Chained Quotes

116 quotes by 104 authors

We are chained hand and foot by protocol, enslaved to a static, empty world where men and women canâ€™t read, where the scientific advances of… — Catherine Fisher
I can laugh at peasants and townies chained all their lives to a tiny corner of the earth while I roam its face and see… — Glen Cook
Most people are chained to their own fear and stupidity and havenâ€™t the sense to level a cold eye at just what is wrong with… — Patrick deWitt
To business."Tux Dude extended his hand. "I am Prometheus." I was too surprised to shake."The fire-stealer guy?The chained-to-the-rock-with-the-vultures guy?" Prometheus winced. He touched the scratches… — Rick Riordan
You are brave, kicking a chained prisoner. They must sing heroic ballads about you on winter nights!" (Alanna) — Tamora Pierce
Light cannot be chained. — Brent Weeks
Placing the burden on the individual to break down doors in finding better education for a child is attractive to conservatives because it reaffirms their… — Jonathan Kozol
When the time comes, let loose a tiger and a devil; but wait for the time with the tiger and the devil chained -not shown-… — Charles Dickens
The paradox of vengefulness is that it makes men dependent upon those who have harmed them, believing that their release from pain will come only… — Laura Hillenbrand
Chained inside the carriage is a sinful woman. When we set the carriage afire, her flesh will be roasted, her bones will be charred: she… — RyÅ«nosuke Akutagawa
My gaze flew to him once more,noting the cigarette he set down even as he exhaled a long plume of white."Why are you lying there… — Jeaniene Frost
Listen, are we helpless? Are we doomed to do it again and again and again? Have we no choice but to play the Phoenix in… — Walter M. Miller, Jr.
Work and acquire, and thou hast chained the wheel of chance. — Ralph Waldo Emerson
If you don't accept responsibility for your own actions then you are forever chained to a position of defense. — Holly Lisle
The most miserable prison in the world is the prison we make for ourselves when we refuse to show mercy. Our thoughts become shackled, our… — Warren W. Wiersbe
There is in this world no such force as the force of a person determined to rise. The human soul cannot be permanently chained. — W. E. B. Du Bois
The philosophy of Atheism has its root in the earth, in this life; its aim is the emancipation of the human race from all God-heads,… — Emma Goldman
These four, however, seek the freedom of their will at the very point where they are most securely chained. It is as if the silkworm… — Friedrich Nietzsche
Though are hands are chained like they are, they haven't taken music from us yet. So that's how I'll fight. People tell me don't quit… — Tupac Shakur
How could such an absurd and unfair society that torments with self alienation the human being, already completely alienated be still saved? How could a… — Sorin Cerin

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