Top 100 Quotes About Bondage
#1. Faith without love is to be in people's bondage. Love without faith, is to be in your own bondage.
Alireza Salehi Nejad
#2. Harshaw concluded that man, a social animal, could not avoid government, any more than an individual could escape bondage to his bowels
Robert A. Heinlein
#4. One day a pickaninny was happy and the next the light was gone from them; in between they had been introduced to a new reality of bondage.
Colson Whitehead
#5. Woman has so long been subject to the disabilities and restrictions with which her progress has been embarrassed that she has become enervated, her mind to some extent paralyzed; and like those still more degraded by personal bondage she hugs her chains.
Lucretia Mott
#6. We have to hear again and again who God is for us and what God has done on our behalf. We must free each other from bondage through our confession and forgiveness.
Nadia Bolz-Weber
#7. All men are into bondage, 'specially if they're real assholes at work all day.
Kathy Lette
#8. 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
#9. When Christians unto carnal men give ear, Out of their way they go, and pay for 't dear; For Master Worldly Wiseman can but shew A saint the way to bondage and to woe.
John Bunyan
#10. Sometimes the truth will hurt and a lie will set you free; just as a lie will hurt and the truth will set you free.
Anthony Liccione
#11. The freefall sex? Grossly oversold. Everything moves in all the wrong ways. Things get away from you. You have to strap everything down to get purchase. It's more like mutual bondage.
Ian McDonald
#12. This time his voice comes from the left and I hear his footfall moving around my body as I obey. Suddenly I am all limbs, stretching out to please him. I am absurdly vulnerable and beyond aroused. I want him now.
Felicity Brandon
#13. The work of redemption was accomplished by Christ in His death on the cross and has in view the payment of the price demanded by a holy God for the deliverance of the believer from the bondage and burden of sin. Inredemption the sinner is set free from his condemnation and slavery to sin.
John F. Walvoord
#14. In light of 50 years of bondage of Eastern Europe, [invading the Soviet Union in 1948 to prevent it from acquiring nuclear weapons] was probably a reasonable thing to do.
Condoleezza Rice
#15. The awakening of the soul to its bondage and its effort to stand up and assert itself - this is called life.
Swami Vivekananda
#16. Be always available to noble pursuits ... by deed, thought, emotion, prayer, presence, sharing ... or whatever other manner ... but always attempt to join the bandwagon of noble pursuits in one or the other manner ... this helps to unpack the karmic bondage.
Dinesh Kumar
#17. Outwardly nature is busy and restless, inwardly she is all silence and peace. She has toil on one side and leisure on the other. You see her bondage only when you see her from without, but within her heart is a limitless beauty.
Rabindranath Tagore
#18. Romans says the creation was 'subjected to frustration, in hope that it will be liberated from its bondage to decay.' In hope! There is hope for the earth. As Christians, we can and should have hope for the earth, as well as our hope of heaven.
Howard A. Snyder
#19. No man is truly free who is in financial bondage. 'Think what you do when you run in debt', said Benjamin Franklin, 'you give another power over your liberty.'
Ezra Taft Benson
#20. Cut the bondage of all worldly affections; go beyond laziness and all care as to what becomes of you.
Swami Vivekananda
#22. A cage stokes our emotions and imaginations, regardless of whether you are inside looking out, or outside looking in.
Michael Makai
#23. We have nothing to lose by trusting the infinite power of the Self, except the bondage of our own ignorance.
Mata Amritanandamayi
#24. Karma is your survival and your bondage. And if you handle it right, it can also be your liberation.
Jaggi Vasudev
#25. Is it possible that my walls are specifically erected and intentionally reinforced out of the fear that God calls me to an existence without walls? And if this is so, do I realize that I am the warden of prison that I created in which I myself am the prisoner?
Craig D. Lounsbrough
#26. A dark hand had let go its lifelong hold upon her heart. But she did not feel joy, as she had in the mountains. She put her head down in her arms and cried, and her cheeks were salt and wet. She cried for the waste of her years in bondage to a useless evil. She wept in pain, because she was free.
Ursula K. Le Guin
#27. The natural beauty of the earth made hard for me to consider the pathetic struggle of humans on the face of it. The great release of death, I thought, was not from the bondage to our lovely planet- who could ever wish to leave this extraordinary place?- but from one another.
Valerie Martin
#28. I've been quite happy. Look, here are my proofs. Remember that I am indifferent to discomforts which would harass other folk. What do the circumstances of life matter if your dreams make you lord paramount of time and space?
W. Somerset Maugham
#29. For man, mind is the cause of bondage and mind is the cause of liberation. Mind absorbed in sense objects is the cause of bondage, and mind detached from the sense objects is the cause of liberation.
A.C. Bhaktivedanta Swami Prabhupada
#30. Don't rely on your mind for liberation. It is the mind that brought you into bondage. Go beyond it altogether.
Sri Nisargadatta Maharaj
#31. America is the moral force that defeated communism and all those who would put the human soul itself into bondage.
Ronald Reagan
#32. The moment love becomes a relationship, it becomes a bondage, because there are expectations and there are demands and there are frustrations, and an effort from both sides to dominate. It becomes a struggle for power ...
Rajneesh
#33. God is an inner strength that is inside humans, therefore faith should be about breaking away from material bondage and the mechanical fabrication of human nurture.'
- Jagdeep Takk
Jagdeep Takk
#34. You look like Cinderella," said Val in awe.
"Yeah, if she'd been into bondage and had Christian Dior for a godmother.
Daniel O'Malley
#35. This, however, is sure: nothing is really lost. Any influence for good, no matter how ephemeral, makes its mark: it helps to leaven the loaf of evil: it leaves a loophole, albeit a small one, for a future escape from bondage.
Horace Annesley Vachell
#36. It's asking a great deal that things should appeal to your reason as well as your sense of the aesthetic. - Of Human Bondage
W. Somerset Maugham
#37. Heaven's blessing must attend all, and freedom must soon be given to the pining millions under a ruthless bondage.
Frederick Douglass
#38. The enemy will do anything to rob my joy of homeschooling and parenting. He wanted me to live in bondage and feel guilty and like I was never doing enough to have me miss the real joy of just being home with my children.
Tamara L. Chilver
#39. Freedom to do what one likes is really bondage, while being free to do what one must, what is right, is real freedom.
Sri Nisargadatta Maharaj
#40. 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.
Walter Scott
#41. Bondage is - subjection to external influences and internal negative thoughts and attitudes.
W. Clement Stone
#42. The most insidious thing about bondage was how easy it was to grow accustomed to it.
George R R Martin
#43. In fact, there are more slaves in the world today than at any other point in human history, with an estimated 27 million in bondage across the globe.
Jen Lilley
#44. He who asserts he is free, shall be free. He who says he is bound, bound he shall remain.
Swami Vivekananda
#45. The holiday specifies that everyone recline during the meal. It is a symbolic gesture showing that Jews can eat with leisure because they have been freed from bondage.
Karl Katz
#46. How to Kill a Superhero: A Gay Bondage Manual is the first book in the Gold Apocalypse series, which follows the adventures of Roland in his quest to harness the powers of the Golden Man.
Pablo Greene
#47. Imagine what your life will look like when you have broken the bondage of fear.
Bruce Wilkinson
#48. Emancipation from every kind of bondage is my principle. I go for recognition of human rights, without distinction of sect, party, sex, or color.
Ernestine Rose
#49. The most assiduous task of parenting is to divine the difference between boundaries and bondage.
Barbara Kingsolver
#50. 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.
Swami Vivekananda
#51. Love. Who knows about another's love? The more you love the more you know the burnt out loss of love, the more you heed the silence of unknowing in the face of another's spiritual bondage.
Anne Rice
#52. A sublime soul can rise to all kinds of greatness, but by an effort; it can tear itself from all bondage, to all that limits and constrains it, but only by strength of will. Consequently the sublime soul is only free by broken efforts.
Friedrich Schiller
#53. One discovers that destiny can be diverted, that one does not have to remain in bondage to the first wax imprint made on childhood sensibilities. Once the deforming mirror has been smashed, there is a possibility of wholeness. There is a possibility of joy.
Anais Nin
#55. Bondage is of the mind; freedom too is of the mind. If you say 'I am a free soul. I am a son of God who can bind me' free you shall be.
Ramakrishna
#56. Familiarize yourselves with the chains of bondage and you prepare your own limbs to wear them. Accustomed to trample on the rights of others, you have lost the genius of your own independence and become the fit subjects of the first cunning tyrant who rises among you.
Abraham Lincoln
#57. I'm sure you can manage from here, and without a further word, he walked out of her room, then let himself out of her flat.
M.F. Roberts
#58. It is as if the fact that God is light, penetrating and manifesting everything, is so absolutely important that darkness and bondage can and must exist for the light's sake.
Hans Urs Von Balthasar
#59. He who is alone is happy. Do good to all, like everyone, but do not love anyone. It is a bondage, and bondage brings only misery. Live alone in your mind - that is happiness. To have nobody to care for and never minding who cares for one is the way to be free.
Swami Vivekananda
#60. For instance, I remember someone asking Sophocles, the poet, whether he was still capable of enjoying a woman. 'Don't talk in that way,' he answered; 'I am only too glad to be free of all that; it is like escaping from bondage to a raging madman.
Plato
#61. Do your actions in the world, without forgetting that your find goal in life is to break free from all bondage and limitations. Always 'remember that you have a higher goal to attain.
Mata Amritanandamayi
#62. According to Jains the soul in pure form has infiniteness in terms of its knowledge and power. These faculties are obstructed for its exhibition due to Karmic bondage. As the soul progresses in its morality and spirituality it gets certain powers which may look miraculous.
Virchand Gandhi
#63. The history of American democracy, to say the least, has been checkered. Our nation was founded at a time when people of African descent were held in bondage. After slavery was abolished, they were forced to endure legal discrimination for another 100 years.
Bernie Sanders
#64. The very fact that we wish for liberation shows that freedom from all bondage is our real nature. It is not to be freshly acquired. All that is necessary is to get rid of the false notion that we are bound.
Ramana Maharshi
#65. Do not desire, for what you desire you get, and with it comes terrible bondage. It is nothing but bringing "noses on us," as in the case of the man who had three boons to ask. We never get freedom until we are self-contained. "Self is the Saviour of self, none else."
Swami Vivekananda
#66. Work and worship are necessary to take away the veil, to lift off the bondage and illusion.
Swami Vivekananda
#67. The elephant goad represents Yama, the god of death and bondage. Ganesha thus acknowledges the life-giving aspect of nature as well as the life-taking aspect of nature.
Devdutt Pattanaik
#68. I get out, I get out of all your boxes. I get out, you can't hold me in these chains. I'll get out. Father free me from this bondage. Knowin' my condition is the reason I must change
Lauryn Hill
#69. When Jesus touches me with his rescuing grace, he is freeing me from my bondage to me!
Paul David Tripp
#70. Freedom is from something. What are you to be free from? Obviously, you must be free from the person you take yourself to be, for it is the idea you have of yourself that keeps you in bondage.
Sri Nisargadatta Maharaj
#71. You didn't hear Yello until later in the night in the bondage clubs. Things would start getting crazy and that's when you'd hear Yello. It was bad.
Margaret Cho
#72. But oh, my brothers, black folk ain't never goin' to be led from bondage without they has pride! Black folk ain't goin' to be free, they ain't goin' to have no spoonbread an' sweet cider less'n they studies to love they own selves. Only then will the first be last, and the last first.
William Styron
#73. This is my favorite story of the week. The Republican National Committee is in trouble after spending nearly $2,000 at a bondage club in Hollywood. You know what I call a Republican that spends a lot of money in a strip club? A Democrat.
Jay Leno
#74. If you don't know, then it's all right. There need not be any expectations. If there are no expectations, then you are free. If you expect, then you are in bondage. Choose whatever you want. Expectations are never fulfilled.
H.W.L. Poonja
#75. Our past may explain why we're suffering but we must not use it as an excuse to stay in bondage.
Joyce Meyer
#76. When asked how much time she invested in taking care of her body, Edith Enders, married to an abusive husband, scrawled, "not as much as I would were I a free citizen or as I did before I was in bondage to a despot.
Kathy Peiss
#77. The only person I did bondage for was Irving Klaw and his sister Paula. Usually they would shoot four or five models every Saturday. He wouldn't pay for the regular pictures unless we did some bondage. So I did bondage shots to get paid for the other photos.
Bettie Page
#78. And without a doubt it is more comfortable to endure blind bondage than to work for one's liberation; the dead, too, are better suited to the earth than the living.
Simone De Beauvoir
#79. It is the truth of grace and not of the law that brings you true freedom. The truth of the law only binds you. In fact, religious bondage is one of the most crippling bondages with which a person can be encumbered. Religious bondage keeps one in constant fear, guilt, and anxiety.
Joseph Prince
#80. South African literature is a literature in bondage. It is a less-than-fully-human literature. It is exactly the kind of literature you would expect people to write from prison.
J.M. Coetzee
#81. There are those who would keep us slipping back into the darkness of division, into the snake pit of racial hatred, of racial antagonism and of support for symbols of the struggle to keep African-Americans in bondage.
Carol Moseley Braun
#82. Unhappiness is bondage; therefore, happiness is freedom.
Lauren Oliver
#83. I begin to find an idle and fond bondage in the oppression of aged tyranny, who sways, not as it hath power, but as it is suffered.
William Shakespeare
#84. Knowledge that leads to restlessness (unsteadiness) is tremendous bondage.
Dada Bhagwan
#85. Do not cling to anything, to any idea; because clinging is the bondage, even to the idea of enlightenment.
Rajneesh
#86. In your life never become an agent of Negativity; Unknowingly if you act negative to positive pursuits ... you unnecessarily accumulate Karmic bondage ... Then why act negative ?
Dinesh Kumar
#87. Let them fear bondage who are slaves to fear; the sweetest freedom is an honest heart.
John Ford
#88. There was bondage in love; no one had told her that love took away freedom.
Alice Tisdale Hobart
#89. If you're involved in the gay and lesbian lifestyle, it's bondage. It is personal bondage, personal despair and personal enslavement.
Michele Bachmann
#90. Bondage is the life of personality, and for bondage the personal self will fight with tireless resourcefulness and the most stubborn cunning.
Aldous Huxley
#91. And indeed this idea is sometimes treated with derision, for how can a man shake off his habits? What can become of him if he is in such bondage to the habit of satisfying innumerable desires that he has created for himself?
Fyodor Dostoyevsky
#92. That which frees one from bondage is the right religion.
Dada Bhagwan
#93. Let geese
Gabble and hiss, but heroes seek release
From dusty bondage into luminous air.
Edna St. Vincent Millay
#94. How could America send men into space and still keep its black citizens in bondage?
Barack Obama
#95. For those who have obtained unobstructed knowledge of Self, the world is seen merely as a bondage causing imagination.
Ramana Maharshi
#96. The human condition for the vast majority of people on this planet for the entire time of what humanity has been here has been bondage and tyranny, dictatorship, pestilence. That's really what American exceptionalism is, when you get right down to it.
Rush Limbaugh
#97. When you're talking about an authority figure oppressing against people, it's the people that hold that authority figure up. If you want to get free of this bondage, then we need to think about ways to free ourselves rather than looking to the oppressors to free us.
Keith Stanfield
#98. There is no such thing as freedom on earth," he said. "Only different kinds of bondages. And comparative bondages. YOU think you are free now because you've escaped from a peculiarly unbreakable kind of bondage. But are you? You love me - THAT'S a bondage.
L.M. Montgomery
#99. Yet on the other hand, I did manage to write, and without more than occasional repining, during my years of bondage, and I would not, as some unsatisfied writers do, blame my lack of productivity upon my lack of time.
Iris Murdoch
#100. Tests and persecutions will eventually lead to deliverance from bondage and make us stronger if we respond right to them
Sunday Adelaja
