Yes, marriage is hateful, detestable. A kind of ineffable, sickening disgust seizes my mind when I think of this most despotic, most… — Percy Bysshe Shelley Copy Share Image
Greatness, thou gaudy torment of out souls, The wise man's fetter, and the rage of fools. — Thomas Otway Copy Share Image
When you return, the youngest of the seers, Released from fetters of ancestral pose, There will be beauty waiting down the years… — Nathalia Crane 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
Through it [Science] we believe that man will be saved from misery and degradation, not merely acquiring new material powers, but learning… — Ray Lankester Copy Share Image
Eternal Spirit of the chainless Mind! Brightest in dungeons, Liberty! thou art, For there thy habitation is the heart-- The heart which… — Lord Byron 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
“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
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
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
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
England may as well dam up the waters of the Nile with bulrushes as to fetter the step of Freedom, more proud… — Lydia M. Child 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
All human suffering springs from unbridled desire. Unless one extricates oneself from the clutch of greed, one will not free himself from… — Velupillai Prabhakaran Copy Share Image
Precedents are treated by powerful minds as fetters with which to bind down the weak, as reasons with which to mistify the… — Charles Babbage 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
By a declaration of rights, I mean one which shall stipulate freedom of religion, freedom of the press, freedom of commerce against… — Thomas Jefferson Copy Share Image
Never give up! it is wiser and betterAlways to hope, than once to despair.Fling off the load of Doubt's cankering fetter,And break… — Martin Farquhar Tupper Copy Share Image
The fetters imposed on liberty at home have ever been forged out of the weapons provided for defense against real, pretended, or… — James Madison Copy Share Image
Let it stand, therefore, as an indubitable truth, which no engines can shake, that the mind of man is so entirely alienated… — John Calvin 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