“ Golden fetters are no less galling to a self-respecting man theniron ones; the sting lies in the fetters, not in the metal. ”
- Mahatma Gandhi- Copy
- 2.1K
“ Fetters of gold are still fetters, and the softest lining can never make them so easy as liberty. ”
- Mary Astell- Copy
- 651
“ Tyrants have not yet discovered any chains that can fetter the mind. ”
- Charles Caleb Colton- Copy
- 131
“ Forgiveness is the key that unlocks the door of resentment and the handcuffs of hate. It is a power that breaks the chains of bitterness and the shackles of selfishness. ”
- William Arthur Ward- Copy
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“ Stone walls confine a tinker; cold iron binds a witch; but a musician's music can never be fettered, for it lives first in her heart and mind. ”
- Charles de Lint- Copy
- 2.9K
“ We have now traced the history of women from Paradise to the nineteenth century and have heard nothing through the long roll of the ages but the clank of their fetters. ”
- Lady Jane Wilde- Copy
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“ An oppressed people are authorized whenever they can to rise and break their fetters. ”
- Henry Clay- Copy
- 1.4K
“ Things good in themselves … perfectly valid in the integrity of their origins, become fetters if they cannot alter. ”
- Freya Madeline Stark- Copy
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“ The traveler has reached the end of the journey! In the freedom of the infinite he is free from all sorrows, the fetters that bound him are thrown away, and the burning fever of life is no more. ”
- The Dhammapada- Copy
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“ The moment the slave resolves that he will no longer be a slave. His fetters fall… freedom and slavery are mental states. ”
- Mahatma Gandhi- Copy
- 2K
“ Inevitably we look upon society, so kind to you, so harsh to us, as an ill-fitting form that distorts the truth; deforms the mind; fetters the will. ”
- Virginia Woolf- Copy
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