Nature Quote by Frederick Douglass

“Without education … what is man but a splendid slave, a reasoning savage vacillating between the dignity of an intelligence derived from God and…

— Chukwudifu Oputa

“The man Of virtuous soul commands not, nor obeys: Power, like a desolating pestilence, Pollutes whate'er it touches, and obedience, Bane of all genius,…

— Percy Bysshe Shelley

“A billion and a half human souls, who had been given the techniques of music and the graphic arts, and the theory of technology,…

— Theodore Sturgeon

“He was an artist of rare ability, a self-taught artist, without teachers or schools, principles and rules, carried away only by the thirst for…

— Nikolai Gogol

“He possessed the six attributes of the adventurer-- a memory for names and faces, with the aptitude for altering his own; the gift of…

— Thornton Wilder

“While it was well within their powers to toy around with mortals like hapless puppets, deeper human workings remained elusive to them. The heart,…

— Hayden Thorne

“Look, suppose that there was one among all those who desire nothing but material and filthy lucre, that one, at least, is like my…

— Fyodor Dostoyevsky

He who can be, and therefore is, another's, and he who participates in reason enough to apprehend, but not to have, is a slave…

— Aristotle

“What greater stimulus to ambition than the promise that the goals of which we dream, the nobility of spirit to which we aspire, the…

— Fiona Maazel

“Man is, by nature, a slave of numbers; by nurture, a slave of slaves.”

— Khayri R.R. Woulfe

“The influences and associations that had always surrounded him, blinded him to the inherent wrong at the bottom of the system of Slavery. He…

— Solomon Northup

“His need was to exist, and to move onwards at the greatest possible risk, and with maximum of privation. If the absolutely pure, uncalculating,…

— Joseph Conrad