Bondage Quotes - Page 17

• After all, when you're talking about an authority figure oppressing against people, it's the people that hold that authority figure up. If you want to get free of this bondage, then we need to think about ways to free ourselves, rather than looking to the oppressors to free us.

  Keith Stanfield

  Thinking, People, Authority

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

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• Our past may explain why we're suffering but we must not use it as an excuse to stay in bondage.

  Joyce Meyer

  Past, Suffering, Use

  Joyce Meyer (2008). “The Power of Being Positive: Enjoying God Forever”, p.19, Hachette UK

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• Wherever there is desire and ambition, you are in bondage.

  Rajneesh

  Ambition, Desire

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• There is only one way out of the trap: that you don`t choose; neither this nor that - you simply don`t choose. You withdraw from choice and you become choiceless. Choicelessness is freedom. To choose is to choose a prison; to choose is to choose a bondage. To choose is wrong, to be choiceless is to be right.

  Rajneesh

  Choices, Way, Prison

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• The cat is the only animal which accepts the comforts but rejects the bondage of domesticity.

  Georges-Louis Leclerc, Comte de Buffon

  Cat, Animal, Humanity

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• Too long have the workers of the world waited for some Moses to lead them out of bondage... I would not lead you out if I could; for if you could be led out, you could be led back again. I would have you make up your minds there is nothing that you cannot do for yourselves.

  Eugene V. Debs

  Freedom, Long, Mind

  "Industrial Unionism". Eugene V. Debs' address at Grand Central Palace in New York (December 10, 1905), later published in Eugene V. Debs "Debs, His Life, Writings and Speeches: With a Department of Appreciations", 1908.

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• False liberty is also a reason that people fabricate doctrines that say that you don't need to suffer. One such doctrine is the one that states that Jesus has done everything, so we need not do anything that opposes our flesh or self-will. False liberty is also manifest when people scorn souls who are striving to live a God-fearing life, saying that these live in bondage.

  Johan Oscar Smith

  Jesus, Life Changing, Self

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• A conditional love is nothing but an infatuation, sexuality. Unconditional is the only way love can be. Wherever a condition comes in, love disappears. It cannot live in bondage, and a condition gives it an imprisonment. Love can only live like the vast sky. Love knows no boundaries.

  Rajneesh

  Love Is, Sky, Giving

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• Euclid alone has looked on Beauty bare. Let all who prate of Beauty hold their peace, And lay them prone upon the earth and cease To ponder on themselves, the while they stare At nothing, intricately drawn nowhere In shapes of shifting lineage; let geese Gabble and hiss, but heroes seek release From dusty bondage into luminous air. O blinding hour, O holy, terrible day, When first the shaft into his vision shone Of light anatomized! Euclid alone Has looked on Beauty bare. Fortunate they Who, though once only and then but far away, Have heard her massive sandal set on stone.

  Edna St. Vincent Millay

  Peace, Hero, Air

  "Euclid Alone Has Looked on Beauty Bare" l. 11 (1923)

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• I had a lot of hatred, but I realized that kind of hate didn't do much. I had to start fueling myself with pride. We owe the ancestors that. So many of the souls who died in bondage just want us to recognize their struggle.

  Marilyn Nelson

  Hate, Struggle, Pride

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• It is all up to us. We are the ones who have to keep looking at our thoughts, looking for the nature of our mind. there is nobody else in control of our lives, our experiences, our freedom or our bondage.

  Dzogchen Ponlop Rinpoche

  Mind, Our Thoughts, Our Lives

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• On many occasions I have been asked if I think persecution will come to the Western church. My answer might surprise you. I believe that if you find yourself enslaved inside a controlling church structure of legalism and bondage, then you are already being persecuted! So many Christians seem impossibly distracted from hearing God's voice. Instead of listening to that still, small voice that brings true peace and joy, they blindly follow the voices of mainstream religion. The worst kind of persecution for a Christian is when you are separated from the joy and presence of the Holy Spirit.

  Brother Yun

  Christian, Believe, Thinking

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• I get out, I get out of all your boxes. I get out, you can't hold me in these chains. I'll get out. Father free me from this bondage. Knowin' my condition is the reason I must change

  Lauryn Hill

  Father, Reason, Boxes

  Song: I Get Out, Album: MTV Unplugged 2.0, 2002

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• This is what our customers are asking for to take them to the next level and free them from the bondage of mainframe and client-server software.

  Marc Benioff

  Next Level, Asking, Levels

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• In light of 50 years of bondage of Eastern Europe, [invading the Soviet Union in 1948 to prevent it from acquiring nuclear weapons] was probably a reasonable thing to do.

  Condoleezza Rice

  Light, Years, Europe

  TIME Magazine, October 2002.

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• No, there is nothing on the face of the earth that can, for a moment, bear a comparison with Christianity as a religion for man. Upon this the hope of the race hangs. From the very first, it took its position, as the pillar of fire, to lead the race onward. The intelligence and power of the race are with those who have embraced it; and now, if this, instead of proving indeed a pillar of fire from God, should be found but a delusive meteor, then nothing will be left to the race but to go back to a darkness that may be felt, and to a worse than Egyptian bondage.

  Mark Hopkins

  Men, Fire, Race

  Mark Hopkins (1909). “Evidences of Christianity: Lectures Before the Lowell Institute, Revised as a Text Book, with a Supplementary Chapter Considering Some Attacks on the Critical School, the Corroborative Evidence of Recently Discovered Manuscripts, Etc., and the Testimony of Jesus on His Trial”

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• Of a new Prince, new bondage.

  George Herbert

  George Herbert (1861). “The Poetical Works of G. H. and R. Heber. With Memoir”, p.277

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• Each individual man and each individual country, according to the principles of natural reason, is free from bondage. Consequently, if there is some threat that might infringe upon a country's freedom, then that country should not hesitate even to take up arms against all the countries of the world.

  Fukuzawa Yukichi

  Country, Men, Countries Of The World

  "An encouragement of learning". Book by Fukuzawa Yukichi and Obata Tokujirō, 1872-1876.

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• There was bondage in love; no one had told her that love took away freedom.

  Alice Tisdale Hobart

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• Human infirmity in moderating and checking the emotions I name bondage : for, when a man is a prey to his emotions, he is not his own master, but lies at the mercy of fortune : so much so, that he is often compelled, while seeing that which is better for him, to follow that which is worse.

  Baruch Spinoza

  Lying, Men, Names

  Baruch Spinoza (1981). “Ethics”, p.163, Commodius Vicus

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• Collective freedom is one devoid of material bondage and one that supports the institutions necessary for democracy.

  Henry Giroux

  Support, Democracy, Institutions

  "Angela Davis, Education and the Meaning of Freedom" by Henry A. Giroux, www.huffingtonpost.com. April 10, 2013.

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• You have trusted Him as your dying Savior; now trust Him as your living Savior. Just as much as He came to deliver you from future punishment did He also come to deliver you from present bondage. Just as truly as He came to bear your stripes for you has He come to live your life for you.

  Hannah Whitall Smith

  Punishment, Live Your Life, Stripes

  Hannah Whitall Smith (1876). “The Christian's secret of a happy life. By H.W.S.”, p.49

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• Rigorously investigated and fearlessly reported, A Crime So Monstrous is a passionate and thorough examination of the appalling reality of human bondage in today's world. In his devastating narrative, Ben Skinner boldly casts light on the unthinkable, yet thriving, modern-day practice of slavery, exposing a global trade in human lives. The abuses detailed in these pages are repugnant, but there is hope to be found: by giving voice to the victims, Skinner helps restore their dignity and makes crucial strides toward closing this shameful chapter in history.

  William J. Clinton

  Reality, Practice, Voice

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• It is false that the will, left to itself, can do good as well as evil, for it is not free, but in bondage...On the side of man there is nothing that goes before grace, unless it be impotency and even rebellion.

  Martin Luther

  Men, Evil, Grace

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• The Freedom which Christianity gives, is a Freedom from the Bondage of Sin and Satan, and from the Domination of Men's Lusts and Passions and inordinate Desires; but as to their outward Condition, whatever that was before, whether bond or free, their being baptised, and becoming Christians, makes no manner of Change in it.

  Edmund Gibson

  Christian, Passion, Men

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