Books break the shackles of time, proof that humans can work magic.
There is nothing evil save that which perverts the mind and shackles the conscience.
Memories are not shackles, Franklin, they are garlands.
Commercial shackles are generally unjust, oppressive, and impolitic.
Bring on the shackles - I'm your prisoner
I wished that I were the owner of every southern slave, that I might cast off the shackles from their limbs, and witness the rapture which would excite them in the first dance of their freedom.
Habit: A shackle for the free.
A woman must wait for her ovaries to die before she can get her rightful personality back. Post-menstrual is the same as pre-menstrual; I am once again what I was before the age of twelve: a female human being who knows that a month has thirty day, not twenty-five, and who can spend every one of them free of the shackles of that defect of body and mind known as femininity.
Forgiveness is the key to the heart's shackles.
I do come shackled with whatever people think I am.
It certainly was an important moment for me, that realization that I was not going to get what I wanted. It was very freeing. I keep using that word "freeing" or "liberating. " I feel like Houdini sometimes, like I'm just getting out of one set of shackles after another, hanging upside down inside a burlap bag with handcuffs on. Hopefully one day, I'm going to get out of this tank of water.
Faced with the pain of freedom, man begs for his shackles.
Serving others breaks you free from the shackles of self and self-absorption that choke out the joy of living.
Do not let yourself be contaminated by others' ideas of what is best for you. Cast aside the shackles of destructive thinking.
The power of art can break the shackles that bind and divide human beings.
Forgiveness is the key that unlocks the door of resentment and the handcuffs of hatred. It is a power that breaks the chains of bitterness and the shackles of selfishness.
I own myself the friend to a very free system of commerce, and hold it as a truth, that commercial shackles are generally unjust, oppressive and impolitic.
My parents had broken through the shackles of dogma
The Indian Bureau system is wrong. The only way to adjust wrong is to abolish it, and the only reform is to let my people go. After freeing the Indian from the shackles of government supervision, what is the Indian going to do: leave that with the Indian, and it is none of your business.
Without devotion, action and knowledge are cold and dry and many even become shackles.
