#bondage

That cry of the soul to be lifted out of the bondage of the narrow circle of life, which carries up to God the protest and yearning of suffering man, never finds a more sublime expression than where humanity is oppressed and religion is corrupt. ↗

— Hall Caine

#carries #circle #corrupt #cry #expression

The dread of lonliness is greater than the fear of bondage, so we get married. ↗

— Cyril Connolly

#dread #fear #get #get married #greater

Guys in slavery sang praises to the Lord to deliver them from bondage. ↗

— Isaac Hayes

#deliver #guys #lord #praises #sang

The religious superstitions of women perpetuate their bondage more than all other adverse influences. ↗

— Elizabeth Cady Stanton

#bondage #influences #more #other #perpetuate

Bondage is of the mind; freedom too is of the mind. If you say 'I am a free soul. I am a son of God who can bind me' free you shall be. ↗

— Ramakrishna

#bind #bondage #free #freedom #god

You stand fully clothed in a dark room with a spotlight on you. It’s bright but not blinding. So bright, you think the light should warm you. “Will you take off your clothes now, please.” he says from the dark. A calm voice, but definitely a commanding voice. I can imagine when it’s raised it could be, but in all the time he never raised it, the tone was always just right; even when he would say. “Yes, please let me hear you moan now. Louder” It was always pitched just right. Except that one time. ↗

— Germaine Gibson

#erotica #imagination

And we know that once we have a majority that are dependent upon the government, we will lose our freedom; it says we go into bondage. That's the next stage. ↗

— Sharron Angle

#dependent #freedom #go #government #into

The individual who has to justify his existence by his own efforts is in eternal bondage to himself. ↗

— Eric Hoffer

#efforts #eternal #existence #himself #his

What a curious phenomenon it is that you can get men to die for the liberty of the world who will not make the little sacrifice that is needed to free themselves from their own individual bondage. ↗

— Bruce Barton

#curious #die #free #get #individual

Impotence, fetishism, bisexuality, and bondage are all facts of life, and our fiction should reflect that. ↗

— Rick Moody

#bondage #facts #fiction #impotence #life