Quotes 21 till 40 of 49.
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Pornographers are the enemies of women only because our contemporary ideology of pornography does not encompass the possibility of change, as if we were the slaves of history and not its makers. Pornography is a satire on human pretensions.
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Slavery is so intolerable a condition that the slave can hardly escape deluding himself into thinking that he is choosing to obey his master's commands when, in fact, he is obliged to. Most slaves of habit suffer from this delusion and so do some writers, enslaved by an all too ''personal'' style.
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Slavery it is that makes slavery; freedom, freedom. The slavery of women happened when the men were slaves of kings.
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Slavery was regarded by Aristotle as an ordinance of nature, and so probably was it by the slaves themselves in olden time.
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Slavery was regarded by Aristotle as an ordinance of nature, and so probably was it by the slaves themselves in olden time.
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Slaves lose everything in their chains, even the desire of escaping from them.
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Some slaves are scoured to their work by whips, others by their restlessness and ambition.
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t is the curse of kings to be attended. By slaves that take their humours for a warrant
King John IV, 2 -
The denial of our duty to act in this case is a denial of our right to act; and if we have no right to act, then may we well be termed the white slaves of the North, for like our brethren in bonds, we must seal our lips in silence and despair.
Angelina Grimke
American activists and female advocates of abolition and women's rights (1805 - 1879) -
The fact is, that civilization requires slaves. Human slavery is wrong, insecure, and demoralizing. On mechanical slavery, on the slavery of the machine, the future of the world depends.
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The first revolt is against the supreme tyranny of theology, of the phantom of God. As long as we have a master in heaven, we will be slaves on earth.
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The genius of any slave system is found in the dynamics which isolate slaves from each other, obscure the reality of a common condition, and make united rebellion against the oppressor inconceivable.
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The slaves of power mind the cause they have to serve, because their own interest is concerned; but the friends of liberty always sacrifice their cause, which is only the cause of humanity, to their own spleen, vanity, and self-opinion.
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The time is near at hand which must determine whether Americans are to be free men or slaves.
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The tyrant grinds down his slaves and they don't turn against him, they crush those beneath them.
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Then you start another book and suddenly the galley proofs of the last one come in and you have to wrench your attention away from what you're writing and try to remember what you were thinking when you wrote the previous one.
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There are no galley-slaves in the royal vessel of divine love - every man works his oar voluntarily!
St. Francis de Sales
Bishop of Geneva and is honored as a saint in the Catholic Church (1567 - 1622) -
They are slaves who fear to speak, for the fallen and the weak.
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Wars and revolutions and battles are due simply and solely to the body and its desires. All wars are undertaken for the acquisition of wealth; and the reason why we have to acquire wealth is the body, because we are slaves in its service.
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We are all hostages, and we are all terrorists. This circuit has replaced that other one of masters and slaves, the dominating and the dominated, the exploiters and the exploited. It is worse than the one it replaces, but at least it liberates us from liberal nostalgia and the ruses of history.
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