Bondage Quotes - Page 13

• Every one is struggling for freedom-from the atom to the star. The ignorant man is satisfied if he can get freedom within a certain limit-if he can get rid of the bondage of hunger or of being thirsty. But that sage feels that there is a stronger bondage which has to be thrown off. He would not consider the freedom of the Red Indian as freedom at all.

  Swami Vivekananda

  Stars, Struggle, Men

  Swami Vivekananda (2015). “The Complete Works of Swami Vivekananda”, p.2252, Manonmani Publishers

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• One has neither independence nor freedom from bondage when he is obligated to others

  Gordon B. Hinckley

  Independence

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• There is a totalitarian regime inside every one of us. We are ruled by a ruthless politburo which sets our norms and drives us from one five-year plan to another. The autonomous individual who has to justify his existence by his own efforts is in eternal bondage to himself.

  Eric Hoffer

  Years, Effort, Individuality

  Eric Hoffer (1996). “The Passionate State of Mind”

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• I am always sorry for the Puritan, for he guided his life against desire and against nature. He found what he thought was comfort, for he believed the spirit's safety was in negation, but he has never given the world one minute's joy or produced one symbol of the beautiful order of nature. He sought peace in bondage and his spirit became a prisoner.

  Robert Henri

  Beautiful, Sorry, Order

  Robert Henri (1960). “The art spirit”, Lippincott Williams & Wilkins

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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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• Man is the only slave. And he is the only animal who enslaves. He has always been a slave in one form or another, and has always held other slaves in bondage under him in one way or another. In our day, he is always some man's slave for wages, and does that man's work; and this slave has other slaves under him for minor wages, and they do his work. The higher animals are the only ones who exclusively do their own work and provide their own living.

  Mark Twain

  Animal, Men, Doe

  Mark Twain (1973). “What Is Man? and Other Philosophical Writings”, p.84, Univ of California Press

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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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• The most assiduous task of parenting is to divine the difference between boundaries and bondage.

  Barbara Kingsolver

  Father, Differences, Tasks

  Barbara Kingsolver (2011). “High Tide in Tucson”, p.70, Faber & Faber

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• By means of hearing one understands dharma, malignity vanishes, knowledge is acquired, and liberation from material bondage is gained.

  Chanakya

  Wisdom, Mean, Hearing

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• ... the histories of Blacks and Jews in bondage and out of bondage, have been blood histories pursued through our kindred searchings for self-determination. Let this blood be a stain of honor that we share. Let us not now become enemies to ourselves and to each other.

  June Jordan

  Determination, Blood, Self

  June Jordan (1985). “On call: political essays”, South End Pr

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• Old-fashioned determinism was what we may call hard determinism. It did not shrink from such words as fatality, bondage of the will, necessitation, and the like. Nowadays, we have a soft determinism which abhors harsh words, and, repudiating fatality, necessity, and even predetermination, says that its real name is freedom; for freedom is only necessity understood, and bondage to the highest is identical with true freedom.

  William James

  Freedom, Real, Names

  William James, Robert D Richardson (2010). “The Heart of William James”, p.23, Harvard University Press

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• God would come down and lead us out of bondage. And God led us out of bondage.

  Desmond Tutu

  Down And

  Source: values.mountmadonnaschool.org

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• let geese
  Gabble and hiss, but heroes seek release
  From dusty bondage into luminous air.

  Edna St. Vincent Millay

  Freedom, Hero, Air

  Edna St. Vincent Millay (2003). “Edna St. Vincent Millay: Selected Poems”, p.81, Library of America

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• To abolish a status, which in all ages God has sanctioned, and man has continued, would not only be robbery to an innumerable class of our fellow-subjects; but it would be extreme cruelty to the African Savages, a portion of whom it saves from massacre, or intolerable bondage in their own country, and introduces into a much happier state of life; especially now when their passage to the West-Indies and their treatment there is humanely regulated.

  James Boswell

  Country, Men, West Indies

  James Boswell (1874). “The Life of Samuel Johnson, LL.D.: Together with A Journal of a Tour to the Hebrides”, p.239

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• In her present ignorance, woman's religion, instead of making her noble and free, by the wrong application of great principles ofright and justice, has made her bondage but more certain and lasting, her degradation more hopeless and complete.

  Elizabeth Cady Stanton

  Ignorance, Justice, Religion

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• ... if you're poor and ignorant, with a child, you're a slave. Meaning that you're never going to get out of it. These women are in bondage to a kind of slavery that the 13th Amendment just didn't deal with. The old master provided food, clothing and health care to the slaves because he wanted them to get up and go to work in the morning. And so on welfare: you get food, clothing and shelter--you get survival, but you can't really do anything else. You can't control your life.

  Joycelyn Elders

  Morning, Children, Ignorant

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• It is an illusion that youth is happy, an illusion of those who have lost it.

  W. Somerset Maugham

  Time, Lost Youth, Age

  W. Somerset Maugham (2016). “Of Human Bondage (Diversion Classics)”, p.164, Diversion Books

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• It is cruel to discover one's mediocrity only when it is too late. It does not improve the temper.

  W. Somerset Maugham

  Too Late, Mediocrity, Doe

  W. Somerset Maugham (2016). “Of Human Bondage (Diversion Classics)”, p.343, Diversion Books

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• When we surrender every area of our lives- including our finances-to God, then we are free to trust Him to meet our needs. But if we would rather hold tightly to those things that we possess, then we find ourselves in bondage to those very things.

  Larry Burkett

  Needs, Finance, Surrender

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• Feel nothing, know nothing, do nothing, have nothing, give up all to God, and say utterly, 'Thy will be done.' We only dream this bondage. Wake up and let it go.

  Swami Vivekananda

  Dream, Giving Up, Let It Go

  Swami Vivekananda (2015). “The Complete Works of Swami Vivekananda”, p.3177, Manonmani Publishers

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• I knew absolutely nothing about bondage. I'd always presumed it was just an inventive way of keeping your partner from going home.

  Kathy Lette

  Home, Way, Partners

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• I had to learn that there is more to the human being than material comfort, more than success, more even than national spirit or patriotism. That in any being worthy of being human there is also a demand for justice, for liberty, and that justice needs the evidence of all our lives, liberty is one and indivisible and collective, and no one can talk of justice solely for expediency's sake, nor of liberty while human beings, anywhere else on earth, are still in bondage.

  Han Suyin

  Freedom, Justice, Liberty

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• As a Muslim woman, I’ve been liberated from a silent kind of bondage. I don’t answer to the slaves of God on earth. I answer to their King.

  Yasmin Mogahed

  Kings, Answers, Earth

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• Don't rely on your mind for liberation. It is the mind that brought you into bondage. Go beyond it altogether.

  Sri Nisargadatta Maharaj

  Inspiration, Mind, Liberation

  "I am That". Book by Nisargadatta Maharaj, p. 206, 1973.

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