Top 100 Quotes About Chains
#1. 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
#2. Love to faults is always blind, always is to joy inclined. Lawless, winged, and unconfined, and breaks all chains from every mind.
William Blake
#3. And it beats inside me, this terrible hope, as I know that the end has begun, and I am finally awake. "Break the chains," I roar. And my people roar back.
Pierce Brown
#4. Every era puts invisible shackles on those who have lived through it, and I can only dance in my chains.
Liu Cixin
#5. 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
#6. 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
#8. Was there not wage slavery? Were there not the chains of financial oppression?
Colum McCann
#9. There's no need for chains. I can still take you until you're begging for more.
Harper St. George
#10. Oh, propriety," says Mrs Benjamin. "We're always so concerned with propriety. Even in total madness, we still stick to our hierarchies and chains of command.
Robert Jackson Bennett
#11. I don't rock chains our ancestors did it for us
Phonte
#12. Whenever a free man is in chains we are threatened also. Whoever is fighting for liberty is defending America.
William Allen White
#13. A single thread of hope is stronger than all the chains that bind you.
Jeffrey Fry
#14. In all sorts of government man is made to believe himself free, and to be in chains.
Stanislaw Leszczynski
#15. We may love our chains and our stripes too.
Iris Murdoch
#17. 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
#18. Some chains are forged for us - those are the hardest to bear.
Jacqueline Carey
#19. I preach deliverance to others, I tell them there is freedom, while I hear my own chains clang.
John Bunyan
#20. The shackles." She stirred. "Aryal has both sets of chains, and the key," she told him, muffled against his skin. "She swears she'll find a way to destroy them. She's saying 'My Precious' a lot and talking about dropping them into a volcano.
Thea Harrison
#21. It [the rocket] will free man from his remaining chains, the chains of gravity which still tie him to this planet. It will open to him the gates of heaven.
Wernher Von Braun
#22. I'm not a fan of religion. Religion ties people up and binds them and puts them back in chains but faith - true relationship - releases us to be all what God ever intended us to be. That's what I'm interested in.
Kathie Lee Gifford
#23. see chains on another person and be glad they are not your own--such was the good fortune permitted colored people, defined by how much worse it could be at any moment.
Colson Whitehead
#24. Living things are restrained by chains. The laws of nature, the flow of time, the vessel known as your "body", and the existence called your mind. The one chain that people can wield, words.
CLAMP
#25. My chains are gone
I've been set free
My God, my Savior has ransomed me
And like a flood His mercy reigns
Unending love, amazing grace!
Chris Tomlin
#26. My generals should be like bull terriers on chains, and they should want war, war, war ... But what happens now? I want to go ahead with my aggressive politics and the generals try to stop me. That's a false situation.
Adolf Hitler
#27. Most of us know, now, that Rousseau was wrong: that man, when you knock his chains off, sets up the death camps. Soon we shall know everything the 18th century didn't know, and nothing it did, and it will be hard to live with us.
Randall Jarrell
#28. When I first started seeing (the show) come together, I was blown away. It is unbelievable. And to see Vince singing, and behind him girls hanging by chains, and Harleys on the stage and the pyrotechnics going it's like, this is what I want to see in rock 'n' roll.
Nikki Sixx
#29. While illusion distorts reality for a moment, error can reign for a millennia in abstractions, throw its iron yoke over whole peoples and stifle the noblest impulses of humanity; those it cannot deceive are left in chains by those it has, by its slaves.
Arthur Schopenhauer
#30. 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
#31. The imaginary flowers of religion adorn man's chains. Man must throw off the flowers, and also the chains.
Karl Marx
#32. The chains and the silence, which should have bound her deep within herself, which should have smothered her, strangled her, on the contrary freed her from herself.
Pauline Reage
#33. If the ministers of the Church have often permitted nations to revolt for Heaven's cause, they never allowed them to revolt against real evils or known violencess. It is from Heaven that the chains have come to fetter the minds of mortals.
Baron D'Holbach
#34. The outer chains have simply been put inside of man. The desires and thoughts that the suggestion apparatus of society fills him with, chain him more thoroughly than outer chains.
Erich Fromm
#35. Now I know Jesus Christ is more powerful. But having accepted Jesus as my Savior, I now see the chains that held me down. Not only is Jesus more powerful, He is love.
Vicki V. Lucas
#39. Sometimes the things we think will set us free ... only make more chains. You either wear them or break them, and I ... well, I don't want to wear them.
Karen Marie Moning
#40. 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
#41. 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
#42. According to physical measurements, DNA chains are, on the average, 10,000 units long.
Arthur Kornberg
#43. The first comic book I ever read was an issue of 'Legion of Super-Heroes' where the earth was surrounded by all of these chains. I remember the cover; I got it at a birthday party.
Jonathan Hickman
#44. I'll break your chains; so sing, Takuto. As loud and as much as you want. You don't have to hold back anything.
Arina Tanemura
#45. After departure, only invisible things are left, perhaps the life of the world is held together by invisible chains of memory and loss and love. So many things, so many people, depart! And we can only repossess them in our minds.
James Baldwin
#46. When Spring unlocks the flowers To paint the laughing soil; When summer's balmy breezes Refresh the mower's toil; When winter holds in frosty chains The fallow and the flood; In God the earth rejoices still, And owns her Maker good.
Reginald Heber
#47. Art is free," he said, "and is not to be diminished by any chains of craftsmanship.
Jan Swafford
#48. I stand here without rope or chains, Liv, tethered to you by my own will." His blood beat with the ferocity of his words. "I won't be free until you are.
Pam Godwin
#49. Of course they had more chains on him than Scrooge saw on Marley's ghost, but he could have kicked up dickens if he'd wanted. That's a pun, son.
Stephen King
#50. Only you can achieve self-worth for yourself. Any group offering it to you, or demanding it of you, comes bearing chains of slavery.
Terry Goodkind
#52. My dragons took long naps on their chains and forgot to frighten me with their fiery roar.
Sarina Bowen
#53. Vinyl's just a fun endgame step. I work with analogue signal chains too, but the mp3 is the way I listen to music.
Tim Hecker
#54. 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
#55. Chanel is composed of only a few elements, white camellias, quilted bags and Austrian doorman's jackets, pearls, chains, shoes with black toes. I use these elements like notes to play with.
Karl Lagerfeld
#56. It's a chain of accidents. When you step into Hollywood, you wind yourself into thousands of chains of accidents. If all of the thousands happen to come out exactly right-and the chance of that figures out to be one in eight million-then you'll be a star.
Clark Gable
#57. What drew me to Kazakhstan was a curiosity to learn about life in this 'middle earth' of steppe between the endless forests of Russia in the north and the world's greatest mountain chains to the south.
Tim Cope
#58. Imagine all those unborn. If it is not me, someone else will rise. Ten years from now. Fifty. A thousand. We will break the chains, no matter the cost. You cannot stop us. We are the tide.
Pierce Brown
#60. His rage fed my reckless euphoria. He couldn't stand having his authority challenged, and that made him easy to manipulate.
I was in chains, but he was losing control.
Rachel Vincent
#61. Every tone was a testimony against slavery, and a prayer to God for deliverance from chains.
Frederick Douglass
#62. Part of it is, I think, just to let people know you've got a record out there and that you're still alive requires more work than it used to, because the traditional radio, bug chains of record stores, all of that, that doesn't exist anymore.
Steve Earle
#63. The question of good and evil remains in irremediable chaos for those who seek to fathom it in reality. It is mere mental sport to the disputants, who are captives that play with their chains.
Voltaire
#64. 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.
Mary Astell
#67. Some cannot loosen their own chains and can nonetheless redeem their friends. You must be ready to burn yourself in your own flame: how could you become new, if you had not first become ashes? - Thus Spake Zarathustra
Irvin D. Yalom
#68. Weren't chains ashamed of their prisoners? But
Janet Fitch
#69. Character isn't inherited. One builds it daily by the way one thinks and acts, thought by thought, action by action. If one lets fear or hate or anger take possession of the mind, they become self-forged chains.
Helen Gahagan Douglas
#70. It was perfectly innocent.' That's what Gary Hart said. One day he's running for president, the next he's sitting in an office somewhere making paper-clip chains.
Tami Hoag
#71. 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
#72. 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.
Johan Huizinga
#73. He that has his chains knocked off, and the prison doors set open to him, is perfectly at liberty, because he may either go or stay, as he best likes; though his preference be determined to stay, by the darkness of the night, or illness of the weather, or want of other lodging.
John Locke
#74. The chains of habit are too weak to be felt until they are too strong to be broken.
Samuel Johnson
#75. 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
#76. Production chains, how consumers can drive change: all these things may seem at odds with fashion, but arguably, they're not.
Lily Cole
#77. How efficient and successful supply chains are is determined by how well they are managed.
Marc J. Schniederjans
#78. A knife is a godsend to the man tied in ropes, death to the man in chains.
James Dashner
#79. I was born free, yet today I am in chains. Invisible, they were loosely draped and passed unnoticed until the age of understanding reduced my life to a narrow segment of fear. - Sultana
Jean Sasson
#80. If knowledge hangs around your neck like pearls instead of chains you are a lucky man.
Chris Wade
#81. I want to leave this worn body behind, but my chains are too many, my weights too heavy. This life is all that's left of me. And I know I won't be able to meet myself in the mirror for the rest of the day
Tahereh Mafi
#82. It is sad that the more 'successful' a neighborhood becomes, the more it gradually takes on a recognizable, common look, as the same banks, drugstore chains and national brands move in.
Danny Meyer
#83. If you walk through a door with dead locks,bolts and chains don't betray or turn your back on that trust.The privilege of knowing all that goes on behind that door should be treated as an extraordinary gift.For many people will only ever see half of the real person they've known for years.
Anonymous
#84. 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
#85. 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
#86. 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
#87. The only chains you should wear in life are the chains of commitment.
Shannon L. Alder
#88. Break free from the chains which shackle each soul through the binding links of fear, greed and indifference?
Bryant McGill
#89. You're not going anywhere. If I need to put you in chains to keep you by my side, then so be it.
Jayde Scott
#90. I love titles and organizing chains of ideas. I like that very much.
Marina Warner
#91. He was using his words as chains to bind her again.
Sarah J. Maas
#92. You will never know the purest love you can give a person, until the day you hurt because they hurt. You genuinely want them to succeed in life and be free from all the chains that keep them from being happy, whether you are in their life or not.
Shannon L. Alder
#93. Love must not touch the marrow of the soul. Our affections must be breakable chains that we can cast them off or tighten them ...
Euripides
#94. 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
#96. Disgust at the torments that shackle us, the chains of heavy life.
Elena Ferrante
#97. Releasing the chains to the material means experiencing life within each cell, moment to moment, each moment renewed.
Barbara Brennan
#98. For in this world, marked by sin, the gravitational pull of our lives is weighted by the chains of the "I" and the "self." These chains must be broken to free us for a new love that places us in another gravitational field where we can enter new life.
Pope Benedict XVI
#99. Ribosomes have an error rate of about one letter in 10,000, far lower than the defect rate in our own high-quality manufacturing processes. And they operate at a rate of about 10 amino acids per second, building whole proteins with chains comprising hundreds of amino acids in less than a minute.
Nick Lane
#100. He allowed the world to wind him in the final set of chains, and climbed, once and for all, into the cabinet of mysteries that was the life of an ordinary man.
Michael Chabon
