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Thus the shriek, the caterwaul, the chainsaw gnarlgnashing, the yowl and the whizz that decapitates may be reheard by the adventurous or emotionally damaged as mellifluous bursts of unarguable affirmation.

Quote by Lester Bangs

It is a crime to put a Roman citizen in chains, it is an enormity to flog one, sheer murder to slay one: what, then, shall I say of crucifixion? It is impossible to find the word for such an abomination.

Quote by Marcus Tullius Cicero about impossible, word, crime, criminals

It is often safer to be in chains than to be free.

Quote by Franz Kafka about liberty

It is the hour to rend thy chains, the blossom time of souls.

Quote by Katharine Lee Bates about poetry, time

Of what use were wings to a man fast bound in chains of iron?

Quote by Adelbert von Chamisso about poetry, fasting, use, man

The chains that bind us the most closely are the ones we have broken.

Quote by Antonio Porchia about opinion

My thought If I could I’d tie my thought And to heavy chains I’d seize Maybe then, willing or not It will finally appease For, without letting me know It would always go astray, When I look for where’d it go Find it fled again your...

Quote by Veronica Micle about poetry, thinking, flight, help

When the slave venerates the chains, it is useless to talk to them about freedom!

Quote by Mihai Eminescu about liberty

It is difficult to free fools from the chains they revere.

Quote by François-Marie Arouet de Voltaire about liberty