Bondage Quotes
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If ever thou be'st bound in thy scarf and beaten, thou shalt find what it is to be proud of thy bondage.
William Shakespeare -
The poets are nothing but interpreters of the gods, each one possessed by the divinity to whom he is in bondage.
Plato
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There shall be poets! When woman's unmeasured bondage shall be broken, when she shall live for and through herself, man--hitherto detestable--having let her go, she, too, will be poet! Woman will find the unknown! Will her ideational worlds be different from ours? She will come upon strange, unfathomable, repellent, delightful things; we shall take them, we shall comprehend them.
Arthur Rimbaud -
You yourself must make an effort. Buddhas are only show the way. The thoughtful who enter the way are freed from the bondage of defilements.
Gautama Buddha -
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.
Dennis Jernigan -
Not to know the past is to be in bondage to it, while to remember, to know, is to be set free.
Sigmund Freud -
The religious superstitions of women perpetuate their bondage more than all other adverse influences.
Elizabeth Cady Stanton -
I feel so sorry that many Christians live in bondage even though Jesus has signed their release form with His own blood.
Brother Yun
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Bondage is hoarse, and may not speak aloud.
William Shakespeare -
Our past may explain why we're suffering but we must not use it as an excuse to stay in bondage.
Joyce Meyer -
No man is truly free who is in financial bondage. 'Think what you do when you run in debt', said Benjamin Franklin, 'you give another power over your liberty.'
Ezra Taft Benson -
It is false that the will, left to itself, can do good as well as evil, for it is not free, but in bondage...On the side of man there is nothing that goes before grace, unless it be impotency and even rebellion.
Martin Luther -
A bond is necessary to complete our being, only we must be careful that the bond does not become bondage.
Anna Brownell Jameson -
You have trusted Him as your dying Savior; now trust Him as your living Savior. Just as much as He came to deliver you from future punishment did He also come to deliver you from present bondage. Just as truly as He came to bear your stripes for you has He come to live your life for you.
Hannah Whitall Smith
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An achievement is a bondage. It obliges one to a higher achievement.
Albert Camus -
We show our sympathy with slavery by emancipating slaves where we cannot reach them, and holding them in bondage where we can set them free.
William H. Seward -
Every emotion, from despair all of the way up to ecstasy; from complete Connection to who-you-really-are, all the way to pinching yourself off pretty severely, all of those emotions are about your perception of freedom, or your perception of bondage—every one of them.
Esther Hicks -
Emancipation from every kind of bondage is my principle. I go for recognition of human rights, without distinction of sect, party, sex, or color.
Ernestine Rose -
There was bondage in love; no one had told her that love took away freedom.
Alice Tisdale Hobart -
Religion is a thing of the past, the Party said, an instrument of oppression that keeps the common man in bondage.
Camilla Gibb
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I want to declare to you today: Jesus died to make you holy. It is possible for you to live a life without bondage to sin.
Karen Wheaton -
I consider it poor historical form to make fun of ancestral mistakes without respecting the eros that was linked to them. We are no less in bondage to the Zeitgeist; folly is handed down, we merely don a new cap.
Ernst Junger -
There is a sort of subjection which is the peculiar heritage of largeness and of love; and strength is often only another name for willing bondage to irremediable weakness.
George Eliot -
If you are thinking of nything with dependence upon it, there is a motive of curiosity, or pleasure, or success, and though the thinking will help towards satisfaction you will still be in bondage. There is no harm in this, but the higher samadhi, without such motives, is best.
Ernest Wood