Quotes About Bondage

Nowhere inthe annals of history does the record show a people delivered from bondage bypatience alone.

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.

If we, who have been redeemed, don't say what we have been redeemed from, how are those in the same bondage going to even know that there is hope.

For those who have obtained unobstructed knowledge of Self, the world is seen merely as a bondage causing imagination.

One has neither independence nor freedom from bondage when he is obligated to others

Nothing brings more pain than too much pleasure; nothing more bondage than too much liberty.

If we go as far as we can into the darkness, regardless of the consequences, I believe a midnight truth will free us from our bondage to violence and bring us to the light of peace.

No one is more vulnerable to fear than a man who keeps another in bondage. He will do anything to prevent justice from rearing its head — for he knows well what he deserves at the hands of those he subjugates.

I am a slave to your love. Well, more like indentured servant.

A sense of having been decoyed by some world-old conspiracy into this bondage of body and soul filled her with despair. If marriage was the slow life-long acquittal of a debt contracted in ignorance, then marriage was a crime against human nature.

What if I can't get it up?" Guy wailed. "That's of no importance if you're on the right end of a whip.

Addiction is bondage to the rule of a substance, activity, or state of mind, which then becomes the center of life, defending itself from the truth so that even bad consequences don't bring repentance, and leading to further estrangement from God.

Because of my chains and because of your spell, And the family curse that still haunts us as well.

Youths of the Pellaians and of the Macedonians and of the Hellenic Amphictiony and of the Lakedaimonians and of the Corinthians and of all the Hellenic peoples, join your fellow-soldiers and entrust yourselves to me, so that we can move against the barbarians and liberate ourselves from the Persian bondage, for as Greeks we should not be slaves to barbarians.

There's the bond of a connection and the bond of bondage... When you are connected to somebody, everything each one does affects the other, and it's a kind of bondage. You're not as free as you would be if that person wasn't in your life.

McMurphy tied a chunk of meat to each end of a four-foot string, tossed it into the air, and sent two squawking birds wheeling off, Till death do them part.

So every bondman in his own hand bears The power to cancel his captivity.

We have nothing to lose by trusting the infinite power of the Self, except the bondage of our own ignorance.

The more power there is, the more bondage, the more fear.

Who enslaves another's manhood with weak human power alone, Lays a heavier yoke of bondage thoughtlessly upon his own.

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.

We are the slaves of slaves

So every bondman in his own hand bearsThe power to cancel his captivity.

A few weeks after, on our downward passage, the boat took on board, at Hannibal, a drove of slaves, bound for the New Orleans market. They numbered from fifty to sixty, consisting of men and women from eighteen to forty years of age. A drove of slaves on a southern steamboat, bound for the cotton or sugar regions, is an occurrence so common, that no one, not even the passengers, appear to notice it, though they clank their chains at every step. There