#slave

Well for one, the 13th amendment to the constitution of the US which abolished slavery - did not abolish slavery for those convicted of a crime. ↗

— Angela Davis

#amendment #constitution #convicted #crime #did

It is the nature of the wise to resist pleasures, but the foolish to be a slave to them. ↗

— Epictetus

#foolish #nature #pleasures #resist #slave

Moses freed the Jews. Lincoln freed the slaves. I freed the neurotics. ↗

— Larry Flynt

#i #jews #lincoln #moses #neurotics

It seems that it is madder never to abandon one's self than often to be infatuated; better to be wounded, a captive and a slave, than always to walk in armor. ↗

— Margaret Fuller

#always #armor #better #captive #infatuated

A cat will be your friend, but never your slave. ↗

— Theophile Gautier

#friend #never #slave #will #your

In the nineteenth century, slavery was the greatest wrong, and government never stood so tall as when it was redressing that wrong. ↗

— William Weld

#government #greatest #never #nineteenth #nineteenth century

An Enlightened Master is ideal only if your goal is to become a Benighted Slave. ↗

— Robert Anton Wilson

#benighted #enlightened #goal #ideal #master

Slavery to monarchs and ministers, which the world will be long freeing itself from, and whose deadly grasp stops the progress of the human mind, is not yet abolished. ↗

— Mary Wollstonecraft

#freeing #grasp #human #human mind #itself

When work is a pleasure, life is a joy! When work is a duty, life is slavery. ↗

— Maxim Gorky

#joy #life #life is a #pleasure #slavery

And I particularly like the whole thing of being boss. Boss and employee... It's the slave quality that I find very alluring. ↗

— Hugh Grant

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