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Count art by gold, and it fetters the feet it once winged. — Ouida

I don't have opinions. Only if it is necessary for a particular action, I make a judgment. Opinions are fetters for your intelligence. — Jaggi Vasudev

Wealth: A cunning device of Fate whereby men are made captive, and burdened with responsibilites from which only Death can file their fetters. — Elbert Hubbard

Fondnesse it were for any being free,
To covet fetters, though they golden bee. — Edmund Spenser

Modesty is an excellent quality, honey. Don't lose that. — Will Fetters

Those who love nothing and hate nothing in the world, have no fetters. — Hermann Hesse

Why should a man be in love with his fetters, though of gold? — Francis Bacon

There are no stronger fetters than those we forge for ourselves. — Barry Unsworth

Enjoying life should be of much greater concern than understanding it. — Will Fetters

The fetters have burst — M.D. Lachlan

You can love someone and not like spending time with them. — Will Fetters

Any so-called fetters do not bind youngsters because they have the power and the tactics to break them in their own adroit ways! — Balroop Singh

True artistic renewal does not mean being stripped of fetters. It means moving into new fetters. — Tawfiq Al-Hakim

It is ordained in the eternal constitution of things, that men of intemperate minds cannot be free. Their passions forge their fetters. — Edmund Burke

However weighed down and entangled in earthly fetters you may be, it can never be too late. — Tito Colliander

Who is't that to woman's beauty would submit,
And yet refuse the fetters of their wit? — Aphra Behn

There are sins of omission and sins of commission, my friend. I've dealt with mine and i've forgiven myself ... you should do the same. — Will Fetters

1st Gent. Our deeds are fetters that we forge ourselves. 2d Gent. Ay, truly: but I think it is the world That brings the iron. [1] — George Eliot

There is but one chain holding us in fetters, and that is our love of life. — Seneca.

Inevitably we look upon society, so kind to you, so harsh to us, as an ill-fitting form that distorts the truth; deforms the mind; fetters the will. — Virginia Woolf

In Genoa, the word, libertas can be read on the front of prisons and on the fetters of galley-slaves. The application of this motto is fine and just. — Jean-Jacques Rousseau

We take our fetters with us; our freedom is not total: we still turn our gaze towards the things we have left behind; our imagination is full of them. — Michel De Montaigne

Our deeds are fetters that we forge ourselves. — George Eliot

Things good in themselves ... perfectly valid in the integrity of their origins, become fetters if they cannot alter. — Freya Stark

Golden fetters are no less galling to a self-respecting man that iron ones; the sting lies in the fetters, not in the metal. — Mahatma Gandhi

He who steals from a citizen," said Cato, "ends his days in fetters and chains; but he who steals from the community ends them in purple and gold."17 — Will Durant

The fetters of tyranny were not stricken from America for the sake of Americans alone. — Orson F. Whitney

True, the movement for women's rights has broken many old fetters, but it has also forged new ones. — Emma Goldman

Haste trips up its own heels, fetters and stops itself. — Seneca The Younger

Evil is retributive: every trespass slips fetters on the will, holds the soul in durance till contrition and repentance restore it to liberty. — Amos Bronson Alcott

But he who is hated by the people, as the wolf by the dogs - is the free spirit, the enemy of fetters, the non-adorer, the dweller in the woods. — Friedrich Nietzsche

To succeed in chaining the multitude, you must seem to wear the same fetters. — Voltaire

There is a fascination here that holds rich and poor, strong and weak captive,not with chains and fetters but by an almost touchable solace ... — Barbara Woodall

What fetters the mind and benumbs the spirit is ever the dogged acceptance of absolutes. — Edward Sapir

In Indian music, it is not possible to build anything other than the raga basis. We can run away from its fetters, but not from its main outline. — Rabindranath Tagore

Grief brought to numbers cannot be so fierce,
For, he tames it, that fetters it in verse. — John Donne

Neither the chains of dictatorship nor the fetters of oppression can keep down the forces of freedom for long. — Angela Merkel

Blessed be all metrical rules that forbid automatic responses, force us to have second thoughts, free us from the fetters of Self. — W. H. Auden

Everything sacred is a tie, a fetter. — Max Stirner

Their poverty secured their freedom, since our desires and our possessions are the strongest fetters of despotism. — Edward Gibbon

When you encounter the unbelievers, blows to necks it shall be until, once you have routed them, you are to tighten their fetters. — Tom Holland

Fear sometimes adds wings to the heels, and sometimes nails them to the ground, and fetters them from moving. — Michel De Montaigne

Genius ... is necessarily intolerant of fetters ... — George Eliot

The moment the slave resolves that he will no longer be a slave, his fetters fall. Freedom and slavery are mental states. — Mahatma Gandhi

When a slave begins to take pride in his fetters and hugs them like precious ornaments, the triumph of the slave-owner is complete. — Mahatma Gandhi

Emotional fetters may hurt but they lead us to profound lessons of life. — Balroop Singh

Tis Love alone can make our fetters please. — Aphra Behn

Words, even the most ephemeral ones are facts, as heavy as fetters, they leave deep marks. — Aldo Busi

India's blood and India's gold was sought and unfortunately given - given to break Turkey and buy the fetters of the Rowlatt legislation. — Muhammad Ali Jinnah

You have fettered yourself of your own free will, man-break the fetters! — Halldor Laxness

No man loveth his fetters, be they made of gold. — John Heywood

The dream is the liberation of the spirit from the pressure of external nature, a detachment of the soul from the fetters of matter. — Sigmund Freud

The repetition of a catchword can hold analysis in fetters for fifty years or more. — Benjamin Cardozo

As for politics, I'm an anarchist. I hate governments and rules and fetters. Can't stand caged animals. People must be free. — Charlie Chaplin

One who cannot cast away a treasure at need is in fetters. You did rightly. — J.R.R. Tolkien

True meditation gives us, as it were, wings for flight to a higher realm and thus detaches us from terrestrial fetters. — Swami Paramananda

An oppressed people are authorized whenever
they can to rise and break their fetters. — Henry Clay

What use would wings be to a man bound in iron fetters? They would only drive him to even greater despair. — Adelbert Von Chamisso

Fetters of gold are still fetters, and the softest lining can never make them so easy as liberty. — Mary Astell

Many a one cannot loosen his own fetters, but is nevertheless his friend's emancipator. — Friedrich Nietzsche

The false contrasts which the people, and consequently the language, believes in, are always dangerous fetters which impede the march of truth. — Friedrich Nietzsche