Heavy Chains

Famous quotes containing the words heavy and/or chains:

“Colonial system, public debts, heavy taxes, protection, commercial wars, etc., these offshoots of the period of manufacture swell to gigantic proportions during the period of infancy of large-scale industry. The birth of the latter is celebrated by a vast, Herod-like slaughter of the innocents.”
—Karl Marx (1818–1883)

“Habit is the ballast that chains a dog to his vomit.”
—Samuel Beckett (1906–1989)