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“You are fettered," said Scrooge, trembling. "Tell me why?"
"I wear the chain I forged in life," replied the Ghost. "I made it link by link, and yard by yard; I girded it on of my own free will, and of my own free will I wore it.”
― Charles Dickens, A Christmas Carol

“Dear Child,

Sometimes on your travel through hell, you meet people that think they are in heaven because of their cleverness and ability to get away with things. Travel past them because they don't understand who they have become and never will. These type of people feel justified in revenge and will never learn mercy or forgiveness because they live by comparison. They are the people that don't care about anyone, other than who is making them feel confident. They don’t understand that their deity is not rejoicing with them because of their actions, rather he is trying to free them from their insecurities, by softening their heart. They rather put out your light than find their own. They don't have the ability to see beyond the false sense of happiness they get from destroying others. You know what happiness is and it isn’t this. Don’t see their success as their deliverance. It is a mask of vindication which has no audience, other than their own kind. They have joined countless others that call themselves “survivors�. They believe that they are entitled to win because life didn’t go as planned for them. You are not like them. You were not meant to stay in hell and follow their belief system. You were bound for greatness. You were born to help them by leading. Rise up and be the light home. You were given the gift to see the truth. They will have an army of people that are like them and you are going to feel alone. However, your family in heaven stands beside you now. They are your strength and as countless as the stars. It is time to let go!

Love,

Your Guardian Angel”
― Shannon L. Alder

“May it [American independence] be to the world, what I believe it will be, (to some parts sooner, to others later, but finally to all,) the signal of arousing men to burst the chains under which monkish ignorance and superstition had persuaded them to bind themselves, and to assume the blessings and security of self-government. That form which we have substituted, restores the free right to the unbounded exercise of reason and freedom of opinion. All eyes are opened, or opening, to the rights of man. The general spread of the light of science has already laid open to every view the palpable truth, that the mass of mankind has not been born with saddles on their backs, nor a favored few booted and spurred, ready to ride them legitimately... These are grounds of hope for others. For ourselves, let the annual return of this day forever refresh our recollections of these rights, and an undiminished devotion to them.

[Letter to Roger C. Weightman on the anniversary of the signing of the Declaration of Independence in 1776, 24 June 1826. This was Jefferson's last letter]”
― Thomas Jefferson, Letters of Thomas Jefferson

“If men should read these words, let them know that power is a heavy burden. Seek not to be bound by its chains.”
― Brandon Sanderson, Mistborn: The Final Empire

“[W]hen you find yourself face to face with one [Bondsmage], you bow and scrape and mind your 'sirs' and 'madams.'"

...

'Nice bird, asshole,' said Locke.”
― Scott Lynch, The Lies of Locke Lamora

“The chains that break you, are the chains that make you. And the chains that make you, are the chains you break.”
― Anthony Liccione

“A King, by disallowing Acts of this salutary nature, from being the father of his people, degenerated into a Tyrant and forfeits all rights to his subjects' obedience.”
― Patrick Henry

“The iron chain and the silken cord are both equally bonds.”
― Friedrich von Schiller

“Chains do not hold a marriage together. It is thread, hundreds of tiny threads which sew people together through the years.”
― Simone Signoret

“For one wild, glad moment we snapped the chain that binds us to earth, and joining hands with the winds we felt ourselves divine.”
― Helen Keller, The Story of My Life

“If the people of Europe had known as much of astronomy and geology when the bible was introduced among them, as they do now, there never could have been one believer in the doctrine of inspiration. If the writers of the various parts of the bible had known as much about the sciences as is now known by every intelligent man, the book never could have been written. It was produced by ignorance, and has been believed and defended by its author. It has lost power in the proportion that man has gained knowledge. A few years ago, this book was appealed to in the settlement of all scientific questions; but now, even the clergy confess that in such matters, it has ceased to speak with the voice of authority. For the establishment of facts, the word of man is now considered far better than the word of God. In the world of science, Jehovah was superseded by Copernicus, Galileo, and Kepler. All that God told Moses, admitting the entire account to be true, is dust and ashes compared to the discoveries of Descartes, Laplace, and Humboldt. In matters of fact, the bible has ceased to be regarded as a standard. Science has succeeded in breaking the chains of theology. A few years ago, Science endeavored to show that it was not inconsistent with the bible. The tables have been turned, and now, Religion is endeavoring to prove that the bible is not inconsistent with Science. The standard has been changed.”
― Robert G. Ingersoll, Some Mistakes of Moses

“The best time to talk to ghosts is just before the sun comes up.”
― Laurie Halse Anderson

“I was always mortified.Didn't they know they were tying thier mothers to the ground? Weren't chains ashamed of their prisoners?”
― Janet Fitch, White Oleander

“Freedom was a thing that shifted as you looked at it, the way a forest is dense with the trees up close but from the outside, from the empty meadow, you see its true limits. Being free had nothing to do with chains or how much space you had. On the plantation, she was not free, but she moved unrestricted on its acres, tasting the air and tracing the summer stars. The place was big in its smallness. Here, she was free of her master but slunk around a warren so tiny she couldn't stand.”
― Colson Whitehead, The Underground Railroad

“I find forgiveness overrated. There are times and places when it’s appropriate. But not when the demand that you forgive is used to keep you in your place.”
― Ann Leckie, Ancillary Sword

“Chains

chains that hold me to the ground
chains that keep me solidly bound
chains that tether my heart to you
chains that only one truth...”
― Muse, Enigmatic Evolution

“No one in chains could ever truly love you.'

He glares. 'Do you expect me to believe you know anything about love?'

The truth of that hits like a blow.”
― Holly Black, The Stolen Heir

“Religion perfected colonization and ensured the mental chains' safety.”
― Seun Ayilara

“Who does not move, does not feel his chains.

Wer sich nicht bewegt, der spürt seine Fesseln nicht.”
― Rosa Luxemburg

“They laugh at feminism from the comfort of privilege, blind to the chains it seeks to break.”
― Anubha Saxena

“For a moment my soul was elevated from its debasing and miserable fears to contemplate the divine ideas of liberty and self-sacrifice, of which these sights were the monuments and the remembrancers. For an instant I dared to shake off my chains, and look around me with a free and lofty spirit; but the iron had eaten into my flesh, and I sank again, trembling and hopeless, into my miserable self.”
― Mary Shelley, Frankenstein

“We tie ourselves down with the ropes of fear and doubt, and still dare to wonder why we cannot fly.”
― Michael Bassey Johnson, These Words Pour Like Rain

“Chains are breaking; hell is shaking; walls are coming down. Victory's stirring; troubles are burning; Deliverance is NOW! Shout with intention; your next dimension is just one praise away. Face your Destiny; grasp your liberty and dance into your Day! Greater than Abraham; the Lion & the Lamb calleth you up high. Stand till you glow; shout till they know & live like U cannot die!”
― Michael A Dalton

“Freedom is the gift HE brought us, but to step into freedom you must recognize that those beautiful bracelets are in fact chains & that shiny, new necklace is only a painted over yoke.”
― Prophet Michael A Dalton

“Changing the color of your chain does not mean you are free; it means you are okay with your bondage.”
― Chidi Ejeagba

“Some burdens don't come to make you a Sisyphus. They come to show you the path to freedom.”
― Michael Bassey Johnson, Stamerenophobia

“When you've been brainwashed to revere your chains, you will insult anyone talking about freedom from the chains.”
― Chidi Ejeagba

“The enchained now think they are free because the handler's hand is no longer in view/hidden.”
― Seun Ayilara

“Please, do not let the chains of mental slavery pass to the next generation.
It's on YOU now!”
― Chidi Ejeagba

“Bazısı tüm hayatını koÅŸarak geçirir. Ve hiçbir yere ulaÅŸamaz. Ne kadar uzun süre ya da ne kadar çok çabaladığının bir önemi yoktur. Kendinden kaçamazsın. KimliÄŸimiz bir hapishane gibidir. Bizi zincirler. Gitmek istesek de istemesek de bizi beraberinde sürükler. Tanrının bizi yarattığı sureti deÄŸiÅŸtirmek için yapabileceÄŸimiz bir ÅŸey yoktur. Ä°yi ya da kötü, hepimizin oynayacağı bir rol var.”
― Jason Aaron, Scalped: You Gotta Sin to Get Saved