#enslave

All national institutions of churches, whether Jewish, Christian or Turkish, appear to me no other than human inventions, set up to terrify and enslave mankind, and monopolize power and profit. ↗

— Thomas Paine

#christian #churches #enslave #human #human inventions

The poet's spoken discourse often depends on a mystique, on the spiritual freedom that finds itself enslaved on earth. ↗

— Salvatore Quasimodo

#discourse #earth #enslaved #finds #freedom

Keeping small nations enslaved because of the deals between the great nations or because of any pragmatic considerations that might have been there are totally unacceptable. ↗

— Mikhail Saakashvili

#any #because #been #between #considerations

Tyrants are seldom free; the cares and the instruments of their tyranny enslave them. ↗

— George Santayana

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Enslave the liberty of but one human being and the liberties of the world are put in peril. ↗

— William Lloyd Garrison

#enslave #human #human being #liberties #liberty

Idle youth, enslaved to everything; by being too sensitive I have wasted my life. ↗

— Arthur Rimbaud

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Destiny waits alike for the free man as well as for him enslaved by another's might. ↗

— Aeschylus

#another #destiny #enslaved #free #free man

I must create a system or be enslaved by another mans; I will not reason and compare: my business is to create. ↗

— William Blake

#business #compare #create #enslaved #i

Art need no longer be an account of past sensations. It can become the direct organization of more highly evolved sensations. It is a question of producing ourselves, not things that enslave us. ↗

— Angela Carter

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I will not attack your doctrines nor your creeds if they accord liberty to me. If they hold thought to be dangerous - if they aver that doubt is a crime, then I attack them one and all, because they enslave the minds of men. ↗

— Robert Green Ingersoll

#attack #because #creeds #crime #dangerous