#chains

Let the ruling classes tremble at a communist revolution. The proletarians have nothing to lose but their chains. They have a world to win. Workingmen of all countries, unite! ↗

— Karl Marx

#classes #communist #countries #lose #nothing

The worker of the world has nothing to lose, but their chains, workers of the world unite. ↗

— Karl Marx

#lose #nothing #their #unite #worker

I prefer liberty to chains of diamonds. ↗

— Mary Wortley Montagu

#diamonds #i #liberty #prefer

Happy is the man who has broken the chains which hurt the mind, and has given up worrying once and for all. ↗

— Ovid

#broken #chains #given #happy #hurt

Man is everywhere still in chains. ↗

— Herbert Read

#everywhere #man #still

To-day I wear these chains, and am HERE. To-morrow I shall be fetterless!--BUT WHERE? ↗

— Edgar Allan Poe

#death #life #death

I used to love to untangle chains when I was a child. I had thin, busy fingers, and I never gave up. Perhaps there was a psychiatric component to my concentration but like much of my psychic damage, this worked to everyone's advantage. ↗

— Anne Lamott

#busy #chains #child #component #concentration

My kind of gay, meeting a woman and falling in love, is a different experience because it wasn't anything about 'Oh, I've always been gay and I'm breaking the chains.' ↗

— Carol Leifer

#always #anything #because #been #breaking

We imagine that we want to escape our selfish and commonplace existence, but we cling desperately to our chains. ↗

— Anne Sullivan Macy

#chains #cling #commonplace #desperately #escape

Whether in chains or in laurels, liberty knows nothing but victories. ↗

— Wendell Phillips

#chains #knows #laurels #liberty #nothing