Fetters of gold are still fetters, and the softest lining can never make them so easy as liberty. Votes: 4
Mary AstellAn oppressed people are authorized whenever they can to rise and break their fetters. Votes: 2
Henry ClayUnless the gods deceive my mind , That man is forging fetters for himself. Votes: 0
Theognis of MegaraFondnesse it were for any being free, To covet fetters, though they golden bee. Votes: 0
Edmund SpenserMany a one cannot loosen his own fetters, but is nevertheless his friend's emancipator. Votes: 0
Friedrich NietzscheThe repetition of a catchword can hold analysis in fetters for fifty years or more. Votes: 0
Benjamin CardozoThe fetters of tyranny were not stricken from America for the sake of Americans alone. Votes: 0
Orson F. WhitneyYour freedom when it loses its fetters becomes itself the fetter of a greater freedom. Votes: 0
Khalil GibranWhat fetters the mind and benumbs the spirit is ever the dogged acceptance of absolutes. Votes: 0
Edward SapirWho is't that to woman's beauty would submit, And yet refuse the fetters of their wit? Votes: 0
Aphra BehnTrue artistic renewal does not mean being stripped of fetters. It means moving into new fetters. Votes: 0
Tawfiq al-HakimHowever weighed down and entangled in earthly fetters you may be, it can never be too late. Votes: 0
Tito CollianderTrue, the movement for women's rights has broken many old fetters, but it has also forged new ones. Votes: 0
Emma Goldman