#chains

الصينيون اخترعوا كلّ شيء ، وفكّروا في كلّ شيء ، وفهموا كلّ شيء . والانكباب على دراسة الصين هو انكباب على دراسة الذكاء مجسّدا ↗

— Amélie Nothomb

#chains #novel #biography

It is difficult to free fools from the chains they revere. ↗

— Voltaire

#difficult #fools #free #revere

For reforms ameliorate the situation of the working class, they lighten the weight of the chains labour is burdened with by capitalism, but they are not sufficient to crush capitalism and to emancipate the workers from their tyranny. ↗

— Clara Zetkin

#capitalism #chains #class #crush #emancipate

Chains of habit are too light to be felt until they are too heavy to be broken. ↗

— Warren Buffett

#chains #felt #habit #heavy #light

We forge the chains we wear in life. ↗

— Charles Dickens

#forge #life #wear

We're not like Alice In Chains where somebody dies and the band breaks up. ↗

— Ann Wilson

#band #breaks #chains #dies #like

He that is taken and put into prison or chains is not conquered, though overcome; for he is still an enemy. ↗

— Thomas Hobbes

#conquered #enemy #into #overcome #prison

If one sees the American Nightmare first and Chainsaw after that, you'll see it in a different kind of light. ↗

— Tobe Hooper

#american #chainsaw #different #different kind #first

Physical nature lies at our feet shackled with a hundred chains. What of the control of human nature? Do not point to the triumphs of psychiatry, social services or the war against crime. Domination of human nature can only mean the domination of every man by himself. ↗

— Johan Huizinga

#chains #control #crime #domination #every

They put chains on me; they chained my waist, my legs. Put me in the back of a squad car, and I literally blacked out. I didn't even - there's whole pieces missing. ↗

— Jim Bakker

#car #chained #chains #even #i