These bondage quotes will inspire you. Bondage is the state of being a slave or a state of being bound usually by compulsion.
A collection of motivating, happy, and encouraging bondage quotes, bondage sayings, and bondage proverbs.
Famous Bondage Quotes
- “The religious superstitions of women perpetuate their bondage more than all other adverse influences.” ~ Elizabeth Cady Stanton
- “The moment I have realized God sitting in the temple of every human body, the moment I stand in reverence before every human being and see God in him – that moment I am free from bondage, everything that binds vanishes, and I am free.” ~ Swami Vivekananda
- “Bondage is of the mind; freedom too is of the mind. If you say ‘I am a free soul. I am a son of God who can bind me’ free you shall be.” ~ Ramakrishna
- “It is the function of speech to free men from the bondage of irrational fears.” ~ Louis D. Brandeis
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“A day, an hour, of virtuous liberty Is worth a whole eternity in bondage.” ~ Joseph Addison
- “Religious bondage shackles and debilitates the mind and unfits it for every noble enterprise, every expanded prospect.” ~ James Madison
- “Bondage is the life of personality, and for bondage the personal self will fight with tireless resourcefulness and the most stubborn cunning.” ~ Aldous Huxley
- “If you’re involved in the gay and lesbian lifestyle, it’s bondage. It is personal bondage, personal despair and personal enslavement.” ~ Michele Bachmann
- “Republicans understand the importance of bondage between a mother and child.” ~ Dan Quayle
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“As long as we require someone else to make us happy, we are slaves.” ~ Swami Vivekananda
- “But freedom, liberty, is an attribute of the soul and it may exist even when the body is in bondage.” ~ Ralph Adams Cram
- “There is only one decision you need to make: You are either working at your Freedom or you are accepting your bondage.” ~ Robert Adams
- “Nothing brings more pain than too much pleasure; nothing more bondage than too much liberty.” ~ Benjamin Franklin
- “Our repeated failure to fully act as we would wish must not discourage us. It is the sincere intention that is the essential thing, and this will in time release us from the bondage of habits which at present seem almost insuperable.” ~ Thomas Troward
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“Bondage is – subjection to external influences and internal negative thoughts and attitudes.” ~ W. Clement Stone
- “A slavish bondage to parents cramps every faculty of the mind” ~ Mary Wollstonecraft
- “Disguise our bondage as we will, ‘Tis woman, woman, rules us still.” ~ Thomas Moore
- “Karma is your survival and your bondage. And if you handle it right, it can also be your liberation.” ~ Jaggi Vasudev
- “If we fail to see that there are powers that cause people to be bowed down in bondage, we are going to fight the wrong battle.” ~ T. B. Joshua
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“True freedom, which is full joy, is the complete recognition of law and adaptation to it. Bondage comes from ignorance of law or opposition to it.” ~ John Andreas Widtsoe
- “Bondage and Liberation are of the mind alone.” ~ Ramakrishna
- “It might be that to surrender to happiness was to accept defeat, but it was a defeat better than many victories.” ~ W. Somerset Maugham
- “The dread of loneliness is greater than the fear of bondage, so we get married.” ~ Cyril Connolly
- “The individual who has to justify his existence by his own efforts is in eternal bondage to himself.” ~ Eric Hoffer
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“Impatience is the mark of independence, not of bondage.” ~ Marianne Moore
- “There’s always one who loves and one who lets himself be loved.” ~ W. Somerset Maugham
- “Women’s fashion is a subtle form of bondage. It’s men’s way of binding them. We put them in these tight, high-heeled shoes, we make them wear these tight clothes and we say they look sexy. But they’re actually tied up.” ~ David Duchovny
- “There is a sort of subjection which is the peculiar heritage of largeness and of love; and strength is often only another name for willing bondage to irremediable weakness.” ~ George Eliot
- “Emancipation from every kind of bondage is my principle. I go for recognition of human rights, without distinction of sect, party, sex, or color.” ~ Ernestine Rose
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“Impotence, fetishism, bisexuality, and bondage are all facts of life, and our fiction should reflect that.” ~ Rick Moody
- “The bondage we are born into is the bondage we cannot see. Verily, freedom is little more than the ignorance of tyranny. Live long enough, and you will see: Men resent not the whip so much as the hand that wields it.” ~ R. Scott Bakker
- “What a curious phenomenon it is that you can get men to die for the liberty of the world who will not make the little sacrifice that is needed to free themselves from their own individual bondage.” ~ Bruce Barton
- “It is to TV that I owe my freedom from bondage of the Latin lover roles. Television came along and gave me parts to chew on. It gave me wings as an actor.” ~ Ricardo Montalban
- “Emancipation from the bondage of the soil is no freedom for the tree.” ~ Rabindranath Tagore
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“Were it not for the Clash, punk would have been just a sneer, a safety pin and a pair of bondage trousers.” ~ Billy Bragg
- “That cry of the soul to be lifted out of the bondage of the narrow circle of life, which carries up to God the protest and yearning of suffering man, never finds a more sublime expression than where humanity is oppressed and religion is corrupt.” ~ Hall Caine
- “A Christian people who have for two hundred years kept a race in bondage, deprived of the advantages of civilization and religion, owe them a debt of gratitude which it would seem ungenerous to withhold.” ~ Nelson A. Miles
- “And we know that once we have a majority that are dependent upon the government, we will lose our freedom; it says we go into bondage. That’s the next stage.” ~ Sharron Angle
- “The Reformers, therefore, as instruments in the hands of God, in delivering the Church from bondage to prelates, did not make it a tumultuous multitude, in which every man was a law to himself, free to believe, and free to do what he pleased.” ~ Charles Hodge
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“Nor was it only from the millions of slaves that chains had been removed; the whole nation had been in bondage; free speech had been suppressed.” ~ Matthew Simpson
- “Not only did God deliver me from the bondage of alcoholism, he also blessed my family financially because of my commitment to honor what he had done for me and for not doing what I believed could possibly be destructive to others.” ~ Richard Kiel
- “Money is like a sixth sense without which you cannot make a complete use of the other five.” ~ W. Somerset Maugham
- “Fear of serious injury alone cannot justify oppression of free speech and assembly. Men feared witches and burnt women. It is the function of speech to free men from the bondage of irrational fears.” ~ Louis D. Brandeis
- “There are very real obstacles and challenges to any course of action. And there’s no need to add to them, by making up obstacles of your own. Unchain yourself from the bondage of your own thinking.” ~ Ralph Marston
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“Bondage is hoarse, and may not speak aloud.” ~ William Shakespeare
- “Some people are into bondage… and some people are into crossdressing.. . and some people are into Coldplay. It’s okay, I don’t mind being a fetish.” ~ Chris Martin
- “They will endure. They are better than we are. Stronger than we are. Their vices are vices aped from white men or that white men and bondage have taught them: improvidence and intemperance and evasion-not laziness: evasion: of what white men had set them to, not for their aggrandizement or even comfort but his own.” ~ William Faulkner
- “Only necessity understood, and bondage to the highest is identical with true freedom.” ~ William James
- “Is anarchism desirable? Well, who does not seek freedom? What man, unless willing to declare himself in bondage, would care to call any control agreeable? Think about it!” ~ Johann Most
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“It’s asking a great deal that things should appeal to your reason as well as your sense of the aesthetic. – Of Human Bondage” ~ W. Somerset Maugham
- “If we do not abide in prayer, we will abide in temptation. Let this be one aspect of our daily intercession: “God, preserve my soul, and keep my heart and all its ways so that I will not be entangled.” When this is true in our lives, a passing temptation will not overcome us. We will remain free while others lie in bondage.” ~ John Owen
- “The average age of the world’s great civilizations has been two hundred years. These nations have progressed through the following sequence: from bondage to spiritual faith, from spiritual faith to great courage, from courage to liberty, from liberty to abundance, from abundance to selfishness, from selfishness to complacency from complacency to apathy, from apathy to dependency, from dependency back to bondage.” ~ Alexander Fraser Tytler
- “The grace that has freed us from bondage to sin is desperately needed to free us from our bondage to materialism.” ~ Randy Alcorn
- “Where no bondage is, there is no cause and effect.” ~ Swami Vivekananda
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“Like all weak men he laid an exaggerated stress on not changing one’s mind.” ~ W. Somerset Maugham
- “People ask for criticism, but they only want praise.” ~ W. Somerset Maugham
- “You didn’t hear Yello until later in the night in the bondage clubs. Things would start getting crazy and that’s when you’d hear Yello. It was bad.” ~ Margaret Cho
- “Our life is a reflection of what we believe we deserve. As we deepen our acceptance of and open ourselves to the Infinite love of the universe, a new power flows through us, releasing us from the bondage of our old way of life.” ~ Shakti Gawain
- “You see, money to you means freedom; to me it means bondage.” ~ W. Somerset Maugham
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“Imagine what your life will look like when you have broken the bondage of fear.” ~ Bruce Wilkinson
- “Who enslaves another’s manhood with weak human power alone, Lays a heavier yoke of bondage thoughtlessly upon his own.” ~ Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
- “A man cannot be comfortable spiritually who is in bondage financially.” ~ Francis M. Lyman
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“If we, who have been redeemed, don’t say what we have been redeemed from, how are those in the same bondage going to even know that there is hope.” ~ Dennis Jernigan
- “The awakening of the soul to its bondage and its effort to stand up and assert itself – this is called life.” ~ Swami Vivekananda
- “Do we always make our freedom out of someone else’s bondage?” ~ May Sarton
Bondage the tenure or service of a villain, a serf, or an enslaved person.
