The greatest mania of all is passion: and I am a natural slave to passion: the balance between my brain and my… — Hunter S. Thompson Copy Share Image
Assure a man that he has a soul and then frighten him with old wives' tales as to what is to become… — Theodore Dreiser Copy Share Image
Man is born to seek power, yet his actual condition makes him a slave to the power of others. — Hans Morgenthau Copy Share Image
Abraham Lincoln truly inspired me. It wasn't just the freeing of the slaves, he kept the Union together. Some people even forget… — George H. W. Bush Copy Share Image
To make your life being a writer, it's an auto-slavery ... you are both the slave and the task-master. — Susan Sontag Copy Share Image
Smith, as we have said, was not the proponent of any one class. He was a slave to his system. His whole… — Robert Heilbroner Copy Share Image
There are a lot of chapters to the banjo's history. Part of it are the roots in Africa, where it's a more… — Bela Fleck 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
A slave in the fields one night He's running along Gets far enough to be a free man And he's feeling so… — John Frusciante Copy Share Image
If one looks into the genealogies of many 'old families,' one discovers episodes of slave trafficking, bootlegging, gun running, opium trading, falsified… — Michael Parenti Copy Share Image
Practical men who believe themselves to be quite exempt from any intellectual influence, are usually the slaves of some defunct economist. Madmen… — John Maynard Keynes Copy Share Image
People who want to live like Olympian gods must have slaves whom they throw into their fishponds and gladiators who fight during… — Leopold von Sacher-Masoch Copy Share Image
The cause of the great War of the Rebellion against the United Status will have to be attributed to slavery. For some… — Ulysses S. Grant Copy Share Image
In the ideology of the new Silicon Valley, work was for the owned. Play was for the owners. There was a fundamental… — Katherine Losse Copy Share Image
I've said repeatedly that where we see terrorist organizations like al-Qaeda or ISIL, they have perverted and distorted and tried to claim… — Barack Obama Copy Share Image
As a Muslim woman, I’ve been liberated from a silent kind of bondage. I don’t answer to the slaves of God on… — Yasmin Mogahed Copy Share Image
The problem with American democracy is the American corporation, which is a slave holder construct, pure and simple. It's totally invasive, and… — Richard Grossman Copy Share Image
I have no idea of submitting tamely to injustice inflicted either on me or on the slave. I will oppose it with… — Lucretia Mott Copy Share Image
Scripture points out this difference between believers and unbelievers; the latter, as old slaves of their incurable perversity, cannot endure the rod;… — John Calvin Copy Share Image
You can say I had a severe case of 'Roots' envy. I wanted to be like Alex Haley, and I wanted to… — Henry Louis Gates Copy Share Image
Those who are not capable of sinning are said that they have attained freedom. The knowledge of the Truth raises them even… — Vladimir Aleksandrovich Antonov Copy Share Image
I am persuaded that the rights of woman, like the rights of slaves, need only be examined to be understood and asserted. — Sarah Moore Grimke Copy Share Image
I wanna explain something about the title 'Yeezus', simply put 'West' was my slave name and 'Yeezus' is my God name. — Kanye West Copy Share Image
