Greater Quote by Seneca the Younger Download Open image “Slavery holds few men fast; the greater number hold fast their slavery.” — Seneca the Younger ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 2.2 out of 5 (4 ratings) Copy quoteShare Greater Hold fast Men Numbers Servitude Slavery
There are a few men whom slavery holds fast, but there are many more who hold fast to slavery. — Seneca the Younger Copy Share Image
“It is so, my dear Lucilius; there are a few men whom slavery holds fast, but there are many more who hold fast to… — Seneca Copy Share Image
“Men are much more forcibly struck by those inequalities which exist within the circle of the same class, than with those which may be… — Alexis de Tocqueville Copy Share Image
To this must be added that the hiring of labor and the conduct of trade are concentrated in the hands of comparatively few; so… — Pope Leo XIII Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share Image
To take a person out of slavery takes an instant. To take slavery out of a person takes a process. — Timothy Keller Copy Share Image
“Slavery is simply a possession of the mind, before the individual submits their spiritual component to the will of another person or deity.” — Mwanandeke Kindembo Copy Share Image
Slavery it is that makes slavery; freedom, freedom. The slavery of women happened when the men were slaves of kings. — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
You got to remember that slavery's very complex. It has a lot of levels to it. — Paul Mooney Copy Share Image
There is nothing that we can properly call our own but our time, and yet everybody fools us out of it who has a… — Seneca the Younger Copy Share Image
Men trust rather to their eyes than to their ears; the effect of precepts is therefore slow and tedious, whilst that of examples is… — Seneca the Younger Copy Share Image
A great step towards independence is a good-humored stomach, one that is willing to endure rough treatment. — Seneca the Younger Copy Share Image
Men can be divided into 2 groups: one that goes ahead and achieves something, and one that comes after and criticizes. — Seneca the Younger Copy Share Image
Such as the chain of causes we call Fate, such is the chain of wishes: one links on to another; the whole man is… — Seneca the Younger Copy Share Image
The road by precepts is tedious, by example, short and efficacious. — Seneca the Younger Copy Share Image
He who does not want to die should not want to live. For life is tendered to us with the proviso of death. Life… — Seneca the Younger Copy Share Image
Let us not seek our disease out of ourselves; 'tis in us, and planted in our bowels; and the mere fact that we do… — Seneca the Younger Copy Share Image
Eternal Trinity... mystery deep as the sea, You could give me no greater gift than the gift of Yourself. For You are a fire… — St. Catherine of Siena Copy Share Image
To an ever greater extent out experience is governed by pictures, pictures in newspapers and magazines, on television and in the cinema. Next to… — Douglas Crimp Copy Share Image
He's a fool that marries; but he's a greater fool that does not marry a fool. — William Wycherley Copy Share Image
When you stop a dictator, there are always risks. But there are greater risks in not stopping a dictator. — Margaret Thatcher Copy Share Image
Our young Marines of today are courageous, willing to make sacrifices, and are marvelous team players. I am confident our Corps, and indeed our… — James T. Conway Copy Share Image
Life takes hold of us with strong hands and makes us greater than we thought. — Dorothy Canfield Fisher Copy Share Image
Donald Trump is a different ball of wax. I've been trying to say for I don't know how many months now that the traditional… — Rush Limbaugh Copy Share Image
Society understands the architecture of academia and knows there are relevant qualifications in different fields, and the media accepts the idea of specialisations and… — Jay Griffiths Copy Share Image
I think that as a writer your responsibility is to search for and stir up the things that are in this world. There is… — Markus Zusak Copy Share Image
In comparative terms, there's no poverty in America by a long shot. Heritage Foundation political scientist Robert Rector has worked up figures showing that… — P. J. O'Rourke Copy Share Image
In the end theologians are jealous of science, for they are aware that it has greater authority than do their own ways of finding… — Jerry A. Coyne Copy Share Image
