Bondage

Famous quotes containing the word bondage:

“Bondage is the life of personality, and for bondage the personal self will fight with tireless resourcefulness and the most stubborn cunning.”
—Aldous Huxley (1894–1963)

“There is a totalitarian regime inside every one of us. We are ruled by a ruthless politburo which sets ours norms and drives us from one five-year plan to another. The autonomous individual who has to justify his existence by his own efforts is in eternal bondage to himself.”
—Eric Hoffer (1902–1983)

“Marriage is the only actual bondage known to our law. There remain no legal slaves, except the mistress of every house.”
—John Stuart Mill (1806–1873)