Bondage Quotes
305 quotes by 221 authors
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What a curious phenomenon it is that you can get men to die for the liberty of the world who will not make the little…
— Bruce Barton
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Fear of serious injury alone cannot justify oppression of free speech and assembly. Men feared witches and burnt women. It is the function of speech…
— Louis D. Brandeis
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We must stop using the Bible as though it were a potpourri of inerrant proof-texts by which we can bring people into bondage to our…
— Robert D. Brinsmead
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If we do not abide in prayer, we will abide in temptation. Let this be one aspect of our daily intercession: "God, preserve my soul,…
— John Owen
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You do not become a master musician by playing just as you please, by imagining that learning the scales is sheer legalism and bondage! No,…
— Sinclair B. Ferguson
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Give up bondage; become a son, be free, and then you can "see the Father", as did Jesus.
— Swami Vivekananda
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"Blessed are the pure in heart, for they shall see God." This sentence alone would save mankind if all books and prophets were lost. This…
— Swami Vivekananda
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They will endure. They are better than we are. Stronger than we are. Their vices are vices aped from white men or that white men…
— William Faulkner
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Familiarize yourselves with the chains of bondage and you prepare your own limbs to wear them. Accustomed to trample on the rights of others, you…
— Abraham Lincoln
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When I left the house of bondage I left everything behind. I wasn't going to keep nothing of Egypt on me, an' so I went…
— Sojourner Truth
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Youths of the Pellaians and of the Macedonians and of the Hellenic Amphictiony and of the Lakedaimonians and of the Corinthians... and of all the…
— Alexander the Great
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At this unprecedented juncture in our history I have a word for you. Do not be disheartened by our temporary defeat ; be cheerful and…
— Subhas Chandra Bose
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Only necessity understood, and bondage to the highest is identical with true freedom.
— William James
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Don't rely on your mind for liberation. It is the mind that brought you into bondage. Go beyond it altogether.
— Sri Nisargadatta Maharaj
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It is he who has broken the bond of marriage - not I. I only break its bondage.
— Oscar Wilde
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A day, an hour, of virtuous liberty Is worth a whole eternity in bondage.
— Joseph Addison
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Our repeated failure to fully act as we would wish must not discourage us. It is the sincere intention that is the essential thing, and…
— Thomas Troward
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The scheme, my dear Marqs. which you propose as a precedent, to encourage the emancipation of the black people of this Country from that state…
— George Washington
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In those days, our Declaration of Independence was held sacred by all, and thought to include all; but now, to aid in the making the…
— Abraham Lincoln
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Meditation means conscious self-expansion. Meditation means one's conscious awareness of the transcendental Reality. Meditation means the recognition or the discovery of one's own true self.…
— Sri Chinmoy
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