Chains Quotes

The chains of habit are too weak to be felt until they are too strong to be broken. (Samuel Johnson)
Chains of habit are too light to be felt until they are too heavy to be broken. View quote
Warren Buffett
The fundamental sense of freedom is freedom from chains, from imprisonment, from enslavement by others. The rest is extension of this sense, or else metaphor. View quote
Isaiah Berlin
The chains that bind us the most closely are the ones we have broken. View quote
Antonio Porchia
Those who do not move, do not notice their chains. View quote
Rosa Luxemburg
For to be free is not merely to cast off one's chains, but to live in a way that respects and enhances the freedom of others. View quote
Nelson Mandela
It is hard to free fools from the chains they revere. View quote
Voltaire
The chains of military despotism, once fastened upon a nation, ages might pass away before they could be shaken off. View quote
William Henry Harrison
Yet if we are bold, love strikes away the chains of fear from our souls. View quote
Maya Angelou
I prefer liberty to chains of diamonds. View quote
Lady Mary Wortley Montagu
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)
Is life so dear or peace so sweet as to be purchased at the price of chains and slavery? Forbid it, Almighty God! I know not what course others may take, but as for me, give me liberty, or give me death! View quote
Patrick Henry
Love to faults is always blind, Always is to joys inclined, Lawless, winged, and unconfined, And breaks all chains from every mind. View quote
William Blake
The poor themselves can create a poverty-free world - all we have to do is to free them from the chains that we have put around them. View quote
Muhammad Yunus
I have stretched ropes from steeple to steeple; garlands from window to window; golden chains from star to star, and I dance. View quote
Arthur Rimbaud
Whether in chains or in laurels, liberty knows nothing but victories. View quote
Wendell Phillips
Happy is the man who has broken the chains which hurt the mind, and has given up worrying once and for all. View quote
Ovid
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. View quote
Tryon Edwards
A nation that enslaves another forges its own chains. View quote
Karl Marx
In the final choice a soldier's pack is not so heavy as a prisoner's chains. View quote
Dwight D. Eisenhower
While over Alabama earth These words are gently spoken: Serve - and hate will die unborn. Love - and chains are broken. (Langston Hughes)
Freedom is living without chains. View quote
Indra Devi
The conservatives see man as a body freely roaming the earth, building sand piles or factories-with an electronic computer inside his skull, controlled from Washington. The liberals see man as a soul freewheeling to the farthest reaches of the universe-but wearing chains from nose to toes when he crosses the street to buy a loaf of bread. View quote
Ayn Rand
John Galt is Prometheus who changed his mind. After centuries of being torn by vultures in payment for having brought to men the fire of the gods, he broke his chains and he withdrew his fire until the day when men withdraw their vultures. View quote
Ayn Rand
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. View quote
Matthew Simpson