Social Chains Quotes

Loyalty to petrified opinion never yet broke a chain or freed a human soul in this world--and never will.

Man was born free, and he is everywhere in chains. Those who think themselves the masters of others are indeed greater slaves than they.

Civilized men do nothing but boast incessantly of the peace and repose they enjoy in their chains....

Man is born free, yet he is everywhere in chains.

Rousseau and his disciples were resolved to force men to be free; in most of the world, they triumphed; men are set free from family, church, town, class, guild; yet they wear, instead, the chains of the state, and they expire of ennui or stifling lone lines.

Unchecked, the new tolerance will sooner or later put many people in chains.

Since a woman must wear chains, I would have the pleasure of hearing 'em rattle a little.

Society indeed conspires to keep you ball and chained.

How closely women clutch the very chains that bind them!