People who care about each other enjoy doing things for one another. They don't consider it servitude. — Ann Landers Copy Share Image
The fact is, women are in chains, and their servitude is all the more debasing because they do not realize it. — Susan B. Anthony Copy Share Image
“So stretch! Reach for it. Like falling down stairs, where your inner-genius takes over and saves you — your instincts are ready… — Bryant McGill Copy Share Image
Dictatorships foster oppression, dictatorships foster servitude, dictatorships foster cruelty; more abominable is the fact that they foster idiocy. — Jorge Luis Borges Copy Share Image
Crouch down and lick the hands which feed you. May your chains sit lightly upon you, and may posterity forget that ye… — Samuel Adams Copy Share Image
The question of the next generation will not be one of how to liberate the masses, but rather, how to make them… — Aldous Huxley Copy Share Image
I will have a care of being a slave to myself, for it is a perpetual, a shameful, and the heaviest of… — Seneca the Younger Copy Share Image
No one who is in a state of fear or sorrow or tension is free, but whosoever is delivered from sorrows or… — Epictetus Copy Share Image
“Many if not most slaves would have each readily jumped, and many if not most slaves would each readily jump, at the… — Mokokoma Mokhonoana Copy Share Image
When language in common use in any country becomes irregular and depraved, it is followed by their ruin and degradation. For what… — John Milton Copy Share Image
I have a counter-theory...I believe men built most things because women were shut out of political power, job opportunities, and education for… — Amanda Marcotte Copy Share Image
The greatest evil of American slavery was not involuntary servitude but rather the narrative of racial differences we created to legitimate slavery.… — Bryan Stevenson Copy Share Image
As political and economic freedom diminishes, sexual freedom tends to compensatingly increase and the dictator... will do well to encourage that freedom… — Julian Huxley Copy Share Image
I think all these reverend gentlemen who insist on the word 'obey' in the marriage service should be removed for a clear… — Elizabeth Cady Stanton Copy Share Image
All, or the greatest part of men that have aspired to riches or power, have attained thereunto either by force or fraud,… — Walter Raleigh Copy Share Image
They would be subject to no one, neither to lawful ruler nor to the reign of law, but would be altogether and… — Plato Copy Share Image
The cowardly belief that a person must stay in one place is too reminiscent of the unquestioning resignation of animals, beasts of… — Isabelle Eberhardt Copy Share Image
To him whom contemplates a trait of natural beauty, no harm nor despair can come. The doctrines of despair, spiritual or political… — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
The law known as Marchetta, or Marquette, compelled newly married women to a most dishonorable servitude. They were regarded as the rightful… — Matilda Joslyn Gage Copy Share Image
“I opened my louvres and looked at Comfort, walking in the heavy rain, crying bitterly. I heard mom saying, Anywhere you want… — Michael Bassey Johnson Copy Share Image
“Your realm is an insane place. In Volaria, no-one goes hungry, slaves are no use when they starve. Those freeborn too lazy… — Anthony Ryan Copy Share Image
A French observer is surprised to hear how often an English or an American lawyer quotes the opinions of others, and how… — Alexis de Tocqueville Copy Share Image
Is freedom anything else than the power of living as we choose? Nothing else. Tell me then, you men, do you wish… — Epictetus Copy Share Image
The older dictators fell because they could never supply their subjects with enough bread, enough circuses, enough miracles, and mysteries. Under a… — Aldous Huxley Copy Share Image
“Servitude of any sort is distasteful to all men, but especially objectionable is subjection to others in the case of those who… — Ulrich von Hutten Copy Share Image
Thou art my life, my love, my heart, The very eyes of me: And hast command of every part To live and… — Robert Herrick Copy Share Image
“All things can be deadly to us, even the things made to serve us; as in nature walls can kill us, and… — Blaise Pascal Copy Share Image
“Human nature is universally imbued with a desire for liberty, and a hatred for servitude.” — Julius Ceasar Copy Share Image
Those who speak largely of the human condition are usually those most exempt from its oppressions - whether of sex, race, or… — Adrienne Rich Copy Share Image
Life is not something to be lived through: it is something to be lived up to. It is a privilege, not a… — William George Jordan Copy Share Image
...nothing on earth can stop man from feeling himself born for liberty. Never, whatever may happen, can he accept servitude; for he… — Simone Weil Copy Share Image
The sovereign being is burdened with a servitude that crushes him, and the condition of free men is deliberate servility. — Georges Bataille Copy Share Image
How oft, in nations gone corrupt, And by their own devices brought down to servitude, That man chooses bondage before liberty. Bondage… — John Milton Copy Share Image
God cannot approve of a system of servitude, in which the master is guilty of assuming absolute power - of assuming God's… — Gerrit Smith Copy Share Image
“Servitude to law is the hatred of Heaven.58 Only self-love is the eternal all-pleasing, which is achieved by meditation on this radiant… — Austin Osman Spare Copy Share Image
I can easily imagine Obama sitting down and talking to any leader - or any person - in the world, with no… — Alice Walker Copy Share Image
My own convictions as to negro slavery are strong. It has its evils and abuses...We recognize the negro as God and God's… — Jefferson Davis Copy Share Image
But I am mistaken in speaking of a Christian republic; the terms are mutually exclusive. Christianity preaches only servitude and dependence. Its… — Jean-Jacques Rousseau Copy Share Image
Unless the people, through unified action, arise and take charge of their government, they will find that their government has taken charge… — Calvin Coolidge Copy Share Image
FREEDOM CANNOT BE LICENSED, liberties cannot be regulated and rights cannot be granted. History teaches us that when the rights and liberties… — Steve Kubby Copy Share Image
