Chained Quotes

116 quotes by 104 authors

The important achievement of Apollo was demonstrating that humanity is not forever chained to this planet and our visions go rather further than that and… — Neil Armstrong
There is only one prospect worse than being chained to an intolerable existence: The nightmare of a botched attempt to end it. — Arthur Koestler
Weak mortals, chained to the earth, creatures of clay as frail as the foliage of the woods, you unfortunate race, whose life is but darkness,… — Aristophanes
I am really chained to my computer these days so I work in my bedroom, which is a room I have worked in for years… — Margaret Mahy
We are graced with a godlike ability to transcend time and space in our minds but are chained to death. — Russell Shorto
People, chained by monotony, afraid to think, clinging to certainties... they live like ants. — Bela Lugosi
Of all the featherless beasts, only man, chained by his self-imposed slavery to the clock, denies the elemental fire and proceeds as best he can… — Edward Abbey
It is not a charity but a right, not bounty but justice, that I am pleading for. The present state of civilization is as odious… — Thomas Paine
True freedom is always spiritual. It has something to do with your innermost being, which cannot be chained, handcuffed, or put into a jail. — Rajneesh
Democracy, in its best state, is but the politics of Bedlam; while kept chained, its thoughts are frantic, but when it breaks loose, it kills… — Fisher Ames
There must be more equality established in society, or morality will never gain ground, and this virtuous equakity will not rest firmly even when founded… — Mary Wollstonecraft
Writing is self-reinforcing. Don't make a fetish out of it, and don't surrender to the myth of the garret, or the myth of the chained… — Jay Lake
I proceed, gentlemen, to call your attention to the present state of insane persons confined within the commonwealth; in cages, closets, cellars, stalls, pens; chained,… — Dorothea Dix
Ask yourself why totalitarian dictatorships find it necessary to pour money and effort into propaganda for their own helpless, chained, gagged slaves, who have no… — Ayn Rand
It is hard to imagine a world without forgiveness. Without forgiveness life would be unbearable. Without forgiveness our lives are chained, forced to carry the… — Jack Kornfield
Everlastingly chained to a single little fragment of the Whole, man himself develops into nothing but a fragment; everlastingly in his ear the monotonous sound… — Friedrich Schiller
Jesus did not identify the person with his sin, but rather saw in this sin something alien, something that really did not belong to him,… — Helmut Thielicke
One of us is chained, none of us is free. — Solomon Burke
No longer enslaved or made dependent by force of law, the great majority are so by force of property; they are still chained to a… — John Stuart Mill
Enormous and solid but swaying, beaten by the wind but chained, murmur of a million leaves against my window. Riot of trees, surge of dark… — Octavio Paz

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