Top 81 Chains Freedom Quotes
#2. I preach deliverance to others, I tell them there is freedom, while I hear my own chains clang.
John Bunyan
#3. We are chained by our own control. Life is nothing more than finding the key that unlocks every part of our soul.
Shannon L. Alder
#4. Yes, thou art ever present, power divine; not circumscribed by time, nor fixed by space, confined to altars, nor to temples bound. In wealth, in want, in freedom, or in chains, in dungeons or on thrones, the faithful find thee.
Hannah More
#5. 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
#7. 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!
Patrick Henry
#8. True freedom is a freedom with clear boundaries. True freedom understands the real essence of do's and don'ts. A freedom without restrictions that brings comfort is a freedom in chains.
Ernest Agyemang Yeboah
#9. With the first link, the chain is forged. The first speech censured, the first thought forbidden, the first freedom denied - chains us all irrevocably.
Star Trek The Next Generation
#10. Often misunderstood, Dionysus is far more than a wine deity. He is the Breaker of Chains, who rescues not only the flesh but the heart and spirit from too much of worldly regulations and duties. He is a god of joy and freedom. Any uncultivated, tangled, and primal woodland is very much his domain.
Tanith Lee
#11. For to be free is not merely to cast off one's chains, but to live in a way that respects and enhances the freedom of others.
Nelson Mandela
#12. To be obsessed by the idea of freedom, for instance, is itself a form of slavery. Such people are in the chains of the hope of freedom, and are therefore able to do little else than struggle with them.
Idries Shah
#13. It is difficult to free fools from the chains they revere.
Voltaire
#14. If the one who is to get us the news is in chains, the news may get to us but with chains!
Ernest Agyemang Yeboah
#16. Those who do not move, do not notice their chains.
Rosa Luxemburg
#17. Start with a style and you are in chains, start with an idea and you are free.
Richard Avedon
#18. And oft the blessed time foretells
When all men shall be free;
And musical, as silver bells,
Their falling chains shall be.
Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
#19. There are internal chains and external chains. All the external chains in the world won't enslave you, if you are free inside. And all the external 'freedom' in the world won't liberate you, if you are chained inside.
Let go. And you'll know Freedom.
Yasmin Mogahed
#20. A man's spirit is free, but his pride binds him with chains of suffocation in a prison of his own insecurities
Jeremy Aldana
#21. If men and women are in chains anywhere in the world, then freedom is endangered everywhere.
John F. Kennedy
#22. Men rattle their chains-to manifest their freedom.
Arthur Helps
#23. Freedom is indivisible; the chains on any one of my people were the chains on all of them, the chains on all of my people were the chains on me.
Nelson Mandela
#26. Forces of good and evil are massed and armed and opposed as rarely before in history. Freedom is pitted against slavery; lightness against the dark ... In the final choice, a soldier's pack is not so heavy a burden as a prisoner's chains.
Dwight D. Eisenhower
#27. He freed man from outer religiosity because he made religiosity the inner man. He freed the body from chains because he enchained the heart.
Karl Marx
#28. Slavery remains rife, the shackles are just different. Labels and desires have replaced the cuffs and chains.
Aisha Mirza
#29. I was a dog on a short chain / and now there's no chain.
Jim Harrison
#30. You were wrong, commander. Whatever chains you try to place on me, I will always, always, rise from them. I'm not buying my freedom, because you never owned it. But I am taking it back, for me, and for my country.
Jennifer A. Nielsen
#31. You said you freed me, but freedom isn't defined by chains or walls. You, alive, with me. That's my freedom.
Pam Godwin
#32. Who among us is free? Only those who see their chains know what freedom means.-pg. 123 Welland Hevington, A Memoir The Demon's Daughter
Emma Holly
#33. Any so-called fetters do not bind youngsters because they have the power and the tactics to break them in their own adroit ways!
Balroop Singh
#34. Most of us came here in chains and most of you came here to escape your chains. Your freedom was our slavery, and therein lies the bitter difference in the way we look at life.
John Oliver Killens
#35. I understood that centuries of chains and lashes will not kill the spirit of man nor the sense of truth within him.
Ayn Rand
#36. The first step in freeing men from external chains was to emancipate them from the internal chains of false beliefs and ideals. To free one's mind of chains is to free it of the care of what is acceptable or viewed so by society, this is when true freedom is discovered.
John Dewey
#37. Unless your freedom turns into a creative realization, you will feel sad. Because you will see that you are free-your chains are broken, and you are no longer in prison; you are standing under the starry night, completely free. But where do you go?
Rajneesh
#38. In my world, our self-inflicted bondage with chains, cuffs, and ropes was never about containment, but freedom, a letting go.
Vanessa Fewings
#39. It is far better for a man to go wrong in freedom than to go right in chains.
Thomas Henry Huxley
#40. Then you know Prometheus was rescued in the end. His chains were broken, and he was finally set free." The old man squinted one of his eyes and added, "How about that?
Brian Selznick
#41. You want your freedom until you get it, then you feel bare without your chains. I wonder if we ever get out of here, will we feel the loss?
Tarryn Fisher
#42. What the slave wants but can never have is not only freedom from the chains but also from their memory.
Ben H. Winters
#43. Freedom without virtue is not freedom but license to pursue whatever passions prevail in the intemperate mind; man's right to freedom being in exact proportion to his willingness to put chains upon his own appetites; the less restraint from within, the more must be imposed from without.
Edmund Burke
#44. Chains used to claim that there's no freedom quite like the freedom of being constantly underestimated," said Locke.
Scott Lynch
#45. Freedom is the dream you dream
While putting thought in chains again
Giacomo Leopardi
#46. It is difficult, my dear Lucius, to escape becoming the person others believe one to be. A slave is twice enslaved, once by his chains and once again by the glances that fall upon him and say thou slave.
Thornton Wilder
#47. Ignorance may be bliss, but it certainly is not freedom, except in the minds of those who prefer darkness to light and chains to liberty. The more true information we can acquire, the better for our enfranchisement.
Robert Hugh Benson
#48. Is It Frightening To Be Free?"
"You said it."
"You Say To People 'Throw Off Your Chains' And They Make New Chains For Themselves?"
"Seems to be a major human activity, yes.
Terry Pratchett
#49. True freedom is to share All the chains our brothers wear, And, with heart and hand, to be Earnest to make others free!
James Russell Lowell
#50. Freedom is a hard-bought thing and millions are in chains, but they strain toward the new day drawing near.
Paul Robeson
#51. 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.
Sri Aurobindo
#52. Fear is a wet blanket that smothers the fiery passion God deposited in your heart when he formed you. Fear freezes us into inaction. Frozen ideas, frozen souls, frozen bodies can't move, can't dream, can't risk, can't love, and can't live. Fear chains us.
Stasi Eldredge
#53. Freedom is the first wish of our heart; freedom is the first blessing of nature; and unless we bind ourselves with voluntary chains of interest or passion, we advance in freedom as we advance in years
Edward Gibbon
#54. America is beyond power; it acts as in a dream, as a face of God. Wherever America is, there is freedom, and wherever America is not, madness rules with chains, darkness strangles millions. Beneath her patient bombers, paradise is possible.
John Updike
#55. Men are freest when they are most unconscious of freedom. The shout is a rattling of chains, always was.
D.H. Lawrence
#56. Freedom's chains are the hardest to break.
Marty Rubin
#58. Disdain the chain, preserve your freedom; and maintain your independency: be industrious and free; be frugal and free.
Benjamin Franklin
#59. 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 ...
Laura Nyro
#60. Free is one that breaks the chains of one's mind and surrenders to that which gives absence of fear.
Tambre Bryant
#61. Well sir, if slavery is freedom then I'm glad I don't have to make a meal of it. Whips and chains are not much to my taste.
Amitav Ghosh
#63. Death isn't empty like you say it is. Emptiness is life without freedom ... Emptiness is living chained by fear, fear of loss, fear of death. I say we break those chains.
Pierce Brown
#64. Whether in chains or in laurels, liberty knows nothing but victories.
Wendell Phillips
#65. It is not the chains of some tyrant that robs us of freedom. Rather, it is the staleness of our attitude.
Craig D. Lounsbrough
#66. The only way you will ever be free is when you decide you have had enough of living up to the standards other people force upon you through shame. Never wear their chains of judgment when they can't break free of their own.
Shannon L. Alder
#67. Neither the chains of dictatorship nor the fetters of oppression can keep down the forces of freedom for long.
Angela Merkel
#68. kill to live, live to kill. Immortality and freedom from these chains, but oh, what a loss . . .
Richelle Mead
#69. Man was born free, but everywhere he is in chains!" Rousseau saw the primitive as innocent and autonomous freedom as the final good. We
Francis A. Schaeffer
#71. 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.
Isaiah Berlin
#72. Who then is free? the wise man who is lord over himself;
Whom neither poverty nor death, nor chains alarm; strong to withstand his passions and despise honors, and who is completely finished and rounded off in himself.
Horace
#73. It is our duty to fight for our freedom.
It is our duty to win.
We must love each other and support each other.
We have nothing to lose but our chains.
Assata Shakur
#74. All ran to meet their chains thinking they secured their freedom, for although they had enough reason to feel the advantages of political establishment, they did not have enough experience to foresee its dangers.
Jean-Jacques Rousseau
#76. That's what it's like to be a prisoner of anything. You want your freedom until you get it,
then you feel bare without your chains.
Tarryn Fisher
#77. In quiet we had learn'd to dwell-
Myvery chains and I grew friends,
So much a long communion tends-
To make us what we are:-even I
Regain'd my freedom with a sigh.
George Gordon Byron
#78. Man, what are you talking about? Me in chains? You may fetter my leg but my will, not even Zeus himself can overpower.
Marcus Aurelius
#79. This "freedom" put a proud people in chains
And turned free men into slaves
"Independence" made us weak
And slaughtered us
In the name of kindness
This is democracy by the whip
And the fear of chains
With a whirlwind at its core
Abdul Salam Zaeef
#80. Employment frees man from the nightmare of unemployment, while it chains him to his employer's dream.
Mokokoma Mokhonoana
#81. Love with attachment consists of waves of emotion, usually creating invisible iron chains.
S. N. Goenka
