Fettered Quotes

24 quotes by 21 authors

Poetry fettered, fetters the human race. Nations are destroyed or flourish in proportion as their poetry, painting, and music are destroyed or flourish. — William Blake
So free we seem, so fettered we are! — Robert Browning
The less men are fettered by tradition, the greater becomes the inward activity of their motives, and greater again in proportion to their outer restlessness. — Friedrich Nietzsche
Freedom of expression is the well-spring of our civilization... The history of civilization is in considerable measure the displacement of error which once held sway… — Felix Frankfurter
For if we are observed in all matters, we are constantly under threat of correction, judgment, criticism, even plagiarism of our own uniqueness. We become… — Bruce Schneier
These are my politics: to change what we can; to better what we can; but still to bear in mind that man is but a… — Robert Louis Stevenson
A free press stands as one of the great interpreters between the government and the people. To allow it to be fettered is to fetter… — George Sutherland
So far as a man may be proud of a religion rooted in humility, I am very proud of my religion; I am especially proud… — Gilbert K. Chesterton
There is no captive in a worse state than the one who is captivated by his worst enemy (Shaytan) and there is no prison which… — Ibn Qayyim Al-Jawziyya
It's a matter of seeing the original meaning of all things. The world is full of all kinds of meanings. But our minds are so… — Yi Mun-yol
The teacher, like the artist and the philosopher, can perform his work adequately only if he feels himself to be an individual directed by an… — Bertrand Russell
The greater the mental charlatan, the more definite his insistence on the wickedness and weaknesses of human nature. Yet how can anyone speak of it… — Emma Goldman
The life of an aviator seemed to me ideal. It involved skill. It brought adventure. It made use of the latest developments of science. Mechanical… — Charles Lindbergh
Despots play their part in the works of thinkers. Fettered words are terrible words. The writer doubles and trebles the power of his writing when… — Victor Hugo
Some have narrowed their minds, and so fettered them with the chains of antiquity that not only do they refuse to speak save as the… — Girolamo Savonarola
Man has bought brains, but all the millions in the world have failed to buy love. Man has subdued bodies, but all the power on… — Emma Goldman
We cannot by a little verbal sophistry confound the qualities of different minds, nor force opposite excellences into a union by all the intolerance in… — William Hazlitt
Stone walls confine a tinker; cold iron binds a witch; but a musician's music can never be fettered, for it lives first in her heart… — Charles de Lint
Black chaos comes, and the fettered gods of the earth say, Let there be light. — Thomas Hardy
Consider the cattle, grazing as they pass you by. They do not know what is meant by yesterday or today, they leap about, eat, rest,… — Friedrich Nietzsche

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