Oliver Goldsmith Quotes

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

Hee is not free that drawes his chaine.

I have never in my life walked with a harness. The weight of the tether, makes it feel like I'm dragging an anchor behind me.

No one is free, even the birds are chained to the sky.

If you're going to hold someone down you're going to have to hold onto the other end of the chain. You are confined by your own system of repression.

What we know to be true is that comfort isn't always freedom. People confuse the two.

Though chains be of gold, they are chains all the same.

A pedestal is as much a prison as any small, confined space.

I've come out of a small jail and entered a bigger one.

In the final choice a soldier's pack is not so heavy as a prisoner's chains.

It's difficult to put into words what freedom feels like. You only know what freedom feels like if you know what it feels like to not be free.

I don't want to live like a prisoner.

On the wagon sped, and I, as well as my comrades, gave a despairing farewell glance at freedom as we came in sight of the long stone buildings.

Man is everywhere still in chains.

It’s often safer to be in chains than to be free.

A man is the prisoner of his power.

I can say with truth mine is a situation of dignified slavery.

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.

All people are enslaved by something.

My cage has many rooms.

A jailer is as much a prisoner as his prisoner.

A bird on a tether, no matter how long the rope, can always be pulled back.

There is one kind of prison where the man is behind bars, and everything that he desires is outside; and there is another kind where the things are behind the bars, and the man is outside.

Captivity is the greatest of all evils that can befall one.

I can almost see what Gabriel meant when he asked, 'What has the free world got that you can’t get here?' Almost. Freedom, Gabriel. That’s what you can’t get here.