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• What women will say to other women grumbling in their kitchens and complaining and gossiping or what they make clear in their masochism is often the last thing they will say aloud - a man may overhear. Women are the cowards they are because they have been semi-slaves for so long.

  Doris Lessing

  Men, Long, Kitchen

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

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• All over the world there are enormous numbers of smart, even gifted, people who harbor a passion for science. But that passion is unrequited. Surveys suggest that some 95% of Americans are "scientifically illiterate." That's...the same fraction...of slaves who were illiterate before the Civil War.

  Carl Sagan

  War, Smart, Passion

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• For a genius to be a genius, he must have a selfless slave between himself and the world.

  Dawn Powell

  Genius, World, Selfless

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• I never mean, unless some particular circumstances should compel it, to possess another slave by purchase, it being among my first wishes to see some plan adopted, by which slavery in this country may be abolished by law.

  George Washington

  Country, Mean, Law

  George Washington, Jared Sparks (1835). “The Writings of George Washington: Being His Correspondence, Addresses, Messages, and Other Papers, Official and Private”, p.159

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• It is the nature of slavery to render its victims so abject that at last, fearing to be free, they multiply their own chains. You can liberate a freeman, but you cannot liberate a slave.

  Louis J. Halle

  Slavery, Lasts, Victim

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• Nothing can preserve the integrity of contact between individuals, except a discretionary authority in the state to revise what has become intolerable. The powers of uninterrupted usury are too great. If the accretions of vested interests were to grow without mitigation for many generations, half the population would be no better than slaves to the other half.

  John Maynard Keynes

  Integrity, Generations, Half

  John Maynard Keynes, Royal Economic Society (Great Britain) (1971). “The collected writings of John Maynard Keynes”

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• In the ideology of the new Silicon Valley, work was for the owned. Play was for the owners. There was a fundamental capitalism at work: While they abhorred the idea of being a wage slave, the young men of Silicon Valley were not trying to tear down the capitalist system. They were trying to become its new masters.

  Katherine Losse

  Men, Play, Ideas

  Katherine Losse (2012). “The Boy Kings: A Journey into the Heart of the Social Network”, p.62, Simon and Schuster

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• The reason is, and by rights ought to be, slave to the emotions.

  Bertrand Russell

  Rights, Emotion, Reason

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• Ignorance and fear are twins whose mother is slavery and whose father is oppression, and the mentality of the whole family is that of slaves.

  Ameen Rihani

  Mother, Father, Ignorance

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• The form of government, when it has been prudently established, produces citizens distinguished for bravery, justice, and every other good quality; whereas, on the other hand, bad institutions render men cowardly, rapacious, and slaves of every foul desire.

  Dionysius of Halicarnassus

  Men, Hands, Justice

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• What are you to us, you who are cut off from God, a fugitive for Heaven, and a slave of evil? You dare not do anything to us: Christ, the Son of God, has dominion over us and over all. Leave us, you thing of bane. We are made steadfast by the uprightness of His Cross. Serpent, we trample on your head.

  Seraphim of Sarov

  Son, Cutting, Evil

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• Storyboards are kind of inflexible, once you finish making them you have to stick to them. Since animation takes such a long time you become a slave to a storyboard that was created four years ago while as an artist and storyteller you change, you have new ideas.

  Signe Baumane

  Artist, Years, Ideas

  Source: blogs.indiewire.com

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• Do not make the mistake...of thinking that a worker is a slave and that he holds his job by his employer's permission. He does not hold it by permission - but by contract, that is, by a voluntary mutual agreement. A worker can quit his job; a slave cannot.

  Ayn Rand

  Jobs, Mistake, Thinking

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• Tuthmosis IV was, like his father Amenhotep II, a belligerent pharaoh and one of the first to wage war without provocation beyond Egypt's boundaries. As a result of his aggressive attacks slaves and foreign elements were common in Egypt. Consequently, there was more intermarriage during his reign than at other times. Egypt was visited by merchants and traders and was extremely prosperous and cosmopolitan during this period.

  Michael Tsarion

  Father, War, Egypt

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• It was unlawful, as well as unsafe, to teach a slave to read.

  Frederick Douglass

  Unlawful, Teach, Wells

  Frederick Douglass (2009). “Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass, An American Slave: A Penguin Enriched eBook Classic”, p.70, Penguin

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• I thought about ancient times when we didn't have electric light. People were slaves to the ebb and the flow of the light cycle. Good Morning and Good Night represents one light cycle.

  Malik Yusef

  Good Night, Morning, Light

  "Malik Yusef: Word on the Street". Interview with Andre Sternberg, www.motherjones.com. April 1, 2008.

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• The first slave to read and write was the first to run away.

  Henry Louis Gates

  Running, Writing, Firsts

  Source: www.motherjones.com

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• Education opens the door to everything in terms of having a career and an impact on society and not being a slave to your job, really.

  Naomie Harris

  Jobs, Impact, Doors

  Interview with Jeffrey Wright, www.interviewmagazine.com. December 23, 2013.

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• I'm not a master of films. I'm rather a slave.

  Ang Lee

  Film, Masters

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• If we gotta fight and die for America, why should we be treated like slaves in America?

  Hosea Williams

  Fighting, America, Should

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• From our birth to our death we are all the slaves of suggestion.

  Emile Coue

  Suggestions, Birth

  Émile Coué (1923). “My method, including American impressions”

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• People allow themselves to be slaves of their bad habits and society's bad habits - but they have free will, and if they wish to be free they can.

  Peace Pilgrim

  People, Wish, Free Will

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• I rejoice that horses and steers have to be broken before they can be made the slaves of men, and that men themselves have some wild oats still left to sow before they become submissive members of society. Undoubtedly, all men are not equally fit subjects for civilization; and because the majority, like dogs and sheep, are tame by inherited disposition, this is no reason why the others should have their natures broken that they may be reduced to the same level.

  Henry David Thoreau

  Dog, Horse, Men

  Henry David Thoreau (2002). “The Essays of Henry D. Thoreau: Selected and Edited by Lewis Hyde”, p.252, North Point Press

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• But thought's the slave of life, and life time's fool.

  William Shakespeare

  Fool, Life Time

  'Henry IV, Part 1' (1597) act 5, sc. 4, l. [81]

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• Under the freest constitution ignorant people are still slaves.

  Nicolas de Caritat, marquis de Condorcet

  People, Ignorant, Constitution

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