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«An oppressed people are authorized whenever they can to rise and break their fetters.»
Author: Henry Clay
(Statesman)
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«Their poverty secured their freedom, since our desires and our possessions are the strongest fetters of despotism»
Author: Edward Gibbon
(Historian)
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«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.»
Author: Virginia Woolf
(Writer)
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«To succeed in chaining the multitude, you must seem to wear the same fetters»
«Poetry fettered, fetters the human race. Nations are destroyed or flourish in proportion as their poetry, painting, and music are destroyed or flourish.»
Author: William Blake
(Engraver, Mystic, Painter, Poet)
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«The teacher, like the artist and the philosopher, can perform his work adequately only if he feels himself to be an individual directed by an inner creative impulse, not dominated and fettered by an outside authority.»
Author: Bertrand Russell
(Logician, Philosopher)
| About:
Teachers and teaching
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«one of the strongest motives that lead men to art and science isescape from everyday life with its painful crudity and hopelessdreariness, from the fetters of one's own ever-shifting desires. Afinely tempered nature longs to escape from the personal life into theworld of objective perception and thought.»
Author: Albert Einstein
(Physicist)
| About:
Art
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«The moment the slave resolves that he will no longer be a slave, his fetters fall. Freedom and slavery are mental states.»
Author: Mahatma Gandhi
(Philosopher)
| About:
Freedom,
Slavery
| Keywords:
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«Art is a jealous mistress, and, if a man have a genius for painting, poetry, music, architecture, or philosophy, he makes a bad husband, and an ill provider, and should be wise in season, and not fetter himself with duties which will embitter his day»
Author: Ralph Waldo Emerson
(Essayist, Lecturer, Poet)
| About:
Art
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«The reason Milton wrote in fetters when he wrote of Angels and God, and at liberty when of Devils and Hell, is because he was a true poet, and of the Devil's party without knowing it.»
Author: William Blake
(Engraver, Mystic, Painter, Poet)
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