#chains

Luxury! more perilous to youth than storms or quicksand, poverty or chains. ↗

— Hannah More

#luxury #more #perilous #poverty #quicksand

Man was born free, and he is everywhere in chains. ↗

— Jean-Jacques Rousseau

#chains #everywhere #free #man

Nor was it only from the millions of slaves that chains had been removed; the whole nation had been in bondage; free speech had been suppressed. ↗

— Matthew Simpson

#bondage #chains #free #free speech #had

We ourselves can die with comfort and even with joy if we know that death is but a passport to blessedness, that this intellect, freed from all material chains, shall rise and shine. ↗

— Matthew Simpson

#chains #comfort #death #die #even

You're not like other Wasps." "Aren't I?" Aagen smiled, but it was a painful smile. "No doubt you've killed my kinsmen by the score." "A few," Salma allowed. "Well, next time you shed my kinden's blood, think on this: we are but men, no less nor more than other men, and we strive and feel joy and fail as men have always done. We live in the darkness that is the birthright of us all, that of hurt and ignorance, only sometimes... sometimes there comes the sun." He let the bowl fall from his fingers to the floor, watching it spin and settle, unbroken. ↗

— Adrian Tchaikovsky

#aagen-s-joy #birthright #darkness #grief-in-chains #here-comes-the-sun

Any act often repeated soon forms a habit; and habit allowed, steady gains in strength, At first it may be but as a spider's web, easily broken through, but if not resisted it soon binds us with chains of steel. ↗

— Tryon Edwards

#allowed #any #binds #broken #chains

Every Republican's voted for it. Look at what they value and look at their budget and what they're proposing. Romney wants to let the - he said in the first 100 days he's going to let the big banks once again write their own rules - unchain Wall Street. They're gonna put y'all back in chains. ↗

— Joe Biden

#back #banks #big #budget #chains

I've been a fan of Metallica and friends with those guys for a long time and that was just great - half Alice In Chains and half Metallica playing together. ↗

— Jerry Cantrell

#been #chains #fan #friends #great

Supply chains cannot tolerate even 24 hours of disruption. So if you lose your place in the supply chain because of wild behavior you could lose a lot. It would be like pouring cement down one of your oil wells. ↗

— Thomas Friedman

#behavior #cannot #cement #chain #chains

It is often safer to be in chains than to be free. ↗

— Franz Kafka

#free #often #safer #than