#chains

His very chains helped to deceive him about the harshness of his service. ↗

— Bruno Bauer

#chains #deceive #harshness #helped #him

The fundamental sense of freedom is freedom from chains, from imprisonment, from enslavement by others. The rest is extension of this sense, or else metaphor. ↗

— Isaiah Berlin

#else #enslavement #extension #freedom #freedom from

I was skeptical about doing Texas Chainsaw at first because it's such a cult classic. I'd seen some of the sequels and was not a fan of those. ↗

— Jessica Biel

#because #chainsaw #classic #cult #doing

Tyrants have not yet discovered any chains that can fetter the mind. ↗

— Charles Caleb Colton

#chains #discovered #fetter #mind #tyrants

Freedom is living without chains. ↗

— Indra Devi

#freedom #living #without

In the final choice a soldier's pack is not so heavy as a prisoner's chains. ↗

— Dwight D. Eisenhower

#choice #final #heavy #pack #prisoner

To-day I wear these chains, and am HERE. To-morrow I shall be fetterless!--BUT WHERE? ↗

— Edgar Allan Poe

#death #life #death

I used to love to untangle chains when I was a child. I had thin, busy fingers, and I never gave up. Perhaps there was a psychiatric component to my concentration but like much of my psychic damage, this worked to everyone's advantage. ↗

— Anne Lamott

#busy #chains #child #component #concentration

Men are freest when they are most unconscious of freedom. The shout is a rattling of chains, always was. ↗

— David Herbert Lawrence

#always #chains #freedom #freest #most

My kind of gay, meeting a woman and falling in love, is a different experience because it wasn't anything about 'Oh, I've always been gay and I'm breaking the chains.' ↗

— Carol Leifer

#always #anything #because #been #breaking