I can honestly say to you, slaves of the press, that if I had as many love affairs as you have given me credit for, I would now be speaking to you from a jar at the Harvard Medical School.
Frank Sinatra
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Animals, whom we have made our slaves, we do not like to consider our equal.
Charles Darwin
Disobedience is the true foundation of liberty. The obedient must be slaves.
Henry David Thoreau
The modern banking system manufactures money out of nothing. The process is perhaps the most astounding piece of sleight-of-hand that was ever invented. Banking was conceived in inequity and born in sin... But if you want to continue to be slaves of the bankers and pay the cost of your own slavery, then let the bankers continue to create money and control credit .
Josiah Charles Stamp
It is the hour to be drunken! to escape being the martyred slaves of time, be ceaselessly drunk. On wine, on poetry, or on virtue, as you wish.
Charles Baudelaire
We are slaves to this consumer society, ... When this civilization ends, what are they going to see when the archaeologists dig us up? I think they're going to say we worshipped technology.
Adam Horowitz
You deserve to be slaves.
Denmark Vesey
They are slaves who fear to speak,For the fallen and the weak.
James Russell Lowell
Many slaves avoided the city. If they could get to a farming community, they could live in peace and not have a fear of being captured.
Glennette Tilley Turner
Necessity is the argument of tyrants, it is the creed of slaves.
William Pitt The Younger
He had taken out loans that were secured by the slaves. But when the slaves were freed, he still had to pay the debts. Into the 1870s, banks in Philadelphia were forcing him to pay back the loans.
Jimmy Marston
Marriage: the state or condition of a community consisting of a master, a mistress, and two slaves, making in all, two.
Ambrose Bierce
Christians, like slaves and soldiers, ask no questions.
Jerry Falwell
Like all wage slaves, he had two crosses to bear: the people he worked for and the people he worked with.
Stephen Vizinczey
Necessity is the plea for every infringement of human freedom. It is the argument of tyrants; it is the creed of slaves.
William Pitt
Starvation is that government's weapon of choice liberally spiced with high-altitude bombing, mass murder and even selling Sudanese boys and girls as slaves.
Frank Wolf
You cannot put a rope around the neck of an idea; you cannot put an idea up against the barrack-square wall and riddle it with bullets; you cannot confine it in the strongest prison cell your slaves could ever build.
Sean O'Casey
This is just what I have thought when I have seen slaves at work-they seem to go through the motions of labor without putting strength into them. They keep their powers in reserve for their own use at night, perhaps.
Frederick Law Olmsted
Gifts make slaves.
Levi Strauss
The only time you really live fully is from thirty to sixty. The young are slaves to dreams; the old servants of regrets. Only the middle-aged have all their five senses in the keeping of their wits.
Hervey Allen
I freed a thousand slaves I could have freed a thousand more if only they knew they were slaves.
Harriet Tubman
MARRIAGE, n. The state or condition of a community consisting of a master, a mistress and two slaves, making in all, two.
Ambrose Bierce
The Confederacy's two most famous generals from Virginia were both opposed to slavery, and Jackson himself even disregarded state law in his day to teach slaves to read.
Brandon Dorsey
If all men are born free, how is it that all women are born slaves?
Mary Astell
To limit the press is to insult a nation ; to prohibit reading of certain books is to declare the inhabitants to be either fools or slaves.
Claude Adrien Helvetius
Fugitive slaves were rare then, and as a fugitive slave lecturer, I had the advantage of being the first one out.
Frederick Douglass
I dare you, who think life is humdrum, to become involved. I dare you who are weak to become strong; you who are dull to be sparkling; you who are slaves to be kings.
William Danforth
Man is mortal. Everyone has to die some day or the other. But one must resolve to lay down one's life in enriching the noble ideals of self-respect and in bettering one's human life. We are not slaves. Nothing is more disgraceful for a brave man than to live life devoid of self-respect.
B. R. Ambedkar
When? When? When? Now! We are tired of living in hiding! We are tired of livinglike slaves!
Jean Robert Lafortune
These are people with real power. We need to celebrate the fact that these people are where they are rather than make personal attacks against them as if they're slaves. We should always want to be in positions of power, no matter who the president is.
Armstrong Williams
What is Time... That you speak of it so subserviently? Are we to be the slaves of the sun, that second-hand, overrated knob of gilt, or of his sister, that fatuous circle of silver paper? A curse upon their ridiculous dictatorship!
Mervyn Peake
One hundred and seventy five years ago we were slaves here in Mississippi. We came here as a slave with no rights, but today we come back to be part of the rebuilding of the state. How beautiful is that?
Quetel Osterval
First, the church helped runaway slaves.
Ted Talbert
He was the chief architect of the Fugitive Slave Act -- though he abhorred slavery. Runaway slaves could be returned to their masters no matter where they were, no matter how long they had been living free. It was violently detested. There were riots.
Robert Schenkkan
You are paying three or four times what you borrowed. I use the term indentured slaves. You become indentured to them because they never get paid off.
Bruce Hamlett
Because Washington County was so narrow, escaping slaves often sought to cross through Maryland here en route to freedom in the North.
Tom Riford
Ants are so much like human beings as to be an embarrassment. They farm fungi, raise aphids as livestock, launch armies into war, use chemical sprays to alarm and confuse enemies, capture slaves, engage in child labor, exchange information ceaselessly. They do everything but watch television.
Lewis Thomas
Time is a factory where everyone slaves away earning enough love to break their own chains.
Hafiz Of Persia
People are so angry that this could become a major movement against the American slaves who are ruling Pakistan these days.
Liaquat Baluch
For a short while, he will be one of best-known slaves in America.
John Hennessy
If you love your children, if you love your country, if you love the God of love, clear your hands from slaves, burden not your children or country with them.
Richard Allen
The first revolt is against the supreme tyranny of theology, of the phantom of God. As long as we have a master in heaven, we will be slaves on earth.
Mikhail Bakunin
The story of the Civil War is usually told as a story of two white armies and two white governments. The popular image is of passive, grateful slaves kneeling at the feet of Father Abraham. But in fact, the slaves were very active in shaping the war and its outcome.
Bruce Levine
It's like we are slaves, like we are in jail.
Billy Martin
Corrupted freemen are the worst of slaves.
David Garrick
Just as the slave master required the slaves to imitate the image he had of them, so women, who live in a relatively powerless position, politically and economically, feel obliged by a kind of implicit force to live up to culture's image of what is female.
Susan Griffin
Brown University did not own any slaves.
Robert Emlen
I read a funny story about how the Republicans freed the slaves. The Republicans are the ones who created slavery by law in the 1600's. Abraham Lincoln freed the slaves and he was not a Republican.
Marion Berry
I rejoice that America has resisted. Three millions of people, so dead to all the feelings of liberty, as voluntarily to submit to be slaves, would have been fit instruments to make slaves of the rest.
William Pitt The Elder
The genius of any slave system is found in the dynamics which isolate slaves from each other, obscure the reality of a common condition, and make united rebellion against the oppressor inconceivable.
Andrea Dworkin
We find out more about that great voiceless mass — the poor, women, slaves — from the tomb inscriptions.
Jonathan Stamp
A deserted homestead is always a sad sight, but here in the South we must look a little deeper than the surface, and then we see that every such overgrown plantation, and empty house, is a harbinger of freedom to the slaves, and every lover of his country, even if he have no feeling for the slaves themselves, should rejoice.
Robert Gould Shaw
I want citizenship because I am a communist and a worker, I have lived in a decadent capitalist society where the workers are slaves.
Lee Harvey Oswald
The slaves of socialism are slaves, but they are no one's property and therefore no one's loss.
George Reisman
With regard to the moral and religious condition of the slaves, I cannot, either from what I observe, or from what is told me, consider it in any way gratifying.
Frederick Law Olmsted
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