Quotes with slave-owner

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  • Camille Paglia Men are run ragged by female sexuality all their lives. From the beginning of his life to the end, no man ever fully commands any woman. It's an illusion. Men are pussy-whipped. And they know it. That's what the strip clubs are about; not woman as victim, not woman as slave, but woman as goddess.
    Source: As quoted in Sexuality and Gender (2002)
    Camille Paglia
    American academic and social critic (1947 - )
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  • Ezra Pound A slave is one who waits for someone to come and free him.
    Ezra Pound
    American poet (1885 - 1972)
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  • St. Augustine of Hippo He that is kind is free, though he is a slave; he that is evil is a slave, though he be a king.
    St. Augustine of Hippo
    Roman African Christian theologian and philosopher (354 - 430)
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  • Aristotle He who can be, and therefore is, another's, and he who participates in reason enough to apprehend, but not to have, is a slave by nature.
    Aristotle
    Greek philosopher (384 - 322)
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  • Anni-Frid Lyngstad I like to think of myself as being fashion-conscious without being a slave to fashion.
    Anni-Frid Lyngstad
    Norwegian-Swedish singer and environmentalist
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  • Rebecca West In England and America a beard usually means that its owner would rather be considered venerable than virile; on the continent of Europe it often means that its owner makes a special claim to virility.
    Rebecca West
    British author (1892 - 1983)
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  • Epictetus It is the nature of the wise to resist pleasures, but the foolish to be a slave to them.
    Epictetus
    Roman philosopher (50 - 130)
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  • Solomon Ibn Gabirol Your secret is your prisoner; once you reveal it, you become its slave.
    Solomon Ibn Gabirol
    Andalusian poet and Jewish philosopher (1021 - 1058)
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  • Victor Hugo A creditor is worse than a slave-owner; for the master owns only your person, but a creditor owns your dignity, and can command it.
    Victor Hugo
    French writer (1802 - 1885)
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  • Abraham Lincoln A house divided against itself cannot stand - I believe this government cannot endure permanently half slave and half free.
    Abraham Lincoln
    American statesman (1809 - 1865)
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  • Ralph Waldo Emerson A man in debt is so far a slave.
    Ralph Waldo Emerson
    American poet and philosopher (1803 - 1882)
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  • Jean de la Bruyère A slave has but one master. An ambition man, has as many as there are people who helped him get his fortune.
    Jean de la Bruyère
    French writer (1645 - 1696)
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  • Ralph Waldo Emerson Act, if you like, but you do it at your peril. Men's actions are too strong for them. Show me a man who has acted and who has not been the victim and slave of his action.
    Ralph Waldo Emerson
    American poet and philosopher (1803 - 1882)
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  • Bob Beauprez After several trillion dollars of stimulation by the Obama Administration and the Fed, one might think the economy would be chugging along at a pretty good clip. But, it just isn't so, and the light at the end of the tunnel is pretty dim. Just ask a small business owner.
    Bob Beauprez
    American politician and member (1948 - )
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  • Jonathan Swift Although men are accused of not knowing their own weakness, yet perhaps few know their own strength. It is in men as in soils, where sometimes there is a vein of gold which the owner knows not of.
    Jonathan Swift
    English writer (1667 - 1745)
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  • Abraham Lincoln As I would not be a slave, so I would not be a master. This expresses my idea of democracy.
    Abraham Lincoln
    American statesman (1809 - 1865)
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  • Barry Unsworth As I wrote I began to see more strongly that there were inescapable analogies. You couldn't really live through the '80s without feeling how crass and distasteful some of the economic doctrines were. The slave trade is a perfect model for that kind of total devotion to the profit motive without reckoning the human consequences.
    Barry Unsworth
    English writer (1930 - 2012)
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  • Thomas Carlyle Be not a slave of words.
    Thomas Carlyle
    Scottish writer and historicus (1795 - 1881)
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  • Thomas Carlyle Be not a slave of words.
    Thomas Carlyle
    Scottish writer and historicus (1795 - 1881)
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  • Angelina Grimke Can you not see that women could do and would do a hundred times more for the slave, if she were not fettered?
    Angelina Grimke
    American activists and female advocates of abolition and women's rights (1805 - 1879)
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