#slave

Machines are worshipped because they are beautiful and valued because they confer power; they are hated because they are hideous and loathed because they impose slavery. ↗

— Bertrand Russell

#because #confer #hated #hideous #impose

The slave is doomed to worship time and fate and death, because they are greater than anything he finds in himself, and because all his thoughts are of things which they devour. ↗

— Bertrand Russell

#because #death #devour #doomed #fate

The perfection of our union, especially our commitment to equality of opportunity, has been a story of constant striving to live up to our Founding principles. This is what Abraham Lincoln meant when he said, 'In giving freedom to the slave, we assure freedom to the free - honorable alike in what we give, and what we preserve.' ↗

— Paul Ryan

#abraham lincoln #alike #assure #been #commitment

He who is a slave to his stomach seldom worships God. ↗

— Saadi

#his #seldom #slave #stomach #who

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

The scariest thought in the world is that someday I'll wake up and realize I've been sleepwalking through my life: underappreciating the people I love, making the same hurtful mistakes over and over, a slave to neuroses, fear, and the habitual. ↗

— George Saunders

#fear #habitual #hurtful #i #i love

The state of slavery is in its own nature bad. ↗

— Charles de Secondat

#nature #own #slavery #state

Slavery takes hold of few, but many take hold of slavery. ↗

— Lucius Annaeus Seneca

#hold #many #slavery #take #takes

Every emancipation has in it the seeds of a new slavery, and every truth easily becomes a lie. ↗

— I. F. Stone

#easily #emancipation #every #lie #new

Gifts make slaves. ↗