To tame the proud, the fetter'd slave to free, These are imperial arts. — John Dryden Copy Share Image
Many a one cannot loosen his own fetters, but is nevertheless his friend's emancipator. — Friedrich Nietzsche Copy Share Image
Your freedom when it loses its fetters becomes itself the fetter of a greater freedom. — Khalil Gibran Copy Share Image
However weighed down and entangled in earthly fetters you may be, it can never be too late. — Tito Colliander 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
To succeed in chaining the multitude, you must seem to wear the same fetters. — Voltaire 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
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
Men may make laws to hinder and fetter the ballot, but men cannot make laws that will bind or retard the growth… — Booker T. Washington 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
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
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
Fear sometimes adds wings to the heels, and sometimes nails them to the ground, and fetters them from moving. — Michel de Montaigne 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
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
Fortunately we have learnt to combine these ideas, not in the mutual toleration of sub-contraries, but in the affirmation of contraries, that… — Aleister Crowley Copy Share Image
So Columbus said, somebody show me the sunset and somebody did and he set sail for it, And he discovered America and… — Ogden Nash Copy Share Image
I love thee so, that, maugre all thy pride, Nor wit nor reason can my passion hide. Do not extort thy reasons… — William Shakespeare 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
The monopoly of capital becomes a fetter upon the mode of production, which has sprung up and flourished along with, and under… — Karl Marx 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
I like to foster an atmosphere on set of collaboration and openness and risk taking. The beauty is when you have such… — Dan Mazer 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
The philosophy of Atheism has its root in the earth, in this life; its aim is the emancipation of the human race… — Emma Goldman Copy Share Image
There is a Restlessness springing from the consciousness of power not fully utilized, which must be present wherever there is unused power… — Anna Brackett Copy Share Image
Men are qualified for civil liberty in exact proportion to their disposition to put moral chains upon their own appetites…in proportion as… — Edmund Burke Copy Share Image
The fetters of tyranny were not stricken from America for the sake of Americans alone. — Orson F. Whitney Copy Share Image