Better a sovereign in squalor than a slave in splendor.

I have observed this in my experience of slavery, - that whenever my condition was improved, instead of its increasing my contentment, it only…

— Frederick Douglass

“In American terms, the accomplishment of Genghis Khan might be understood if the United States, instead of being created by a group of educated…

— Jack Weatherford

The minimum that most minimalists want leaves in place just the institutions who protect their interests. That's libertarians for you - anarchists who want…

— Kim Stanley Robinson

Perhaps no order of mammals presents us with so extraordinary a series of gradations as this [step by step, from humans to apes to…

— Thomas Huxley

I didn't want to be a slave to any passion anymore. I gave up card playing altogether, even bridge and gambling - more or…

— Omar Sharif

“We are at the mercy of whoever wields authority over the things we either desire or detest. If you would be free, then, do…

— Epictetus

“Freedom is for the educated people who fought for it. We were slaves of the English, now we will be slaves of the educated…

— Khushwant Singh

My favorite Founding Fathers, Christians like John Adams, were absolutely appalled by slavery, and did not own slaves. I think we're going to have…

— Ann Coulter

We know, Southern men declare that their slaves are better off than hired laborers amongst us. How little they know, whereof they speak! There…

— Abraham Lincoln

“Being a slave is to have nothing but still having something left to lose.”

— Lalita Tedemy

“Whoever then would be free, let him wish for nothing, let him decline nothing, which depends on others; else he must necessarily be a…

— Epictetus Epictetus

Man preys on man; and you mourn for the idle tapestry that decorated a gothic pillar, and the dronish bell that summoned the fat…

— Mary Wollstonecraft

Don't become a slave to non-crucial matters.

— Robert Ringer

“People think blood red, but blood don't got no colour. Not when blood wash the floor she lying on as she scream for that…

— Marlon James

It's so Canada. On some level, you laugh, but on another level, it's just depressing. We pride ourselves: We're not like the bad old…

— Constance Backhouse