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When you are in chains other people have to worry about your up-keep and future. When you're free you have to do all that yourself. Another related saying is "only freemen starve."

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Q: What does it mean when they say that it is often safer to be in chains than to be free?
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What does man is born free and he is everywhere in chains mean?

it means everyone was born equal but yet they are treated as if they can be bossed or pushed around by others


What does the more information under your hat - the safer he'll be under his mean?

It means that the more information you have (and keep to yourself), the safer the other person will be.


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Hardware could mean keys, locks, hinges, door handles, wire, chains, plumbing parts, tools, utensils, and is often found in a hardware store. Or hardware could mean the external parts attached to a computer. Such as the keyboard, monitor, mouse, scanner, printer, webcam, etc.


What does gibbeted mean?

Gibbeted means being hung from a gibbet, or gallows-like structure. It was often referred to as being "hung in chains," as from a gibbet. The "chains" could be chain, but mostly were a cage-like affair that was simply close fitting iron framework meant to hold the body together and erect for long term display following execution -- usually by hanging. The display was intended to be a warning to others, lest they also become criminals. Eventually, the word gibbet came to be used both for the hanging frame and for the "chains" or gibbet cage.


What do chains symbolize?

Chains can symbolize so many different things that it truly depends upon the person who is using them as a symbol. Their most common representation is bondage in some way shape or form. In can mean bondage as in slavery and capture or it can mean bondage as in bound by love and marriage. The true representation, however, depends upon what they mean to you.