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• As long as woman regards the Bible as the charter of her rights, she will be the slave of man. The bible was not written by a woman. Within its leaves there is nothing but humiliation and shame for her.

  Robert Green Ingersoll

  Men, Rights, Long

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• The free-trade idea, logically applied, will abolish usury; and with usury will disappear the chief bone of contention between labor and capital. But, just at this point, free-traders go over to the enemy; and many writers on political economy, in flat contradiction of the essential principles of that science, have made elaborate arguments to prove self-government in finance, impossible! What shall we think of men who, having dethroned kings, demolished popes, destroyed slave oligarchies and assailed tariff monopoly, advise submission to the most oppressive and dishonest of despotisms, Usury?

  Ezra Heywood

  Kings, Men, Thinking

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• Treat [the people] as slaves, guard them against brigands, and they will come to regard themselves as slaves and brigands.

  Liang Qichao

  People, Gossip, Treats

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• True, I used to see a lot of hope. I saw men tear down the veils behind which the truth had been hidden. But then the same men, when they have power in their hands at last, began to find the veils useful. They made many more. Life has not changed. Only some people have been growing, becoming different, that is all. After a youth spent fighting the white man, why should not the president discover as he grows older that his real desire has been to be like the white governor himself, to live above all the blackness in the big old slave castle?

  Ayi Kwei Armah

  Real, Fighting, Men

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• He who seeks freedom for anything but freedom's self is made to be a slave.

  Alexis de Tocqueville

  Self, Made, Be A Slave

  Alexis de Tocqueville (2013). “The Old Regime and the Revolution: The controversial bestselling guide to the origins of the French Revolution”, p.213, Harriman House Limited

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• Mammon is the largest slave-holder in the world.

  Arthur Frederick Saunders

  World

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• I think of the old slavery, and of the way The Economy has now improved upon it. The new slavery has improved upon the old by giving the new slaves the illusion that they are free. The Economy does not take people's freedom by force, which would be against its principles, for it is very humane. It buys their freedom, pays for it, and then persuades its money back again with shoddy goods and the promise of freedom. "Buy a car," it says, "and be free. Buy a boat and be free." Is this not the raw material of bad dreams? Or is it maybe the very nightmare itself?

  Wendell Berry

  Dream, Thinking, People

  Wendell Berry (2000). “Jayber Crow: A Novel”, Counterpoint LLC

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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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• The minimum that most minimalists want leaves in place just the institutions who protect their interests. That's libertarians for you - anarchists who want police protection from their slaves.

  Kim Stanley Robinson

  Police, Want, Libertarian

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• Slaves do what others want. Servants do what others need.

  James Hunter

  Needs, Want, Servant Leadership

  James C. Hunter (2008). “The Servant: A Simple Story About the True Essence of Leadership”, p.65, Crown Business

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• No principle, that is possible to be named, can be more self-evidently false than this; or more self-evidently fatal to all political freedom. Yet it triumphed in the field, and is now assumed to be established. If it really be established, the number of slaves, instead of having been diminished by the war, has been greatly increased; for a man, thus subjected to a government that he does not want, is a slave.

  Lysander Spooner

  War, Men, Self

  Lysander Spooner (1867). “No Treason: No. 1-”, p.3

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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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• 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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• We can see quite plainly that our present civilization is built on the exploitation of animals, just as past civilisations were built on the exploitation of slaves.

  Donald Watson

  Animal, Past, Civilization

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• A worshipper perceives that he is near to God because he is awake all night worshipping God. But after worship, your prayers are for health, long life, wealth, and for the damsels and slaves of the Paradise. Ponder! Did you ever pray to God, 'O' God, I desire from Thee nothing but Thee'?

  Riaz Ahmed Gohar Shahi

  Prayer, Night, Long

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• They never pay the slaves enough so they can get free, just enough so they can stay alive and come back to work.

  Charles Bukowski

  Alive, Pay, Back To Work

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• For still the new transcends the old In signs and tokens manifold; Slaves rise up men; the olive waves, With roots deep set in battle graves!

  John Greenleaf Whittier

  Men, Roots, Battle

  John Greenleaf Whittier (1873). “The Complete Poetical Works of John Greenleaf Whittier”, p.153

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• Alike to the slave and his oppressor cometh night with sweet refreshment, and half of the life of the most wretched is gladdened by the soothings of sleep.

  Martin Farquhar Tupper

  Sweet, Sleep, Night

  Martin Farquhar Tupper (1839). “Proverbial philosophy: a book of thoughts and arguments”, p.45

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• Money is both the generation and corruption of purchased honor; honor is both the child and slave of potent money: the credit which honor hath lost, money hath found. When honor grew mercenary, money grew honorable. The way to be truly noble is to contemn both.

  Francis Quarles

  Money, Children, Honor

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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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• 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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• 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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• 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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