#slave

You cannot have Liberty in this world without what you call Moral Virtue, and you cannot have Moral Virtue without the slavery of that half of the human race who hate what you call Moral Virtue. ↗

— William Blake

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Democracy means the opportunity to be everyone's slave. ↗

— Karl Kraus

#everyone #means #opportunity #slave

The power of the ballot we need in sheer defense, else what shall save us from a second slavery? ↗

— W. E. B. Du Bois

#defense #else #need #power #save

This is slavery, not to speak one's thought. ↗

— Euripides

#speak #thought

No one is truly free, they are a slave to wealth, fortune, the law, or other people restraining them from acting according to their will. ↗

— Euripides

#acting #fortune #free #law #other

Socialism means slavery. ↗

— Lord Acton

#slavery #socialism

Man is free; yet we must not suppose that he is at liberty to do everything he pleases, for he becomes a slave the moment he allows his actions to be ruled by passion. ↗

— Giacomo Casanova

#allows #becomes #everything #free #his

That a majority of women do not wish for any important change in their social and civil condition, merely proves that they are the unreflecting slaves of custom. ↗

— Lydia M. Child

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You learn to cook so that you don't have to be a slave to recipes. You get what's in season and you know what to do with it. ↗

— Julia Child

#get #know #learn #recipes #season

Neither can men, by the same principles, be considered as lands, goods, or houses, among possessions. It is necessary that all property should be inferiour to its possessor. But how does the slave differ from his master, but by chance? ↗

— Thomas Clarkson

#chance #considered #differ #does #goods