#slave

Why hast thou made me born in this country, The inhabitant of which is satisfied with being a slave? ↗

— Muhammad Iqbal

#born #country #hast #inhabitant #made

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

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

Do not quench your inspiration and your imagination; do not become the slave of your model. ↗

— Vincent Van Gogh

#imagination #inspiration #model #quench #slave

No slavery can be abolished without a double emancipation, and the master will benefit by freedom more than the freed-man. ↗

— Thomas Huxley

#double #emancipation #freedom #master #more

Why is Slavery so much condemn'd and strove against in one Case, and so highly applauded and held so necessary and so sacred in another? ↗

— Mary Astell

#another #applauded #case #condemn #held

The truth is that I am enslaved... in one vast love affair with 70 children. ↗

— Sylvia Ashton-Warner

#am #children #enslaved #i #i am

If Germany, thanks to Hitler and his successors, were to enslave the European nations and destroy most of the treasures of their past, future historians would certainly pronounce that she had civilized Europe. ↗

— Simone Weil

#civilized #destroy #enslave #europe #european

Oh while I live, to be the ruler of life, not a slave, to meet life as a powerful conqueror, and nothing exterior to me will ever take command of me. ↗

— Walt Whitman

#conqueror #ever #exterior #i #life