Shackles Quotes

• Religious bondage shackles and debilitates the mind and unfits it for every noble enterprise, every expanded prospect.

  James Madison

  Religious, Atheist, Secular Society

  James Madison, Ralph Ketcham “Selected Writings of James Madison”, Hackett Publishing

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• The greatest shackles we bear in thislife are those forged by our own fears

  Richard Paul Evans

  Bears, Forged

  Richard Paul Evans (2001). “The Christmas Box Miracle: My Spiritual Journey of Destiny, Healing and Hope”, p.136, Simon and Schuster

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• Reality doesn’t impress me. I only believe in intoxication, in ecstasy, and when ordinary life shackles me. I escape, one way or another. No more walls.

  Anais Nin

  Life, Wall, Freedom

  "The Resurgence And Allure Of Anais Nin" by Diana M. Raab, www.huffingtonpost.com. November 12, 2016.

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• Surrealism is destructive, but it destroys only what it considers to be shackles limiting our vision.

  Salvador Dali

  Photography, Vision, Surrealism

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• There is little hope for us until we become tough-minded enough to break loose from the shackles of prejudice, half-truths, and down-right ignorance.

  Martin Luther King, Jr.

  Ignorance, Prejudice, Half

  Martin Luther King Jr. (1963). “Strength to Love”

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• So long as the people do not care to exercise their freedom, those who wish to tyrannize will do so; for tyrants are active and ardent, and will devote themselves in the name of any number of gods, religious and otherwise, to put shackles upon sleeping men.

  Voltaire

  Religious, Fear, Sleep

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• No prison can hold me; no hand or leg irons or steel locks can shackle me. No ropes or chains can keep me from my freedom.

  Harry Houdini

  Hands, Iron, Rope

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• There is nothing evil save that which perverts the mind and shackles the conscience.

  Ambrose

  Evil, Mind, Conscience

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• Awakenings are always terrifying as they force you to realize your past has been lived in confinement, the most disturbing part is when you recognize that the shackle holding you down are largely once you have placed upon yourself, the prison is self constructed

  Dean Karnazes

  Past, Self, Awakening

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• You may chain my hands, you may shackle my feet; you may even throw me into a dark prison; but you shall not enslave my thinking, because it is free!

  Khalil Gibran

  Dark, Thinking, Feet

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• When one is deprived of ones liberty, one is right in blaming not so much the man who puts the shackles on as the one who had the power to prevent him, but did not use it.

  Thucydides

  Men, Liberty, Use

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• The spirit of the times may alter, will alter. Our rulers will become corrupt, our people careless... From the conclusion of this war we shall be going downhill. It will not then be necessary to resort every moment to the people for support. They will be forgotten, therefore, and their rights disregarded. They will forget themselves, but in the sole faculty of making money, and will never think of uniting to affect a due respect for their rights. The shackles, therefore, will be made heavier and heavier, till our rights shall revive or expire in a convulsion.

  Thomas Jefferson

  War, Thinking, Rights

  "The Works of Thomas Jefferson" by Thomas Jefferson, vol. 4 (Notes on Virginia II, Correspondence 1782-1786), oll.libertyfund.org. 1905.

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• Well married a person has wings, poorly married shackles.

  Henry Ward Beecher

  Marriage, Couple, War

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• Man is born free and everywhere he is in chains.

  Jean-Jacques Rousseau

  Inspirational, Motivational, Freedom

  Du Contrat Social bk. 1, ch. 1 (1762)

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• Forgiveness is the key to the heart's shackles.

  Richard Paul Evans

  Forgiveness, Heart, Keys

  Richard Paul Evans (2012). “Miles to Go: The Second Journal of the Walk Series”, p.226, Simon and Schuster

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• What is a habit? It’s just a shackle for ourselves.

  Daniel Libeskind

  Habit

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• It is great To do that thing that ends all other deeds, Which shackles accidents and bolts up change.

  William Shakespeare

  Suicide, Deeds, Ends

  'Antony and Cleopatra' (1606-7) act 5, sc. 2, l. 1

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• Commercial shackles are generally unjust, oppressive, and impolitic.

  James Madison

  Liberty, Unjust, Socialism

  James Madison, David B. Mattern (1997). “James Madison's "Advice to My Country"”, p.124, University of Virginia Press

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• Faced with the pain of freedom, man begs for his shackles.

  Gerry Spence

  Pain, Men, Liberty

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• Memories are not shackles, Franklin, they are garlands.

  Alan Bennett

  Memories, Franklin, Garlands

  1968 Forty Years On (published1969), act 2.

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• Books break the shackles of time, proof that humans can work magic.

  Carl Sagan

  Book, Magic, Cosmos

  Carl Sagan (2011). “Cosmos”, p.305, Ballantine Books

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• Religious bondage shackles and debilitates the mind and unfits it for every noble enterprise.... During almost fifteen centuries has the legal establishment of Christianity been on trial. What have been its fruits? More or less, in all places, pride and indolence in the clergy; ignorance and servility in laity; in both, superstition, bigotry, and persecution.

  James Madison

  Religious, Atheist, Ignorance

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• Anything I can not transform into something marvelous, I let go.

  Anais Nin

  Letting Go, Thirsty, Intoxication

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• Getting lost was not a matter of geography so much as identity, a passionate desire, even an urgent need, to become no one and anyone, to shake off the shackles that remind you who you are, who others think you are.

  Rebecca Solnit

  Thinking, Passionate Desire, Identity

  Rebecca Solnit (2010). “A Field Guide To Getting Lost”, p.26, Canongate Books

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• I am an excitable person who only understands life lyrically, musically, in whom feelings are much stronger as reason.

  Anais Nin

  Feelings, Stronger, Reason

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