Quotes of: Fetters Keyword

Poetry fettered, fetters the human race. Nations are destroyed or flourish in proportion as their poetry, painting, and music are destroyed or flourish.

William Blake

Verily all things move within your being in constant half embrace, the desired and the dreaded, the repugnant and the cherished, the pursued and that which you would escape. These things move within you as lights and shadows in pairs that cling. And ...

The Prophet

There's no reason for your imagination to be fettered by money.

Kevin McCloud

Milk which is just about to turn is akin to that moment spent on the cusp of failure in a dulled and fettered relationship.

Matt Roper

It is well to fetter the wings of our fancy and restrain its flights.

Edward E. Barnard

My soul, if thou wouldst be enlarged into human sympathy, thou must be narrowed into limits of human suffering. Joseph's dungeon is the road to Joseph's throne. Thou canst not lift the iron load of thy brother if the iron hath not entered into thee. ...

George Matheson

Tyrants have not yet discovered any chains that can fetter the mind.

Charles Caleb Colton

An oppressed people are authorized whenever they can to rise and break their fetters.

Henry Clay

Can you not see that women could do and would do a hundred times more for the slave, if she were not fettered?

Angelina Grimke

Their poverty secured their freedom, since our desires and our possessions are the strongest fetters of despotism.

Edward Gibbon

I am forever fettered to myself [...] and that's what I must try to live with.

Franz Kafka

Stone walls confine a tinker; cold iron binds a witch; but a musician's music can never be fettered, for it lives first in her heart and mind.

Charles de Lint

There is but one chain holding us in fetters, and that is our love of life.

Letters from a Stoic

As an artist, her imagination isn't fettered by the constraints of reality.

Shadowhunters and Downworlders: A Mortal Instruments Reader

You may fetter my leg, but Zeus himself cannot get the better of my free will.

Epictetus

It is ordained in the eternal constitution of things, that men of intemperate minds cannot be free. Their passions forge their fetters.

Reflections on the Revolution in France

There is a fascination here that holds rich and poor, strong and weak captive,not with chains and fetters but by an almost touchable solace...

Life

Any so-called fetters do not bind youngsters because they have the power and the tactics to break them in their own adroit ways!

Balroop Singh

Grief brought to numbers cannot be so fierce, For, he tames it, that fetters it in verse.

Alchimie der Liebe. Gedichte, zweisprachig

If we could only snap the fetters of the body that bind the feet of the soul, we shall experience a great joy. Then we shall not be miserable because of the body's sufferings. We shall become free.

Vinoba Bhave

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 brothers a sharpened sword forged from the links of his fetters.

Giuseppe Garibaldi