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Quotes About Chains

Luxury and dissipation, soft and gentle as their approaches are, and silently as they throw their silken chains about the heart, enslave it more than the most active and turbulent vices.
~ Hannah More
Luxury! more perilous to youth than storms or quicksand, poverty or chains.
~ Hannah More
Weren't chains ashamed of their prisoners? But
~ Janet Fitch
Religious superstitions more than all other influences put together cripple & enslave woman, but so long as women themselves do not see it & hug their chains, we have a great educational work to do.
~ Elizabeth Cady Stanton
Thanksgiving is the only day of the year when most of the stores here are closed during the day and reopen after midnight. Even restaurants shut down for the holiday, except for the fast-food chains.
~ Sayed Kashua
I can't even use a can opener. I'm mechanically challenged. I ripped off two thumbnails trying to change kids' bicycle chains.
~ Craig Sager
Llevamos cadenas, aunque nadie las vea, y somos esclavos, aunque los hombres nos llamen libres
~ Oscar Wilde
We have chains, though no eye beholds them; and are slaves, though men call us free.
~ Oscar Wilde
I have seen ministers of justice, clothed in magisterial robes and criminals arraigned before them, while life was suspended on a breath in the courts of England; I have witnessed a congress in solemn session to give laws to nations;...but dignity and majesty have I seen but once, as it stood in chains at midnight, in a dungeon, in an obscure village of Missouri.
~ Parley P. Pratt
Karl Marx recognized that workers without a choice are workers in chains. But his idea of breaking chains was for us to depose the pharaohs and then build the pyramids for ourselves, as if building pyramids is something we just can't stop doing, we love it so much.
~ Daniel Quinn
El Código Sith: La paz es una mentira; sólo hay pasión. Con la pasión gano fuerza. Con las victorias rompo mis cadenas. La Fuerza me liberará.
~ Daniel Wallace
The chains of military despotism, once fastened upon a nation, ages might pass away before they could be shaken off.
~ William Henry Harrison
O loss of sight, of thee I most complain! Blind among enemies, O worse than chains, Dungeon, or beggary, or decrepit age!
~ John Milton
Thought is a melody, Audrey thinks, while the body is an inert mechanism of cogs, springs, chains and ratchets...
~ Will Self
Love to faults is always blind, always is to joy inclined. Lawless, winged, and unconfined, and breaks all chains from every mind.
~ William Blake
What the hammer? What the Chains? In what furnace was thy brain? Where the anvil? What dread grasp? Dare its deadly terrors clasp?
~ William Blake
Walls and ceilings moved with ratcheting mechanical life like the offspring of chains and crabs.
~ China Mieville
Supply chains have evolved into value webs. The emphasis is no longer only on supply and the perspective is no longer linear. Instead, emphasis is spread out among various interconnected parts and the perspective is holistic. In order to adapt, we have to ask ourselves more meaningful questions about everything.
~ Hendrith Vanlon Smith Jr
A man escaped from his cell is not free who still drags his chain.)
~ Leonard Ravenhill
Today you see only your loss, but then you will see how God used it to break the evil chains that had begun to restrain you.
~ Lettie B. Cowman
All ran to meet their chains thinking they secured their freedom, for although they had enough reason to feel the advantages of political establishment, they did not have enough experience to foresee its dangers.
~ Jean Jacques Rousseau
L'uomo è nato libero e ovunque si trova in catene
~ Jean Jacques Rousseau
Peoples once accustomed to masters are not in a condition to do without them. If they attempt to shake off the yoke, they still more estrange themselves from freedom, as, by mistaking for it an unbridled license to which it is diametrically opposed, they nearly always manage, by their revolutions, to hand themselves over to seducers, who only make their chains heavier than before.
~ Jean-Jacques Rousseau
Estas cadenas no me parecieron, sin embargo, muy pesadas, en tanto en cuanto, ignorado por el público, viví en la oscuridad.
~ Jean-Jacques Rousseau