“ There is a sort of subjection which is the peculiar heritage of largeness and of love; and strength is often only another name for willing bondage to irremediable weakness. ”
- George Eliot- Copy
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“ Captivity is the greatest of all evils that can befall one. ”
- Miguel de Cervantes- Copy
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“ We prefer self-government with danger to servitude in tranquility. ”
- Kwame Nkrumah- Copy
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“ The sovereign being is burdened with a servitude that crushes him, and the condition of free men is deliberate servility. ”
- Georges Bataille- Copy
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“ The revelation of thought takes men out of servitude into freedom. ”
- Ralph Waldo Emerson- Copy
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“ The condition upon which God hath given liberty to man is eternal vigilance; which condition if he breaks, servitude is at once the consequence of his crime, and the punishment of his guilt. ”
- John Philpot Curran- Copy
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“ Man is an intelligence, not served by, but in servitude to his organs. ”
- Aldous Huxley- Copy
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“ We rail at trade, but the historian of the world will see that it was the principle of liberty; that it settled America, and destroyed feudalism, and made peace and keeps peace; that it will abolish slavery. ”
- Ralph Waldo Emerson- Copy
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“ Man is not made for games games are made for man, Cardinal Tettamanzi said. He acknowledged that games can offer a source of relaxation and enjoyment which are necessary and sometimes essential. But he argued that when the game is motivated by profit, the results can dominate individuals, depriving them of their freedom to act and chaining them in servitude. ”
- Dionigi Tettamanzi- Copy
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“ Writing a book is an adventure. To begin with, it is a toy and an amusement; then it becomes a mistress, and then it becomes a master, and then a tyrant. The last phase is that just as you are about to be reconciled to your servitude, you kill the monster, and fling him out to the public. ”
- Winston Churchill- Copy
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“ Writing is an adventure. To begin with, it is a toy and an amusement. Then it becomes a mistress, then it becomes a master, then it becomes a tyrant. The last phase is that just as you are about to be reconciled to your servitude, you kill the monster and fling him to the public. ”
- Winston Churchill- Copy
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“ The will to domination is a ravenous beast. There are never enough warm bodies to satiate its monstrous hunger. Once alive, this beast grows and grows, feeding on all the life around it, scouring the earth to find new sources of nourishment. This beast lives in each man who battens on female servitude. ”
- Andrea Dworkin- Copy
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“ Successful democratic politicians are insecure and intimidated men. They advance politically only as they placate, appease, bribe, seduce, bamboozle, or otherwise manage to manipulate the demanding and threatening elements in their constituencies. The decisive consideration is not whether the proposition is good but whether it is popular — not whether it will work well and prove itself but whether the active talking constituents like it immediately… ”
- Walter Lippmann- Copy
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“ It would seem that man was born a slave, and that slavery is his natural condition. At the same time nothing on earth can stop man from feeling himself born for liberty. Never, whatever may happen, can he accept servitude; for he is a thinking creature. ”
- Simone Weil- Copy
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“ How is freedom measured, in individuals as in nations? By the resistance which has to be overcome, by the effort it costs to stay aloft. One would have to seek the highest type of free man where the greatest resistance is constantly being overcome: five steps from tyranny, near the threshold of the danger of servitude. ”
- Friedrich Nietzsche- Copy
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