“You never escape the traps you spin yourself. Only a greater power can break a power, and then you're trapped again. Trapped forever so you cannot die.” DiesBreakForeverGreaterTrappedTrapsGreater Power Book:Lord of Chaos: Book Six of 'The Wheel of Time' Source: Lord of Chaos: Book Six of 'The Wheel of Time'
“Nothing is greater than to break the chains from the bodies of men, nothing nobler than to destroy the phantom of the soul.” MenSoulBodyBreakGreaterAtheismPositive AtheismChainsPhantoms Author:Robert Green Ingersoll
“If once a woman breaks through the barriers of decency, her ease is desperate; and if she goes greater lengths than the men, and leaves the pale of propriety farther behind her, it is because she is aware that all return is prohibited, and by none so strongly as by her own sex.” IfsMenSexBehindsBreakGreaterHe ManReturnEaseDesperateBarriersLengthPaleDecencyBreak ThroughPropriety Author:Charles Caleb Colton
“Human life has not a surer friend, nor oftentimes a greater enemy, than hope. It is the miserable man's god, which in the hardest gripe of calamity never fails to yield to him beams of comfort. It is the presumptuous man's devil, which leads him a while in a smooth way, and then suddenly breaks his neck.” MenWayHumansHopeEnemyBreakGreaterFailingComfortDevilHardestMiserableHuman LifeNecksYieldSmoothCalamityBeamPresumptuous Author:Owen Feltham
“Today the manliest man would be ashamed to look into the eyes of the woman by his side and tell her that he is the master because he could knock her down with perfect ease, and break her bones with much greater facility than she could his. And yet, out of man's brute nature, out of that most ignoble in himself, has come his loudest assumption of superiority, his longest and lowest tyranny.” MenLooksWould BeEyeTodaySidesPerfectBreakGreaterHe ManMastersBonesTyrannyEaseAssumptionAshamedSuperiorityLowestFacilityBrutesIgnoble Author:Mary C. Ames
“It is marriage, perhaps, which had given man the best of his freedom, given him his little kingdom of his own within the big kingdom of the state.... It is a true freedom because it is a true fulfilment, for man, woman and children. Do we then want to break marriage? If we do break it, it means we all fall to a far greater extent under the direct sway of the State.” IfsMenWantMeanChildrenLittlesStatesBigsFallGivenBreakGreaterDirectKingdomsMen WomenFulfilmentTrue Freedom Author:D. H. Lawrence