They say that even a hateful connection is still binding.

In this choice of inheritance we have given to our frame of polity the image of a relation in blood; binding up the constitution…

— Edmund Burke

“My heart almost vaulted out of my chest. I was snuggled against Ryan’s shoulder. We were burrowed under the cloak and sleeping bag, and…

— Sam Dogra

One thing that Chairman Mao did was to end the appalling foot binding of women. That alone justifies the Mao Tse-tung era.

— Ken Livingstone

The ultimate binding element in the medieval order was subordination to the divine will and its earthly representatives, notably the pope.

— Irving Babbitt

Love is the binding force on every level of existence.

— Peter Kreeft

When I stand in a library where is all the recorded wit of the world, but none of the recording, a mere accumulated, and…

— Henry David Thoreau

There is one single thread binding my way together...the way of the Master consists in doing one's best...that is all.

— Confucius

The future belongs to social media. It is egalitarian and inclusive. Social media is not about any country, any language, any colour, any community…

— Narendra Modi

To regard human beings as tools - as instruments - for the use of other human beings is not only unscientific but it is…

— Alfred Korzybski

To a man who is uncorrupt and properly constituted, woman always remains something of a mystery and a romance. He never interprets her quite…

— James Parton

And priests in black gowns were walking their rounds and binding with briars my joys and desires. (from 'The Garden of Love')

— William Blake

There comes not seldom a crisis in the life of men, of nations, and of worlds, when the old forms seem ready to decay,…

— Benjamin N. Cardozo

Christ's commandment to hear the Church . . . is binding on all men, in every period, and every country.

— Pope Pius XI

Pure love is the best medicine for the modern world. This is what is lacking in all societies. The root cause of all problems,…

— Mata Amritanandamayi

Commitment . . . is a binding, but happy, response to duty. It is at once peaceful yet compelling, for it obligates one to…

— James M. Paramore