Shackles Quotes · Page 2

My parents had broken through the shackles of dogma

— Franz Boas

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

— Daisaku Ikeda

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

— Martha Beck

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

— Salvador Dali

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

The shackles and the chains, the violence and aggression, the pettiness and scorn, the jealousy and hatred, the tempest and discord.

— Joe Walsh

Serving others breaks you free from the shackles of self and self-absorption that choke out the joy of living.

— James Hunter

There is nothing evil save that which perverts the mind and shackles the conscience.

— Anonymous

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

Habits begin as offhanded remarks, ideas and images. And then, layer upon layer, through practice, they grow from cobwebs into cables that…

— Denis Waitley

I've read stories of slave owners who were very generous. They didn't keep them in shackles, they didn't whip the slaves, they…

— Michael Moore

But it required a disastrous, internecine war to bring this question of human freedom to a crisis, and the process of striking…

— Wendell Willkie

When one is deprived of ones liberty, one is right in blaming not so much the man who puts the shackles on…

— Thucydides

“I could hear the chaotic laughter trailing behind me. It turned the ageless trees into a menace. They loomed around me, while…

— J.D. Stroube

What an astonishing thing a book is. It’s a flat object made from a tree with flexible parts on which are imprinted…

— Carl Sagan

“The aftermath of bearing shackles is an exquisite devastation, fraught with the ravages of survival. Even though one is no longer held…

— Laura Kreitzer

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

— Anais Nin

An organizer working in and for an open society is in an ideological dilemma to begin with, he does not have a…

— Saul Alinsky

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

— Swami Vivekananda

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

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

Elvis is the king of rock and roll, who made white kids shake their shackle.

— Gene Simmons

To be truly free, it takes more determination, courage, introspection, and restraint than to be in shackles.

— Pietro Belluschi

The greatest shackles we bear in thislife are those forged by our own fears

— Richard Paul Evans

Commercial shackles are generally unjust, oppressive, and impolitic.

— James Madison

Die to self. Live for Christ. And then do what you want, and go where you want, for God's glory.

— Kevin DeYoung

Do not let yourself be contaminated by others' ideas of what is best for you. Cast aside the shackles of destructive thinking.

— Kai Greene

The shackles of belief, when reinforced by fear, are difficult to break free from and rarely done.

— Richard Paul Evans

“Expectations are the shackles that will not permit something to be what it actually is.”

— Craig D. Lounsbrough

The imagination is unleashed by constraints. You break out of the box by stepping into shackles.

— Jonah Lehrer

Religious bondage shackles and debilitates the mind and unfits it for every noble enterprise, every expanded prospect.

— James Madison

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

Anarchism, then, really stands for the liberation of the human mind from the dominion of religion.

— Emma Goldman

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