Chains Quotes - Page 15

• Not all the chains are bad and not all the freedoms are good!

  Mehmet Murat Ildan

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• Chains of iron or of silk-both are chains.

  Friedrich Schiller

  Iron, Silk

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• Never did a prisoner, released from his chains, feel such relief as I shall on shaking off the shackles of power.

  Thomas Jefferson

  Relief, Shackles, Prisoner

  Thomas Jefferson, Jerry Holmes (2002). “Thomas Jefferson: A Chronology of His Thoughts”, p.219, Rowman & Littlefield

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• I believe martial arts is always evolving and mixed martials arts is the top of the food chain.

  Cung Le

  Art, Believe, Evolve

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• Before man can be free, and equal, and truly wise, he must cast aside the chains of habit and superstition; he must strip sensuality of its pomp, and selfishness of its excuses, and contemplate actions and objects as they really are.

  Percy Bysshe Shelley

  Wise, Men, Selfishness

  Percy Bysshe Shelley (1980). “Shelley on Love: An Anthology”, p.83, Univ of California Press

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• I did not climb to the top of the food chain to eat carrots.

  Ron White

  Bumper Sticker, Carrots, Funny One Liner

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• The conservatives see man as a body freely roaming the earth, building sand piles or factories - with an electronic computer inside his skull, controlled from Washington. The liberals see man as a soul freewheeling to the farthest reaches of the universe - but wearing chains from nose to toes when he crosses the street to buy a loaf of bread.

  Ayn Rand

  Men, Skulls, Soul

  Ayn Rand (1984). “Philosophy: Who Needs It”, p.176, Penguin

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• Karl Marx recognized that workers without a choice are workers in chains. But his idea of breaking chains was for us to depose the pharaohs and then build the pyramids for ourselves, as if building pyramids is something we just can't stop doing, we love it so much.

  Daniel Quinn

  Ideas, Pyramids, Choices

  Daniel Quinn (2009). “Beyond Civilization: Humanity's Next Great Adventure”, p.52, Broadway Books

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• You don't get to cut that chain of evidence and start over. You're always going to be pursued by your data shadow, which is forming from thousands and thousands of little leaks and tributaries of information.

  Bruce Sterling

  Cutting, Data, Starting Over

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• Is it not that, in the chain of human events, the birthday of the nation is indissolubly linked with the birthday of the Saviour?

  John Quincy Adams

  Events, Founding Fathers Religion, Founding Fathers Christian

  John Quincy Adams (1837). “An Oration Delivered Before the Inhabitants of the Town of Newburyport, at Their Request, on the Sixty-first Anniversary of the Declaration of Independence, July 4th, 1837”, p.5

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• When the mighty chains of darkness had me on the ropes, everyone said quit now, that's when I found hope.

  Graham Parker

  Darkness, Rope, Quitting

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• Liberty for all; chains for none.

  Frederick Douglass

  Liberty

  Frederick Douglass (2016). “The Portable Frederick Douglass”, p.344, Penguin

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• The duty of rhetoric is to deal with such matters as we deliberate upon without arts or systems to guide us, in the hearing of persons who cannot take in at a glance a complicated argument or follow a long chain of reasoning.

  Aristotle

  Art, Long, Matter

  Aristotle, Aeterna Press (2015). “Rhetoric”, p.28, Aeterna Press

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• The totalitarian state is not a force unleashed, the truth is in chains.

  Bernard-Henri Levy

  Truth Is, States, Force

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• Money and power can liberate only if they are used to do so. They can imprison and inhibit more finally than barred windows and iron chains.

  Maya Angelou

  Iron, Window, Used

  Maya Angelou (2011). “Wouldn't Take Nothing for My Journey Now”, p.32, Bantam

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• We are not isolated islands, we are connected links in a chain. Each kind word, each smiling face, each good action, benefits our neighbor, nation, world. Let us pray and meditate together and we shall reach the shore of peace, spreading the sweet holy fragrance of love and vibrations of unity and harmony. Tuning our minds to the supreme consciousness, let us open our hearts and chant the words, "May everyone everywhere be happy."

  Mata Amritanandamayi

  Sweet, Heart, Islands

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• As long as man's beliefs, or any part of them, are based on error, he is not completely free, for the chains of error bind his mind.

  Bruce R. McConkie

  Men, Errors, Long

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• I realize that my ministry would someday come to an end. I am only one in a glorious chain of men and women God has raised up through the centuries to build Christ's church and take the Gospel everywhere.

  Billy Graham

  Men, Church, Ministry

  Billy Graham, Franklin Graham, Donna Lee Toney (2011). “Billy Graham in Quotes”, p.39, Thomas Nelson Inc

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• Freedom without virtue is not freedom but license to pursue whatever passions prevail in the intemperate mind; man's right to freedom being in exact proportion to his willingness to put chains upon his own appetites; the less restraint from within, the more must be imposed from without.

  Edmund Burke

  Passion, Men, Mind

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• Think about it: we went into slavery pagans; we came out Christians. We went into slavery pieces of property; we came out American citizens. We went into slavery with chains clanking about our wrists; we came out with the American ballot in our hands.

  Booker T. Washington

  Christian, Thinking, Hands

  Booker T. Washington (1972). “Papers: The Autobiographical Writings”, p.62, University of Illinois Press

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• I think that if people show up in jeans and chains, it's great that all parts of culture are interested in music. People forget sometimes that it's about the music, not how you act and dress.

  Hilary Hahn

  Thinking, Jeans, People

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• Unchecked, the new tolerance will sooner or later put many people in chains.

  D. A. Carson

  People, Tolerance, Sooner Or Later

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• The music of the supreme architect, Bach, is filled with pages of discursive argument and rumination, glorifying the nameless whole by a rich embroidery of passages which lead everywhere and nowhere. The ideas are presented, stood on their head, dissolved into fragments, until the ultimate message becomes the connections of all things great and small, a chain of being which cannot be secured until the last note is in place.

  Russell Sherman

  Ideas, Pages, Lasts

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• It was equally imperative that this chain of reactions should always tend to dampen, to die out. It must not build up, or the uranium mass would explode within a time interval too short to be measured by any means whatsoever. Nor would there be anyone left to measure it.

  Robert A. Heinlein

  Mean, Too Short, Mass

  Robert A. Heinlein (2013). “The Man Who Sold the Moon and Orphans of the Sky”, p.101, Baen Publishing Enterprises

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• In our Revolution we believe that we have broken the chain of a consumer economy based on imports, and we are free to decide our destiny . And in order to realize the interests of the Somali people, their achievement of a better life, the full development of their potentialities and the fulfilment of their aspirations, we solemnly declare Somalia to be a Socialist State.

  Siad Barre

  Believe, Destiny, Order

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