The supreme nobility of a Roman emperor does not consist in being a master of slaves, but in being a lord of… — Julius Evola Copy Share Image
If money and material things become the center of our lives, they seize us and make us slaves. — Pope Francis Copy Share Image
Unless we love natural goods - sex, alcohol, food, money, success, power - in the way God intended, we become their slaves,… — Philip Yancey Copy Share Image
I was thinking what a curious thing love is; only a sentiment, and yet it has power to make fools of men… — Louisa May Alcott Copy Share Image
though money is a fine servant, as a god, it does seem to develop all the evil qualities of the slave seated… — J. E. Buckrose Copy Share Image
One may gain political and social independence, but if one is a slave to his passions and desires, one cannot feel the… — Swami Vivekananda Copy Share Image
Our passions may be compared to certain slaves--the more severity we show them, the better they obey us. — Norm MacDonald Copy Share Image
Who Rebels? Who rises in arms? Rarely the slave, but almost always the oppressor turned slave. — Emile M. Cioran Copy Share Image
For two hundred years Haiti has been swimming upstream. We were the first country in which independence was won by a group… — Michele Montas Copy Share Image
Do you know when people really become spiritual? It is when they become the slaves of God and are branded with His… — Teresa of Avila Copy Share Image
“If I’m a slave to thankfulness I will never to be a slave to that which I’m thankful for. And the fact… — Craig D. Lounsbrough Copy Share Image
“That's not fair!" "Life's not fair, Kaspar. You know that. You had a slave for — how long?" "Twelve years." "Did you… — Clive Barker Copy Share Image
It is to them I look, to the rising generation, and not to the one now in power, for these great reformations… — Thomas Jefferson Copy Share Image
Freedom is born of self-discipline. No individual, no nation, can achieve or maintain liberty without self-control. The undisciplined man (or woman) is… — Alan Valentine Copy Share Image
Bodily pleasure is not in itself a bad thing. But when it is exalted to a necessity and we become dependent upon… — Dallas Willard Copy Share Image
We are going to emancipate ourselves from mental slavery because whilst others might free the body, none but ourselves can free the… — Marcus Garvey Copy Share Image
“I was never your slave, Caleb. You tried, I’ll give you that, but we both know you belong to me as much… — C.J. Roberts Copy Share Image
In the time just before the bombing of Pearl Harbor, when Perfidia opens, we were pre-psychologized. There were no concepts of identity,… — James Ellroy Copy Share Image
Long gone is the time when we opposed the notion that we all looked alike and talked alike. Somehow we have come… — Clarence Thomas Copy Share Image
“Like a cord between us, it binds me to you, where you go I must then follow. If you go too far,… — Alexia Purdy Copy Share Image
When I would work freelance in production in Chicago, there were a lot of times when I was working for cheap, bad… — Andy Richter Copy Share Image
Slavery, you know, is nothing else than the unwilling labor of many. Therefore to get rid of slavery it is necessary that… — Leo Tolstoy Copy Share Image
“One night at a tavern in Virginia’s Greenbrier County, a traveler watched as a group of traders put a coffle of people… — Edward E. Baptist Copy Share Image
We must have a real living determination to reach holiness. ''I will be a saint'' means I will despoil myself of all… — Mother Teresa Copy Share Image
It is better to be a slave to your beloved woman than a free man to the unloved one. — Eric Berne Copy Share Image
As a comic book artist, once you become a master, you end up a slave. In fine art you're always free... since… — Mark Kostabi Copy Share Image
For what Harley Street specialist has time to understand the body, let alone the mind or both in combination, when he is… — Virginia Woolf Copy Share Image
You may dream freely when you listen to music as well as when you look at painting. When you read a book… — Paul Gauguin Copy Share Image
That a majority of women do not wish for any important change in their social and civil condition, merely proves that they… — Lydia M. Child Copy Share Image
A man is no less a slave because he is allowed to choose a new master once in a term of years. — Lysander Spooner Copy Share Image
I was latching on to something that was part of my heritage, because many of the slaves who were brought here were… — Kareem Abdul-Jabbar Copy Share Image
In Gaul were two orders, the nobility and the priesthood, while the people, says Caesar, were all slaves. — John Lothrop Motley Copy Share Image
“Are you a slave? Then you cannot be a friend. Are you a tyrant? Then you cannot have friends.” — Friedrich Nietzsche Copy Share Image
The Force is neither light nor dark, master nor slave, but a balance between extremes. — Tim Lebbon Copy Share Image
The more we hold on to our hurts, anger and bitterness, the more we become slaves to unforgiveness. — Nancy Leigh DeMoss Copy Share Image
My life has not been the best possible. The slave of impulse, I have rushed forward to my own destruction. — Lady Caroline Lamb Copy Share Image
Art should never be a slave to commerce, but for all working artists that's exactly what it must be. — Caitlín R. Kiernan Copy Share Image
“In 1860, the average price of a male slave of prime working age was roughly $2,000, whereas the average wage of a… — Thomas Piketty Copy Share Image
I delivered leaflets for my dad and was paid £5 per thousand, which was slave labour. — Neil Oliver Copy Share Image
After four hundred years of slave labor, we have some back pay coming, a bill owed to us that must be collected. — Malcolm X Copy Share Image