Civilization Quote by Oscar Wilde

You cannot afford a world with slavery, which literally takes someone and turns them into a machine.

— Andrew Forrest

The fact is, that civilization requires slaves. Unless there are slaves to do the ugly, horrible, uninteresting work, culture and contemplation become almost impossible.

— Oscar Wilde

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

“Slavery of Human is much better than slavery of Machine. Human have feeling that Machines do not have.”

— Moaz Masood Butt

It's only a matter of time before machinery becomes sentient. It's going to happen because we're already slaves to all of it.

— Cedric Bixler-Zavala

Slavery results from laws, laws are made by governments, and, therefore people can only be freed from slavery by the abolition of governments.... And…

— Leo Tolstoy

Man will never be enslaved by machinery if the man tending the machine be paid enough.

— Karel Capek

“An economy built on slave labor is vulnerable in two ways. One, availability of forced labor discourages technical innovation. The very wealthy [Roman]empire experienced…

— Norman F. Cantor

The slave and those whose present life is miserable and who can find no consolation in the heavens are assured that at least the…

— Albert Camus

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

— Mahatma Gandhi

We know an organised workforce cannot be enslaved, but when governments fail their citizens and allow corporations to escape the rule of law, slavery…

— Sharan Burrow

Slavery discourages arts and manufacturing ...[and] every master of slaves is born a petty tyrant.

— George Mason