#slave

Wisely used history can give pleasure and provide us with a useful tool; but we should not become its slaves. ↗

— Douglas Hurd

#give #history #pleasure #provide #should

People think that a liar gains a victory over his victim. What I’ve learned is that a lie is an act of self-abdication, because one surrenders one’s reality to the person to whom one lies, making that person one’s master, condemning oneself from then on to faking the sort of reality that person’s view requires to be faked…The man who lies to the world, is the world’s slave from then on…There are no white lies, there is only the blackest of destruction, and a white lie is the blackest of all. ↗

— Ayn Rand

#rearden #slave #truth #victim #person

Washington, not Jefferson, freed his slaves upon his death. ↗

— Stephen Ambrose

#freed #his #jefferson #slaves #upon

The man who has no inner-life is a slave to his surroundings. ↗

— Henri Frederic Amiel

#his #life is a #man #slave #surroundings

Action and faith enslave thought, both of them in order not be troubled or inconvenienced by reflection, criticism, and doubt. ↗

— Henri Frederic Amiel

#both #criticism #doubt #enslave #faith

I do not weep: I loathe tears, for they are a sign of slavery. ↗

— Max Beckmann

#i do #loathe #sign #slavery #tears

To us, the high-resounding “isms” to which our contemporaries ask; us to give our allegiance, now, in 1948, are all equally futile: bound to be betrayed, defeated, and finally rejected by men at large, if containing anything really noble; bound to enjoy, for the time being, some sort of noisy success; if sufficiently vulgar, pretentious and soul-killing to appeal to the growing number of mechanically conditioned slaves that crawl about our planet, posing as free men; all destined to prove, ultimately, of no avail. ↗

— Savitri Devi

#isms #slaves #equality

Southern states in the confederacy were not ready to give up their fight to secede or give up their way of life, which was made possible in large part through the blood, sweat and tears of African slaves. ↗

— Corrine Brown

#blood #confederacy #fight #give #large

See, it's no in between: you're either free or you're a slave. ↗

— H. Rap Brown

#either #free #see #slave #you

He that cannot reason is a fool. He that will not is a bigot. He that dare not is a slave. ↗

— Andrew Carnegie

#cannot #dare #fool #reason #slave