Bondage Quotes - Page 16

• Art is merely the refuge which the ingenious have invented, when they were supplied with food and women, to escape the tediousness of life.

  W. Somerset Maugham

  Art, Human Bondage, Refuge

  W. Somerset Maugham (2016). “Of Human Bondage (Diversion Classics)”, p.265, Diversion Books

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• This, however, is sure: nothing is really lost. Any influence for good, no matter how ephemeral, makes its mark: it helps to leaven the loaf of evil: it leaves a loophole, albeit a small one, for a future escape from bondage.

  Horace Annesley Vachell

  Evil, Ephemeral, Matter

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• We have abolished human bondage because it cursed those who imposed it. It is now our bounden duty to oppose cruelty to those creatures of our common Father which share with man the mystery of life.

  S. Parkes Cadman

  Father, Animal, Men

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• Music isn't seeking to comment on the experience or transmit some finding about it - it is only seeking to express it. The vicarious experience is much more accessible. We all recognize the sound of that howling, because we all have a similar howling inside of us, however we heed it or hold it or muzzle it or repress it or live in bondage to it.

  Melissa Febos

  Muzzle, Sound, Vicarious

  Source: therumpus.net

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• It is precisely those artists and writers who are most inclined to think of their art as the manifestation of their personality who are in fact the most in bondage to public taste.

  Simone Weil

  Art, Creativity, Thinking

  Simone Weil (2014). “Letter to a Priest”, p.65, Routledge

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• The cause of bandha and moksha (bondage and liberation) is our own minds. If we think we are bound, we are bound. If we think we are liberated, we are liberated. . . . It is only when we transcend the mind that we are free from all these troubles. (117)

  Swami Satchidananda

  Thinking, Mind, Moksha

  Sri Swami Satchidananda (1984). “Integral Yoga: The Yoga Sutras of Patanjali”, Integral Yoga Dist

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• Everything in creation has its appointed painter or poet and remains in bondage like the princess in the fairy tale 'til its appropriate liberator comes to set it free.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Art, Princess, Poetry

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• To weep is a sign of weakness, of bondage.

  Swami Vivekananda

  Weakness

  Swami Vivekananda (2015). “The Complete Works of Swami Vivekananda”, p.2236, Manonmani Publishers

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• We must become free. We are free; the work is to know it. We must give up all slavery, all bondage of whatever kind. We must not only give up our bondage to earth and everything and everybody on earth, but also to all ideas of heaven and happiness.

  Swami Vivekananda

  Giving Up, Ideas, Heaven

  Swami Vivekananda (2015). “The Complete Works of Swami Vivekananda”, p.2581, Manonmani Publishers

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• Women will not be free
  until we can speak our minds and our hearts
  without having to worry that men will crucify us,
  women will crucify us,
  the press will crucify us,
  or our children will be ashamed...
  Women are still in emotional bondage
  as long as we feel we have to make
  a choice between being heard
  and being loved.

  Marianne Williamson

  Children, Heart, Men

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• ONLY in the release of the seen do you lay hold on the unseen, My little one. Heaven waits for those who are no longer bound to earth. The degree to which bondages are exchanged for liberties while still in the flesh is in proportion to the extent to which eternal values are held in higher esteem that worldly success and possessions. If a man loves Me, he will hold his soul more precious than his body and will pursue holiness at the expense of wealth; for to follow after that which perishes is to forfeit the prize of the high calling in Christ.

  Frances J Roberts

  Men, Heaven, Waiting

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• Rhime being no necessary Adjunct or true Ornament of Poem or good Verse, in longer Works especially, but the Invention of a barbarous Age, to set off wretched matter and lame Meeter...the troublesom and modern bondage of Rimeing.

  John Milton

  Poetry, Age, Ornaments

  "Paradise Lost". The Verse, 1668.

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• The liberty to live for self alone becomes in time a weary bondage.

  Florence L. Barclay

  Self, Liberty, Weary

  Florence L. Barclay (2012). “The Rosary”, p.168, The Floating Press

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• Actions themselves form no bondage. Bondage is only the false belief,"I am the do-er."

  Ramana Maharshi

  Belief, Action, Form

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• Liberty is the first condition of growth. Your ancestors gave every liberty to the soul, and religion grew. They put the body under every bondage, and society did not grow. The opposite is the case in the West - every liberty to society, none to religion. Now are falling off the shackles from the feet of Eastern society as from those of Western religion.

  Swami Vivekananda

  Fall, Feet, Opposites

  Swami Vivekananda (2015). “The Complete Works of Swami Vivekananda”, p.1992, Manonmani Publishers

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• My objection to the church isn't that the preachers are cruel, hypocritical, actually wicked, though some of them are that, too - think of how many are arrested for selling fake stock, for seducing 14-year-old girls in orphanages under their care, for arson, for murder. An it isn't so much that the church is in bondage to Big Business and doctrines as laid down by millionaires - though a lot of churches are that, too. My chief objection is that 99% of sermons and Sunday School teachings are so agonizingly dull.

  Sinclair Lewis

  Girl, Teaching, School

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• The day dawns; the morning star is bright upon the horizon! The iron gate of our prison stands half open. One gallant rush from the North will fling it wide open, while four millions of our brothers and sisters shall march out into liberty. The chance is now given you to end in a day the bondage of centuries, and to rise in one bound from social degradation to the place of common equality with all other varieties of men.

  Frederick Douglass

  Brother, Morning, Stars

  Frederick Douglass (2017). “FREDERICK DOUGLASS, AN AMERICAN SLAVE – Astounding Life of One Incredible Man (3 Autobiographies in One Volume): The Most Important African American Leader of the 19th Century: The Escape from Slavery, Life as a World-Renowned Activist against Slavery and Racism & Political Career after the Civil War”, p.740, e-artnow

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• We are bound to earth by desire and also to God, heaven, and the angels. A slave is a slave whether to man, to God, or to angels.

  Swami Vivekananda

  Angel, Men, Heaven

  Swami Vivekananda (2015). “The Complete Works of Swami Vivekananda”, p.2581, Manonmani Publishers

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• Ah, Misha, he has a stormy spirit. His mind is in bondage. He is haunted by a great, unsolved doubt. He is one of those who don't want millions, but an answer to their questions.

  Fyodor Dostoevsky

  Doubt, Mind, Answers

  Fyodor Dostoevsky (2017). “The Brothers Karamazov (English Russian Edition illustrated): Братья Карамазовы (англо-русская редакция иллюстрированная)”, p.189, Clap Publishing, LLC.

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• There are only two things you can do when you're dressed like Barbie Does Bondage; you can be embarrassed or you can be aggressive. Guess what my choice was.

  Laurell K. Hamilton

  Two, Choices, Barbie

  Laurell K. Hamilton (2011). “Laurell K. Hamilton's Anita Blake, Vampire Hunter collection 6-10”, p.396, Penguin

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• Religious bondage shackles and debilitates the mind and unfits it for every noble enterprise.... During almost fifteen centuries has the legal establishment of Christianity been on trial. What have been its fruits? More or less, in all places, pride and indolence in the clergy; ignorance and servility in laity; in both, superstition, bigotry, and persecution.

  James Madison

  Religious, Atheist, Ignorance

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• If ever thou be'st bound in thy scarf and beaten, thou shalt find what it is to be proud of thy bondage.

  William Shakespeare

  Scarves, Kinky, Proud

  William Shakespeare, Joseph Dennie, Isaac Reed, Samuel Johnson, George Steevens (1806). “The Plays of William Shakespeare: With the Corrections and Illustrations of Various Commentators”, p.224

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• We followed the bondage Bobbsey Twins across the crowded dance floor. Those leather shorts were an adventure from behind, let me tell you. And the pictures of Elvis decorating the walls were an education, too. It wasn’t often you ran into a bondage/Elvis/ whorehouse-themed vampire club.

  Charlaine Harris

  Wall, Adventure, Vampire

  Charlaine Harris (2011). “Dead Reckoning: A Sookie Stackhouse Novel”, p.59, Penguin

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• Nothing perceivable is real.Your attachment is your bondage. You cannot control the future.There is no such thing as free will. Will is bondage.You identify yourself with your desires and become their slave.

  Sri Nisargadatta Maharaj

  Real, Attachment, Desire

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• No love is Love that subjugates the Lover. No love is Love that feeds on flesh and blood. No love is Love that draws a woman to a man only to breed more women and men and thus perpetuate their bondage to the flesh.

  Mikhail Naimy

  Love Is, Men, Blood

  Mikhail Naimy (2011). “The Book of Mirdad: The strange story of a monastery which was once called The Ark”, p.107, Duncan Baird Publishers

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