You have been overcome; and whether you are overcome by envy or by a so-called noble influence, you are still a slave,… — Jiddu Krishnamurti Copy Share Image
When God takes your straw, it isn’t because he wants you to remain a slave. It’s because he wants you to take… — Jud Wilhite Copy Share Image
The future is the only kind of property that the masters willingly concede to the slaves. — Albert Camus Copy Share Image
Marriage is the only actual bondage known to our law. There remain no legal slaves, except the mistress of every house. — John Stuart Mill Copy Share Image
It is the nature of the wise to resist pleasures, but the foolish to be a slave to them. — Epictetus Copy Share Image
Religion! but for thee, prolific fiend, Who peoplest earth with demons, hell with men, And heaven with slaves! — Percy Bysshe Shelley Copy Share Image
It is the man who can think of no alternative to his enslavement who is truly a slave. — Wendell Berry Copy Share Image
The man who is not able to develop and use his mind is bound to be the slave of the other man… — Marcus Garvey Copy Share Image
But you answer, that the Constitution recognizes property in slaves. It would be sufficient, then, to reply, that this constitutional recognition must… — William H. Seward Copy Share Image
The right to have a slave implies the right in some one to make the slave; that right must be equal and… — William H. Seward Copy Share Image
My mother was born in your state, Mr. Walter, and my mother was a Quaker, and my ancestors in the time of… — Paul Robeson Copy Share Image
In the same way that we today think that the slave trade and colonial exploitation were inhuman and inconceivably bestial ways of… — Erik Dammann Copy Share Image
“My country again! Mr. Wilson, you have a country; but what country have I, or any one like me, born of slave… — Harriet Beecher Stowe Copy Share Image
There are cases where the slave does not know his servitude and where it is necessary to bring the seed of his… — Simone de Beauvoir Copy Share Image
I would advise persisting in our struggle for liberty, though it were revealed from Heaven that nine hundred and ninety-nine men were… — Samuel Adams 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
There is nothing grand or noble in having the use of a slave, in so far as he is a slave; or… — Aristotle Copy Share Image
The incomparable James Walvin has done it again: he has crafted a beautifully written and deeply informed single volume history of the… — David W. Blight Copy Share Image
The purpose and effect of [land titles] have been to maintain, in the hands of robber, or slave holding class, a monopoly… — Lysander Spooner Copy Share Image
Even if nonpolluting power were feasible and abundant, the use of energy on a massive scale acts on society like a drug… — Ivan Illich Copy Share Image
The body was the slave of the vortex; but the slave has become the master; and we must free ourselves from that… — George Bernard Shaw Copy Share Image
On this day, millions of people...throughout the world will gather to commemorate the life of Patrick, patron saint of Ireland. From his… — George W. Bush Copy Share Image
People speaking into handheld devices while they walk down the street and saying to the device, "I'm walking down the street now."… — Nick Tosches Copy Share Image
Neither fear nor self-interest can convert the soul. They may change the appearance, perhaps even the conduct, but never the object of… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
A slave has but one master; an ambitious man has as many masters as there are people who may be useful in… — Jean de la Bruyere Copy Share Image
Don't let anyone turn you into a slave. You're a slave if you let the media tell you that sports and entertainment… — Benjamin Carson Copy Share Image
The slave child had no thought for the morrow; but there came that blight, which too surely waits on every human being… — Harriet Ann Jacobs Copy Share Image
I've never received a dollar royalty to any of my books because I feel, as a slave everything that I have is… — Bill Bright Copy Share Image
The Bible is a radically pro-slavery document. Slave owners waved Bibles over their heads during the Civil War and justified it. — Dan Savage Copy Share Image
Virtue cannot dwell with slaves, nor reign O'er those who cower to take a tyrant's yoke. — William C. Bryant Copy Share Image
The Bible is a radically pro-slavery document. Slave owners waved Bibles over their heads in the Civil War and justified it. — Dan Savage Copy Share Image
When a man's earning his living doing things he doesn't like, he feels like a slave; when he's doing what he loves,… — Isabel Allende Copy Share Image
Here, before God, in the presence of these witnesses, from this time, I consecrate my life to the destruction of slavery! — John Brown Copy Share Image
How do you react when you think you need people's love? Do you become a slave for their approval? — Byron Katie Copy Share Image
“You are the master of my heart. I am a slave to you're soul. Intertwined in a perfect embrace that I will… — Truth Devour Copy Share Image
Slaves cannot breathe in England; if their lungs Receive our air, that moment they are free; They touch our country, and their… — William Cowper Copy Share Image
“nothing can be more reasonable, than that slaves and flatterers should exact the same taxes on all below them, which they themselves… — Henry Fielding Copy Share Image
On the shining yards of heaven See a wider dawn unfurled. . . . The eternal slaves of beauty Are the masters of the world. — Bliss Carman Copy Share Image
Vanity is the most despotic and iniquitous of masters, and I can never be the slave of my own vices. — George Sand Copy Share Image
English children have lost their innocence, for their first lessons have been in the exploitation of their adult slave. — Germaine Greer Copy Share Image