Bondage Quotes - Page 2

• Impotence, fetishism, bisexuality, and bondage are all facts of life, and our fiction should reflect that.

  Rick Moody

  Fiction, Facts, Should

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• Emancipation from every kind of bondage is my principle. I go for recognition of human rights, without distinction of sect, party, sex, or color.

  Ernestine Rose

  Sex, Party, Rights

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• The bondage we are born into is the bondage we cannot see. Verily, freedom is little more than the ignorance of tyranny. Live long enough, and you will see: Men resent not the whip so much as the hand that wields it.

  R. Scott Bakker

  Ignorance, Men, Hands

  R. Scott Bakker (2012). “The White-Luck Warrior: Book Two”, p.38, The Overlook Press

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• It's asking a great deal that things should appeal to your reason as well as your sense of the aesthetic. - Of Human Bondage

  W. Somerset Maugham

  Asking, Reason, Human Bondage

  W. Somerset Maugham (2017). “Of Human Bondage”, p.470, Open Road Media

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• What a curious phenomenon it is that you can get men to die for the liberty of the world who will not make the little sacrifice that is needed to free themselves from their own individual bondage.

  Bruce Barton

  Freedom, Sacrifice, Men

  Bruce Barton (1920). “It's a Good Old World: Being a Collection of Little Essays on Various Subjects of Human Interest”

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• Emancipation from the bondage of the soil is no freedom for the tree.

  Rabindranath Tagore

  Inspirational, Freedom, Tree

  Rabindranath Tagore, Mohit Kumar Ray (2007). “Poems”, p.594, Atlantic Publishers & Dist

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• It is to TV that I owe my freedom from bondage of the Latin lover roles. Television came along and gave me parts to chew on. It gave me wings as an actor.

  Ricardo Montalban

  Latin, Wings, Roles

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• The average age of the world's great civilizations has been two hundred years. These nations have progressed through the following sequence: from bondage to spiritual faith, from spiritual faith to great courage, from courage to liberty, from liberty to abundance, from abundance to selfishness, from selfishness to complacency from complacency to apathy, from apathy to dependency, from dependency back to bondage.

  Alexander Fraser Tytler

  Spiritual, Average, Years

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• Nor was it only from the millions of slaves that chains had been removed; the whole nation had been in bondage; free speech had been suppressed.

  Matthew Simpson

  Speech, Slave, Chains

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• Were it not for the Clash, punk would have been just a sneer, a safety pin and a pair of bondage trousers.

  Billy Bragg

  Safety Pins, Pairs, Punk

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• That cry of the soul to be lifted out of the bondage of the narrow circle of life, which carries up to God the protest and yearning of suffering man, never finds a more sublime expression than where humanity is oppressed and religion is corrupt.

  Hall Caine

  Men, Expression, Circles

  Hall Caine (2016). “The Scapegoat”, p.6, The Floating Press

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• Not only did God deliver me from the bondage of alcoholism, he also blessed my family financially because of my commitment to honor what he had done for me and for not doing what I believed could possibly be destructive to others.

  Richard Kiel

  Blessed, Commitment, Honor

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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• The Reformers, therefore, as instruments in the hands of God, in delivering the Church from bondage to prelates, did not make it a tumultuous multitude, in which every man was a law to himself, free to believe, and free to do what he pleased.

  Charles Hodge

  Believe, Men, Hands

  Charles Hodge (1855). “What is Presbyterianism?: An Address Delivered Before the Presbyterian Historical Society at Their Anniversary Meeting in Philadelphia, on Tuesday Evening, May 1, 1855”, p.13

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• A Christian people who have for two hundred years kept a race in bondage, deprived of the advantages of civilization and religion, owe them a debt of gratitude which it would seem ungenerous to withhold.

  Nelson A. Miles

  Christian, Gratitude, Race

  NELSON A. MILES (1911). “SERVING THE REPUBLIC”

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• And we know that once we have a majority that are dependent upon the government, we will lose our freedom; it says we go into bondage. That's the next stage.

  Sharron Angle

  Government, Majority, Next

  "Angle: “What’s happening (in America)..is a violation of the 1st Commandment,” entitlements “make government our God.”". Interview, lasvegassun.com. August 4, 2010.

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• Fear of serious injury alone cannot justify oppression of free speech and assembly. Men feared witches and burnt women. It is the function of speech to free men from the bondage of irrational fears.

  Louis D. Brandeis

  Fear, Men, Religion

  "Whitney v. California, 274 U.S. 357, 376". Concurring opinion, 1927.

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• When we free ourselves from name and form, especially from a body - when we need no body, good or bad - then only do we escape from bondage.

  Swami Vivekananda

  Names, Needs, Body

  Swami Vivekananda (2015). “The Complete Works of Swami Vivekananda”, p.3110, Manonmani Publishers

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• Is anarchism desirable? Well, who does not seek freedom? What man, unless willing to declare himself in bondage, would care to call any control agreeable? Think about it!

  Johann Most

  Men, Thinking, Doe

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• Bondage is hoarse, and may not speak aloud.

  William Shakespeare

  May, Speak

  'Romeo And Juliet' (1595) act 2, sc. 2, l. 158

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• There are very real obstacles and challenges to any course of action. And there's no need to add to them, by making up obstacles of your own. Unchain yourself from the bondage of your own thinking.

  Ralph Marston

  Real, Thinking, Challenges

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• The grace that has freed us from bondage to sin is desperately needed to free us from our bondage to materialism.

  Randy Alcorn

  Grace, Sin, Materialism

  Randy Alcorn (2011). “Money, Possessions, and Eternity”, p.80, Tyndale House Publishers, Inc.

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• The individual who has to justify his existence by his own efforts is in eternal bondage to himself.

  Eric Hoffer

  Effort, Individuality, Literature

  Eric Hoffer (1963). “The Ordeal of Change”

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• Where no bondage is, there is no cause and effect.

  Swami Vivekananda

  Causes, Cause And Effect, Effects

  Swami Vivekananda (1963). “Selections from Swami Vivekananda”

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• Some people are into bondage... and some people are into crossdressing.. . and some people are into Coldplay. It's okay, I don't mind being a fetish.

  Chris Martin

  People, Mind, Okay

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• They will endure. They are better than we are. Stronger than we are. Their vices are vices aped from white men or that white men and bondage have taught them: improvidence and intemperance and evasion-not laziness: evasion: of what white men had set them to, not for their aggrandizement or even comfort but his own.

  William Faulkner

  Men, White Man, Justice

  The Bear pt. 4 (1932)

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