Chains Quotes

Physical nature lies at our feet shackled with a hundred chains. What of the control of human nature? Do not point to the triumphs of psychiatry, social services or the war against crime. Domination of human nature can only mean the domination of every man by himself.

Man was born free, and he is everywhere in chains.

Women are not so well united as to form an Insurrection. They are for the most part wise enough to love their Chains, and to discern how becomingly they fit.

It will free man from the remaining chains, the chains of gravity which still tie him to this planet.

I have asked the village blacksmith to forge golden chains to tie our ankles together. I have gathered all the gay ribbons in the world to wind around and around and around and around and around and around again around our two waists.

In the final choice a soldier's pack is not so heavy as a prisoner's chains.

They put chains on me; they chained my waist, my legs. Put me in the back of a squad car, and I literally blacked out. I didn't even - there's whole pieces missing.

Chains of habit are too light to be felt until they are too heavy to be broken.

Tens of thousands of brave Americans died to break the chains of British tyranny so that the principles of our Declaration of Independence could take fold and flourish in the birth of a new nation.

We ourselves can die with comfort and even with joy if we know that death is but a passport to blessedness, that this intellect, freed from all material chains, shall rise and shine.

The chains which cramp us most are those which weigh on us least.

The worker of the world has nothing to lose, but their chains, workers of the world unite.

For reforms ameliorate the situation of the working class, they lighten the weight of the chains labour is burdened with by capitalism, but they are not sufficient to crush capitalism and to emancipate the workers from their tyranny.

Workers of the world unite; you have nothing to lose but your chains.

Science will liberate us from the chains of big cities and lead us back to nature.

We're not like Alice In Chains where somebody dies and the band breaks up.

Any act often repeated soon forms a habit; and habit allowed, steady gains in strength, At first it may be but as a spider's web, easily broken through, but if not resisted it soon binds us with chains of steel.

I try to do the right thing with money. Save a dollar here and there, clip some coupons. Buy ten gold chains instead of 20. Four summer homes instead of eight.

Luxury! more perilous to youth than storms or quicksand, poverty or chains.

The chains that bind us the most closely are the ones we have broken.

Man is born free and everywhere he is in chains.

Prejudices are the chains forged by ignorance to keep men apart.

We imagine that we want to escape our selfish and commonplace existence, but we cling desperately to our chains.

It took me a long, long time to break the chains that's inside me.

The chains of habit are too weak to be felt until they are too strong to be broken.

Chains do not hold a marriage together. It is threads, hundreds of tiny threads, which sew people together through the years.

For to be free is not merely to cast off one's chains, but to live in a way that respects and enhances the freedom of others.

Nor was it only from the millions of slaves that chains had been removed; the whole nation had been in bondage; free speech had been suppressed.

His very chains helped to deceive him about the harshness of his service.

I kind of worry about that a little bit - we lost our film culture for 30 years because the Americans came in and bought up all the cinema chains and wouldn't show any Australian films.