Fetters Quotes

57 quotes by 45 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
It is ordained in the eternal constitution of things, that men of intemperate minds cannot be free. Their passions forge their fetters. — Edmund Burke
I do not share the crusading spirit of the professional atheist whose fervor is mostly due to a painful act of liberation from the fetters… — Albert Einstein
True meditation gives us, as it were, wings for flight to a higher realm and thus detaches us from terrestrial fetters. — Swami Paramananda
Fetters of gold are still fetters, and the softest lining can never make them so easy as liberty. — Mary Astell
The moment the slave resolves that he will no longer be a slave, his fetters fall. Freedom and slavery are mental states. — Mahatma Gandhi
Your freedom when it loses its fetters becomes itself the fetter of a greater freedom. — Khalil Gibran
Through it [Science] we believe that man will be saved from misery and degradation, not merely acquiring new material powers, but learning to use and… — Ray Lankester
Golden fetters are no less galling to a self-respecting man that iron ones; the sting lies in the fetters, not in the metal. — Mahatma Gandhi
The fetters imposed on liberty at home have ever been forged out of the weapons provided for defense against real, pretended, or imaginary dangers from… — James Madison
When the labourer co-operates systematically with others, he strips off the fetters of his individuality, and develops the capabilities of his species. — Karl Marx
Whoever makes love grow boundless, and sets his mind for seeing the end of birth, his fetters are worn thin. If he loves even a… — Gautama Buddha
What fetters the mind and benumbs the spirit is ever the dogged acceptance of absolutes. — Edward Sapir
I also have in mind that seemingly wealthy, but most terribly impoverished class of all, who have accumulated dross, but know not how to use… — Henry David Thoreau
As long as mankind shall continue to bestow more liberal applause on their destroyers than on their benefactors, the thirst of military glory will ever… — Edward Gibbon
A warlike nation like the Germans, without either cities, letters, arts, or money, found some compensation for this savage state in the enjoyment of liberty.… — Edward Gibbon
What does Christianity mean today? National Socialism is a religion. All we lack is a religious genius capable of uprooting outmoded religious practices and putting… — Joseph Goebbels
The only chains God wants us to wear are the chains of righteousness--not the chains of hopeless subjectivism, not the shackles of risk-free living, not… — Kevin DeYoung
What use would wings be to a man bound in iron fetters? They would only drive him to even greater despair. — Adelbert von Chamisso
Neither the chains of dictatorship nor the fetters of oppression can keep down the forces of freedom for long. — Angela Merkel

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