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  • Neither the chains of dictatorship nor the fetters of oppression can keep down the forces of freedom for long.

    Women   Long   Empowering  
    Angela Merkel's Remarks in an Exchange of Toasts with President Obama, www.newsroomamerica.com. June 7, 2011.
  • Let only that little be left of me whereby I may name thee my all. Let only that little be left of my will whereby I may feel thee on every side, and come to thee in everything, and offer to thee my love every moment. Let only that little be left of me whereby I may never hide thee. Let only that little of my fetters be left whereby I am bound with thy will, and thy purpose is carried out in my life--and that is the fetter of thy love.

    Names   Purpose   May  
    Rabindranath Tagore (2013). “Gitanjali - Song Offerings”, p.34, Read Books Ltd
  • When the labourer co-operates systematically with others, he strips off the fetters of his individuality, and develops the capabilities of his species.

    Karl Marx, Samuel Moore, Edward Aveling, Friedrich Engels (2011). “Capital, Volume I: A Critique of Political Economy”, p.361, Courier Corporation
  • However weighed down and entangled in earthly fetters you may be, it can never be too late.

  • One of the strongest motives that lead men to art and science is escape from everyday life with its painful crudity and hopeless dreariness, from the fetters of one's own ever-shifting desires. A finely tempered nature longs to escape from the personal life into the world of objective perception and thought.

    Albert Einstein (2011). “Essays in Science”, p.11, Open Road Media
  • No one has ever explained why it is that parents and guardians consider dull people such safe matrimonial investments for their young charges. Even granting the unsound assumption that dull people are more apt to be content with their own matrimonial fetters, they are certainly more apt to be the cause of discontent in others.

    People   Parent   Causes  
  • Unless the gods deceive my mind , That man is forging fetters for himself.

    Men   Mind   Deceiving  
  • Freedom and slavery are mental states.

    'Non-Violence in Peace and War' (1949) vol. 2, ch. 5
  • To succeed in chaining the multitude, you must seem to wear the same fetters.

    Francois Voltaire (1977). “The Portable Voltaire”, p.147, Penguin
  • Who is't that to woman's beauty would submit, And yet refuse the fetters of their wit?

  • Your freedom when it loses its fetters becomes itself the fetter of a greater freedom.

    Khalil Gibran (2007). “Kahlil Gibran: Masterpieces”
  • You cannot hammer a girl into anything. She grows as a flower does, she will wither without sun; she will decay in her sheath as a narcissus will if you do not give her air enough; she might fall and defile her head in dust if you leave her without help at some moments in her life; but you cannot fetter her; she must take her own fair form and way if she take any.

    Girl   Flower   Fall  
    John Ruskin (1894). “Essays and Letters Selected from the Writings of John Ruskin”
  • To this wonderful page in our country's history another more glorious still will be added, and the slave shall show at last to his free brothers a sharpened sword forged from the links of his fetters.

    Country   Brother   Links  
  • You have fettered yourself of your own free will, man - break the fetters!

    Men   Free Will   Break  
    "World Light" by Halldór Laxness, translated by Magnus Magnusson, published by Vintage Books, (Book Three: The House of the Poet), 2002.
  • It is enough for me by day To walk the same bright earth with him; Enough that over us by night The same great roof of stars is dim. I do not hope to bind the wind Or set a fetter on the sea -- It is enough to feel his love Blow by like music over me.

    Stars   Blow   Night  
    Sara Teasdale (1917). “Love Songs”
  • The reason Milton wrote in fetters when he wrote of Angels and God, and at liberty when of Devils and Hell, is because he was a true poet and of the Devil's party without knowing it.

    Party   Angel   Knowing  
    The Marriage of Heaven and Hell "The Voice of the Devil" (note) (1790 - 1793)
  • Socialism is nothing more nor less than the social, political and ideological system which breaks the fetters upon economic growth created under capitalism and opens the way to a new period of economic and social expansion on a much larger scale.

    Political   Growth   Way  
  • All human suffering springs from unbridled desire. Unless one extricates oneself from the clutch of greed, one will not free himself from the fetters of sorrow.

  • Eternal Spirit of the chainless Mind! Brightest in dungeons, Liberty! thou art, For there thy habitation is the heart-- The heart which love of thee alone can bind; And when thy sons to fetters are consign'd-- To fetters and damp vault's dayless gloom, Their country conquers with their martyrdom.

    Country   Art   Son  
    Lord Byron (2013). “Selected Poems of Lord Byron”, p.63, Lulu Press, Inc
  • No man loveth his fetters, be they made of gold.

    Men   Gold   Made  
    John Heywood (1562). “The Proverbs, Epigrams, and Miscellanies of John Heywood ...”, p.366
  • Profuseness is a cruel and crafty demon, that gradually involves her followers in dependence and debt; that is, fetters them with irons that enter into their souls.

  • Tyrants have not yet discovered any chains that can fetter the mind.

    Freedom   Tyrants   Mind  
    Charles Caleb Colton (1824). “Lacon, Or, Many Things in a Few Words: Addressed to Those who Think”, p.217
  • Yes, marriage is hateful, detestable. A kind of ineffable, sickening disgust seizes my mind when I think of this most despotic, most unrequited fetter which prejudice has forged to confine its energies.

    Percy Bysshe Shelley (1988). “Shelley's Prose: Or the Trumpet of a Prophecy”
  • When a man is stimulated by his own thoughts, full of desire and dwelling on what is attractive, his craving increases even more. He is making the fetter even stronger. But he who takes pleasure in stilling his thoughts, practising the contemplation of what is repulsive, and remaining recollected, now he will make an end of craving, he will snap the bonds of Mara. His aim is accomplished, he is without fear, rid of craving and without stain. He has removed the arrows of changing existence. This is his last body.

    Buddhist   Men   Dwelling  
  • Things good in themselves ... perfectly valid in the integrity of their origins, become fetters if they cannot alter.

    Freya Stark (2011). “The Lycian Shore”, p.86, Tauris Parke Paperbacks
  • Be true, and thou shalt fetter time with everlasting chain.

    Friedrich Schiller (1852). “Poems and Ballads ... translated by Sir E. B. Lytton ... With a brief sketch of Schiller's life”, p.76
  • The fetters imposed on liberty at home have ever been forged out of the weapons provided for defense against real, pretended, or imaginary dangers from abroad.

    Real   War   Home  
    James Madison, David B. Mattern (1997). “James Madison's "Advice to My Country"”, p.49, University of Virginia Press
  • If we could only snap the fetters of the body that bind the feet of the soul, we shall experience a great joy. Then we shall not be miserable because of the body's sufferings. We shall become free.

    Feet   Joy   Soul  
  • Tis Love alone can make our Fetters please.

    "Poems Upon Several Occasions: With A Voyage to the Island of Love, Also The Lover in Fashion, Being an Account from Lydicus to Lysander of His Voyage from the Island of Love". Book by Aphra Behn, 1697.
  • Basically, to sum up: We're a generation of anarchists, and we just haven't gotten our hands on the means of production yet so we can fetter the wheels. We haven't been handed the controls yet except to the Internet, which is why it looks like it does.

    Mean   Hands   Wheels  
    "An Afternoon with Mark Pesce: The Uncut Version". Interview with Gregory Pleshaw, en.wikiquote.org.
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