Lies are the religion of slaves and masters. Truth is the god of the free man. — Maxim Gorky Copy Share Image
Whoever has not two-thirds of his time to himself, is a slave. — Friedrich Nietzsche 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
“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
The Negro is nothing but an ex-slave who is now trying to get himself integrated into the slave master's house. — Malcolm X Copy Share Image
He who has no opinion of his own, but depends upon the opinion and taste of others, is a slave. — Friedrich Gottlieb Klopstock Copy Share Image
Man, who wert once a despot and a slave, A dupe and a deceiver! a decay, A traveller from the cradle to… — Percy Bysshe Shelley Copy Share Image
'12 Years a Slave' was very powerful, very moving, and deserved all of the acclaim it did get. — Glynn Turman Copy Share Image
Renzi is a pawn. Renzi is a dumb slave at the disposal of nameless people who want to control all of our… — Matteo Salvini Copy Share Image
I gave him a compliment! All right, I told him he probably would've made, like, a really expensive slave in the, like,… — Sarah Silverman Copy Share Image
I didn't like '12 Years a Slave' because it was playing to the Spielbergian model of redemption. — Hilton Als Copy Share Image
“I don’t understand you. You could have handed over the slave and been free. (Paden) Freedom bought on the back of a… — Sherrilyn Kenyon Copy Share Image
A great, a good, and a right mind is a kind of divinity lodged in flesh, and may be the blessing of… — Seneca the Younger Copy Share Image
“Any time while I was a slave, if one minute's freedom had been offered to me, and I had been told that… — Elizabeth Freeman Copy Share Image
The act of writing for the slave constituted the act of creating a public, historical self, not only the self of the… — Henry Louis Gates Copy Share Image
The nation which indulges towards another an habitual hatred, or an habitual fondness, is in some degree a slave. It is a… — George Washington Copy Share Image
They are slaves who fear to speak For the fallen and the weak; They are slaves who will not choose Hatred, scoffing,… — James Russell Lowell Copy Share Image
Peace purchased at the cost of any part of our national integrity is fit only for slaves, and even when purchased for… — William Borah Copy Share Image
My favorite Founding Fathers, Christians like John Adams, were absolutely appalled by slavery, and did not own slaves. I think we're going… — Ann Coulter Copy Share Image
Because since the beginningless past we are running after objects, not knowing where our Self is, we lose track of the Original… — D.T. Suzuki Copy Share Image
We will have to choose not between color nor race nor religion nor between East and West either, but simply between being… — William Faulkner Copy Share Image
Outward, thanks to the knowledge of physical laws, man could subdue (or subjugate...) nature, but inwardly, he remained a slave to it.… — African Spir Copy Share Image
If a young man gets married, and starts a family and spends the rest of his life working at a soul-destroying job,… — Esther Vilar Copy Share Image
Of course you can more easily recognise the outsiders because they have a different skin color. But let us take for instance… — Norbert Elias Copy Share Image
The arrival of the Barbary pirates radically changed English attitudes. Instead of patriotic pirates plundering foreign cargoes and bringing them homes to… — Nicholas Rodger Copy Share Image
We fight wars not to have peace, but to have a peace worth having. Slavery is peace. Tyranny is peace. For that… — Bill Whittle Copy Share Image
The time is now near at hand which must probably determine whether Americans are to be freemen or slaves; whether they are… — George Washington Copy Share Image
“There are no gods, paladin. There is no afterlife, no eternal reward. You, in fact, are a slave to a creature you… — Alec Hutson Copy Share Image
It wasn't so bad being a slave when your owner was yourself and stood up for you. — Orson Scott Card Copy Share Image
There are more black men incarcerated today than there were slaves in 1850. — John Legend Copy Share Image
