The World’s Fair audience tended to think of the machine as unqualifiedly good, strong, stupid and obedient. They thought of it as a giant slave, an untiring steel Negro, controlled by Reason in a world...

Go forward or die.

You said you left Mississippi in 1854,” Ron says. He turns to Mamuwalde and asks “Were you a runaway slave?” “Not at all,” Cindy Lou answers. “Daddy freed him.” Ron’s jaw almost hits the floor....

103When we try to be something that we are not, we become the slave of a rigid, fixed mind, following a rule about how things have to be. The violence and the anger in us...

We are masters of our characters and in turn, slaves of their outgrowth.

It’s what you do in your free time that will set you free—or enslave you.

Hepimiz, ama hepimiz köleyiz Will Henry…Bazılarımız korkunun kölesiyiz.Bazılarımızda mantığın ya da en ilkel arzularımızın kölesiyiz. Köle olmak kaderimiz. Will Henry, asıl mesele neye inanacağımız.Gerçeğe ya da yalana mı bağlı kalmalıyız, umuda ya da çaresizliğe mi,...

People think that a liar gains a victory over his victim. What I’ve learned is that a lie is an act of self-abdication, because one surrenders one’s reality to the person to whom one lies,...

A religious woman is a slave that advocates the slavery.

{Colonel Carr’s testimony of Colonel Robert Ingersoll at his funeral}He was the boldest, most aggressive, courageous, virile, and the kindest and gentlest and most considerate and loving man I ever knew. His was a nature...

People think blood red, but blood don’t got no colour. Not when blood wash the floor she lying on as she scream for that son of a bitch to come, the lone baby of 1785....

I own nothing, but at least nothing owns me. Well, besides the bank.

I have sometimes thought–that under the affectation of independent views you are as enslaved to the social code as any woman I know!

Stand here, he thought, and count the lighted windows of a city. You cannot do it. But behind each yellow rectangle that climbs, one over another, to the sky – under each bulb – down...

Pain is itself a god: the taskmaster of life. Pain cracks the whip, and all that lives will move. To live is to be a slave to pain.

Además de esclavo de las palabras, a veces se es también esclavo de los silencios, sobre todo de los más cobardes.

Every king springs from a race of slaves, and every slave had kings among his ancestors.

Enlightenment is man’s release from his self-incurred tutelage. Tutelage is man’s inability to make use of his understanding without direction from another. Self-incurred is this tutelage when its cause lies not in lack of reason...

That such a slave as this should wear a sword,Who wears no honesty. Such smiling rogues as these,Like rats, oft bite the holy cords atwainWhich are too intrinse t’ unloose; smooth every passionThat in the...

Be the love of your love, not the slave of your love.

A singer who refused to sing, a friend who wasn’t her friend, someone who was hers and yet would never be hers. Kestrel looked away from Arin. She swore to herself that she would never...

Euripides long ago said, ‘who dares not speak his free thought is a slave.’ I nominated myself as an ‘infidel’ as a challenge to thought for those who are asleep.

The good man, though a slave, is free; the wicked, though he reigns, is a slave, and not the slave of a single man, but – what is worse – the slave of as many...

The slave girl is reared in an atmosphere of licentiousness and fear.

Place thy foot upon thy slave,Oh thou, half of hell, half of dreams;Among the shadows, dark and grave,Thy extended body softly gleams.

A man choses. A slave obeys.

This was the face of slavery. To have nothing, and still have something more to lose.

I am a slave to your love. Well, more like indentured servant.

A slave that acknowledges its enslavement is halfway to its liberation.

You’re giving me fucking consent to stalk you? Oh, slave…

Men make their own happiness, and a man may be respected even though only a slave.

If you want to be a slave in life, then continue going around asking others to do for you. They will oblige, but you will find the price is your choices, your freedom, your life...

Those who see women as slaves always treat them like rag

Education is for freedom – freedom from mental slavery.

A bold slave is more powerful than a timid king

This is how you will remember that you are mine. Every painful touch, everyaching hug, will remind you – that you are a slave – to me.

Let me show you…if you dare.

To this day, I’m a slave to CNBC.

Whenever a man can get hold of numbers, they are invaluable: if correct, they assist in informing his own mind, but they are still more useful in deluding the minds of others. Numbers are the...

Woman’s power lies in man’s passion, and she knows how to use it, if man doesn’t understand himself. He has only one choice: to be the tyrant over or the slave of woman.

Captivity ends when creativity begins

While humans play God, dogs learn from their masters.

Get on your knees. I want you to feel me so deep that the belt is of little consequence when it comes to breathing.

My cat is ignorant of the law. But then so am I. That means I am not his master, because we are both slaves.

Never pray to be a better slave when God is trying to get you out of your situation.

I can’t play a slave.

O esclavagismo tem diversas versões; múltiplos regímenes. Não tem sempre a mesma forma. Nuns casos eles são escravos porque lhes dizem que o são. Esta é a escravatura honesta. Noutros casos: eles são escravos porque...

e have men sold to build churches, women sold to support the gospel, and babes sold to purchase Bibles for the poor heathen, all for the glory of God and the good of souls. The...

Nobody can turn you into a slave unless you allow them. Nobody can make you afraid of anything, unless you allow them. Nobody can tell you to do something wrong, unless you allow them. God...

Mary was the darkness to my monster. The blood to my blade.