I will draw you back to me. You shall see. By a chain of stars.
At the extremity of hardship comes relief and at the tightening of the chains of trials and tribulations comes ease.
Life consists of a long chain of coincidences.
Not all the chains are bad and not all the freedoms are good!
The whole world yearns after freedom, yet each creature is in love with his chains; this is the first paradox and inextricable knot of our nature.
He who has nothing—it has been said many times—has nothing to lose but his chains.
If the workers took a notion they could stop all speeding trains; every ship upon the ocean they can tie with mighty chains.
Once the working classes were in chains, now they're in chain restaurants.
Anytime you turn on your own concept of God, you are no longer a free man. No one needs to put chains on your body, because the chains are on your mind.
Be true, and thou shalt fetter time with everlasting chain.
I stand ready to negotiate, but I want no part of laws: I acknowledge none; I protest against every order with which some authority may feel pleased on the basis of some alleged necessity to over-rule my free will. Laws: We know what they are, and what they are worth! They are spider webs for the rich and mighty, steel chains for the poor and weak, fishing nets in the hands of government.
Freedom is the dream you dream While putting thought in chains again --
Laziness grows on people; it begins in cobwebs and ends in iron chains
There are no chains like hate. . . dwelling on your brother's faults multiplies your own. You are far from the end of your journey.
The iron chain and the silken cord are both equally bonds.
People are terrified to be set free - they hold on to their chains. They fight anyone who tries to break those chains. It's their security. . . How can they expect me or anyone else to set them free if they don't really want to be free?
Start with a style and you are in chains, start with an idea and you are free.
The domestic NSA-led Surveillance State which Frank Church so stridently warned about has obviously come to fruition. The way to avoid its grip is simply to acquiesce to the nation's most powerful factions, to obediently remain within the permitted boundaries of political discourse and activism. Accepting that bargain enables one to maintain the delusion of freedom - "he who does not move does not notice his chains," observed Rosa Luxemburg - but the true measure of political liberty is whether one is free to make a different choice.
Keep skid chains on your tongue. Say less than you think. Cultivate a pleasant voice. How you say it is often more important than what you say.
Be watchful lest thou lose the power of desiring and loving what appeals to the soul this is the miser's curse this the chain and ball the sensualist drags.
