Masters And Slaves Quotes
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Man was born free, and he is everywhere in chains. Those who think themselves the masters of others are indeed greater slaves than they (Masters And Slaves Quotes)
Haiti was founded by African slaves who rose against their European masters, had a revolution, and created a new state. There is no other such event in Western history (Masters And Slaves Quotes)
On the shining yards of heaven See a wider dawn unfurled. . . . The eternal slaves of beauty Are the masters of the world. (Masters And Slaves Quotes)
No sublime wisdom asks to be worshipped or served; the greatest and the most honourable masters are those who refuse to have slaves! (Masters And Slaves Quotes)
The Autocrat of all the Russias will resign his crown, and proclaim his subjects free republicans sooner than will our American masters voluntarily give up their slaves (Masters And Slaves Quotes)
Lies are the religion of slaves and masters. Truth is the God of the free man (Masters And Slaves Quotes)
Freedom is the only real doctor of the sick slaves; and a good conscience, of the ill masters! (Masters And Slaves Quotes)
The whole commerce between master and slave is a perpetual exercise of the most boisterous passions, the most unremitting despotism on the one part, and degrading submissions on the other. Our children see this, and learn to imitate it (Masters And Slaves Quotes)
The most imperious masters over their own servants are at the same time the most abject slaves to the servants of others (Masters And Slaves Quotes)
Every one must understand that, whatever be the evil of slavery, it is not increased by its diffusion. Every one familiar with it knows that it is in proportion to its sparseness that it becomes less objectionable. Wherever there is an immediate connexion between the master and slave, whatever there is of harshness in the system is diminished (Masters And Slaves Quotes)
The man who speaks to you of sacrifice, speaks of slaves and masters. And intends to be the master (Masters And Slaves Quotes)
Slaves were expected to sing as well as to work. A silent slave was not liked, either by masters or overseers (Masters And Slaves Quotes)
The greatest task before civilization at present is to make machines what they ought to be, the slaves, instead of the masters of men (Masters And Slaves Quotes)
Aristotle said that some people were only fit to be slaves. I do not contradict him. But I reject slavery because I see no men fit to be masters (Masters And Slaves Quotes)
We are all hostages, and we are all terrorists. This circuit has replaced that other one of masters and slaves, the dominating and the dominated, the exploiters and the exploited. It is worse than the one it replaces, but at least it liberates us from liberal nostalgia and the ruses of history (Masters And Slaves Quotes)