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Fetters Quotes

Everything sacred is a tie, a fetter.

Max Stirner (2012). “The Ego and His Own: The Case of the Individual Against Authority”, p.216, Courier Corporation

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

Francois Voltaire (1977). “The Portable Voltaire”, p.147, Penguin

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

Friedrich Nietzsche (2016). “Thus Spoke Zarathustra”, p.65, Jester House Publishing

There is a devilish mercy in the judge, if you'll implore it, that will free your life, but fetter you till death.

William Shakespeare, George Steevens, Edmond Malone, Charles Symmons (1842). “The Dramatic Works of William Shakespeare: From the Text of the Corrected Copies of Steevens and Malone, with a Life of the Poet”, p.84

Our deeds are fetters that we forge ourselves.

George Eliot (1872). “Middlemarch: A Study of Provincial Life. Book 1, Miss Brooke. 1[,1]”, p.52

Tis Love alone can make our Fetters please.

"Poems Upon Several Occasions: With A Voyage to the Island of Love, Also The Lover in Fashion, Being an Account from Lydicus to Lysander of His Voyage from the Island of Love". Book by Aphra Behn, 1697.