#shackles

Giving a man a level of respect & permitting, without fuss, a lesser reciprocity is like shackling yourself & handing him the keys: He becomes the boss of you. ↗

— Wale Ayeni

#keys #motivational #respect #self-respect #shackles

My parents had broken through the shackles of dogma. ↗

— Franz Boas

#dogma #had #parents #shackles #through

Surrealism is destructive, but it destroys only what it considers to be shackles limiting our vision. ↗

— Salvador Dali

#destroys #destructive #limiting #only #our

Well married a person has wings, poorly married shackles. ↗

— Henry Ward Beecher

#married #person #poorly #shackles #well

But it required a disastrous, internecine war to bring this question of human freedom to a crisis, and the process of striking the shackles from the slave was accomplished in a single hour. ↗

— Wendell Willkie

#bring #crisis #disastrous #freedom #hour

There is nothing evil save that which perverts the mind and shackles the conscience. ↗

— Saint Ambrose

#conscience #evil #mind #nothing #save

Commercial shackles are generally unjust, oppressive, and impolitic. ↗

— James Madison

#generally #oppressive #shackles #unjust

Religious bondage shackles and debilitates the mind and unfits it for every noble enterprise, every expanded prospect. ↗

— James Madison

#enterprise #every #expanded #mind #noble