#chain

I hate this fast growing tendency to chain men to machines in big factories and deprive them of all joy in their efforts - the plan will lead to cheap men and cheap products. ↗

— Richard Wagner

#chain #cheap #deprive #efforts #factories

In the final choice a soldier's pack is not so heavy as a prisoner's chains. ↗

— Dwight D. Eisenhower

#choice #final #heavy #pack #prisoner

Basically all the world's computer parts come from the same supply chain that runs from Korea, down through coastal China, over to Taiwan, and down to Malaysia. ↗

— Thomas Friedman

#chain #china #coastal #come #computer

Al Qaeda is nothing more than a mutant supply chain. They're playing off the same platform as Wal-Mart and Dell. They're just not restrained by it. What is al Qaeda? It's an open source religious political movement that works off the global supply chain. That's what we're up against in Iraq. We're up against a suicide supply chain. ↗

— Thomas Friedman

#al #chain #dell #global #iraq

The Dell Theory of Conflict Prevention argues that no two countries that are both part of the same global supply chain will ever fight a war as long as they are each part of that supply chain. ↗

— Thomas Friedman

#chain #conflict #countries #dell #each

You can chain me, you can torture me, you can even destroy this body, but you will never imprison my mind. ↗

— Mahatma Gandhi

#chain #destroy #even #imprison #me

I prefer liberty to chains of diamonds. ↗

— Mary Wortley Montagu

#diamonds #i #liberty #prefer

If you're going to hold someone down you're going to have to hold on by the other end of the chain. You are confined by your own repression. ↗

— Toni Morrison

#confined #down #end #going #hold

In England I am not English, in India I am not Indian. I am chained to the 1,000 square miles that is Trinidad; but I will evade that fate yet. ↗

— V. S. Naipaul

#chained #england #english #evade #fate

It is in moments of illness that we are compelled to recognize that we live not alone but chained to a creature of a different kingdom, whole worlds apart, who has no knowledge of us and by whom it is impossible to make ourselves understood: our body. ↗

— Marcel Proust

#apart #body #chained #compelled #creature