Top 125 Shackles Quotes & Sayings

Fantasy enabled me to break the shackles and create a whole new level of 'the world is in danger' stakes.

The shackles of belief, when reinforced by fear, are difficult to break free from and rarely done.

My parents had broken through the shackles of dogma

Without devotion, action and knowledge are cold and dry and many even become shackles.

I refuse to accept that the shackles of slavery can ever be stronger than the quest for freedom.

I live in a country where we put children in shackles and in concrete cells. Working together, with righteousness and hope, we can create a country that is about reverence and reconciliation, not a world of shackles and concrete cells.

Do not let yourself be contaminated by others' ideas of what is best for you. Cast aside the shackles of destructive thinking.

Commercial shackles are generally unjust, oppressive, and impolitic.

I own myself the friend to a very free system of commerce, and hold it as a truth, that commercial shackles are generally unjust, oppressive and impolitic.

We have broken the shackles of conservative socialism. The growing middle classes want the kind of standard of living you enjoy in the West. So what I'm selling is a lifestyle.

I am not free while any woman is unfree, even when her shackles are very different from my own.

My parents had broken through the shackles of dogma.

Forgiveness is the key that unlocks the door of resentment and the handcuffs of hatred. It is a power that breaks the chains of bitterness and the shackles of selfishness.

Serving others breaks you free from the shackles of self and self-absorption that choke out the joy of living.

But it required a disastrous, internecine war to bring this question of human freedom to a crisis, and the process of striking the shackles from the slave was accomplished in a single hour.

The power of art can break the shackles that bind and divide human beings.

It's time to believe again in the potential of private enterprise set free from the shackles of over-bearing federal government.

When one is deprived of ones liberty, one is right in blaming not so much the man who puts the shackles on as the one who had the power to prevent him, but did not use it.

Slaves cannot breathe in England; if their lungs Receive our air, that moment they are free; They touch our country, and their shackles fall.

I'm in a very comfortable place, and some of that comes from the shackles of not having to be what people want you to be.

Make men large and strong and tyranny will bankrupt itself in making shackles for them.

I'm trying to escape the shackles of a pen and a pad. I've sat in sessions with Jay-Z where he doesn't write anything down. He'll come up with the most incredible triple entendre, all in his head - it's amazing.

The cold grasp of corruption shackles the District of Columbia.

Memories are not shackles, Franklin, they are garlands.

Forgiveness is the key to the heart's shackles.

It is more difficult by far to be independent of our own inner shackles than it is of the shackles that others might place upon us.

It is great To do that thing that ends all other deeds, Which shackles accidents and bolts up change.

Books break the shackles of time, proof that humans can work magic.

There is nothing evil save that which perverts the mind and shackles the conscience.

Getting lost was not a matter of geography so much as identity, a passionate desire, even an urgent need, to become no one and anyone, to shake off the shackles that remind you who you are, who others think you are.

Your company should act as a springboard for ambitious employees, not a set of shackles.

The greatest shackles we bear in thislife are those forged by our own fears

How close we can approach the land of happiness with the heavy shackles on our feet of injustice permeated deeply into every corner?

Stereotyping of any race or culture is narrow-minded, and I can't wait to help break the shackles.

I was raised Catholic, so guilt shackles you from acting like a complete fool all the time.

As long as the shackles of wealth and property bind us, we will remain accursed forever and never attain the altar of humanity, which is life's ultimate goal.

When you sing that this country was founded on freedom, don't forget the duet of shackles dragging against the ground my entire life.

Never did a prisoner, released from his chains, feel such relief as I shall on shaking off the shackles of power.

Well married a person has wings, poorly married shackles.

I have to tell you I love living in a world without clocks. The shackles are gone. I’m a puppy unleashed in a meadow of time. -- Stargirl

Religious bondage shackles and debilitates the mind and unfits it for every noble enterprise, every expanded prospect.

Reality doesn’t impress me. I only believe in intoxication, in ecstasy, and when ordinary life shackles me. I escape, one way or another. No more walls.

How much pleasure they lose (and even the pleasures of heroic poesy are not unprofitable) who take away the liberty of a poet, and fetter his feet in the shackles of a historian.

But in our time women are no longer subject to the will of men. Quite the contrary. They have been given every opportunity to win their independence and if, after all this time, they still have not liberated themselves and thrown off their shackles, we can only arrive at one conclusion: there are no shackles to throw off.

In a 91-part series of sob stories from the laid off and the disgruntled, The NY Times is in the midst of bemoaning 'the downsizing of America' - better known as 'the whining of America.' The cause of all the heartache, in the esteemed newspaper of record's view, appears to be heartless corporate chieftains - as well as capitalism itself. Americans are moving forward, despite shackles. The shackles I am referring to are not NAFTA, not corporations. They are, instead, the barriers imposed by our own government.

Bring on the shackles - I'm your prisoner

The shackles and the chains, the violence and aggression, the pettiness and scorn, the jealousy and hatred, the tempest and discord.

The circumstances that endanger the safety of nations are infinite, and for this reason no constitutional shackles can wisely be imposed on the power to which the care of it is committed.

There is little hope for us until we become tough-minded enough to break loose from the shackles of prejudice, half-truths, and down-right ignorance.

The imagination is unleashed by constraints. You break out of the box by stepping into shackles.

The sea is emotion incarnate. It loves, hates, and weeps. It defies all attempts to capture it with words and rejects all shackles. No matter what you say about it, there is always that which you can't.

The marriage of computing and connectivity without the shackles of being tethered to a location is one of the biggest disruptive forces of modern times.

To be truly free, it takes more determination, courage, introspection, and restraint than to be in shackles.

If you take the shackles off your imagination, you can go anywhere with science fiction.

Jesus' miracles provide us with a sample of the meaning of redemption: a freeing of creation from the shackles of sin and evil and a reinstatement of creaturely living as intended by God.

When making a decision, focus on what feels "shackles off" versus "shackles on".

Faced with the pain of freedom, man begs for his shackles.

I get freedom out of hip-hop. I get to be a true artist without any shackles or harnesses.

Surrealism is destructive, but it destroys only what it considers to be shackles limiting our vision.

If you play without the shackles and burdens, then you play like you did when you were a kid.