Chains That Bind Quotes

#1. In order to break free from the chains that bind, one must take whatever action they can to disconnect internally from the larger systems of oppression, of which the family unit is merely a microcosm.

Sil Lai Abrams

#2. You will not break loose until you realize that you yourself forge the chains that bind you.

Gary Renard

#3. One should not forget the sins of their forebears, but nor can one advance by paying witness only to the failings of the past. To bury the past is to progress, and only in breaking the chains that bind can you escape the prison your predecessors have laid.

Scott Warren

#4. When I break any of the chains that bind me I feel that I make myself smaller.

Antonio Porchia

#5. Loving someone you want to make your own has a different feeling, a different power than the love you have for family. It's different and the chains that bind it can be unbreakable.

Jay Crownover

#6. Then shoulder to shoulder! Let us engirdle the little circle of the earth with the chains that bind us to each other. To one end let us aim our thoughts, and to one end let us aim our souls. Hail, dawn of liberty, behind thee is the redeeming sun.

Adam Mickiewicz

#7. A single thread of hope is stronger than all the chains that bind you.

Jeffrey Fry

#8. Emptiness is living chained by fear, fear of loss, of death. I say we break those chains. Break the chains of fear and you break the chains that bind us

Pierce Brown

#9. How closely women clutch the very chains that bind them!

Margaret Mitchell

#10. The chains that bind us the most closely are the ones we have broken.

Antonio Porchia

#11. The right words can bind someone more effectively than chains.

Lisa Kleypas

#12. 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

#13. If one is free at heart, no man-made chains can bind one to servitude.

Steven Biko

#14. 31 "Can you bind the chains of the Pleiades, Or loose the cords of Orion?

Anonymous

#15. Let us speak no more of faith in man, but bind him down from mischief by the chains of cryptography.

Glenn Greenwald

#16. As long as man's beliefs, or any part of them, are based on error, he is not completely free, for the chains of error bind his mind.

Bruce R. McConkie

#17. All authority belongs to the people ... In questions of power let no more be heard of confidence in man, but bind him down from mischief with chains of the Constitution.

Thomas Jefferson

#18. He was using his words as chains to bind her again.

Sarah J. Maas

#19. You can handcuff my wrists, and Shackle my feet. You can bind me in chains, throw me in your deepest darkest dungeon...but you can't enslave my thinking...for it is free like the wind.

Jaye Swift

#20. Shut not your minds to the new because the chains of the bast bind you tight, for it is those who cling most desperately to the old who will turn you from the new way and lead you once more in to the paths of the unclean

David Weber

#21. In questions of power, then, let no more be heard of confidence in man, but bind him down from mischief by the chains of the Constitution." After

Glenn Greenwald

#22. There is no room for a complainer in a universe of law, and worry is soul-suicide. By your very attitude of mind you are strengthening the chains which bind you, and are drawing about you the darkness by which you are enveloped, Alter your outlook upon life, and your outward life will alter.

James Allen

#23. ...we are always entertaining the delusion that we will go on forever in this world. The result is that the very things which ought to be of assistance to us in our pilgrimage through life, become chains which bind us.

Sinclair B. Ferguson

#24. Whatever worked in the past, build on it; whatever didn't work in the past, break the chain that binds you to it.

Marianne Williamson

#25. Bind them down by the chains of the Constitution where they can do no mischief.

Thomas Jefferson

#26. There's a saying, cited in popular song, that if you love someone you must set them free. Well, that's just nonsense. If you love someone, you bind them to you with heavy metal chains.

David Nicholls

#27. In questions of power, let no more be heard of confidence in man, but bind him down from mischief by the chains of the constitution.

Thomas Jefferson

#28. To realize the spirit as spirit is practical religion. Everything else is good so far as it leads to this one grand idea.

Swami Vivekananda

#29. Chains," said the Tinker, coming up behind her. "They bind us, whether we want them to or not. But a heart without chains would have nothing to hold it, might simply blow away.

Bruce Coville

#30. I believe that in spite of the chains we bind ourselves with, there's a primordial section of the human psyche that is still nomadic and still yearns to roam free.

Richard Paul Evans

#31. A glance, a word
and joy or pain befalls ... How slight the links are in the chain that binds us to our destiny!

Thomas Bailey Aldrich

#32. Yet much remains To conquer still; peace hath her victories No less renowned then war, new foes arise Threatening to bind our souls with secular chains: Help us to save free conscience from the paw Of hireling wolves whose gospel is their maw.

John Milton

#33. 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

#34. The memories you have are just recordings of things past, not chains to bind you.

Michael Dolan

#35. If a single writer in a country is in chains, then there are some links of that chain that binds us all.

Vaclav Havel

#36. Promises bind our kind as surely as iron chains or ropes of human hair. The fae never swear by anything we don't believe in. We don't ask for thanks and we don't offer them; no promises, no regrets, no chains. No lies.

Seanan McGuire

#37. Chains (other than the ones we all learned to make out of strips of colored paper in kindergarten I suppose) are strong. We use them to pull engine blocks out of trucks and to bind the arms and legs of dangerous prisoners.

Stephen King