Sometimes, they say, the moon is so busy with the new souls of the world that it disappears from the sky. That is why we have moonless nights. But in the end, the moon always returns, as do we all.
Mitch AlbomRead
What use would wings be to a man bound in iron fetters? They would only drive him to even greater despair.
Interpretation
Having potential or freedom is meaningless if one is constrained by serious limitations.
This quote highlights the futility of possessing great abilities or opportunities when one is held back by restrictions or obstacles. The metaphor of wings signifies potential, while the 'iron fetters' symbolize the constraints that prevent an individual from realizing that potential, leading to feelings of despair and frustration.
In practice
In a motivational speech about overcoming challenges, this quote could be used to illustrate the importance of removing barriers.
Sometimes, they say, the moon is so busy with the new souls of the world that it disappears from the sky. That is why we have moonless nights. But in the end, the moon always returns, as do we all.
The Church has surrendered her once lofty concept of God and has substituted for it one so low, so ignoble, as to be utterly unworthy of thinking, worshiping men. This she has not done deliberately, but little by little and without her knowledge; and her very unawareness only makes her situation all the more tragic.
There remains an experience of incomparable value . . . to see the great events of world history from below; from the perspective of the outcast, the suspects, the maltreated, the powerless, the oppressed, the reviled ---- in short, from the perspective of those who suffer . . . to look with new eyes on matters great and small.
Though this nation has proudly thought of itself as an ethnic melting pot, in things racial we have always been and I believe continue to be, in too many ways, essentially a nation of cowards
And yet to every bad there is a worse.
If you go on with this nuclear arms race, all you are going to do is make the rubble bounce.
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