#bondage

Bondage is the life of personality, and for bondage the personal self will fight with tireless resourcefulness and the most stubborn cunning. ↗

— Aldous Huxley

#cunning #fight #life #most #personal

Religious bondage shackles and debilitates the mind and unfits it for every noble enterprise, every expanded prospect. ↗

— James Madison

#enterprise #every #expanded #mind #noble

Impatience is the mark of independence, not of bondage. ↗

— Marianne Moore

#impatience #independence #mark

Republicans understand the importance of bondage between a mother and child. ↗

— Dan Quayle

#bondage #child #importance #mother #republicans

I understand the importance of bondage between parent and child. ↗

— Dan Quayle

#bondage #child #i #importance #parent

But freedom, liberty, is an attribute of the soul and it may exist even when the body is in bondage. ↗

— Ralph A. Cram

#body #bondage #even #exist #freedom

Bondage is - subjection to external influences and internal negative thoughts and attitudes. ↗

— W. Clement Stone

#bondage #external #influences #internal #negative

Is anarchism desirable? Well, who does not seek freedom? What man, unless willing to declare himself in bondage, would care to call any control agreeable? Think about it! ↗

— Johann Most

#agreeable #anarchism #any #bondage #call

Growing up in my family meant ambushes on your birthday, crossbows for Christmas, and games of dodge ball where the balls were occasionally rigged to explode. It also meant learning how to work your way out of a wide variety of death traps. Failure to get loose on your own could lead to missing dinner, or worse, being forced to admit that you missed dinner because your baby sister had tied you to the couch. Again. ↗

— Seanan McGuire

#escape #family #humor #death

My first thought was, “I got a haircut and trimmed my pubes for this job interview?” Then I thought, “Maybe being a political intern isn’t such a bad gig after all. I could learn the ropes that bind the people into bondage.”
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— Jarod Kintz

#dirty #haircut #intern #internship #interview