Chains Quotes - Page 8

• America will not pretend that jailed dissidents prefer their chains, or that women welcome humiliation and servitude, or that any human being aspires to live at the mercy of bullies.... ...Liberty will come to those who love it.

  George W. Bush

  America, Bully, Liberty

  Second Presidential Inaugural Address, delivered 20 January 2005

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• Write what you know. Every guide for the aspiring author advises this. Because I live in a long-settled rural place, I know certain things. I know the feel of a newborn lamb's damp, tight-curled fleece and the sharp sound a well-bucket chain makes as it scrapes on stone. But more than these material things, I know the feelings that flourish in small communities. And I know other kinds of emotional truths that I believe apply across the centuries.

  Geraldine Brooks

  Believe, Writing, Emotional

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• How poor, how rich, how abject, how august, how complicate, how wonderful is man! Distinguished link in being's endless chain! Midway from nothing to the Deity! Dim miniature of greatness absolute! An heir of glory! A frail child of dust! Helpless immortal! Insect infinite! A worm! A God!

  Edward Young

  Children, Greatness, Men

  John Milton, Edward Young, Thomas Gray, James Beattie, William Collins (1836). “The Poetical Works of Milton, Young, Gray, Beattie, and Collins”

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• A huge dog, tied by a chain, was painted on the wall and over it was written in capital letters 'Beware of the dog.'

  Petronius

  Dog, Wall, Letters

  'Satyricon' 'Cena Trimalchionis' ch. 29, sect. 1

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• It is true, that a little philosophy inclineth man’s mind to atheism; but depth in philosophy bringeth men’s minds about to religion. For while the mind of man looketh upon second causes scattered, it may sometimes rest in them, and go no further; but when it beholdeth the chain of them, confederate and linked together, it must needs fly to Providence and Deity.

  Francis Bacon

  Philosophy, Men, Mind

  1625 Essays, no.9 'Of Atheism'. See Berkeley 79:7.

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• If the workers took a notion they could stop all speeding trains; every ship upon the ocean they can tie with mighty chains.

  Joe Hill

  Ocean, Ties, Ships

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• No chains around my feet, But I'm not free.

  Bob Marley

  Feet, Concrete Jungle

  Song: Concrete Jungle

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• Think'st thou there is no tyranny but that Of blood and chains? The despotism of vice-- The weakness and the wickedness of luxury-- The negligence--the apathy--the evils Of sensual sloth--produces ten thousand tyrants, Whose delegated cruelty surpasses The worst acts of one energetic master, However harsh and hard in his own bearing.

  Lord Byron

  Thinking, Tyrants, Luxury

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• I wore the gold is symbolic of my African heritage. When my black ancestors was bought over here from Africa they were shackled by their neck, they wrist and they ankles in steel chains. I turned those steel chains into gold to symbolize the fight. I'm still a slave, only my price tag is higher.

  Mr. T

  Fighting, Price Tag, Black

  Source: allhiphop.com

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• Day buries day; month, month; and year the year: Our life is but a chain of many deaths.

  Edward Young

  Years, Months, Life Is

  Edward Young (1798). “The Works of Edward Young ...: In Three Volumes. To which is Prefixed the Life of the Author”, p.223

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• He that has his chains knocked off, and the prison doors set open to him, is perfectly at liberty, because he may either go or stay, as he best likes; though his preference be determined to stay, by the darkness of the night, or illness of the weather, or want of other lodging.

  John Locke

  Night, Doors, Weather

  John Locke (1836). “An Essay Concerning Human Understanding”, p.171

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• Science has long been in the value business. Despite a widespread belief to the contrary, scientific validity is not the result of scientists abstaining from making value judgments; rather, scientific validity is the result of scientists making their best efforts to value principles of reasoning that link their beliefs to reality, through reliable chains of evidence and argument.

  Sam Harris

  Reality, Objectivity, Best Effort

  "The Moral Landscape". Book by Sam Harris, 2010.

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• We breathe the free air, we have the best looking men and handsomest women, and if they envy our position, well they may, for they are a poor, narrow minded, pinch-backed race of man, who chain themselves down to the law of monogamy and live all their days under the dominion of one wife. They aught to be ashamed of such conduct, and the still fouler channel which flows from their practices.

  George A. Smith

  Men, Race, Air

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• Marriage is the union of two divinities that a third might be born on earth. It is the union of two souls in a strong love for the abolishment of separateness. It is that higher unity which fuses the separate unities within the two spirits. It is the golden ring in a chain whose beginning is a glance, and whose ending is Eternity. It is the pure rain that falls from an unblemished sky to fructify and bless the fields of divine Nature.

  Khalil Gibran

  Wedding, Strong, Fall

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• I believe in Mexico there's a big culture of moviegoing, both studio and indie. I think here in the US that's not the case because Latino communities don't have access to indie films. If you go into communities of color you will only find the big theater chains which only play the blockbuster genre films.

  Aurora Guerrero

  Believe, Thinking, Color

  Source: blogs.indiewire.com

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• The whole thrust of theatre is different, just because the writing is so much more respected in a play. Whereas in movies - and having been the writer, I can say from experience - the writer is lower down on the food chain.

  Matt Damon

  Writing, Play, Theatre

  Interview with Scott Tobias, www.avclub.com. June 12, 2002.

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• The devil is like a rabid dog tied to a chain; beyond the length of the chain he cannot seize anyone. And you: keep at a distance. If you approach too near, you let yourself be caught. Remember that the devil has only one door by which to enter the soul: the will.

  Pio of Pietrelcina

  Dog, Distance, Doors

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• It was the peculiar artifice of Habit not to suffer her power to be felt at first. Those whom she led, she had the address of appearing only to attend, but was continually doubling her chains upon her companions; which were so slender in themselves, and so silently fastened, that while the attention was engaged by other objects, they were not easily perceived. Each link grew tighter as it had been longer worn; and when by continual additions they became so heavy as to be felt, they were very frequently too strong to be broken.

  Samuel Johnson

  Strong, Broken, Suffering

  Samuel Johnson (1836). “The Works of Samuel Johnson, LL.: D., with an Essay on His Life and Genius”, p.491

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• The beating of drums, which delights young writers who serve a party, sounds to him who does not belong to the party line like a rattling of chains, and excites sympathy rather than admiration.

  Friedrich Nietzsche

  Party, Sound, Doe

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• The human person is the sum total of a 15 billion year chain of unbroken evolution now thinking about itself

  Pierre Teilhard de Chardin

  Thinking, Years, Unbroken

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• It is the nature of slavery to render its victims so abject that at last, fearing to be free, they multiply their own chains. You can liberate a freeman, but you cannot liberate a slave.

  Louis J. Halle

  Slavery, Lasts, Victim

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• The Communists disdain to conceal their views and aims. They open declare that their ends can be attained only by the forcible overthrow of all existing social conditions. Let the ruling classes tremble at a Communistic revolution. The proletarians have nothing to lose but their chains. They have a world to win. WORKING MEN OF ALL COUNTRIES, UNITE!

  Karl Marx

  Country, Winning, Men

  BookCaps, Karl Marx, Friedrich Engels (2012). “The Communist Manifesto in Plain and Simple English”, p.130, BookCaps Study Guides

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• Islamic terrorists are the greatest security threats to the United States, both domestically and abroad. We need to be vigilant every day. Now, every citizen has to be vigilant because they are vital links in the national security chain.

  Ralph Abraham

  Islamic, Needs, Citizens

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• Markets are born free, yet no sooner are they born than some would-be emperor is forging chains. Paradoxically, it sometimes happens that the only way to preserve freedom is through judicious controls on the exercise of private power. If we believe in liberty, it must be freedom from both private and public coercion.

  Tim Wu

  Believe, Exercise, Liberty

  Tim Wu (2010). “The Master Switch: The Rise and Fall of Information Empires”, p.223, Atlantic Books Ltd

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• The prisoner falls in love with his chains.

  Edsger Dijkstra

  Falling In Love, Fall, Prisoner

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