Fetters Quotes - Page 6

• Illustrious confessors of Jesus Christ, a Christian finds in prison the same joys as the prophets tasted in the desert. Call it not a dungeon, but a solitude. When the soul is in heaven, the body feels not the weight of fetters; it carries the whole man along with it.

  Tertullian

  Christian, Jesus, Men

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• Our deeds are fetters that we forge ourselves.

  George Eliot

  Deeds, Action

  George Eliot (1872). “Middlemarch: A Study of Provincial Life. Book 1, Miss Brooke. 1[,1]”, p.52

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• Everything sacred is a tie, a fetter.

  Max Stirner

  Ties, Sacred

  Max Stirner (2012). “The Ego and His Own: The Case of the Individual Against Authority”, p.216, Courier Corporation

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• The repetition of a catchword can hold analysis in fetters for fifty years or more.

  Benjamin Cardozo

  Years, Analysis, Fifty

  "Mr. Justice Holmes, 44 Harv. L. Rec. 682, 289". 1931.

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