A Quote by Mahatma Gandhi

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

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Fetters Golden Iron Less Lies Man Metal Respecting Self Self-Respect Sting

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Mahatma Gandhi
Indian - Leader
October 2, 1869 - January 30, 1948

Fetters of gold are still fetters, and the softest lining can never make them so easy as liberty.

Mary Astell

True artistic renewal does not mean being stripped of fetters. It means moving into new fetters.

Tawfiq al-Hakim

Hate is of all things the mightiest divider, nay, is division itself. To couple hatred, therefore, though wedlock try all her golden links, and borrow to tier aid all the iron manacles and fetters of law, it does but seek to twist a rope of sand.

John Milton

What use would wings be to a man bound in iron fetters? They would only drive him to even greater despair.

Adelbert von Chamisso

Fondnesse it were for any being free, To covet fetters, though they golden bee.

Edmund Spenser

Eternal Spirit of the chainless Mind! Brightest in dungeons, Liberty! thou art, For there thy habitation is the heart-- The heart which love of thee alone can bind; And when thy sons to fetters are consign'd-- To fetters and damp vault's dayless gloom, Their country conquers with their martyrdom.

Lord Byron

No man loveth his fetters, be they made of gold.

John Heywood

I also have in mind that seemingly wealthy, but most terribly impoverished class of all, who have accumulated dross, but know not how to use it, or get rid of it, and thus have forged their own golden or silver fetters.

Henry David Thoreau

... there are no chains so galling as the chains of ignorance--no fetters so binding as those that bind the soul, and exclude it from the vast field of useful and scientific knowledge. O, had I received the advantages of early education, my ideas would, ere now, have expanded far and wide; but, alas! I possess nothing but moral capability--no teachings but the teachings of the Holy Spirit.

Maria W. Stewart

Unless the gods deceive my mind , That man is forging fetters for himself.

Theognis of Megara

Why should a man be in love with his fetters, though of gold?

Francis Bacon

You have fettered yourself of your own free will, man - break the fetters!

Halldor Laxness

Blessed be all metrical rules that forbid automatic responses, force us to have second thoughts, free us from the fetters of Self.

W. H. Auden

To drag a man in fetters into the grand illuminated temple of liberty, and call upon him to join you in joyous anthems, were inhuman mockery and sacrilegious irony.