I don't wish to be a slave any longer to the stringent exigencies of literature. — Philip Roth Copy Share Image
Good masters generally have bad slaves, and bad slaves have good masters. — Herodotus Copy Share Image
If I could save the Union without freeing any slave, I would do it. — Abraham Lincoln Copy Share Image
Each suburban housewife spends her time presiding over a power plant sufficient to have staffed the palace of a Roman emperor with… — Margaret Mead Copy Share Image
...counselling man to treat her as a slave while persuading her that she is a queen. — Simone de Beauvoir Copy Share Image
“Thoughtout life, we all live our lives assuming two roles, the role of a slave and the role of a master. It… — Nathanael Kanyinga Copy Share Image
Having rationally endeavored to control nature, is he not now becoming the slave of the objects which he makes? — Pope Paul VI Copy Share Image
“Get on your knees. I want you to feel me so deep that the belt is of little consequence when it comes… — Alaska Angelini Copy Share Image
Then it was that the exports of slaves from Virginia and the Carolinas was so great that the population of those States… — Henry Charles Carey Copy Share Image
Without water we are nothing", the traveler thought. "Even an emperor, denied water, would swiftly turn to dust. Water is the real… — Salman Rushdie Copy Share Image
Psychoanalysis showed me that I might be neurotic because I was a girl but, as Chekhov might have put it, I alone… — Vivian Gornick 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
Why let them order you about? Why let them tell you to hurry and scurry like ants or maggots? Take your time!… — Harlan Ellison Copy Share Image
On this proud and beautiful mountain we have lived hours of fraternal, warm and exalting nobility. Here for a few days we… — Lionel Terray Copy Share Image
Take special care that thou never trust any friend or servant with any matter that may endanger thine estate; for so shalt… — Walter Raleigh 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
The black middle-class in America is a prosperous community that is now larger in absolute terms than the black underclass. Does its… — David Horowitz Copy Share Image
He who has mastery over his incensive power has mastery also over the demons. But anyone who is a slave to it… — Evagrius Ponticus Copy Share Image
The principle that the majority have a right to rule the minority, practically resolves all government into a mere contest between two… — Lysander Spooner Copy Share Image
I define democracy as control by the people. Slaves are those who allow others to control their lives. Insofar as people succeed… — Peace Pilgrim Copy Share Image
The slave labors, but with no cheer-it is not the road to respectability, it will honor him with no citizens' trust, it… — Henry Ward Beecher Copy Share Image
Abortion on demand is the ultimate State tyranny; the State simply declares that certain classes of human beings are not persons, and… — Ron Paul Copy Share Image
“You are to make up your mind whether it is to be God or man. Whether you are to be free or… — Joseph Lewis Copy Share Image
“Ah, careful there!” The man thrust his arm behind my back and braced me. “If you fall over, you might hit your… — Esther M. Friesner Copy Share Image