Chains Quotes

My kind of gay, meeting a woman and falling in love, is a different experience because it wasn't anything about 'Oh, I've always been gay and I'm breaking the chains.'

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!

Whether in chains or in laurels, liberty knows nothing but victories.

If the workers took a notion they could stop all speeding trains; every ship upon the ocean they can tie with mighty chains.

Men are freest when they are most unconscious of freedom. The shout is a rattling of chains, always was.

I remember driving to North Carolina when I was a little girl in a snowstorm to get down to my mom's family in the Carolinas. There were chains on the car - it was the late sixties - and we were just singing in the car. Christmas carols.

We forge the chains we wear in life.

Charity never humiliated him who profited from it, nor ever bound him by the chains of gratitude, since it was not to him but to God that the gift was made.

I've been a fan of Metallica and friends with those guys for a long time and that was just great - half Alice In Chains and half Metallica playing together.

Happy is the man who has broken the chains which hurt the mind, and has given up worrying once and for all.

It is often safer to be in chains than to be free.

I used to love to untangle chains when I was a child. I had thin, busy fingers, and I never gave up. Perhaps there was a psychiatric component to my concentration but like much of my psychic damage, this worked to everyone's advantage.

Of what use were wings to a man fast bound in chains of iron?

The fundamental sense of freedom is freedom from chains, from imprisonment, from enslavement by others. The rest is extension of this sense, or else metaphor.

Jazz came to America three hundred years ago in chains.

He that is taken and put into prison or chains is not conquered, though overcome; for he is still an enemy.

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.

It will free man from the remaining chains, the chains of gravity which still tie him to this planet.

Physical nature lies at our feet shackled with a hundred chains. What of the control of human nature? Do not point to the triumphs of psychiatry, social services or the war against crime. Domination of human nature can only mean the domination of every man by himself.

Man was born free, and he is everywhere in chains.

They put chains on me; they chained my waist, my legs. Put me in the back of a squad car, and I literally blacked out. I didn't even - there's whole pieces missing.

Chains of habit are too light to be felt until they are too heavy to be broken.

Tens of thousands of brave Americans died to break the chains of British tyranny so that the principles of our Declaration of Independence could take fold and flourish in the birth of a new nation.

I have asked the village blacksmith to forge golden chains to tie our ankles together. I have gathered all the gay ribbons in the world to wind around and around and around and around and around and around again around our two waists.

In the final choice a soldier's pack is not so heavy as a prisoner's chains.

The worker of the world has nothing to lose, but their chains, workers of the world unite.

For reforms ameliorate the situation of the working class, they lighten the weight of the chains labour is burdened with by capitalism, but they are not sufficient to crush capitalism and to emancipate the workers from their tyranny.

Workers of the world unite; you have nothing to lose but your chains.

We ourselves can die with comfort and even with joy if we know that death is but a passport to blessedness, that this intellect, freed from all material chains, shall rise and shine.

The chains which cramp us most are those which weigh on us least.