Fetters Quotes - Page 2

• To this wonderful page in our country's history another more glorious still will be added, and the slave shall show at last to his free brothers a sharpened sword forged from the links of his fetters.

  Giuseppe Garibaldi

  Country, Brother, Links

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• Here the free spirit of mankind, at length,
  Throws its last fetters off; and who shall place
  A limit to the giant's unchained strength,
  Or curb his swiftness in the forward race?

  William C. Bryant

  Strength, Freedom, Race

  William Cullen Bryant, “The Ages”

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• We make no apology then for raising our voices loud to a world that is ripening in sin the lord has said,” Say nothing but repentance unto this generation; The adversary is subtle, cunning, he knows that he cannot induce good men and women immediately to do major evils so he moves slyly, whispering half truths until he has his intended victims following him finally he clamps his chains upon them and fetters them tight, and then he laughs at their discomfiture and their misery.

  Spencer W. Kimball

  Moving, Apology, Men

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• Ye youths and virgins, when your generous blood Has drunk the warmth of fifteen summers, now The loves invite; now to new rapture wakes The finish'd sense: while stung with keen desire The madd'ning boy his bashful fetters bursts; And, urg'd with secret flames, the riper maid, Conscious and shy, betrays her smarting breast.

  John Armstrong

  Summer, Boys, Flames

  John Armstrong, “The Oeconomy Of Love”

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• We have prayed, we have coaxed, we have begged, for the vote, with the hope that men, out of chivalry, would bestow equal rights upon women and take them into partnership in the affairs of the state. We hoped that their common sense would triumph over prejudices and stupidity. We thought their boasted sense of justice would overcome the errors that so often fetter the human spirit; but we have always gone away empty handed. We shall beg no more.

  Helen Keller

  Men, Errors, Rights

  Helen Keller (2000). “To Love this Life: Quotations”, p.55, American Foundation for the Blind

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• Evil is retributive: every trespass slips fetters on the will, holds the soul in durance till contrition and repentance restore it to liberty.

  Amos Bronson Alcott

  Evil, Soul, Liberty

  Amos Bronson Alcott (1877). “Table-talk”

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• Jesus lives! the same comforting, helping, instructing, loving Elder Brother, as when John leaned on His bosom, as when He lifted Peter up from the waves, as when He dried Mary's tears with His, "Thy sins are forgiven thee." Jesus lives! the same almighty Saviour, Guide, Intercessor, as when He ascended to glory with the broken fetters of sin and death in His pierced hands.

  Abbott Eliot Kittredge

  Jesus, Brother, Hands

  "Dictionary of Burning Words of Brilliant Writers" by Josiah Hotchkiss Gilbert, p. 94, 1895.

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• When you return, the youngest of the seers, Released from fetters of ancestral pose, There will be beauty waiting down the years Revisions of the ruby and the rose.

  Nathalia Crane

  Years, Rose, Waiting

  Nathalia Crane (1925). “The Janitor's Boy and Other Poems”

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• Socialism is nothing more nor less than the social, political and ideological system which breaks the fetters upon economic growth created under capitalism and opens the way to a new period of economic and social expansion on a much larger scale.

  Earl Browder

  Political, Growth, Way

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• You cannot hammer a girl into anything. She grows as a flower does, she will wither without sun; she will decay in her sheath as a narcissus will if you do not give her air enough; she might fall and defile her head in dust if you leave her without help at some moments in her life; but you cannot fetter her; she must take her own fair form and way if she take any.

  John Ruskin

  Girl, Flower, Fall

  John Ruskin (1894). “Essays and Letters Selected from the Writings of John Ruskin”

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• If you desire a man to tell you comfortable lies about your prowess, and so fetter any hope of true excellence, I'm sure you may find one anywhere. Not all prisons are made of iron bars. Some are made of feather beds.

  Lois McMaster Bujold

  Lying, Men, Iron

  "The Curse of Chalion". Book by Lois McMaster Bujold, 2001.

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• ... a person who is religiously enlightened appears to me to be one who has, to the best of his ability, liberated himself from the fetters of his selfish desires and is preoccupied with thoughts, feelings, and aspirations to which he clings because of their superpersonal value.

  Albert Einstein

  Selfish, Feelings, Religion

  Albert Einstein (2011). “Out of My Later Years: The Scientist, Philosopher, and Man Portrayed Through His Own Words”, p.22, Open Road Media

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• True, the movement for woman's rights has broken many old fetters, but it has also forged new ones.

  Emma Goldman

  Rights, Broken, Feminism

  "Anarchism and Other Essays".

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• No man loveth his fetters, be they made of gold.

  John Heywood

  Men, Gold, Made

  John Heywood (1562). “The Proverbs, Epigrams, and Miscellanies of John Heywood ...”, p.366

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• True artistic renewal does not mean being stripped of fetters. It means moving into new fetters.

  Tawfiq al-Hakim

  Moving, Mean, Doe

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• Precedents are treated by powerful minds as fetters with which to bind down the weak, as reasons with which to mistify the moderately informed, and as reeds which they themselves fearlessly break through whenever new combinations and difficult emergencies demand their highest efforts.

  Charles Babbage

  Powerful, Science, Break Through

  Charles Babbage, Anthony Hyman (1989). “Science and Reform: Selected Works of Charles Babbage”, p.202, Cambridge University Press

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• So Columbus said, somebody show me the sunset and somebody did and he set sail for it, And he discovered America and they put him in jail for it, And the fetters gave him welts, And they named America after somebody else.

  Ogden Nash

  Sunset, America, Jail

  Ogden Nash (1941). “The Face is Familiar: The Selected Verse of Ogden Nash”, Garden City, N. Y : Garden City publishing Company, Incorporated

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• There is a Restlessness springing from the consciousness of power not fully utilized, which must be present wherever there is unused power of whatever kind. This is the restlessness of the germ within the seed, struggling upward and downward towards its proper life.it is a striving full of pain, the cutting of tender flesh by the fetters of the captive as he struggles against their pitilessness.

  Anna Brackett

  Pain, Struggle, Cutting

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• Culture, far from giving us freedom, only develops, as it advances, new necessities; the fetters of the physical close more tightly around us, so that the fear of loss quenches even the ardent impulse toward improvement, and the maxims of passive obedience are held to be the highest wisdom of life.

  Friedrich Schiller

  Loss, Giving, Culture

  Friedrich Schiller (2015). “Aesthetical Essays of Schiller: Top Classic of German”, p.34, 谷月社

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• If the ministers of the Church have often permitted nations to revolt for Heaven's cause, they never allowed them to revolt against real evils or known violencess. It is from Heaven that the chains have come to fetter the minds of mortals.

  Baron d'Holbach

  Real, Evil, Heaven

  Paul Henri Thiry, baron d' Holbach (2012). “Superstition In All Ages (1732) Common Sense”, p.197, tredition

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• You have fettered yourself of your own free will, man - break the fetters!

  Halldór Laxness

  Men, Free Will, Break

  "World Light" by Halldór Laxness, translated by Magnus Magnusson, published by Vintage Books, (Book Three: The House of the Poet), 2002.

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• Eternal Spirit of the chainless Mind! Brightest in dungeons, Liberty! thou art, For there thy habitation is the heart-- The heart which love of thee alone can bind; And when thy sons to fetters are consign'd-- To fetters and damp vault's dayless gloom, Their country conquers with their martyrdom.

  Lord Byron

  Country, Art, Son

  Lord Byron (2013). “Selected Poems of Lord Byron”, p.63, Lulu Press, Inc

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• The monopoly of capital becomes a fetter upon the mode of production, which has sprung up and flourished along with, and under it. Centralisation of the means of production and socialisation of labour at last reach a point where they become incompatible with there capitalist integument. This integument is burst asunder. The knell of capitalist private property sounds. The expropriators are expropriated.

  Karl Marx

  Mean, Sprung Up, Sound

  Karl Marx (1999). “Capital: An Abridged Edition”, p.29, OUP Oxford

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• I like to foster an atmosphere on set of collaboration and openness and risk taking. The beauty is when you have such brilliantly talented people as I did in my cast, you definitely don't want to fetter them in any sense. You want them to be able to go out there and do their thing and feel confident in doing their thing, because ultimately I'm the person who gets the credit which is great.

  Dan Mazer

  People, Risk, Atmosphere

  Source: collider.com

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• When a slave begins to take pride in his fetters and hugs them like precious ornaments, the triumph of the slave-owner is complete.

  Mahatma Gandhi

  Pride, Slave Owners, Hug

  Mahatma Gandhi, Mohandas Gandhi, Homer A. Jack (2005). “The Wit and Wisdom of Gandhi”, p.125, Courier Corporation

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