I will have a care of being a slave to myself, for it is a perpetual, a shameful, and the heaviest of… — Seneca the Younger Copy Share Image
No one who is in a state of fear or sorrow or tension is free, but whosoever is delivered from sorrows or… — Epictetus Copy Share Image
“Human nature is universally imbued with a desire for liberty, and a hatred for servitude.” — Julius Ceasar Copy Share Image
Those who speak largely of the human condition are usually those most exempt from its oppressions - whether of sex, race, or… — Adrienne Rich Copy Share Image
“Being an employee was considered a form of bondage, only a step above indentured servitude.” — John Curl Copy Share Image
“The enlightened are servants of the rich and poor, helpers of the weak and powerful, friends of the lowly and eminent. They… — Matshona Dhliwayo Copy Share Image
The fact is, women are in chains, and their servitude is all the more debasing because they do not realize it. — Susan B. Anthony Copy Share Image
All forms of involuntary servitude are prohibited, not only slavery but also conscription, forced association, and forced welfare distribution. — Noam Chomsky Copy Share Image
Ignorance is servitude, because as a man thinks, so he is; a man who does not think for himself and allows himself… — Jose Rizal Copy Share Image
Individual initiative alone and the mere free play of competition could never assure successful development. One must avoid the risk of increasing… — Pope Paul VI Copy Share Image
The will to domination is a ravenous beast. There are never enough warm bodies to satiate its monstrous hunger. Once alive, this… — Andrea Dworkin Copy Share Image
How I loathe the servitude people try to hold up to me as being so valuable. I pity the man who is… — Andre Breton Copy Share Image
How is freedom measured, in individuals as in nations? By the resistance which has to be overcome, by the effort it costs… — Friedrich Nietzsche Copy Share Image
Writing a book is an adventure. To begin with it is a toy and an amusement. Then it becomes a mistress, then… — Winston Churchill Copy Share Image
Those of us who decided to work for democracy in Burma made our choice in the conviction that the danger of standing… — Aung San Copy Share Image
As political and economic freedom diminishes, sexual freedom tends correspondingly to increase. And the dictator will do well to encourage that freedom...it… — Aldous Huxley Copy Share Image
Never before in human history have so few owed so much to so many, Mr. Jiabao. A handful of men in this… — Aravind Adiga Copy Share Image
The people resemble a wild beast, which, naturally fierce and accustomed to live in the woods, has been brought up, as it… — Niccolo Machiavelli Copy Share Image
He thus reaps the full fruits which result from his toil and labors with the incentive of free enterprise to maximize his… — Douglas MacArthur Copy Share Image
And what have you laymen made of hell? A kind of penal servitude for eternity, on the lines of your convict prisons… — Georges Bernanos Copy Share Image
But if we are to retain freedom, then we can only do so by keeping the determining mass of the citizens the… — Hilaire Belloc Copy Share Image
There are at the present time two great nations in the world--the Russians and the Americans. The American relies upon his personal… — Alexis de Tocqueville Copy Share Image
Successful democratic politicians are insecure and intimidated men. They advance politically only as they placate, appease, bribe, seduce, bamboozle, or otherwise manage… — Walter Lippmann Copy Share Image
All right, then. Emergency medical situation, take two.” He leaped to his feet, staggered, keeled over, then lifted his head weakly. “Chloe?… — Kelley Armstrong Copy Share Image
People who care about each other enjoy doing things for one another. They don't consider it servitude. — Ann Landers Copy Share Image
“So stretch! Reach for it. Like falling down stairs, where your inner-genius takes over and saves you — your instincts are ready… — Bryant McGill Copy Share Image
Dictatorships foster oppression, dictatorships foster servitude, dictatorships foster cruelty; more abominable is the fact that they foster idiocy. — Jorge Luis Borges Copy Share Image
Crouch down and lick the hands which feed you. May your chains sit lightly upon you, and may posterity forget that ye… — Samuel Adams Copy Share Image
Mistress, I have never asked anything of you in my servitude. But now, I beg you this: do not make me keep… — Richelle Mead Copy Share Image
“No individual, by the very state of existence, can avoid life as a form of servitude; it only remains for us to… — Carolyn Weber Copy Share Image
For we did not and do not wish the Temple to be placed in any servitude except that which is fitting. — Jacques de Molay Copy Share Image
I am as free as nature first made man, Ere the base laws of servitude began, When wild in woods the noble… — John Dryden Copy Share Image
The vain, inconstant, rebellious disposition of the people [of Armorica], was incompatible either with freedom or servitude. — Edward Gibbon Copy Share Image
Man has no right to kill his brother. It is no excuse that he does so in uniform: he only adds the… — Percy Bysshe Shelley Copy Share Image
The highest type of free men should be sought where the highest resistance is constantly overcome: five steps from tyranny, close to… — Friedrich Nietzsche Copy Share Image
Servitude, in many cases, is not forced upon by the masters, but a temptation of the servants. — Indro Montanelli Copy Share Image
Both Moscow and [Kiev], the modern and the ancient capitals, were reduced to ashes [by the Tartars]; a temporary ruin, less fatal… — Edward Gibbon Copy Share Image
You call yourself free? I want to hear your ruling thought and not that you have escaped a yoke. Are you such… — Friedrich Nietzsche Copy Share Image
Let all me have as much freedom in reason as may be, and true dealing, for it is the greatest comfort you… — John Smith Copy Share Image
The oil is a gift bestowed by God on the Arab nation, to use after centuries of poverty, backwardness and servitude -… — Saddam Hussein Copy Share Image