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Quotes About Bondage

L'uomo è nato libero e ovunque si trova in catene
~ Jean Jacques Rousseau
Man is born free, but is everywhere in chains.
~ Jean-Jacques Rousseau
Man is born free but today everywhere he is in chains.
~ Jean-Jacques Rousseau
Dad dinero, y pronto tendréis cadenas
~ Jean-Jacques Rousseau
There are in all ages men born to be in bondage to the opinions of the society in which they live.
~ Jean-Jacques Rousseau
Civilised man is born and dies a slave. The infant is bound up in swaddling clothes, the corpse is nailed down in his coffin. All his life long man is imprisoned by our institutions.
~ Jean-Jacques Rousseau
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
Saudi Arabia has stability. The social contract and the political contract between the king and the rulers and the royal family and the ruled people in Saudi Arabia is very strong and the bondage is so solid.
~ Al-Waleed bin Talal
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.
~ Lakeith Stanfield
Just remember, forgiveness is a way of setting yourself free of the bondage put on you by others. There is liberty to be had in it.
~ Tracie Peterson
Just remember, forgiveness is a way of setting yourself free of the bondage put on you by others. There is liberty to be
~ Tracie Peterson
forgiveness is a way of setting yourself free of the bondage put on you by others. There is liberty to be had in it.
~ Tracie Peterson
Just remember, forgiveness is a way of setting yourself free of the bondage put on you by others. There is liberty to he had in it.
~ Tracie Peterson
gnosis (i.e., knowledge or enlightenment), forbade him to eat from the fruit of the tree of knowledge. But the God, the highest Lord, the all-good and all-wise Deity, took compassion on man and sent the serpent to induce him to eat of the tree of knowledge so that he might escape the bondage of ignorance in which Yahveh, the demiurge, tried to hold him.
~ Paul Carus
And it was true that she had to accept, to consent in the real sense of the term, for nothing would be inflicted upon her by force to which she had not already previously consented; she could refuse, nothing was keeping her enslaved except her love and her self-enslavement. What prevented her from leaving?)
~ Pauline Réage
But what a delight and comfort, this iron ring which pierces the flesh and weighs one down forever, this mark eternal, how peaceful and reassuring the hand of a master who lays you on a bed of rock, the love of a master who knows how to take what he loves ruthlessly, without pity.
~ Pauline Réage
Y es que René la dejaba libre y ella detestaba su libertad. Su libertad era peor que cualquier cadena.
~ Pauline Réage
Su promesa la ataba tanto como las pulseras de cuero y las cadenas.
~ Pauline Réage
Sólo el amor nos permite escapar y transformar la esclavitud en libertad
~ Paulo Coelho
When there were none but these two left in the hall, Wang the Tiger leaned forward out of his carven seat and he said in a hard, hoarse voice, Woman, you are free. Choose where you will go and I will send someone to take you there. And she answered simply, with all the boldness gone out of her, except that she could look at him in the eyes while she said it, I have chosen already. I am your bondswoman.
~ Pearl S. Buck
Disguise thyself as thou wilt, still, Slavery," said I, "still thou art a bitter draught.
~ Laurence Sterne
It is precisely those artists and writers who are most inclined to think of their art as the manifestation of their personality who are in fact the most in bondage to public taste.
~ Simone Weil
One night of slavery is too much.
~ Darren Shan
Nothing's as awful as slavery...
~ Darren Shan