Ambition Quote by Horace Mann

The power of unfulfilled desires is the root of all man's slavery

— Paramahansa Yogananda

“Slavery is founded in the selfishness of man's nature, opposition to it in his love of justice. These principles are an eternal antagonism, and…

— Abraham Lincoln

Slavery is the first step towards civilization. In order to develop it is necessary that things should be much better for some and much…

— Alexander Herzen

To end slavery, you must overcome the mental and physical inertia of the masses and quicken their intelligence and creative faculty.

— Mahatma Gandhi

If a man surrenders all power of self-determination in regard to the profits, management or ownership of the place where he works, he not…

— Fulton J. Sheen

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

Ambition makes more trusty slaves than need

— Ben Jonson

“A depraved taste for equality, which impels the weak to attempt to lower the powerful to their own level and reduces men to prefer…

— Alexis de Tocqueville

When a good man lends himself to the advocacy of slavery, he must, at least for a time, feel himself to be any where…

— Gerrit Smith

In the form of security and sufficiency for the men who labor to the profit of others, and in the form of registering and…

— Hilaire Belloc

“The bonds of dependence, far from loosening, have tightened again. But alongside force there is no longer authority, alongside obedience, no longer recognition, alongside…

— Julius Evola

Slavery, properly so called, is the establishment of a right which gives to one man such a power over another as renders him absolute…

— Anonymous