Chains Quotes - Page 2

• Moderation is the silken string running through the pearl chain of all virtues.

  Joseph Hall

  Life, Running, Ties

  "The Holy State and the Profane State". Book by Thomas Fuller, Book III, 1642.

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• Man is born free and everywhere he is in chains.

  Jean-Jacques Rousseau

  Inspirational, Motivational, Freedom

  Du Contrat Social bk. 1, ch. 1 (1762)

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• Freedom is living without chains.

  Indra Devi

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• No man can put a chain about the ankle of his fellow man without at last finding the other end fastened about his own neck.

  Frederick Douglass

  Freedom, 4th Of July, Patriotic

  Speech at Civil Rights Mass Meeting,Washington, D.C., 22 Oct. 1883

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• The chains that bind us the most closely are the ones we have broken.

  Antonio Porchia

  Broken Heart, Chains That Bind, Broken

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• Chains of habit are too light to be felt until they are too heavy to be broken.

  Warren Buffett

  Inspirational, Broken Heart, Faith

  Richard J. Connors, Warren Buffett (2010). “Warren Buffett on Business: Principles from the Sage of Omaha”, p.172, John Wiley & Sons

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• No iron chain, or outward force of any kind, can ever compel the soul of a person to believe or to disbelieve.

  Thomas Carlyle

  Inspirational, Believe, Iron

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• The public is a ferocious beast; one must either chain it or flee from it.

  Voltaire

  Political, Politics, Beast

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• Eggheads, unite! You have nothing to lose but your yolks.

  Adlai Stevenson I

  Carpe Diem, Uniting, Communist Manifesto

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• Is life so dear or peace so sweet as to be purchased at the price of chains and slavery? Forbid it, Almighty God! I know not what course others may take, but as for me, give me liberty, or give me death!

  Patrick Henry

  Death, Sweet, Freedom

  Speech in Virginia Convention, Richmond, Va., 23 Mar. 1775.

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• Luxury! more perilous to youth than storms or quicksand, poverty or chains.

  Hannah More

  Luxury, Storm, Poverty

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• His very chains helped to deceive him about the harshness of his service.

  Bruno Bauer

  Hype, Deceiving, Harshness

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• I once hit Quentin on the head with my ball and chain.

  Chiaki Kuriyama

  Ties, Balls, Quentin

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• If I haven't made myself clear, this worrisome chain of events describes the game of the nineteenth century.

  John Thorn

  Games, Ties, Events

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• It is easy to ignore responsibility when one is only an intermediate link in a chain of action.

  Stanley Milgram

  Responsibility, Ties, Links

  Stanley Milgram (2017). “Obedience to Authority”, p.11, HarperCollins

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• Of what use were wings to a man fast bound in chains of iron?

  Adelbert von Chamisso

  Men, Wings, Iron

  Theodor Storm, Adelbert von Chamisso, Adalbert Stifter (2005). “Famous German Novellas of the 19th Century”, p.47, Mondial

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• Logistics is the ball and chain of armored warfare.

  Heinz Guderian

  Ties, Warfare, Balls

  "Sword Point". Book by Harold Coyle, p. 141, 1988.

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• Man is everywhere still in chains.

  Herbert Read

  Men, Stills

  Herbert Read (1963). “Selected Writings: Poetry and Criticism”

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• The fundamental sense of freedom is freedom from chains, from imprisonment, from enslavement by others. The rest is extension of this sense, or else metaphor.

  Isaiah Berlin

  Fundamentals, Metaphor, Extensions

  "Liberty" by Isaiah Berlin, edited by Henry Hardy, (Introduction), 2002.

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• When I recall today my early youth, I should take the boy that I then was, with the exception of a few individual features, for a different person, were it not for the existence of the chain of memories.

  Ernst Mach

  Memories, Boys, Ties

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• The basic structure of proteins is quite simple: they are formed by hooking together in a chain discrete subunits called amino acids.

  Michael Behe

  Simple, Ties, Together

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• Why something in the public interest such as television news can be fought over, like a chain of hamburger stands, eludes me.

  Jimmy Breslin

  Ties, News, Television

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• Freedom is the dream you dream While putting thought in chains again --

  Giacomo Leopardi

  Dream

  Giacomo Leopardi (2016). “Leopardi: Selected Poems”, p.77, Princeton University Press

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• I'm just another link in the chain.

  Jeff Gordon

  Links

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• Prejudices are the chains forged by ignorance to keep men apart.

  Marguerite Gardiner, Countess of Blessington

  Ignorance, Men, Racism

  Marguerite Countess of Blessington, Marguerite GARDINER (Countess of Blessington.) (1839). “Desultory Thoughts and Reflections”, p.52

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