Yoke Quotes

116 quotes by 95 authors

A husband who submits to his wife's yoke is justly held an object of ridicule. A woman's influence ought to be entirely concealed. — Honore de Balzac
The doubts of an honest man contain more moral truth than the profession of faith of people under a worldly yoke. — Ximenes Doudan
Man's characteristic privilege is that the bond he accepts is not physical but moral; that is, social. He is governed not by a material environment… — Emile Durkheim
If I had my life to live over I would die fighting rather than be a slave again. I want no man's yoke on my… — Robert Falls
The Cadiz tribe, not used to bearing our yoke. — Horace
Spiritual Love is born of sorrow. . . . For men love one another with spiritual love only when they have suffered the same sorrow… — Miguel de Unamuno
Be sincere and true to your word, serious and careful in your actions; and you will get along even among barbarians, But if you are… — Confucius
Indeed, we need not look back half a century to times which many now living remember well, and see the wonderful advances in the sciences… — Thomas Jefferson
The governments of Europe are afraid to trust the people with arms. If they did, the people would certainly shake off the yoke of tyranny,… — James Madison
The yoke a man creates for himself by wrong-doing will breed hate in the kindliest nature. — George Eliot
...the transition from capitalism to Socialism and the liberation of the working class from the yoke of capitalism cannot be effected by slow changes, by… — J. Stalin
Be faithful and true of word; let thy walk be plain and lowly: thou wilt get on, though in savage land. If thy words be… — Confucius
Where it is in his own interest, every organism may reasonably be expected to aid his fellows. Where he has no alternative, he submits to… — Michael Ghiselin
The more horses you yoke the quicker everything will go - not the rending of the block from its foundation, which is impossible, but the… — Franz Kafka
And the angel said unto me: Behold the formation of a church which is most abominable above all other churches, which slayeth the saints of… — Joseph Smith, Jr.
While love takes on itself impossible tasks, yet it finds that love lightens all loads. It is the same burden that wings are to a… — E. Stanley Jones
The reason for the slow progress of the world seems to lie in a single fact. Every man is born under the yoke, and grows… — John Jay Chapman
It is not certain that with this aid alone [possession of arms], they would not be able to shake off their yokes. But were the… — James Madison
Acting on our own, by ourselves, we cannot establish justice throughout the world, but joined with other free nations, we can ... assist the developing… — John F. Kennedy
The present age handed over the workers, each alone and defenseless, to the unbridled greed of competitors... so that a very few and exceedingly rich… — Pope Leo XIII

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