A man, at least, is free; he can explore every passion, every land, overcome obstacles, taste the most distant pleasures. But a… — Gustave Flaubert Copy Share Image
To no form of religion is woman indebted for one impulse of freedom, as all alike have taught her inferiority and subjection. — Elizabeth Cady Stanton Copy Share Image
There never was a strong character that was not made strong by discipline of the will; there never was a strong people… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
Every man by nature is a freeman born; by nature no man cometh out of the womb under any civil subjection to… — Samuel Rutherford Copy Share Image
No more astounding relic of the subjection of women survives in western civilization than the status of the prostitute.... In connection with… — Crystal Eastman Copy Share Image
Nature has placed mankind under the government of two sovereign masters, pain and pleasure. — Jeremy Bentham Copy Share Image
Some people giving orders and others obeying them: this is the essence of servitude. Of course, as Hospers smugly observes, "one can… — Bob Black Copy Share Image
There is nothing of evil in life for him who rightly comprehends that death is no evil; to know how to die… — Michel de Montaigne Copy Share Image
Wouldst thou enjoy a long Life, a healthy Body, and a vigorous Mind, and be acquainted also with the wonderful Works of… — Benjamin Franklin Copy Share Image
I try as hard as possible not to be pessimistic because I have never thought or believed that creating a Nigerian nation… — Chinua Achebe Copy Share Image
Towards orthodox religion, father's own attitude remained one of tolerance. He looked upon the New Testament as the noble story of a… — Margaret Sanger Copy Share Image
“[A] person whose head is bowed and whose eyes are heavy cannot look at the light.” — Christine de Pizan Copy Share Image
Thus strength is afforded by good and thorough customs, thus is learnt the subjection of the individual, and strenuousness of character becomes… — Friedrich Nietzsche Copy Share Image
A democracy is a state which recognizes the subjection of the minority to the majority, that is, an organization for the systematic… — Vladimir Lenin Copy Share Image
The more I consider the condition of the white men, the more fixed becomes my opinion that, instead of gaining, they have… — Tomochichi Copy Share Image
Educate ourselves; educate other people, the population in general, to fight fear and ignorance, to eliminate little by little the subjection to… — Amilcar Cabral Copy Share Image
The king is as much bound by his oath not to infringe the legal rights of the people, as the people are… — Jonathan Mayhew Copy Share Image
A people who free themselves from foreign domination will be free culturally only if, without complexes and without underestimating the importance of… — Amilcar Cabral Copy Share Image
They deceive themselves who believe that union with God consists in ecstasies or raptures, and in the enjoyment of Him. For it… — Teresa of Avila Copy Share Image
Think of US slavery in 1850, or the subjection of women. Both of these injustices could have been - and were! -… — Thomas Pogge Copy Share Image
it is not men that most women worry about when they rise to the defense of the status quo. Their apparent endorsement… — Elizabeth Gould Davis Copy Share Image
For the love of gain would reconcile the weaker to the dominion of the stronger, and the possession of capital enabled the… — Thucydides Copy Share Image
I know of no other book that so fully teaches the subjection and degradation of women. — Elizabeth Cady Stanton Copy Share Image
However, the danger in [socially unbalanced relationships] is that the subjection of the woman temporarily calms the man's jealousy but also renders… — Marcel Proust Copy Share Image
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