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“Those laws, being forged for universal application, are in perpetual conflict with personal interest, just as personal interest is always in contradiction with the general interest. Good for society, our laws are very bad for the individuals whereof it is composed; for, if they one time protect the individual, they hinder, trouble, fetter him for three quarters of his life.”
Marquis De Sade quotes (French nobleman and Novelist whose perverse sexual preferences and erotic writings gave rise to the term sadism. 1740-1814)
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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”
Ralph Waldo Emerson quotes (American Poet, Lecturer and Essayist, 1803-1882)
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“You may fetter my leg, but Zeus himself cannot get the better of my free will”
Epictetus quotes (Greek philosopher associated with the Stoics, AD 55-c.135)
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“Tyrants have not yet discovered any chains that can fetter the mind”
Charles Caleb Colton quotes (English sportsman and writer, 1780-1832)

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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.”
Albert Einstein quotes (German born American Physicist who developed the special and general theories of relativity. Nobel Prize for Physics in 1921. 1879-1955)
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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.”
Mahatma Gandhi quotes (Indian Philosopher, internationally esteemed for his doctrine of nonviolent protest, 1869-1948)
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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.”
Bertrand Russell quotes (English Logician and Philosopher 1872-1970)
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“To succeed in chaining the multitude, you must seem to wear the same fetters”
Voltaire quotes (French Philosopher and Writer. One of the greatest of all French authors, 1694-1778)
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“Their poverty secured their freedom, since our desires and our possessions are the strongest fetters of despotism”
Edward Gibbon quotes (English Historian, 1737-1794)

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“Stone walls confine a tinker; cold iron binds a witch; but a musician's music can never be fettered, for it lives first in her heart and mind.”
Charles de Lint quotes (Celtic folk musician and story teller, b.1951)
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“An oppressed people are authorized whenever they can to rise and break their fetters.”
Henry Clay quotes (American Statesman, US congressman (1811-14, 1815-21, 1823-25) and US senator (1806-07, 1810-11, 1831-42, 1849-52), 1777-1852)

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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.”
Virginia Woolf quotes (English Modernist Writer. She is best known for her feminist essay "A Room of One's Own" and the novel "Mrs. Dalloway". Committed suicide at age 59. 1882-1941)
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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.”
William Blake quotes (English visionary Mystic, Poet, Painter and Engraver. 1757-1827)

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“Poetry fettered, fetters the human race. Nations are destroyed or flourish in proportion as their poetry, painting, and music are destroyed or flourish.”
William Blake quotes (English visionary Mystic, Poet, Painter and Engraver. 1757-1827)
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