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Such was a prisoner's life.
I am in cage. I wish to be free.
Thus I alone, where all my freedom grew,
In prison pine with bondage and restraint;
And with remembrance of the greater grief
To banish the less, I find my chief relief.
People imprison themselves.
Now a slave is not 'held' by any legal contract, obligation, duty, or authority, which the laws will enforce. He is 'held' only by brute force. One person beats another until the latter will obey him, work for him, if he require it, or do nothing if he require it.
It's often better to be in chains than to be free.
If you're involved in the gay and lesbian lifestyle, it's bondage. It is personal bondage, personal despair and personal enslavement.
Bondage is of the mind; freedom too is of the mind. If you say 'I am a free soul. I am a son of God who can bind me' free you shall be.
When you are born into bondage you can't see the prison.
sold into an indentured servitude
Solitary confinement is too terrible a punishment to inflict on any human being, no matter what his crime. Hardened criminals in the men's prisons, it is said, often beg for the lash instead.
Every step into freedom contains within it the potential for greater bondage.
I feel like I've been locked up tight for a century, waiting for someone to release me.
It hurts to watch the fluency of a body acclimated to its shackling.
Ruby's eyes shot open when she woke, for she felt a constraint around her wrists and ankles. Feeling with her fingers, she touched cold metal. Her small movement gave the chains a slight jingle. A sinking feeling washed over her at the realization that she was chained.
All hangs together, I am in chains.
The chains of a slave are broken the moment he considers himself a free man.
The torment of imprisonment lies in not being able to escape from oneself at any time.
One has neither independence nor freedom from bondage when he is obligated to others
I was as enslaved as all the others.
I am in a cage. I desire to be set free.
I stand here without rope or chains, Liv, tethered to you by my own will." His blood beat with the ferocity of his words. "I won't be free until you are.
They cuffed his hands, his arms, his waist, and his feet! Like as if he was resisting! He wasn't!
People are often unable to do anything, imprisoned as they are in I don't know what kind of terrible, terrible, oh such terrible cage.
A few shackles and bars and this place'd be forced to call itself a prison!
When one person is enslaved, we're all enslaved.
Where there is cage, there is no affection, there is only torture!
You can chain me, you can torture me, you can even destroy this body, but you will never imprison my mind.
A prisoner should know that there are thousands of imprisoned freemen living in this world ... jailed in their own society, handcuffed by duties..
I was bound in chains, but now I am free; I thank the lord Jesus for saving me.
True freedom, which is full joy, is the complete recognition of law and adaptation to it. Bondage comes from ignorance of law or opposition to it.
I was caged in our body and caged in his arms and, somehow, the former was the real prison.
Familiarize yourself with the chains of bondage and you prepare your own limbs to wear them.
Lovely. Imprisoned in a nursery school dungeon.
You must reflect that fettered prisoners only at first feel the weight of the shackles on their legs: in time, when they have decided not to struggle against but to bear them, they learn from necessity to endure with fortitude, and from habit to endure with ease.
How oft, in nations gone corrupt,
And by their own devices brought down to servitude,
That man chooses bondage before liberty.
Bondage with ease before strenuous liberty.
Man is born free and is everywhere in chains
To be a prisoner means to be defined as a member of a group for whom the rules of what can be done to you, of what is seen as abuse of you, are reduced as part of the definition of your status.
If men and women are in chains anywhere in the world, then freedom is endangered everywhere.
When making a decision, focus on what feels "shackles off" versus "shackles on".
We're all captives, in one way or another . . .
If I don't stand for freedom, then I must sit in chains.
Everywhere animals are in chains, but we image them as free.
We are only enslaved in our mind.
A mentally-unchained physically-chained man is more free than a physically-unchained mentally-chained man.
When you are a prisoner yourself,
you imprison someone else.
Religious Leader Petra Cecilia Maria Hermans
Religion Of Blue Circle
October 30, 2016
I hadn't learned yet that everybody's locked up some way or other. That's how life is we're all imprisoned by something.
It is often safer to be in chains than to be free.
One cannot make a slave of a free person, for a free person is free even in a prison.
LIBERATION FROM BANDAGE
No one can liberate you, for you are already liberated from the very beginning!
The thought of bondage itself is a myth; freedom from this myth is true liberation.
Let them fear bondage who are slaves to fear; the sweetest freedom is an honest heart.
But tie yourself up with a woman and, like a chained convict, you lose all freedom! And all you have of hope and strength merely weighs you down and torments you with regret.
Every prisoner knows perfectly that he is a convict and a reprobate, and knows the distance which separates him from his superiors; but neither the branding irons nor chains will make him forget that he is a man.
I am in chains. Don't touch my chains.
People can't be just tied together. They have to connect. Otherwise, they'll find themselves bound hand and foot.
I think you need to close your mouth cuz you aint gun tie me down.
Well married, a man is winged - ill-matched, he is shackled.
If you're going to hold someone down you're going to have to hold on by the other end of the chain. You are confined by your own repression.
Well sir, if slavery is freedom then I'm glad I don't have to make a meal of it. Whips and chains are not much to my taste.
Only God can set the soul in bondage free.
The prisoner falls in love with his chains.
Wear none of thine own Chains; but keep free, whilst thou art free.
Man, what are you talking about? Me in chains? You may fetter my leg but my will, not even Zeus himself can overpower.
Each man is his own prisoner, in solitary confinement for life.
He bound and gagged his hands together
If the streets shackled my right leg, the schools shackled my left. Fail to comprehend the streets and you gave up your body now. But fail to comprehend the schools and you gave up your body later.
Today they say that we are free, only to be chained in poverty.
Poor, poor girl. All tied up and nowhere to go.
We are chained, but you just don't realise it...
Nothing can enslaved us, if we free in our minds.
You are the prisoner, the prison and the prison keeper. Only you hold the key to your freedom.
I proceed, gentlemen, to call your attention to the present state of insane persons confined within the commonwealth; in cages, closets, cellars, stalls, pens; chained, naked, beaten with rods, and lashed into obedience.
Bondage is the life of personality, and for bondage the personal self will fight with tireless resourcefulness and the most stubborn cunning.
No one is more vulnerable to fear than a man who keeps another in bondage. He will do anything to prevent justice from rearing its head - for he knows well what he deserves at the hands of those he subjugates.
There is nothing like the bootless solitude of those who are caged together.
Shit, boy. Look at me. Do they have me right now? Are you tying me up and hitting me and ... whatever? Did you trap me?"
"I ... " I shake my head.
"And do I look free?
Being aware of the bondage is enough to free you from its clutches.
Her freedom was worse than any chains.
They locked me up with a boy. A boy . Dear god. They're trying to kill me. They've done it one purpose. To torture me, to torment me, to keep me from sleeping through the night ever again.
I was gladly cuffed, shackled, loaded into the caged bus and driven through the main gate of Bare Hill Correctional Facility for what I pray to God will be forever.
Captivity is the greatest of all evils that can befall one.
I am more free than I think and more enslaved than I fear.
I had just regained my freedom, and again I was locked away.
wherever a man is against his will, that to him is a prison.
I am chained to the earth to pay for the freedom of my eyes.
I am chained to the earth to pay for freedom of my eyes.
I have never been contained except I made the prison.
Hanged Three Times
Do we always make our freedom out of someone else's bondage?
I'm a free person; I feel terribly free. They could put me in chains and I still would be free because my thoughts would be mine - and that's all I want to have.
Whoever is not tied to possessions, clinging neither to body nor mind, is never in bondage.
Shoelaces are the first way society ties up the individual.
Ye have locked yerselves up in cages of fear and, behold, do ye now complain that ye lack FREEDOM!
A prisoner's shackles would always be a lawyers joy.
Never did a prisoner, released from his chains, feel such relief as I shall on shaking off the shackles of power.
Trapped like a trap in a trap
None of you understand. I'm not locked up in here with YOU. You're locked up in here with ME.
I shouldn't think of my situation as being held prisoner; it's more like I'm on a mission behind enemy lines.
I'm a freaking spy.
No one is more enslaved than a slave who doesn't think they're enslaved.
And I want to be held down. I don't know what to do with the horrifying freedom that can destroy me.