The slave power dares anything, and it can be conquered…

Slave power crushes freedom of speech and of opinion. Slave power degrades labor. Slave power is arrogant, is jealous and intrusive, is cruel, is…

— Elizabeth Van Lew

“Expansion is a necessity of slave societies; the slave power requires ever fresh conquests.17 “It is more profitable,” wrote Merivale, “to cultivate a fresh…

— Eric Williams

Man is born to seek power, yet his actual condition makes him a slave to the power of others.

— Hans Morgenthau

Each of us has been endowed with the perfect power to be free. Slavery is a state of mind that fails to acknowledge the…

— Gerry Spence

The fact is that there is a profound spiritual hunger in the western world which, for a variety of reasons, its church is no…

— Melanie Phillips

In my early teens, science fiction and fantasy had an almost-total hold over my imagination. Their outcast status was part of their appeal.

— Hari Kunzru

Vice is its own reward. It is virtue which, if it is to be marketed with consumer appeal, must carry Green Shield stamps.

— Quentin Crisp

I sometimes find that my family's emphasis on stories, characters, and art that appeals directly to children rather than over their heads to adults…

— Mike Berenstain

The ascent of any route begins, in dreams at least, the autumn before. Our minds ring, involuntarily, with the alluring names of mountains, aiguilles,…

— Gaston Rebuffat

As a social and as a personal force, religion has become a dependent variable. It does not originate; it reacts. It does not denounce;…

— C. Wright Mills

I liked wrestling a lot better than boxing. I remember thinking at that time that wrestling was a pure demonstration of strength, which I…

— Scott Carpenter

It's an appeal as old as America and its presidency: This is an extraordinary country populated by hard-working, big-dreaming, freedom-loving people graced by God…

— Ron Fournier

All the cliches of glamorous sophistication have little appeal to me. Do I want to live the British version of 'Dynasty?' No thanks!

— Sade Adu

If Robert Heinlein is more to your taste than George Lucas: “If you are part of a society that votes, then do so. There…

— Kevin Drum

Quotations can be valuable, like raisins in the rice pudding, for adding iron as well as eye appeal.

— Peg Bracken