Debt, n. An ingenious substitute for the chain and whip of the slavedriver.
Ambrose Bierce
No iron chain, or outward force of any kind, can ever compel the soul of a person to believe or to disbelieve.
Thomas Carlyle
For we must be one thing or the other, an asset or a liability, the sinew in your wing to help you soar, or the chain to bind you to earth.
Countee Cullen
Supermarkets don't really sustain a community, and they completely remove people from the food chain.
Arthur Potts Dawson
A chain is no stronger than its weakest link, and life is after all a chain.
William James
The weakest link in a chain is the strongest because it can break it.
Stanislaw Jerzy Lec
God is the last link of the chain, but He is the first also.
Joseph Barber Lightfoot
When you're a dancer who is injured, you are at the bottom of the food chain. We are so replaceable.
Bebe Neuwirth
The shorter the chain between raw food and fork, the fresher it is and the more transparent the system is.
Joel Salatin
Once the working classes were in chains, now they're in chain restaurants.
Will Self