It's a matter of seeing the original meaning of all things. The world is full of all kinds of meanings. But our minds are so fettered by the lies and falsehoods they make for themselves, that they cannot see the beauty, goodness, or truth of those meanings. Only a mind that has become free can see such things.
Milk which is just about to turn is akin to that moment spent on the cusp of failure in a dulled and fettered relationship.
These are my politics: to change what we can; to better what we can; but still to bear in mind that man is but a devil weakly fettered by some generous beliefs and impositions; and for no word however sounding, and no cause however just and pious, to relax the stricture on these bonds.
Poetry fettered fetters the human race.
I was born a slave-was the child of slave parents-therefore I came upon the earth free in God-like thought, but fettered in action.
The life of each and every one of us has been written. The crucifix is my autobiography. The blood is the ink. The nails the pen. The skin the parchment. On every line of that body I can trace my life. In the crown of thorns I can read my pride. In the hands that are dug with nails, I can read avarice and greed. In the flesh hanging from him like purple rags, I can read my lust. In feet that are fettered, I can find the times that I ran away and would not let him follow. Any sin that you can think of is written there.
So free we seem, so fettered we are!
You have fettered yourself of your own free will, man-break the fetters!
The greater the mental charlatan, the more definite his insistence on the wickedness and weaknesses of human nature. Yet how can anyone speak of it today, with every soul in a prison, with every heart fettered, wounded, and maimed?. . . With human nature caged in a narrow space, whipped daily into submission, how can we speak of its potentialities?
A free press stands as one of the great interpreters between the government and the people. To allow it to be fettered is to fetter ourselves.
Black chaos comes, and the fettered gods of the earth say, Let there be light.
