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• The artist has a twofold relation to nature; he is at once her master and her slave.

  Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

  Nature, Artist, Masters

  Johann Wolfgang von Goethe, Johann Peter Eckermann (2014). “Conversations of Goethe with Johann Peter Eckermann”, p.242, Ravenio Books

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• Speak with contempt of none, from slave to king, The meanest Bee hath, and will use, a sting.

  Benjamin Franklin

  Kings, Use, Bees

  Benjamin Franklin (2013). “Poor Richard's Almanac and Other Writings”, p.92, Courier Corporation

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• Base is the slave that pays.

  William Shakespeare

  Slavery, Pay

  William Shakespeare, T.W. Craik (1995). “King Henry V: Third Series”, p.164, Cengage Learning EMEA

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• When watching men of power in action it must be always kept in mind that, whether they know it or not, their main purpose is the elimination or neutralization of the independent individual- the independent voter, consumer, worker, owner, thinker- and that every device they employ aims at turning men into a manipulable animated instrument which is Aristotle's definition of a slave.

  Eric Hoffer

  Independent, Men, Mind

  Eric Hoffer (1982). “Between the Devil and the Dragon: The Best Essays and Aphorisms of Eric Hoffer”, HarperCollins Publishers

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• It is true that so far as wealth gives time for ideal ends and exercise to ideal energies, wealth is better than poverty and ought to be chosen. But wealth does this in only a portion of the actual cases. Elsewhere the desire to gain wealth and the fear to lose it are our chief breeders of cowardice and propagators of corruption. There must be thousands of conjunctures in which a wealth-bound man must be a slave, whilst a man for whom poverty has no terrors becomes a freeman.

  William James

  Exercise, Men, Giving

  William James (2013). “The Varieties of Religious Experience”, p.368, Courier Corporation

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• Men are still men. The despot's wickedness Comes of ill teaching, and of power's excess,-- Comes of the purple he from childhood wears, Slaves would be tyrants if the chance were theirs.

  Victor Hugo

  Teaching, Men, Tyrants

  Victor Hugo (19??). “Poems. The history of a crime”

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• He is sometimes slave who should be master; and sometimes master who should be slave.

  Marcus Tullius Cicero

  Slavery, Sometimes, Should

  "Oratio Pro Rege Deiotaro", XI, as quoted in Hoyt's New Cyclopedia Of Practical Quotations (1922), p. 715-16,

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• The test of civilization is the estimate of woman. Among savages she is a slave. In the dark ages of Christianity she is a toy and a sentimental goddess. With increasing moral light, and greater liberty, and more universal justice, she begins to develop as an equal human being.

  George William Curtis

  Dark, Light, Civilization

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• The tongue is the vile slave's vilest part.

  Juvenal

  Tongue

  "Hoyt's New Cyclopedia Of Practical Quotations" by Jehiel Keeler Hoyt, p. 808-9, Satires, IX, line 120, 1922.

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• Slaves cannot breathe in England; if their lungs Receive our air, that moment they are free; They touch our country, and their shackles fall.

  William Cowper

  Country, Fall, Air

  'The Task' (1785) bk. 2 'The Timepiece' l. 40.

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• I would not have a slave to till my ground, To carry me, to fan me while I sleep, And tremble when I wake, for all the wealth That sinews bought and sold have ever earn'd.

  William Cowper

  Sleep, Fans, Slavery

  William Cowper (1811). “The task: a poem”, p.40

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• What can ennoble sots, or slaves, or cowards? Alas! not all the blood, of all the Howards.

  Alexander Pope

  Blood, Coward, Ancestry

  Alexander Pope, Daniel Clark (1824). “An Essay on Man: In Four Epistles, to H. St. John, Lord Bolingbroke”, p.58

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• Envy, to which th' ignoble mind's a slave, Is emulation in the learn'd or brave.

  Alexander Pope

  Envy, Brave, Mind

  Alexander Pope (1804). “The Poetical Works of Alexander Pope”, p.71

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• I hate the French because they are all slaves and wear wooden shoes.

  Oliver Goldsmith

  Hate, Shoes, France

  Oliver Goldsmith (1854). “The bee. Essays. Unacknowledged essays. Prefaces, Introductions, etc”, p.245

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• If you cannot live alone, you were born a slave.

  Fernando Pessoa

  Solitude, Born, Ifs

  Fernando Pessoa, Richard Zenith (1996). “Book of Disquietude”, Carcanet Press Limited

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• Let's live with that small pittance which we have; Who covets more is evermore a slave.

  Robert Herrick

  Contentment, Evermore

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• Women are the cowards they are because they have been semi-slaves for so long. The number of women prepared to stand up for what they really think, feel, experience, with a man they are in love with is still very small.

  Doris Lessing

  Women, Thinking, Numbers

  Doris Lessing (2012). “The Golden Notebook”, p.9, HarperCollins UK

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• Each suburban housewife spends her time presiding over a power plant sufficient to have staffed the palace of a Roman emperor with a hundred slaves.

  Margaret Mead

  Women, Palaces, Plant

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• Getting up at 4 in the morning, I slave away all day until by the evening I'm exhausted, and I end by forgetting all my responsibilities, thinking only of the work I've set out to do.

  Claude Monet

  Morning, Responsibility, Thinking

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• A servile race Who, in mere want of fault, all merit place; Who blind obedience pay to ancient schools, Bigots to Greece, and slaves to musty rules.

  Charles Churchill

  School, Race, Criticism

  Charles Churchill (1776). “Poems”, p.17

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• I believe the bicentenary offers us a chance not just to say how profoundly shameful the slave trade was - how we condemn its existence utterly and praise those who fought for its abolition - but also to express our deep sorrow that it could ever have happened and rejoice at the better times we live in today.

  Tony Blair

  Believe, Sorrow, Today

  "Blair: Britain's 'sorrow' for shame of slave trade" by David Smith, www.theguardian.com. November 25, 2006.

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• The artist should fear to become the slave of detail.

  Albert Pinkham Ryder

  Fear, Artist, Details

  Quoted in Goodrich Albert Pinkham Ryder (1959).

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• The man who has no inner life is a slave of his surroundings, as the barometer is the obedient servant of the air.

  Lisa Alther

  Men, Air, Life Is

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• The mind must become the servant of the intellect, not the slave of the senses. It must discriminate and detach itself from the body. Like the ripe tamarind fruit, which, becomes loose inside the shell, it must be unattached to this shell, this casement called body.

  Sathya Sai Baba

  Mind, Shells, Body

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• The world must not only be interpreted, it must be transformed. Man ceases to be the slave and tool of his environment and converts himself into the architect of his own destiny.

  Che Guevara

  Destiny, Men, Tools

  "Notes for the Study of the Ideology of the Cuban Revolution". "Verde Olivo" Magazine, www.marxists.org. October 8, 1960.

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