Fetters Quotes

57 Fetters quotes by 45 unique authors

Fortunately we have learnt to combine these ideas, not in the mutual toleration of sub-contraries, but in the affirmation of contraries, that transcending of the… — Aleister Crowley
But he who is hated by the people, as the wolf by the dogs - is the free spirit, the enemy of fetters, the non-adorer,… — Friedrich Nietzsche
... the people who, in spite of the bonds of sin which fetter them and hinder them (by constraint and by inciting them to new… — Seraphim of Sarov
The fetters of tyranny were not stricken from America for the sake of Americans alone. — Orson F. Whitney
I don't have opinions. Only if it is necessary for a particular action, I make a judgment. Opinions are fetters for your intelligence. — Jaggi Vasudev
Inevitably we look upon society, so kind to you, so harsh to us, as an ill-fitting form that distorts the truth; deforms the mind; fetters… — Virginia Woolf
Many a one cannot loosen his own fetters, but is nevertheless his friend's emancipator. — Friedrich Nietzsche
... a person who is religiously enlightened appears to me to be one who has, to the best of his ability, liberated himself from the… — Albert Einstein
True, the movement for women's rights has broken many old fetters, but it has also forged new ones. — Emma Goldman
No man loveth his fetters, be they made of gold. — John Heywood
True artistic renewal does not mean being stripped of fetters. It means moving into new fetters. — Tawfiq al-Hakim
Tis Love alone can make our fetters please. — Aphra Behn
Precedents are treated by powerful minds as fetters with which to bind down the weak, as reasons with which to mistify the moderately informed, and… — Charles Babbage
So Columbus said, somebody show me the sunset and somebody did and he set sail for it, And he discovered America and they put him… — Ogden Nash
The reason Milton wrote in fetters when he wrote of Angels and God, and at liberty when of Devils and Hell, is because he was… — William Blake
Socialism is nothing more nor less than the social, political and ideological system which breaks the fetters upon economic growth created under capitalism and opens… — Earl Browder
An oppressed people are authorized whenever they can to rise and break their fetters. — Henry Clay
Evil is retributive: every trespass slips fetters on the will, holds the soul in durance till contrition and repentance restore it to liberty. — Amos Bronson Alcott
To this wonderful page in our country's history another more glorious still will be added, and the slave shall show at last to his free… — Giuseppe Garibaldi
Their poverty secured their freedom, since our desires and our possessions are the strongest fetters of despotism. — Edward Gibbon
Let only that little be left of me whereby I may name thee my all. Let only that little be left of my will whereby… — Rabindranath Tagore
One of the strongest motives that lead men to art and science is escape from everyday life with its painful crudity and hopeless dreariness, from… — Albert Einstein
We make no apology then for raising our voices loud to a world that is ripening in sin the lord has said,” Say nothing but… — Spencer W. Kimball
Men are qualified for civil liberty in exact proportion to their disposition to put moral chains upon their own appetites…in proportion as they are more… — Edmund Burke
Repose, leisure, peace, belong among the elements of happiness. If we have not escaped from harried rush, from mad pursuit, from unrest, from the necessity… — Josef Pieper

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