Fetters Quote by Voltaire Download Open image “To succeed in chaining the multitude, you must seem to wear the same fetters.” — Voltaire ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 2.9 out of 5 (8 ratings) Copy quoteShare Fetters Multitudes Seems Succeed
Familiarize yourselves with the chains of bondage and you prepare your own limbs to wear them. Accustomed to trample on the rights of others,… — Abraham Lincoln Copy Share Image
If you put a chain around the neck of a slave, the other end fastens itself around your own. — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
You will not break loose until you realize that you yourself forge the chains that bind you. — Anonymous Copy Share Image
“There's lots of kinds of chains...You can't see most of them, the ones that bind folks together. But people build them, link by link.… — Bruce Coville Copy Share Image
It is weariness to keep toiling at the same things so that one becomes ruled by them. — Heraclitus Copy Share Image
Verily, I do not want to be like the ropemakers: They drag out their threads and always walk backwards. — Friedrich Nietzsche Copy Share Image
There's lots of kinds of chains. You can't see most of them, the one's that bind folks together. But people build them, link by… — Bruce Coville Copy Share Image
Since a woman must wear chains, I would have the pleasure of hearing 'em rattle a little. — George Farquhar Copy Share Image
In every province, the chief occupations, in order of importance, are lovemaking, malicious gossip, and talking nonsense. — Voltaire Copy Share Image
Fanaticism, to which men are so much inclined, has always served not only to render them more brutalized but more wicked. — Voltaire Copy Share Image
It is with books as with men: a very small number play a great part, the rest are lost in the multitude. — Voltaire Copy Share Image
Meslier was the most singular phenomenon ever seen among all the meteors fatal to the Christian religion. — Voltaire Copy Share Image
Every sensible man, every honorable man, must hold the Christian sect in horror." "Christianity is the most ridiculous, the most absurd and bloody religion… — Voltaire Copy Share Image
Being unable to make people more reasonable, I preferred to be happy away from them — Voltaire Copy Share Image
When his highness sends a ship to Egypt, does he trouble his head whether the mice on board are at their ease or not? — Voltaire Copy Share Image
Madness is to think of too many things in succession too fast, or of one thing too exclusively. — Voltaire Copy Share Image
God gave us the gift of life; it is up to us to give ourselves the gift of living well. — Voltaire Copy Share Image
Ye youths and virgins, when your generous blood Has drunk the warmth of fifteen summers, now The loves invite; now to new rapture wakes… — John Armstrong Copy Share Image
I like to foster an atmosphere on set of collaboration and openness and risk taking. The beauty is when you have such brilliantly talented… — Dan Mazer Copy Share Image
The wise say that it is not an iron, wooden or fiber fetter which is a strong one, but the besotted hankering after trinkets,… — Gautama Buddha Copy Share Image
... a person who is religiously enlightened appears to me to be one who has, to the best of his ability, liberated himself from… — Albert Einstein Copy Share Image
We fear not God because of any compulsion; our faith is no fetter, our profession is no bondage, we are not dragged to holiness,… — Charles Spurgeon Copy Share Image
I also have in mind that seemingly wealthy, but most terribly impoverished class of all, who have accumulated dross, but know not how to… — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
True, the movement for woman's rights has broken many old fetters, but it has also forged new ones. — Emma Goldman Copy Share Image
Your freedom when it loses its fetters becomes itself the fetter of a greater freedom. — Khalil Gibran Copy Share Image
There is a Restlessness springing from the consciousness of power not fully utilized, which must be present wherever there is unused power of whatever… — Anna Brackett Copy Share Image
Whoever makes love grow boundless, and sets his mind for seeing the end of birth, his fetters are worn thin. If he loves even… — Gautama Buddha Copy Share Image
A warlike nation like the Germans, without either cities, letters, arts, or money, found some compensation for this savage state in the enjoyment of… — Edward Gibbon Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share Image
