quotes about Yoke
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Wherever I am, I see the yoke on women in some form or another. On some it sits easy for they are but beasts of burden. On others pride hushes them to silence; no complaint is made for they scorn pity or sympathy. On some it galls and chafes; they feel assured by every instinct of their nature that they were designed for a higher, nobler calling than to 'drag life's lengthening chain along.
-- Abby May Alcott -
I seek to lead a democratic Pakistan which is free from the yoke of military dictatorship and that will cease to be a haven, the very petri dish of international terrorism.
-- Benazir Bhutto -
Be sincere and true to your word, serious and careful in your actions; and you will get along even among barbarians, But if you are not sincere and untrustworthy in your speech, frivolous and careless in your actions, how will you get along even among your own neighbors? When stand, see these principles in front of you; in your carriage see them on the yoke. Then you may be sure to get along.
-- Confucius -
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Under the tropic is our language spoke, And part of Flanders hath receiv'd our yoke.
-- Edmund Waller -
The yoke you wear determines the burden you bear.
-- Edwin Louis Cole -
Man's characteristic privilege is that the bond he accepts is not physical but moral; that is, social. He is governed not by a material environment brutally imposed on him, but by a conscience superior to his own, the superiority of which he feels. Because the greater, better part of his existence transcends the body, he escapes the body's yoke, but is subject to that of society.
-- Emile DurkheimSource : Emile Durkheim (2005). “Suicide: A Study in Sociology”, p.213, Routledge
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Not he who scorns the Saviour's yoke Should wear his cross upon the heart.
-- Friedrich Schiller -
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The bachelors admired freedom is often a yoke, for the freer a man is to himself the greater slave he often is to the whims of others.
-- George Jean Nathan -
Right gladly would He free them from their misery, but He knows only one way: He will teach them to be like himself, meek and lowly, bearing with gladness the yoke of His Father's will. This in the one, the only right, the only possible way of freeing them from their sin, the cause of their unrest.
-- George MacDonald -
Happy he who far from business persuits Tills and re-tills his ancestral lands With oxen of his own breeding Having no slavish yoke about his neck.
-- Horace -
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Once you cease to be a master, once you throw off your master's yoke, you are no longer human rubbish, you are a human being, and all the things that adds up to. So, too, with the slaves. Once they are no longer slaves, once they are free, they are no longer noble and exalted; they are just human beings.
-- Jamaica Kincaid -
A bachelor May thrive by observation on a little, A single life's no burthen: but to draw In yokes is chargeable, and will require A double maintenance.
-- John Ford -
I'm rather bored by the subject - meaning me. It's a sort of a yoke, but at times you know, a yoke is a kind of comfort. And it's always there.
-- Laurence Olivier -
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The dictator is also the scapegoat; in assuming absolute authority, he assumes absolute guilt; and the oppressed masses, groaning under the yoke, know themselves to be innocent as lambs, while they pray hypocritically for deliverance.
-- Mary McCarthy -
When women can cherish the vulnerability of men as much as men can exult in the strength of women, a new breed could lift a ruinous yoke from both.
-- Marya Mannes -
Action must be taken at once; there is no time to be lost; we shall yet see the oppressors' yoke broken and the fragments scattered on the ground.
-- Miguel Hidalgo y Costilla -
We mourn the transitory things and fret under the yoke of the immutable ones.
-- Paul Eldridge -
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If the users don't control the program, the program controls the users. With proprietary software, there is always some entity, the "owner" of the program, that controls the program and through it, exercises power over its users. A nonfree program is a yoke, an instrument of unjust power.
-- Richard StallmanSource : "Free Software Is Even More Important Now" by Richard Stallman, www.gnu.org. September 2013.
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If I had my life to live over I would die fighting rather than be a slave again. I want no man's yoke on my shoulders no more.
-- Robert Falls -
Let us trust in Him who has placed this burden upon us. What we ourselves cannot bear let us bear with the help of Christ. For He is all-powerful, and He tells us: 'My yoke is easy, and my burden light.'
-- Saint Boniface -
I believe that no people ever yet groaned under the heavy yoke of slavery but when they deserved it.
-- Samuel Adams -
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Take Christ in with you under your yoke, and let patience have her perfect work.
-- Samuel Rutherford -
Virtue cannot dwell with slaves, nor reign O'er those who cower to take a tyrant's yoke.
-- William C. BryantSource : William Cullen Bryant, “The Ages”
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Provoke The years to bring the inevitable yoke.
-- William Wordsworth -
Delivered from the galling yoke of time.
-- William Wordsworth -