Many a one cannot loosen his own fetters, but is nevertheless his friend's emancipator. — Friedrich Nietzsche Copy Share Image
The repetition of a catchword can hold analysis in fetters for fifty years or more. — Benjamin Cardozo Copy Share Image
You have fettered yourself of your own free will, man - break the fetters! — Halldór Laxness Copy Share Image
The fetters of tyranny were not stricken from America for the sake of Americans alone. — Orson F. Whitney Copy Share Image
To succeed in chaining the multitude, you must seem to wear the same fetters. — Voltaire 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
Things good in themselves ... perfectly valid in the integrity of their origins, become fetters if they cannot alter. — Freya Stark 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
“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
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
Neither the chains of dictatorship nor the fetters of oppression can keep down the forces of freedom for long. — Angela Merkel 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
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
Illustrious confessors of Jesus Christ, a Christian finds in prison the same joys as the prophets tasted in the desert. Call it… — Tertullian Copy Share Image
Belief in karma ought to make the life pure, strong, serene, and glad. Only our own deeds can hinder us; only our… — Annie Besant Copy Share Image
But for the cravings of the belly not a bird would have fallen into the snare; nay, nay, the fowler would not… — Saadi 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
I was most confusedly in love. ... Even though I resolved not to think of him, his face would keep appearing between… — Nora Waln Copy Share Image
A warlike nation like the Germans, without either cities, letters, arts, or money, found some compensation for this savage state in the… — Edward Gibbon Copy Share Image
You cannot hammer a girl into anything. She grows as a flower does, she will wither without sun; she will decay in… — John Ruskin 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
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
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
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
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 people who, in spite of the bonds of sin which fetter them and hinder them (by constraint and by inciting… — Seraphim of Sarov 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
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
Your freedom when it loses its fetters becomes itself the fetter of a greater freedom. — Khalil Gibran 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
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
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
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
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