Thomas Hobbes Quotes

Man is everywhere still in chains.

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

Unless one is inordinately fond of subordination, one is always at war.

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

The struggle is my life.

300 was the biggest hurdle. They tried to hold us against our will.

She'd never have allowed herself to be held by anything as mundane as a few bars and a reinforced door

Do not help your jailers to pretend that their jail is your natural state of existence.

Pride is never so loud as when in chains.

And what if I never go of my own free will? Will you pitch me from some window so that I must fly or fall? Will you bolt all shutters after me? You had better, because I'll knock and knock and knock until I fall down dead. I'll have no wings that take me away from you.

Hee is not free that drawes his chaine.

We continue to resist the occupier militarily, culturally and by all means of the resistance.

The fundamental sense of freedom is freedom from chains, from imprisonment, from enslavement by others. The rest is extension of this sense, or else metaphor.

During the period of house arrest, I had an electronic manacle around my leg for 24 hours a day, and for someone who has tried to give others liberty all their adult life, that is absolutely intolerable.

They weren't crazy. They were tired of being locked up. Even I could see that.

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

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.

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

Women have to be extremely careful about choosing something that they consider an act of defiance that can really be used to further their enslavement.

When I don't feel free and can't do what I want I just react. I go against it.

You can chain me, you can torture me, you can even destroy this body, but you will never imprison my mind.

Stone walls do not a prison make, nor iron bars a cage.

The other inmates stand in a long straight line, flanked by guards, and I am dragged past them. I do not respect them, because they will not run - will not try to escape.

Neither let us be slandered from our duty by false accusations against us, nor frightened from it by menaces of destruction to the Government nor of dungeons to ourselves.