It is the magician's bargain: give up our soul, get power in return. But once our souls, that is, ourselves, have been… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
I am a slave to the rhythm. I am a palette. I just go with the moment. You've got to do it… — Michael Jackson Copy Share Image
He only has freedom who ideally loves freedom himself and is glad to extend it to others. He who cares to have… — Rabindranath Tagore Copy Share Image
“Um," I asked, "isn't the whole point about being a slave that you don't have a choice to be anything else?" Prettying… — Sarah Vowell Copy Share Image
“Every Roman was surrounded by slaves. The slave and his psychology flooded ancient Italy, and every Roman became inwardly, and of course… — C.G. Jung Copy Share Image
Slaves who are underfed, diseased, resentful, despairing, and filled with hate will never yield that maximum of output which they might achieve… — Fritz Sauckel Copy Share Image
The first big dramatic push in the Haitian Revolution was to overthrow the slave regime and we have to remember this was… — Laurent Dubois Copy Share Image
I mean, of course "King Kong" is a metaphor for the slave trade. I'm not saying the makers of "King Kong" meant… — Quentin Tarantino Copy Share Image
The truth is that the 143 million orphaned children and the 11 million who starve to death or die from preventable diseases… — Anonymous 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 [desire] to abolish slavery prevails in North America, many of the Pennsylvanians have set their slaves at liberty, and [Virginia legislators]… — Benjamin Franklin Copy Share Image
It is not the right of property which is protected, but the right to property. Property, per se, has no rights; but… — George Sutherland Copy Share Image
It's fair to say that there's something retrograde about putting the leader of Star Wars rebellion in the position of "slave in… — Cass Sunstein Copy Share Image
“The truth was, the nation as a body was in the world for one object, and one only: to grovel before king… — Mark Twain Copy Share Image
I have always disliked the morning, it is too responsible a time, with the daylight demanding that it be 'faced' and (usually… — Janet Frame Copy Share Image
If abuses are destroyed, man must destroy them. If slaves are freed, man must free them. If new truths are discovered, man… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
We are free when we are not the slave of our impulses, but rather their master. Taking inward distance, we thus become… — Huston Smith Copy Share Image
Live within your means, never be in debt, and by husbanding your money you can always lay it out well. But when… — Andrew Jackson Copy Share Image
No Christian ought to think of himself as his own master, but each should rather so think and act as though given… — Saint Basil Copy Share Image
I learned that not only am I a descendant of slaves, but that I am also a descendant of royalty, that there… — Cuba Gooding, Jr Copy Share Image
I always read all these books about the slaves. My mother is very educated. My father would talk to us like we… — Wynton Marsalis 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
“It is difficult, my dear Lucius, to escape becoming the person others believe one to be. A slave is twice enslaved, once… — Thornton Wilder Copy Share Image
If taxes are laid upon us without our having a legal representation where they are laid, we are reduced from the character… — Samuel Adams Copy Share Image
Nothing is more disgusting than the crowing about liberty by slaves, as most men are, and the flippant mistaking for freedom of… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
I think when black performers performed in blackface, they were kind of taking back slave songs, but it was still a little… — Cecile McLorin Salvant Copy Share Image
I have sworn to uphold and defend the Constitution against all enemies, foreign and domestic, and I will…I have come to peace… — Timothy McVeigh Copy Share Image
I like the analogy that the way that we live in Western Society, the energy that we consume in the form of… — John Lindsay Copy Share Image
Two forms of government are favorable to the prevalence of falsehood and deceit. Under a Despotism, men are false, treacherous, and deceitful… — Albert Pike Copy Share Image
Bystanders wandered in and out of the merchant's stall, passing the time, talking of dreams they might purchase. Workers and slaves stooped… — David Berlinski Copy Share Image
Zwarte Piet, or 'Black Pete,' is a relic from slavery. It is something that should have long been eliminated, and it's very… — Roger Ross Williams Copy Share Image
Your late purchase of an estate in the colony of Cayenne, with a view to emancipating the slaves on it, is a… — George Washington Copy Share Image
The slaves of today will become the tyrants of tomorrow--the proletariat overthrows the hegemon to become the hegemon itself, only to be… — Miguel Syjuco Copy Share Image
I thought about ancient times when we didn't have electric light. People were slaves to the ebb and the flow of the… — Malik Yusef Copy Share Image
It's not the suffering of birth, death, love that the young reject, but the suffering of endless labor without dream, eating the… — Meridel Le Sueur Copy Share Image
To relive the relationship between owner and slave we can consider how we treat our cars and dogs - a dog exercising… — Edward Hoagland Copy Share Image
It's the old American Double Standard, ya know: Say one thing, do somethin' different. And of course this country is founded on… — George Carlin Copy Share Image
Now what is Judge Douglas Popular Sovereignty? It is, as a principle, no other than that, if one man chooses to make… — Abraham Lincoln Copy Share Image
When my ancestors came from Africa, they were shackled by our neck, our wrists, and our ankles in steel chains. I've turned… — Mr. T Copy Share Image
I remember when I wrote a piece, "Blood on the Fields," it was a while ago, it was about slavery and about… — Wynton Marsalis Copy Share Image
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