Top 36 Freedom In Chains Quotes
#1. 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
#2. 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
#3. 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
#4. Start with a style and you are in chains, start with an idea and you are free.
Richard Avedon
#5. 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
#7. 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
#9. 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
#10. 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
#11. A man's spirit is free, but his pride binds him with chains of suffocation in a prison of his own insecurities
Jeremy Aldana
#12. It is far better for a man to go wrong in freedom than to go right in chains.
Thomas Henry Huxley
#13. In my world, our self-inflicted bondage with chains, cuffs, and ropes was never about containment, but freedom, a letting go.
Vanessa Fewings
#14. 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
#15. 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
#16. 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
#17. 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
#18. 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
#20. 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
#21. 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
#22. 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
#23. 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
#24. 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
#25. 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
#26. Freedom is a hard-bought thing and millions are in chains, but they strain toward the new day drawing near.
Paul Robeson
#27. 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
#28. Freedom is the dream you dream
While putting thought in chains again
Giacomo Leopardi
#29. If men and women are in chains anywhere in the world, then freedom is endangered everywhere.
John F. Kennedy
#30. 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
#31. 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
#32. 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
#33. 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
#34. 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
#35. 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
#36. Whether in chains or in laurels, liberty knows nothing but victories.
Wendell Phillips
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