Despise Quote by George Mason Download Open image “The poor despise labor when performed by slaves.” — George Mason ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 2.2 out of 5 (5 ratings) Copy quoteShare Despise Labor Poor Poverty
“Forced labor was one of the most widespread and most deeply resented of the chronic abuses to which conquered Africans were subjected.” — Thomas Sowell Copy Share Image
“Slaves in the past were captured by force; today’s slaves surrender themselves. The masters are the same old folk (who are now more civilized)… — Bangambiki Habyarimana Copy Share Image
Where there is a man who does not labor because another is compelled to work for him, there slavery is. — Leo Tolstoy Copy Share Image
“Here was a population, low-class and mostly foreign, hanging always on the verge of starvation, and dependent for its opportunities of life upon the… — Upton Sinclair Copy Share Image
“Hard, dangerous, unhealthy work was better performed by slaves than those who were free. Or who thought themselves so.” — David Baldacci Copy Share Image
“American slavery the most cruel form of slavery in history: the frenzy for limitless profit that comes from capitalistic agriculture; the reduction of the… — Howard Zinn Copy Share Image
Slavery discourages arts and manufacturing ...[and] every master of slaves is born a petty tyrant. — George Mason Copy Share Image
Slavery...dishonors labor. It introduces idleness into society, and with idleness, ignorance and pride, luxury and distress. It enervates the powers of the mind and… — Alexis de Tocqueville Copy Share Image
This cold weather has set all the young Folks to providing Bedfellows. I have signed two or three Licences every Day [as a Fairfax… — George Mason Copy Share Image
“To disarm the people--that was the best and most effective way to enslave them.” — George Mason Copy Share Image
I charge [my sons] never to let the motives of private interest or ambition to influence them to betray, nor the terrors of poverty… — George Mason Copy Share Image
That general warrants, whereby an officer or messenger may be commanded to search suspected places without evidence of a fact committed, or to seize… — George Mason Copy Share Image
Who are the militia, if they be not the people, of this country...? I ask who are the militia? They consist now of the… — George Mason Copy Share Image
To disarm the people... was the best and most effectual way to enslave them. — George Mason Copy Share Image
We owe to our Mother-Country the Duty of Subjects but will not pay her the Submission of Slaves. — George Mason Copy Share Image
I have been for some time in Retirement, and shall not probably return again to public Life; yet my Anxiety for my Country, in… — George Mason Copy Share Image
I determined to spend the Remainder of my Days in privacy and Retirement with my Children, from whose Society alone I cou'd expect Comfort. — George Mason Copy Share Image
That no man, or set of men, are entitled to exclusive or separate emoluments or privileges from the community, but in consideration of public… — George Mason Copy Share Image
That the people have a right to uniform government; and, therefore, that no government separate from, or independent of the government of Virginia, ought… — George Mason Copy Share Image
A few years' experience will convince us that those things which at the time they happened we regarded as our greatest misfortunes have proved… — George Mason Copy Share Image
My whole life has conspired to bring me to this place, and I can’t despise my whole life. — Tony Kushner Copy Share Image
It may be important to great thinkers to examine the world, to explain and despise it. But I think it is only important to… — Hermann Hesse Copy Share Image
Never despise a drink because it is easy to make and/or uses commercial mixes. Unquestioning devotion to authenticity is, in any department of life,… — Kingsley Amis Copy Share Image
Everyone has conscience enough to hate; few have religion enough to love. — Henry Ward Beecher Copy Share Image
I agree that biphobia is real, but I think it's absolutely worth considering that someone who "despises" having sex with her husband - and… — Mallory Ortberg Copy Share Image
If you want to know how to make people shun you and laugh at you behind your back and even despise you, here is… — Dale Carnegie Copy Share Image
Russians not only vehemently despise blacks, they believe Africa begins at the Ukraine border. — P. J. O'Rourke Copy Share Image
I despise a person of little mind - one might as well not have any. — Emma Dunham Kelley-Hawkins Copy Share Image
I despise computers in many ways. I think they’re hopelessly underevolved and overrated. — Brian Eno Copy Share Image
With the single exception of Homer, there is no eminent writer, not even Sir Walter Scott, whom I can despise so entirely as I… — George Bernard Shaw Copy Share Image
It was beautiful and rare, and you have every right to despise me." She stood pressed to the wall, not moving. "When you came… — Ayn Rand Copy Share Image
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