Bondage Quotes

Man was born free, but is everywhere in bondage. (Jean-Jacques Rousseau)
I understand the importance of bondage between parent and child. View quote
Dan Quayle
Fear of serious injury cannot alone justify suppression 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. View quote
Louis Brandeis
Religious bondage shackles and debilitates the mind and unfits it for every noble enterprise, every expanded prospect. View quote
James Madison
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. View quote
Bruce Fairchild Barton
The moment I have realized God sitting in the temple of every human body, the moment I stand in reverence before every human being and see God in him - that moment I am free from bondage, everything that binds vanishes, and I am free. View quote
Swami Vivekananda
But strictly held by none, is loosely bound By countless silken ties of love and thought To everything on earth the compass round, And only by one's going slightly taut In the capriciousness of summer air Is of the slightest bondage made aware. View quote
Robert Frost
A day, an hour, of virtuous liberty Is worth a whole eternity in bondage. View quote
Joseph Addison
The dread of loneliness is greater than the fear of bondage, so we get married. View quote
Cyril Connolly
When Israel, of the Lord belov'd, Out of the land of bondage came, Her fathers' God before her mov'd, An awful guide in smoke and flame. View quote
Walter Scott
Women's fashion is a subtle form of bondage. It's men's way of binding them. We put them in these tight, high-heeled shoes, we make them wear these tight clothes and we say they look sexy. But they're actually tied up. (David Duchovny)
In charity to all mankind, bearing no malice or ill will to any human being, and even compassionating those who hold in bondage their fellow men, not knowing what they do. View quote
John Quincy Adams
Old-fashioned determinism was what we may call hard determinism. It did not shrink from such words as fatality, bondage of the will, necessitation, and the like. Nowadays, we have a soft determinism which abhors harsh words, and, repudiating fatality, necessity, and even predetermination, says that its real name is freedom; for freedom is only necessity understood, and bondage to the highest is identical with true freedom. View quote
William James
Even a second of freedom is worth more than a lifetime of bondage. View quote
James Frey
Immature people falling in love destroy each other's freedom, create a bondage, make a prison. Mature persons in love help each other to be free; they help each other to destroy all sorts of bondages. And when love flows with freedom there is beauty. When love flows with dependence there is ugliness. View quote
Rajneesh
It is precisely those artists and writers who are most inclined to think of their art as the manifestation of their personality who are in fact the most in bondage to public taste. View quote
Simone Weil
Like the cellar-growing vine is the Christian who lives in the darkness and bondage of fear. But let him go forth, with the liberty of God, into the light of love, and he will be like the plant in the field, healthy, robust, and joyful. View quote
Henry Ward Beecher
To realize freedom the mind has to learn to look at life, which is a vast movement, without the bondage of time, for freedom lies beyond the field of consciousness care for watching, but don't stop and interpret "I am free," then you're living in a memory of something that has gone before. View quote
Bruce Lee
(...) Freedom to do what one likes is really bondage, while being free to do what one must, what is right, is real freedom. View quote
Nisargadatta Maharaj
Don't rely on your mind for liberation. It is the mind that brought you into bondage. Go beyond it altogether. View quote
Nisargadatta Maharaj
You are welcome, most noble Sorceress, to the land of the Munchkins. We are so grateful to you for having killed the Wicked Witch of the East, and for setting our people free from bondage. (L. Frank Baum)
Impatience is the mark of independence, not of bondage. View quote
Marianne Moore
Women are still in emotional bondage as long as we need to worry that we might have to make a choice between being heard and being loved. View quote
Marianne Williamson
When Israel was from bondage led, Led by the Almighty's hand From out of foreign land, The great sea beheld and fled. View quote
Abraham Cowley
Blessed are they who, in the calm moments of retirement, of worship, of prayer, of silent waiting, have found that to "the weary and heavy laden " Christ can indeed give rest; that compared with the heavy bondage of the world or the exactions of human systems, His yoke indeed is easy, and His burden is light. View quote
Arthur Penrhyn Stanley