A Quote by John Ruskin

Wise laws and just restraints are to a noble nation not chains, but chains of mail, -- strength and defense, though something of an incumbrance.

John Ruskin

Quote Topics

Chains Defense Just Laws Mail Nation Noble Something Strength Though Wise

Quote Author

John Ruskin
English - Writer
February 8, 1819 - January 20, 1900

The only chains God wants us to wear are the chains of righteousness--not the chains of hopeless subjectivism, not the shackles of risk-free living, not the fetters of horoscope decision making--just the chains befitting a bond servant of Christ Jesus. Die to self. Live for Christ. And then do what you want, and go where you want, for God's glory.

Kevin DeYoung

Though chains be of gold, they are chains all the same.

Bruce Cockburn

Freedom is indivisible; the chains on any one of my people were the chains on all of them, the chains on all of my people were the chains on me.

Nelson Mandela

Karl Marx recognized that workers without a choice are workers in chains. But his idea of breaking chains was for us to depose the pharaohs and then build the pyramids for ourselves, as if building pyramids is something we just can't stop doing, we love it so much.

Daniel Quinn

Chains and stuff are nice, don't get me wrong I love them and I wear chains, but I can do without it.

Big Sean

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

Wernher von Braun

The first step in freeing men from external chains was to emancipate them from the internal chains of false beliefs and ideals.

John Dewey

If you don't judge my gold chains, I'll forget the iron chains.

LL Cool J

The chains of love are stronger than the chains of fear.

William Gurnall

Rank and riches are chains of gold, but still chains.

Giovanni Ruffini

I was in chains all the time, 24 hours a day, for three years. I tried to wear those chains with dignity, even if I felt that it was unbearable.

Ingrid Betancourt

Chains of iron or of silk-both are chains.

Friedrich Schiller

Franchises and chains have come to dominate small communities, but those same chains have eliminated a lot of the greasy spoons, places you didn't want to eat in the first place.

William Least Heat-Moon

There are internal chains and external chains. All the external chains in the world won't enslave you, if you are free inside. And all the external 'freedom' in the world won't liberate you, if you are chained inside. Let go. And you'll know Freedom.

Yasmin Mogahed

There is a darkness in you. In all of us, probably. Beasts we keep chained. Ordinary men have to keep the chains strong, for if we let the beast loose then society will turn upon us with fiery vengeance. Kings though...well, who is there to turn upon them? So the chains are made of straw. It is the curse of kings, Helikaon, that they can become monsters. And they invariably do.