Joseph Joubert
Essayist, Moralist
"Monuments are the grappling-irons that bind one generation to another."
Chains That Bind quotes
Chains That Bind
16 quotes on this topic — from poets, philosophers, and thinkers across history.
Gary Renard
Author
"You will not break loose until you realize that you yourself forge the chains that bind you."
D. H. Lawrence
Novelist, Poet
"Men are freest when they are most unconscious of freedom. The shout is a rattling of chains, always was."
Swami Vivekananda
Spiritual Leader, Philosopher
"To realize the spirit as spirit is practical religion. Everything else is good so far as it leads to this one grand idea."
Swami Vivekananda
Spiritual Leader, Philosopher
"To realize the spirit as spirit is practical religion. Everything else is good so far as it leads to this one grand idea. That realization is to be attained by renunciation, by meditation-renunciation of all the senses, cutting the knots, the chains that bind us down to matter."
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"If a single writer in a country is in chains, then there are some links of that chain that binds us all."
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