Chains Quotes - page 2

Occasionally one speaks... of signals or signal chains. It should be noted that the word signal means the transmission of signs and hence concerns the very principle of causal order. (Hans Reichenbach)
I'm a free person; I feel terribly free. They could put me in chains and I still would be free because my thoughts would be mine - and that's all I want to have. View quote
Arthur Rubinstein
It is far better for a man to go wrong in freedom than to go right in chains. View quote
Thomas Henry Huxley
The whole world yearns after freedom, yet each creature is in love with his chains; this is the first paradox and inextricable knot of our nature. View quote
Sri Aurobindo
The fact is women are in chains, and their servitude is all the more debasing because they do not realize. View quote
Susan B. Anthony
Every tone was a testimony against slavery, and a prayer to God for deliverance from chains. View quote
Frederick Douglass
Man is created free, and is free, Though he be born in chains. View quote
Friedrich Schiller
Freedom of mind is the real freedom. A person whose mind is not free though he may not be in chains, is a slave, not a free man. One whose mind is not free, though he may not be in prison, is a prisoner and not a free man. One whose mind is not free though alive, is no better than dead. Freedom of mind is the proof of one's existence. View quote
Bhimrao Ramji Ambedkar
Give me my freedom for as long as I be All I ask of livin' is to have no chains on me All I ask of livin' is to have no chains on me And all I ask of dyin' is to go naturally... And when I die, and when I'm gone There'll be one child born, in our world To carry on, to carry on... View quote
Laura Nyro
Women are not so well united as to form an Insurrection. They are for the most part wise enough to love their Chains, and to discern how becomingly they fit. View quote
Mary Astell
Man is to be held only by the slightest chains; with the idea that he can break them at pleasure, he submits to them in sport. (Maria Edgeworth)
At the opening of the Odyssey, Telemachus, inspired by the male-born Athena, searches for his father by turning against his mother. Jesus too publicly spurns his mother to be about his father's business. Male adulthood begins with the breaking of female chains. View quote
Camille Paglia
We have to be aggressive when those we stick up for have no voice. I don't consider it radical to say cruelty is wrong and that animals should be respected. I consider it radical to eat corpses, put electrodes in animals' heads, make elephants live in chains in the circus, and poison animals we consider a nuisance. View quote
Ingrid Newkirk
It is vain, sir, to extenuate the matter. Gentlemen may cry, Peace, peace! But there is no peace. The war is actually begun! The next gale that sweeps from the north will bring to our ears the clash of resounding arms! Our brethren are already in the field! Why stand we here idle? What is it that gentlemen wish? What would they have? Is life so dear or peace so sweet as to be purchased at the price of chains and slavery? Forbid it, Almighty God! I know not what course others may take; but as for me, give me liberty or give me death! View quote
Patrick Henry
In conscious life, we achieve some sense of ourselves as reasonably unified, coherent selves, and without this action would be impossible. But all this is merely at the ‘imaginary' level of the ego, which is no more than the tip of the iceberg of the human subject known to psychoanalysis. The ego is function or effect of a subject which is always dispersed, never identical with itself, strung out along the chains of the discourses which constitute it. View quote
Terry Eagleton
Workers of the world awaken. Break your chains, demand your rights. All the wealth you make is taken, by exploiting parasites. Shall you kneel in deep submission from your cradle to your grave? Is the height of your ambition to be a good and willing slave? View quote
Joe Hill
Man is everywhere still in chains. View quote
Herbert Read
When I break any of the chains that bind me, I feel that I make myself smaller. View quote
Antonio Porchia
Untwisting all the chains that tie The hidden soul of harmony. View quote
John Milton
It is often safer to be in chains than to be free. View quote
Franz Kafka
Rise like Lions after slumber In unvanquishable number - Shake your chains to earth like dew Which in sleep had fallen on you - Ye are many - they are few. (Percy Bysshe Shelley)
I don't need to praise anything so justly famous as Frost's observation of and empathy with everything in Nature from a hornet to a hillside; and he has observed his own nature, one person's random or consequential chains of thoughts and feelings and perceptions, quite as well. (And this person, in the poems, is not the "alienated artist” cut off from everybody who isn't, yum-yum, another alienated artist; he is someone like normal people only more so - a normal person in the less common and more important sense of normal.) View quote
Randall Jarrell
It took me a long, long time to break the chains that's inside me. View quote
Manal al-Sharif
He was dressed just like on TV, with lots of silver chains and bracelets, ripped jeans, and a black muscle shirt (Which was kind of stupid, since he didn't have any muscles). View quote
Rick Riordan
Organizations that empower folks further down the chain or try to get rid of the big hierarchal chains and allow decision making to happen on a more local level end up being more adaptive and resilient because there are more minds involved in the problem. View quote
Steven Johnson