Fetters Quotes
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Genius ... is necessarily intolerant of fetters.
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Why should a man be in love with his fetters, though of gold?
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Many a one cannot loosen his own fetters, but is nevertheless his friend's emancipator.
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Poetry fettered fetters the human race.
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I do not share the crusading spirit of the professional atheist whose fervor is mostly due to a painful act of liberation from the fetters of religious indoctrination received in youth. I prefer an attitude of humility corresponding to the weakness of our intellectual understanding of nature and of our own being.
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Things good in themselves ... perfectly valid in the integrity of their origins, become fetters if they cannot alter.
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There is a devilish mercy in the judge, if you'll implore it, that will free your life, but fetter you till death.
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I was most confusedly in love. ... Even though I resolved not to think of him, his face would keep appearing between me and a book I tried to read, or his voice would suddenly sound instead of the words I tried to write on a page. ... I found love annoying and uncomfortable, like fetters, until I got used to it.
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When a slave begins to take pride in his fetters and hugs them like precious ornaments, the triumph of the slave-owner is complete.
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Golden fetters are no less galling to a self-respecting man that iron ones; the sting lies in the fetters, not in the metal.
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Haste trips up its own heels, fetters and stops itself.
