“We are slaves whose masters are dead. For we are mostly controlled by doctrines which were established centuries heretofore.” — Mokokoma Mokhonoana Copy Share Image
While the state can coerce, with some exceptions (like North Korea) it seems to me misleading to think of it as capable… — Noam Chomsky Copy Share Image
“ Niemand ist mehr Sklave, als der sich für frei hält, ohne es zu sein . None are more hopelessly enslaved than… — Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Copy Share Image
“As the flesh gets in the way of our ideals, we regulate ourselves unto enslavement and inhumanity. The human spirit then dies… — Earl Warhus Copy Share Image
“We’re not descendants of slaves. We’re descendants of free people who were enslaved.' Francia Márquez Mina, Afro-Colombian Vice President of Colombia” — Francia Márquez Mina Copy Share Image
“Those who speak of our rights as if they were privileges have as their objective the plunder of our property, and our… — Joseph Befumo Copy Share Image
If being human requires freedom, then enslavement to the cares of this world is dehumanizing. — Tony Campolo Copy Share Image
Revolution means democracy in today's world, not the enslavement of peoples to the corrupt and degrading horrors of totalitarianism — Ronald Reagan Copy Share Image
It is incredible how as soon as a people become subject, it promptly falls into such complete forgetfulness of its freedom that… — Etienne de La Boetie Copy Share Image
I, the man of color, want only this: That the tool never possess the man. That the enslavement of man by man… — Frantz Fanon Copy Share Image
Culture is a matrix of infinite possibilities and choices. From within the same culture matrix we can extract arguments and strategies for… — Wole Soyinka Copy Share Image
“Rumours of Damen’s enslavement in Vere had spread like fire through the camp. To see the Veretian Prince wear the gold cuff… — C.S. Pacat Copy Share Image
It is said the sesta is one of the only gifts the Europeans brought to South America, but I imagine the Brazilians… — Ann Patchett Copy Share Image
My obsessions stay the same - historical memory and historical erasure. I am particularly interested in the Americas and how a history… — Natasha Trethewey Copy Share Image
One of the most tragic things about slavery was the mental enslavement, the way they made us believe that we were worth… — Jurnee Smollett Copy Share Image
Color had been made the mark of enslavement and was taken to be also the mark of inferiority; for prejudice does not… — William Pickens Copy Share Image
“The only true “us and them” situation is the cult owned leaders versus the citizens in every country. Sadly though, the “us… — Jack Freestone Copy Share Image
At the classical origins of philosophic thought, the transcending concepts remained committed to the prevailing separation between intellectual and manual labor to… — Herbert Marcuse Copy Share Image
There can be no compromise between freedom and government controls; to accept 'just a few controls' is to surrender the principle of… — Ayn Rand Copy Share Image
“The importation and enslavement of millions of lack people, the destruction of the American Indian population, the internment of Japanese American, the… — Stanley Milgram Copy Share Image
To-day we live so cowed under the bombardment of this intellectual artillery that hardly anyone can attain to the inward detachment that… — Oswald Spengler Copy Share Image
I always want to read something about our people's enslavement near the 4th. To keep it light, I also read Rolanda Watts'… — Julianne Malveaux Copy Share Image
The image of blacks usually is one of people who are suffering from hunger, unemployment, and poverty. The idea of them as… — Grace Lee Boggs Copy Share Image
We have on the one hand a desperate need; hunger, sickness, and the dread of war. We have, on the other, the… — C. S. Lewis Copy Share Image
Man's freedom is lacking if somebody else controls what he needs, for need may result in man's enslavement of man. — Muammar al-Gaddafi Copy Share Image
Knowledge, which is power, knows no limits, either in its enslavement of creation or in its deference to worldly masters. — Theodor Adorno Copy Share Image
There is no other occupation in the world that so closely resembled enslavement as the career of a film star. — Louise Brooks Copy Share Image
To become pure is not difficult. Make the choices that will lead you to freedom and liberation - not enslavement to the… — Frederick Lenz Copy Share Image
The whole of our civilization is founded on specialization, which implies the enslavement of those who execute to those who coordinate. — Simone Weil Copy Share Image
“Take care of your heart and your mind for they are like a garden. And nothing good thrives in a garden full… — Michael Bassey Johnson Copy Share Image
If the preservation of the home means the enslavement of women, economically or morally, then we had better break it. — Agnes Macphail Copy Share Image
The fundamental sense of freedom is freedom from chains, from imprisonment, from enslavement by others. The rest is extension of this sense,… — Isaiah Berlin Copy Share Image
“You were free to choose enslavement, but the choice was a free one only if you knew what your alternatives were.” — Jeannette Walls Copy Share Image
A war undertaken and brazenly carried on for the perpetual enslavement of colored men, calls logically and loudly for colored men to… — Frederick Douglass Copy Share Image
We have to show these men and women freedom by enslaving them, and show them courage by frightening them. — Chuck Palahniuk Copy Share Image
Madness need not be all breakdown. It may also be break-through. It is potential liberation and renewal as well as enslavement and… — R. D. Laing Copy Share Image
Your lifetime in form is to be honored and celebrated. Go beyond your enslavement, and live fully in the now, as this… — Wayne Dyer Copy Share Image
Empirical description involves enslavement to the object by decreeing passivity on the part of the subject. — Gaston Bachelard Copy Share Image
“Perhaps, there is no such person who can be called truly free, but only those who can be deemed so by comparison.” — Ashim Shanker Copy Share Image
Our enslavement to oil has required the repression of millions of Arab people. As they shake off their bonds, so must we. — Naomi Klein Copy Share Image
