“Since I have become a slave of writing, the pleasure of reading has ended for me.” — Italo Calvino Copy Share Image
“There has never been a slave who did not choose to be a slave,” — George R.R. Martin Copy Share Image
A person is master to those words they don't say, and slave to the ones they do. — John Reyes Copy Share Image
Being a part of '12 Years a Slave' has been one of the most profound experiences of my life. — Lupita Nyong'o Copy Share Image
The man who has no inner life is a slave of his surroundings, as the barometer is the obedient servant of the… — Lisa Alther Copy Share Image
An inspection of the Constitution will show that the right of property in a slave in not "distinctly and expressly affirmed" in… — Abraham Lincoln Copy Share Image
“Uspavanost je kazna A borbom zaslužen život Predznak buduće slave Nagrada, zdravlje i let” — Dejan Stojanovic Copy Share Image
Reason is, and ought only to be the slave of the passions, and can never pretend to any other office than to… — David Hume Copy Share Image
Before passing different laws for different people, I'd relinquish myself unto you as your slave. — Franz Grillparzer Copy Share Image
The reason why we have to acquire wealth is the body, because we are slaves in its service. — Socrates Copy Share Image
“Did you ask to have sex with all those men? “Did you ask to be sold as a sex slave?” — Gladys Lawson Copy Share Image
Here the Frenchman, Spaniard, and Englishman all passed, leaving each his legend; and a brilliant and more or less feudal civilization with… — Hervey Allen Copy Share Image
What do we mean by 'crazy?' What do we mean by 'mad?' At what point is a person just different and at… — Jo Nesbo Copy Share Image
in reference to Persepolis and all palaces, cities and temples of the past: could these wonders have come into being without that… — Ryszard Kapuscinski Copy Share Image
When you oppose the shaykh, it's like the slave who kills himself over a quarrel with his master. 'Hey, why are you… — Shams Tabrizi Copy Share Image
Rehearse death. To say this is to tell a person to rehearse his freedom. A person who has learned how to die… — Seneca the Younger Copy Share Image
My grandmother lived to be 100 years old. Her grandmother was a slave, yet she was a college graduate in the Spellman… — Spike Lee Copy Share Image
The most difficult struggle of all is the one within ourselves. Let us not get accustomed and adjusted to these conditions. The… — Mordechai Anielewicz Copy Share Image
“No slave had ever keeled over dead at a spinning wheel or been butchered for a tangle. But nobody wanted to speak… — Colson Whitehead Copy Share Image
North Korea's sin is that it refuses to surrender, to fall on its knees, to sacrifice its people. It refuses to become… — Andre Vltchek Copy Share Image
As it is the nature of a kite to devour little birds, so it is the nature of some minds to insult… — Henry Fielding Copy Share Image
We are slaves in the sense that we depend for our daily survival upon an expand-or-expire agro-industrial empire—a crackpot machine—that the specialists… — Edward Abbey Copy Share Image
We call 'Slavery is wrong' a moral truth because there is a specific history of theoretical investigation of a particular kind of… — Catherine Wilson Copy Share Image
A democracy flirts with the danger of becoming a slave in direct ratio to the numbers of its citizens who work, but… — Fulton J. Sheen Copy Share Image
“And, to tell finally my greatest service, I've kept him from a thousand vicious acts, for low and vile things could never… — Petrarch Copy Share Image
There's something about the weekend, even for non-religious people, that feels sacred, so a violation of that sanctified time is almost a… — Katrina Onstad Copy Share Image
Think of US slavery in 1850, or the subjection of women. Both of these injustices could have been - and were! -… — Thomas Pogge Copy Share Image
