#slaves

Ambition makes more trusty slaves than need. ↗

— Ben Jonson

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The mere holding of slaves, therefore, is a condition having per se nothing of moral character in it, any more than the being a parent, or employer, or ruler. ↗

— Samuel Morse

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Was it not enough punishment and suffering in history that we were uprooted and made helpless slaves not only in new colonial outposts but also domestically. ↗

— Robert Mugabe

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Our dependency makes slaves out of us, especially if this dependency is a dependency of our self-esteem. If you need encouragement, praise, pats on the back from everybody, then you make everybody your judge. ↗

— Fritz Perls

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The slaves of socialism are slaves, but they are no one's property and therefore no one's loss. ↗

— George Reisman

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Are you on a verge of finding the meaning to your life. The simplest task attempted and a bombastic result. Create a ripple of hope into the stagnant water of others life, stand up for an ideals, act to improve others, strike against the injustice, feed the hungry, clothe the naked, educate the ignorant, liberate the slaves. Life is beautiful mainly on other side, and here I mean the other side to be our society. The day you turn the society beautiful, you too look pretty. Do remember beauty lies with the beholder. ↗

— Manish Kathuria

#hunger #injustice #liberty #naked #slaves

The only time you really live fully is from thirty to sixty. The young are slaves to dreams; the old servants of regrets. Only the middle-aged have all their five senses in the keeping of their wits. ↗

— Theodore Roosevelt

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That's libertarians for you - anarchists who want police protection from their slaves. ↗

— Kim Stanley Robinson

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Fugitive slaves were rare then, and as a fugitive slave lecturer, I had the advantage of being the first one out. ↗

— Frederick Douglass

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Slaves are generally expected to sing as well as to work. ↗

— Frederick Douglass

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