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• To whomever gives a kiss or a blow
  Render a kiss or blow
  But to whomever gives when you are unable to return
  Offer all the hatred in your heart
  For you were slaves and he enslaves you

  Jean-Paul Sartre

  Heart, Kissing, Blow

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• To give liberty to a slave before he understands its value is, perhaps, rather to impose a penalty than to bestow a blessing.

  Frances Wright

  Freedom, Blessing, Giving

  Frances Wright (1821). “Views of society and manners in America: in a series of letters from that country to a friend in England, during the years 1818, 1819, and 1820”, p.518

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• Everyone is a potential naked slave to you once you become a trainer.

  Anne Rice

  Naked, Kinky, Trainers

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• Where there is no style, there is no slave. Martial Arts mean honestly expressing yourself. No style. No slave.

  Bruce Lee

  Art, Mean, Style

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• The chief evil with relation to the body is love for the body and pitying it. This takes away all the soul's authority over the body and makes the soul the slave of the body. And on the contrary, one who does not spare the body will not be disturbed in whatever he does by apprehensions born of blind love of life. How fortunate is one who is trained to this from childhood!

  Theophan the Recluse

  Love Life, Evil, Childhood

  "Raising Them Right: A Saint's Advice on Raising Children".

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• On this proud and beautiful mountain we have lived hours of fraternal, warm and exalting nobility. Here for a few days we have ceased to be slaves and have really been men. It is hard to return to servitude.

  Lionel Terray

  Beautiful, Men, Climbing

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• So about 80 years after the Constitution is ratified, the slaves are freed. Not so you'd really notice it of course; just kinda on paper. And that of course was at the end of the Civil War. Now there is another phrase I dearly love. That is a true oxymoron if I've ever heard one: "Civil War." Do you think anybody in this country could ever really have a civil war? "Say, pardon me?" (shoots gun) "I'm awfully sorry. Awfully sorry."

  George Carlin

  Country, Sorry, Philosophy

  "What Am I Doing in New Jersey?". Live album by George Carlin, 1988.

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• Conquer thyself, till thou has done this, thou art but a slave; for it is almost as well to be subjected to another's appetite as to thine own.

  Richard Francis Burton

  Art, Past, Done

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• Ay, down to the dust with them, slaves as they are! From this hour let the blood in their dastardly veins, That shrunk at the first touch of Liberty's war, Be wasted for tyrants, or stagnate in chains.

  Charles Lamb

  War, Dust, Blood

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• We have before us the fiendishness of business competition and the world war, passion and wrongdoing, antagonism between classes and moral depravity within them, economic tyranny above and the slave spirit below.

  Karl Barth

  Business, War, Passion

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• White America has seen to it that Black history has been suppressed in schools and in American history books. The bravery of hundreds of our ancestors who took part in slave rebellions has been lost in the mists of time, since plantation owners did their best to prevent any written accounts of uprisings.

  Huey Newton

  Book, School, Uprising

  Huey P. Newton (2009). “Revolutionary Suicide: (Penguin Classics Deluxe Edition)”, p.158, Penguin

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• Being frozen into the passive position of an object whose very existence depends on the eye of its beholder turn the educated modern Western women into a harem slave.

  Fatema Mernissi

  Eye, Frozen, Modern

  Fatema Mernissi (2001). “Scheherazade Goes West: Different Cultures, Different Harems”, p.219, Simon and Schuster

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• The man who does as he likes is the greatest slave. The man who never does as he likes is God's free man.

  G. Campbell Morgan

  Men, Doe, Likes

  G. Campbell Morgan (2004). “The True Estimate of Life and How to Live”, p.147, Wipf and Stock Publishers

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• God Almighty has set before me two great objects, the suppression of the slave trade and the reformation of manners (morality).

  William Wilberforce

  Two, Morality, Manners

  "William Wilberforce". Book by William Hague, 2007.

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• I'd like to teach Iraq about Democracy because we're so experienced with it. First they should know that after 100 years they should free their slaves. Then after 150 years they should give their women the right to vote. Oh, and of course when they start it all they should begin with some genocide and ethnic cleansing.

  Kurt Vonnegut

  Life, Years, Iraq

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• We live by faith; but Faith is not the slave Of text and legend. Reason's voice and God's, Nature's and Duty's, never are at odds. What asks our Father of His children, save Justice and mercy and humility, A reasonable service of good deeds, Pure living, tenderness to human needs, Reverence and trust, and prayer for light to see The Master's footprints in our daily ways? No knotted scourge nor sacrificial knife, But the calm beauty of an ordered life Whose very breathing is unworded praise! - A life that stands as all true lives have stood Firm-rooted in the faith that God is Good.

  John Greenleaf Whittier

  Life, Prayer, Children

  John Greenleaf Whittier (2012). “Religious Poems, Part 2., from Poems of Nature, Poems Subjective and Reminiscent and Religious Poems Volume II., the Works of Whittier”, p.90, tredition

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• The difference between a man who is led by opinion or emotion and one who is led by reason. The former, whether he will or not, performs things of which he is entirely ignorant; the latter is subordinate to no one, and only does those things which he knows to be of primary importance in his life, and which on that account he desires the most; and therefore I call the former a slave, but the latter free.

  David Hume

  Men, Differences, Words Of Wisdom

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• A wise word is more rare than the green emerald, and one can find the word of wisdom even amongst the slave girls making grain.

  Barbara De Angelis

  Girl, Wise, Wisdom

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• The plea for the predominance of learning to read in early school life because of the great importance attaching to literature seems to be a perversion.

  John Dewey

  School, Literature, Importance

  John Dewey (1972). “The Early Works, 1882-1898: 1895-1898. Early essays”, p.264, SIU Press

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• The State is the absolute reality and the individual himself has objective existence, truth and morality only in his capacity as a member of the State.

  Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel

  Reality, Morality, Individual

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• A Briton even in love should be A subject, not a slave!

  William Wordsworth

  Love, Should, Subjects

  William Wordsworth (1854). “The Complete Poetical Works of William Wordsworth”, p.97

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• Slaves would be tyrants were the chance theirs.

  Victor Hugo

  Work, Tyrants, Would Be

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• Looking at the world as a whole, the drift for many decades has been not towards anarchy but towards the reimposition of slavery. We may be heading not for general breakdown but for an epoch as horribly stable as the slave empires of antiquity.

  George Orwell

  World, Slavery, May

  George Orwell (1968). “The Collected Essays, Journalism, and Letters of George Orwell: In front of your nose, 1945-1950”

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• You don't become completely free by just avoiding being a slave; you also need to avoid becoming a master.

  Nassim Nicholas Taleb

  Needs, Becoming, Masters

  Nassim Nicholas Taleb (2010). “The Bed of Procrustes: Philosophical and Practical Aphorisms”, p.26, Random House

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• The slaves of today will become the tyrants of tomorrow--the proletariat overthrows the hegemon to become the hegemon itself, only to be eventually overthrown by a proto-hegemon that will in turn lose its position. It is this dizzying cycle that keeps humanity chasing the tail it lost millennia ago

  Miguel Syjuco

  Tyrants, Humanity, Tails

  Miguel Syjuco (2010). “Ilustrado: A Novel”, p.70, Macmillan

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