Jean-Jacques Rousseau
Philosopher, Writer, Composer
"Freedom is the power to choose our own chains"
Chains quotes
Chains
139 quotes on this topic — from poets, philosophers, and thinkers across history.
Charles Dickens
Novelist
"We forge the chains we wear in life."
Bob Marley
Musician, Singer-Songwriter
"No chains around my feet, But I'm not free."
Jim Harrison
Novelist, Poet
"I was a dog on a short chain / and now there's no chain."
Tupac Shakur
Rapper, Actor, Activist
"Break the chains in our brains that make us fear."
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"He who has nothing—it has been said many times—has nothing to lose but his chains."
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"Habit is the ballast that chains the dog to his vomit."
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"When the voice of truth rises from the minarets, the Buddha smiles, and the broken chain of history reconnects."
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"Disdain the chain, preserve your freedom; and maintain your independency: be industrious and free; be frugal and free."
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"Those who don't move don't notice their chains."
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"A nation that enslaves another forges its own chains."
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"I will draw you back to me. You shall see. By a chain of stars."
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"I am in chains. Don't touch my chains."
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"It is often safer to be in chains than to be free."
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"I want to keep my fan base supplied with a steady chain of music."
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"So all life is a great chain, the nature of which is known whenever we are shown a link of it."
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"Liberty for all; chains for none."
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"The prisoner grows to love his chains."
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"Love must not touch the marrow of the soul. Our affections must be breakable chains that we can cast them off or tighten them."
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"I hardly ever work from a synopsis -- I find they act like chains."
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"Which is heavier: a soldier's pack or a slave's chains?"
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"The materialist is sure that history has been simply and solely a chain of causation, just as the [lunatic] is quite sure that he is simply and solely a chicken. Materialists and madmen never have doubts."
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"I don't like department stores. I had a chain of department stores back in 1994 which was Lewis's and Owen Owen, only for a short time, and I found department stores personally difficult."
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"Chains of iron or of silk-both are chains."
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"Unchecked, the new tolerance will sooner or later put many people in chains."
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