Shackles Quotes

111 Shackles quotes by 96 unique authors

History has different yardsticks for the cruelty of the Northerners and the cruelty of the Southerners in the Civil War. A slave-owner who through cunning… — Leon Trotsky
Black Consciousness is an attitude of the mind and a way of life, the most positive call to emanate from the black world for a… — Steven Biko
It took me years, but letting go of religion has been the most profound wake up of my life. I feel I now look at… — Julia Sweeney
It’s time to write dangerous music. It’s time to take risks. It’s time to wear your heart on your sleeve, and sing about the things… — John Mark McMillan
There is little hope for us until we become tough-minded enough to break loose from the shackles of prejudice, half-truths, and downright ignorance. The shape… — Martin Luther King, Jr.
Jesus' miracles provide us with a sample of the meaning of redemption: a freeing of creation from the shackles of sin and evil and a… — Randy Alcorn
The Noble Eight-Fold Path is the path of living in awareness. Mindfulness is the foundation. By practicing mindfulness, you can develop concentration, which enables you… — Nhat Hanh
How much pleasure they lose (and even the pleasures of heroic poesy are not unprofitable) who take away the liberty of a poet, and fetter… — William Davenant
DAILY TRAINING in the Art of Peace allows your inner divinity to shine brighter and brighter. Do not concern yourself with the right and wrong… — Morihei Ueshiba
Everything, husband, wife, or even the body, is only illusory. These are all shackles of illusion. Unless you can free yourself from these bondages, you… — Sarada Devi
Habit: A shackle for the free. — Ambrose Bierce
What an astonishing thing a book is. It’s a flat object made from a tree with flexible parts on which are imprinted lots of funny… — Carl Sagan
Oh you Muslims! You have slept for a long time, long enough for the tyrants to take control over you. You accepted to live as… — Sheikh Abdullah
Your company should act as a springboard for ambitious employees, not a set of shackles. — Richard Branson
My freedom will be so much the greater and more meaningful the more narrowly I limit my field of action and the more I surround… — Igor Stravinsky
In a 91-part series of sob stories from the laid off and the disgruntled, The NY Times is in the midst of bemoaning 'the downsizing… — Rush Limbaugh
Do not let yourself be contaminated by others' ideas of what is best for you. Cast aside the shackles of destructive thinking. — Kai Greene
Our starting-point must be the fact that God cannot be named... no mind has yet contained or language embraced God's substance in its fullness. No,… — Gregory of Nazianzus
I refuse to accept that the shackles of slavery can ever be stronger than the quest for freedom. — Kailash Satyarthi
An economy cannot long remain prosperous by government's taxing and spending more, now absorbing national output at a rate equal to the entire income of… — John Hospers
Marriage to Fernando offered shelter and security, but the shackle was the price I'd pay. — Esther Williams
Make men large and strong and tyranny will bankrupt itself in making shackles for them. — Henry Ward Beecher
To be truly free, it takes more determination, courage, introspection, and restraint than to be in shackles. — Pietro Belluschi
It is great To do that thing that ends all other deeds, Which shackles accidents and bolts up change. — William Shakespeare
This nation's impulse is toward the future, and tradition seems more of a shackle to it than an inspiration. — Allan Bloom

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