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Quotes About Shackled

All this careful conservatism, these shackled environments that barely edged beyond the laws of physics—they only guarded against the Inner Heckler, not these unwelcome sensations intruding from outside.
~ Peter Watts
The earth seemed unearthly. We are accustomed to look upon the shackled form of a conquered monster, but there—there you could look at a thing monstrous and free. It was unearthly, and the men were—No, they were not inhuman. Well, you know, that was the worst of it—this suspicion of their not being inhuman.
~ Joseph Conrad
Conflicting commercial regulations of the different States shackled and diminished both foreign and domestic trade; hence the power to regulate commerce was conferred.
~ Robert Toombs
Future shackled is when tomorrow is anchored, boxed and managed to maximize the minimizing of uncertainty.
~ Bill Jensen, Future Strong
even language is a kind of muteness, that everything is at an irrevocable distance; it made him wish to cross incomprehensible farnesses and yet simultaneously know he couldn't, he was hobbled, shackled. It was the nature of things, we are all shackled, hobbled.
~ Ali Smith
He was being offered a paradise which was shackled to a hell. How could he say yes, how could he say no.
~ Amin Maalouf
To overcome my fear, I shackled myself with hope, its links heavier than any metal known to man.
~ Laila Lalami
And no one was reporting from the prison at Camp Funston, Kansas, where conscientious objectors to military service were shackled to their cell bars on tiptoe for eight hours a day.
~ Adam Hochschild
Somehow we are all seeking some appropriate burden. Until we find it we are horribly shackled, can in fact scarcely live.
~ Jesse Ball
I have read some books of philosophy in which the freedom of burdens is explained, that somehow we are all seeking some appropriate burden. Until we find it, we are horribly shackled, can in fact scarcely live.
~ Jesse Ball
There's a long tradition in Western thought that humans are not shackled by biology, whereas animals are pure instinct machines.
~ Frans de Waal
The mountain of despair has dwindled, and the stone of hope has size and shape, and can be fondled by the eyes and by the hand. But freedom has always been an elusive tease, and in the very act of grabbing for it one can become shackled.
~ Alice Walker
A Persian army being then subject to great inconveniences, for their horses are tied and generally shackled to prevent them from running away, and if an alarm happens, a Persian has the housing to fix, his horse to bridle, and his corslet to put on before he can mount.
~ Xenophon
Seth envied them that freedom as his naked body hung lankly from the ceiling, with his hands shackled over his head. He'd been in this position for so long that his wrist bones protruded through the open cuts the manacles had worn through his flesh. He was sure it had to hurt, but that pain blended in nicely with all the others so that he couldn't tell where one ache began and another throb ended. Who knew torture could have benefits?
~ Sherrilyn Kenyon
The height of humanity should give birth to greater good. We should be in desperation of "CHANGE" but not in spawning evil, because by doing so, humanity remains shackled.
~ Henry Johnson Jr
Choice depends on the freedom to choose and if you are shackled with debt you don't have the freedom to choose.
~ benn tony iii
I try to shake it loose-but these ideas, they cling. It's like I'm shackled to them with an iron chain. They rattle along behind me, dragging against the ground, always reminding me of their presence.
~ Maureen Johnson
Future shackled is when tomorrow is anchored, boxed and managed to maximize the minimizing of uncertainty.
~ Bill Jensen
We compromise ourselves the day we are born. If we are looking for the original sin, there it is- our incapacity to live honestly with ourselves because we are human, because we are shackled by custom, by obligations and we accept compromise only in the light of our conscience, answerable as we are only to ourselves.
~ F. Sionil Jose
No combatants are so unequally matched as when one is shackled with error, while the other rejoices in the self-demonstrability of truth.
~ Horace Mann
They say despair is a terrible thing, but hope is worse: it keeps you shackled for ever, like a dog in a wheel, always running, but never able to go anywhere, save round and round.
~ Karen Maitland
Why is Thorn, a person with a noble heart made to wear the form of a monster, condemned to live here shackled to the shadows and the stone?
~ Kate Macdonald
It is unacceptable that immigrants, including children, are shackled and detained in deplorable conditions. And it is unacceptable that already this year immigrants have died by the dozens in the California desert or in other parts of the Southwest.
~ Roger Mahony
To overcome my fear, I shackled myself with hope, its links heavier than any metal known to man. Having
~ Laila Lalami