I can understand the poor and stupid voting for Marxism or one of its fashionable variants. If you've no hope of being… — P. D. James Copy Share Image
Under its current form, that is imperialism-controlled, debt is a cleverly managed re-conquest of Africa, aiming at subjugating its growth and development… — Thomas Sankara Copy Share Image
My father was a Japanese prisoner of war, a survivor of the Thai-Burma Death Railway, built by a quarter of a million… — Richard Flanagan Copy Share Image
Human reason is beautiful and invincible. No bars, no barbed wire, no pulping of books, No sentence of banishment can prevail against… — Czeslaw Milosz Copy Share Image
The artist should fear to become the slave of detail. He should strive to express his thought and not the surface of… — Albert Pinkham Ryder Copy Share Image
“The crime which is done now is that war has made a tool and slave of science, and man's knowledge, painfully and… — Leonard Wibberley Copy Share Image
[S]ome people are self-starters, and some people are born lazy. Some people are born victims. Some people are just born to be… — Rush Limbaugh Copy Share Image
There are free men with the spirit of a slave, and slaves whose spirit is full of freedom. He who is true… — Abraham Isaac Kook Copy Share Image
It was the Faith which gradually and indirectly transformed the slave into the serf, and the serf into the free peasant. .… — Hilaire Belloc Copy Share Image
When we ignore the prostituted child, we actually lend our hand to their abuse. When we ignore the widow and the orphan… — Joel Houston Copy Share Image
As a slave one cannot undertake obligations without the consent of one's master. As a citizen one cannot undertake obligations unless the… — Frank Van Dun Copy Share Image
Their property held them in chains...chains which shackled their courage and choked their faith and hampered their judgment and throttled their soul...If… — Cyprian Copy Share Image
Student loans are destroying the imagination of youth. If there’s a way of a society committing mass suicide, what better way than… — David Graeber Copy Share Image
Philosophy is antipoetic. Philosophize about mankind and you brush aside individual uniqueness, which a poet cannot do without self-damage. Unless, for a… — Robert Graves Copy Share Image
People speaking into handheld devices while they walk down the street and saying to the device, "I'm walking down the street now."… — Nick Tosches Copy Share Image
Neither fear nor self-interest can convert the soul. They may change the appearance, perhaps even the conduct, but never the object of… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Haiti was founded by African slaves who rose against their European masters, had a revolution, and created a new state. There is… — Madison Smartt Bell Copy Share Image
Iqbal, that great poet, was so right. The moment you recognize what is beautiful in this world, you stop being a slave.… — Aravind Adiga Copy Share Image
For some slaves, the first step out of bondage is to learn to see their lives with new eyes. Their reality is… — Kevin Bales Copy Share Image
I can hardly thinke there was any scared into Heaven; they go the surest way to Heaven who would serve God without… — Thomas Browne Copy Share Image
Men are still men. The despot's wickedness Comes of ill teaching, and of power's excess,-- Comes of the purple he from childhood… — Victor Hugo Copy Share Image
The film is therefore a form of science fiction, in which humans, beasts and machines are on the verge of extinction -… — Leos Carax Copy Share Image
I think if 'The Narrow Road To The Deep North' is one of the high points of Japanese culture, then the experience… — Richard Flanagan Copy Share Image
I believe that any man who takes the liberty of another into his keeping is bound to become a tyrant, and that… — H. L. Mencken Copy Share Image
But for the cravings of the belly not a bird would have fallen into the snare; nay, nay, the fowler would not… — Saadi Copy Share Image
I am the very slave of circumstance And impulse borne away with every breath! Misplaced upon the throne misplaced in life. I… — Lord Byron Copy Share Image
The art world is now a slave of mass culture. We have a sound-bite culture and so we have sound-bite art. You… — Matthew Collings Copy Share Image
The army from Asia introduced a foreign luxury to Rome; it was then the meals began to require more dishes and more… — Livy Copy Share Image
I have discovered that a famed familiarity in great ones is a note of certain usurpation on the less; for great and… — Ben Jonson Copy Share Image
[John Brown's] zeal in the cause of freedom was infinitely superior to mine. Mine was as the taper light, his was as… — Frederick Douglass Copy Share Image
How can we live in freedom and maintain that we are entitled to *anything* that we can't get without the labor of… — Marilyn vos Savant Copy Share Image
“the cultures that don't castrate you to make you a slave, they castrate your mind. They make sex so filthy and evil… — Chuck Palahniuk Copy Share Image
No one is innocent in the tide of history. Everyone has kings and slaves in his past. Everyone has saints and sinners.… — Diana Peterfreund Copy Share Image
Because one does not want to be disturbed, to be made uncertain, he establishes a pattern of conduct, of thought, a pattern… — Bruce Lee Copy Share Image
I shall choose friends among men, but neither slaves nor masters. And I shall choose only such as please me, and them… — Ayn Rand Copy Share Image
He was by no means opposed to hard labour on principle, for he would work away at a cricket-match by the day… — Charles Dickens Copy Share Image
The mind must become the servant of the intellect, not the slave of the senses. It must discriminate and detach itself from… — Sathya Sai Baba Copy Share Image
Before God, there is neither Greek nor barbarian, neither rich nor poor, and the slave is as good as his master, for… — Lord Acton Copy Share Image
In America, you don't even have proper holidays. It's really one of the most prosperous slave societies in history. People work their… — Pankaj Mishra Copy Share Image
Let us remember that the automatic machine is the precise economic equivalent of slave labor. Any labor which competes with slave labor… — Anonymous Copy Share Image