles and burdens, then you play like you did when you were a kid.

— Robert Green

No prison can hold me; no hand or leg irons or steel locks can shackle me. No ropes or chains can keep…

— Harry Houdini

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

— Kailash Satyarthi

I am an excitable person who only understands life lyrically, musically, in whom feelings are much stronger as reason.

— Anais Nin

How close we can approach the land of happiness with the heavy shackles on our feet of injustice permeated deeply into every…

— Mehmet Murat Ildan

Fear is what shackles and binds us; it puts weights on our feet and closes our minds to the endless possibilities.

— Anonymous

“the chains that bound me for my entire life would effectively be removed. My shackles set aside, I would be free.”

— Scott Hildreth

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

— Lani Tupu

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

— Ice Cube

The Poor Peasants' Committees are necessary to fight the kulaks, the rich, the exploiters, who shackle the working peasants.

— Vladimir Lenin

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

— Rick Perry

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

— Richard Branson

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

— Mahatma Gandhi

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

— Thomas Jefferson