Bondage Quotes - Page 11

• Though the white man is a kind of Satan, and though the black man is Satan for selling his own children into bondage and assassinating the image of his own mother, because he himself wants to be white'I can assure you that Africa has known no greater Satan than the twins, Arab and Islam.

  Kola Boof

  Mother, Children, Men

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• When the mind no longer sees itself as a body, forever in bondage to the body, the mind can be free and at peace even when we are physically sick.

  Lee L Jampolsky

  Sick, Forever, Mind

  Source: www.psychologytoday.com

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• When things are at their worst, I find something always happens.

  W. Somerset Maugham

  Entrepreneur, Negativity, Human Bondage

  W. Somerset Maugham (2016). “Of Human Bondage (Diversion Classics)”, p.439, Diversion Books

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• Like the Birth Of Venus, the song [Yello "oh, Yeah"] denotes the birth of the bro. The song just reminds me of bros looking out over lowered Ray-Bans. It birthed a negative sexual revolution. I was going to a lot of bondage clubs at the time and they did play this song. The song I associate more is that horrible Enigma song with the Gregorian chant. There's something good buried in that song and I might not hate it as much if I hadn't been a sex worker.

  Margaret Cho

  Song, Sex, Hate

  "Margaret Cho on why Yello's "Oh Yeah" reminds her of sex clubs and John Hughes". Interview with Drew Fortune, www.avclub.com. March 2, 2016.

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• Follow your inclinations with due regard to the policeman round the corner.

  W. Somerset Maugham

  Dignity, Human Bondage, Policemen

  W. Somerset Maugham (2016). “Of Human Bondage (Diversion Classics)”, p.356, Diversion Books

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• Life is called Samsara - it is the result of the conflicting forces acting upon us. Materialism says, "The voice of freedom is a delusion." Idealism says, "The voice that tells of bondage is but a dream." Vedanta says, "We are free and not free at the same time." That means that we are never free on the earthly plane, but ever free on the spiritual side. The Self is beyond both freedom and bondage. We are Brahman, we are immortal knowledge beyond the senses, we are Bliss Absolute.

  Swami Vivekananda

  Dream, Spiritual, Mean

  Swami Vivekananda (1955). “Complete Works”

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• We have counted the cost of this contest, and find nothing so dreadful as voluntary slavery.-Honor, justice, and humanity, forbid us tamely to surrender that freedom which we received from our gallant ancestors, and which our innocent posterity have a right to receive from us. We cannot endure the infamy and guilt of resigning succeeding generations to that wretchedness which inevitably awaits them, if we basely entail hereditary bondage upon them.

  Thomas Jefferson

  Justice, Humanity, Honor

  Bernard Mayo, Thomas Jefferson (1988). “Jefferson Himself: The Personal Narrative of a Many-Sided American”, p.55, University of Virginia Press

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• The more power there is, the more bondage, the more fear.

  Swami Vivekananda

  Power

  Swami Vivekananda (1953). “Complete Works”

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• The effect of Welfarism on freedom will be felt later on - after its beneficiaries have become its victims, after dependence on government has turned into bondage and it is too late to unlock the jail.

  Barry Goldwater

  Government, Jail, Too Late

  Barry Goldwater (1960). “The Conscience of a Conservative”

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• To injure another creates bondage and hides the truth. Negative virtues are not enough; we have to conquer Maya, and then she will follow us. We only deserve things when they cease to bind us. When the bondage ceases, really and truly, all things come to us. Only those who want nothing are masters of nature.

  Swami Vivekananda

  Negative, Want, Conquer

  Swami Vivekananda (2015). “The Complete Works of Swami Vivekananda”, p.3176, Manonmani Publishers

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• Familiarize yourself with the chains of bondage and you prepare your own limbs to wear them.

  Abraham Lincoln

  Captivity, Limbs, Chains

  Abraham Lincoln (2012). “The Complete Papers And Writings Of Abraham Lincoln (Biographically Annotated Edition)”, p.679, Jazzybee Verlag

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• I sometimes think there is a dimension beyond the four of experience and Einstein: insight, that fifth dimension which promises to liberate us from bondage to the long, imperfect past

  Leo Rosten

  Past, Thinking, Long

  Leo Rosten (1978). “Passions & Prejudices: Or, Some of My Best Friends are People”

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• Women are in bondage; their clothes are a great hindrance to their engaging in any business which will make them pecuniarily independent, and since the soul of womanhood never can be queenly and noble so long as it must beg bread for its body, is it not better, even at the expense of a vast deal of annoyance, that they whose lives deserve respect and are greater than their garments should give an example by which woman may more easily work out her own emancipation?

  Lucy Stone

  Women, Independent, Clothes

  "The Life and Work of Susan B. Anthony". Book by Ida Husted Harper, 1898.

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• There is no such thing as freedom on earth," he said. "Only different kinds of bondages. And comparative bondages. YOU think you are free now because you've escaped from a peculiarly unbreakable kind of bondage. But are you? You love me - THAT'S a bondage.

  Lucy Maud Montgomery

  Thinking, Different, Earth

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• Did you dream of me?" he asked. "Yes," she admitted grudgingly. She had. She'd dreamed of his hands caressing her, of his mouth devouring her. His lush lips inched into a surprised but pleased smile. "You were naked," she told him. His grin spread; his eyes gleamed with satisfaction. "And tied up..." He arched his eye brows in smug expectation. "I did not know the idea of bondage would please you." "Oh, I love the idea of typing you up." She paused dramatically. "Just like in my dream, you'll be secured to an ant-hill and the little things will eat you alive.

  Gena Showalter

  Dream, Eye, Hands

  Gena Showalter (2012). “The Nymph King”, p.133, Harlequin

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• The place looks like where David Lynch would meet Beaver Cleaver's mom for secret afternoons of bondage and milkshakes.

  Richard Kadrey

  Mom, Secret, Looks

  Richard Kadrey (2012). “Aloha from Hell (Sandman Slim, Book 3)”, p.22, HarperCollins UK

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• Just remember, forgiveness is a way of setting yourself free of the bondage put on you by others. There is liberty to he had in it.

  Tracie Peterson

  Liberty, Way, Remember

  Tracie Peterson (2009). “Dawn's Prelude (Song of Alaska Book #1)”, p.183, Bethany House

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• Just as Socrates felt that it was necessary to create a tension in the mind so that individuals could rise from the bondage of myths and half-truths to the unfettered realm of creative analysis and objective appraisal, so must we see the need for nonviolent gadflies to create the kind of tension in society that will help men rise from the dark depths of prejudice and racism to majestic heights of understanding and brotherhood.

  Martin Luther King, Jr.

  Dark, Men, Racism

  "Letter from a Birmingham Jail". www.africa.upenn.edu. April 16, 1963.

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• America is the moral force that defeated communism and all those who would put the human soul itself into bondage.

  Ronald Reagan

  America, Soul, Moral

  Ronald Reagan, Michael Reagan (2016). “The Last Best Hope: The Greatest Speeches of Ronald Reagan”, p.244, Humanix Books

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• I wish most anxiously to see my much loved America - it is the Country from whence all reformations must originally spring - I despair of seeing an Abolition of the infernal trafic in Negroes - we must push that matter further on your side the water - I wish that a few well instructed Negroes could be sent among their Brethren in Bondage, for until they are enabled to take their own part nothing will be done.

  Thomas Paine

  Country, Spring, Your Side

  Thomas Paine (1995). “Thomas Paine: Collected Writings: Common Sense / The American Crisis / Rights of: (Library of America #76)”, p.372, Library of America

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• Freedom from spiritual conflicts and bondage is not a power encounter; it's a truth encounter.

  Neil T Anderson

  Spiritual, Encounters, Conflict

  Neil T. Anderson, Joanne Anderson (2000). “Daily in Christ”, Harvest House Publishers

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• When mind controls man, it’s ... Bhoga (bondage). But when man controls mind, it’s...Yoga

  Sri Sri Ravi Shankar

  Yoga, Men, Mind

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• Where love is the compelling power, there is no sense of strain or conflict or bondage in doing what is right: the man or woman who is compelled by Jesus’ love and empowered by His Spirit does the will of God from the heart.

  F. F. Bruce

  Jesus, Heart, Love Is

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• Each one of us reaps what we ourselves have sown. These miseries under which we suffer, these bondages under which we struggle, have been caused by ourselves, and none else in the universe is to blame. God is the least to blame for it.

  Swami Vivekananda

  Struggle, Suffering, Misery

  Swami Vivekananda (1995). “Prabuddha Bharata: Or Awakened India”

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• Immature people falling in love destroy each other's freedom, create a bondage, make a prison. Mature persons in love help each other to be free; they help each other to destroy all sorts of bondages. And when love flows with freedom there is beauty. When love flows with dependence there is ugliness.

  Rajneesh

  Falling In Love, Freedom, Mature Person

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