Top 98 Fetters Quotes & Sayings

Profuseness is a cruel and crafty demon, that gradually involves her followers in dependence and debt; that is, fetters them with irons that enter into their souls.

The dream is the liberation of the spirit from the pressure of external nature, a detachment of the soul from the fetters of matter.

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

As for politics, I’m an anarchist. I hate governments and rules and fetters. Can’t stand caged animals. People must be free.

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

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

In Genoa, the word, libertas can be read on the front of prisons and on the fetters of galley-slaves. The application of this motto is fine and just.

Count art by gold, and it fetters the feet it once winged.

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

The moment the slave resolves that he will no longer be a slave, his fetters fall. Freedom and slavery are mental states.

Evil is retributive: every trespass slips fetters on the will, holds the soul in durance till contrition and repentance restore it to liberty.

Tis Love alone can make our Fetters please.

I don't have opinions. Only if it is necessary for a particular action, I make a judgment. Opinions are fetters for your intelligence.

India's blood and India's gold was sought and unfortunately given - given to break Turkey and buy the fetters of the Rowlatt legislation.

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

The fetters of tyranny were not stricken from America for the sake of Americans alone.

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

When the labourer co-operates systematically with others, he strips off the fetters of his individuality, and develops the capabilities of his species.

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.

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

Wealth: A cunning device of Fate whereby men are made captive, and burdened with responsibilites from which only Death can file their fetters.

Fortunately we have learnt to combine these ideas, not in the mutual toleration of sub-contraries, but in the affirmation of contraries, that transcending of the laws of intellect which is madness in the ordinary man, genius in the Overman who hath arrived to strike off more fetters from our understanding.

Who is't that to woman's beauty would submit, And yet refuse the fetters of their wit?

Poetry fettered fetters the human race.

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

Golden fetters are no less galling to a self-respecting man that iron ones; the sting lies in the fetters, not in the metal.

When you return, the youngest of the seers, Released from fetters of ancestral pose, There will be beauty waiting down the years Revisions of the ruby and the rose.

The repetition of a catchword can hold analysis in fetters for fifty years or more.

To succeed in chaining the multitude, you must seem to wear the same fetters.

Because capitalist society has expanded the productive forces so enormously, the social conditions under which it arose lag behind and become fetters holding back the further growth of productive forces.

Haste trips up its own heels, fetters and stops itself.

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

The fetters imposed on liberty at home have ever been forged out of the weapons provided for defense against real, pretended, or imaginary dangers from abroad.

Neither the chains of dictatorship nor the fetters of oppression can keep down the forces of freedom for long.

But he who is hated by the people, as the wolf by the dogs - is the free spirit, the enemy of fetters, the non-adorer, the dweller in the woods.

... a person who is religiously enlightened appears to me to be one who has, to the best of his ability, liberated himself from the fetters of his selfish desires and is preoccupied with thoughts, feelings, and aspirations to which he clings because of their superpersonal value.

Inevitably we look upon society, so kind to you, so harsh to us, as an ill-fitting form that distorts the truth; deforms the mind; fetters the will.

All human suffering springs from unbridled desire. Unless one extricates oneself from the clutch of greed, one will not free himself from the fetters of sorrow.

When a slave begins to take pride in his fetters and hugs them like precious ornaments, the triumph of the slave-owner is complete.

Your freedom when it loses its fetters becomes itself the fetter of a greater freedom.

Fear sometimes adds wings to the heels, and sometimes nails them to the ground, and fetters them from moving.

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.

Illustrious confessors of Jesus Christ, a Christian finds in prison the same joys as the prophets tasted in the desert. Call it not a dungeon, but a solitude. When the soul is in heaven, the body feels not the weight of fetters; it carries the whole man along with it.

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.

Genius ... is necessarily intolerant of fetters.

Our deeds are fetters that we forge ourselves.

True, the movement for woman's rights has broken many old fetters, but it has also forged new ones.

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.

Here the free spirit of mankind, at length, Throws its last fetters off; and who shall place A limit to the giant's unchained strength, Or curb his swiftness in the forward race?

What fetters the mind and benumbs the spirit is ever the dogged acceptance of absolutes.

The reason Milton wrote in fetters when he wrote of Angels and God, and at liberty when of Devils and Hell, is because he was a true poet and of the Devil's party without knowing it.

Many a one cannot loosen his own fetters, but is nevertheless his friend's emancipator.

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

Things good in themselves ... perfectly valid in the integrity of their origins, become fetters if they cannot alter.

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.

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

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

Peace, for us, is an asset and in our interest. It is an absolute human asset that allows an individual to freely develop his individuality unbound by any regional, religious, or ethnic fetters.

However weighed down and entangled in earthly fetters you may be, it can never be too late.

True meditation gives us, as it were, wings for flight to a higher realm and thus detaches us from terrestrial fetters.