Quotes with slave-owner

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  • Ralph Waldo Emerson Curses always recoil on the head of him who imprecates them. If you put a chain around the neck of a slave, the other end fastens itself around your own.
    Ralph Waldo Emerson
    American poet and philosopher (1803 - 1882)
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  • Karl Kraus Democracy means the opportunity to be everyone's slave.
    Karl Kraus
    Austrian writer and journalist (1874 - 1936)
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  • Samuel Johnson Do not discourage your children from hoarding, if they have a taste to it; whoever lays up his penny rather than part with it for a cake, at least is not the slave of gross appetite; and shows besides a preference always to be esteemed, of the future to the present moment.
    Samuel Johnson
    English writer (1709 - 1784)
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  • Vincent van Gogh Do not quench your inspiration and your imagination; do not become the slave of your model.
    Vincent van Gogh
    Dutch painter (1853 - 1890)
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  • Carol Berg For the 'Rai-kirah' books, I began with the image of Aleksander riding the great wastelands, and that quickly morphed into the desert. Because I wanted my slave market cold and miserable, I chose to set the opening scene in the empire's summer capital in the mountains.
    Carol Berg
    American writer of fantasy novels (1948 - )
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  • Virginia Woolf For what Harley Street specialist has time to understand the body, let alone the mind or both in combination, when he is a slave to thirteen thousand a year?
    Virginia Woolf
    English writer (1882 - 1941)
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  • Vladimir Ilyich Lenin Freedom in capitalist society always remains about the same as it was in ancient Greek republics: Freedom for slave owners.
    Vladimir Ilyich Lenin
    Russian revolutionary leader (1870 - 1924)
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  • Seneca Freedom is not being a slave to any circumstance, to any constraint, to any chance; it means compelling Fortune to enter the lists on equal terms.
    Seneca
    Roman philosopher, statesman and playwright (5 - 65)
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  • Horace Gold will be slave or master.
    Horace
    Roman poet
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  • Andrew Carnegie He that cannot reason is a fool. He that will not is a bigot. He that dare not is a slave.
    Andrew Carnegie
    American industrialist (1835 - 1919)
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  • Baltasar Gracian He that communicates his secret to another makes himself that other's slave.
    The Art of Worldly Wisdom
    Baltasar Gracian
    Spanish Jesuit and philosopher (1601 - 1658)
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  • William Drummond He who dares not (reason), is a slave.
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  • Buddha He who gives away shall have real gain. He who subdues himself shall be free; he shall cease to be a slave of passions. The righteous man casts off evil, and by rooting out lust, bitterness, and illusion do we reach Nirvana.
    Buddha
    Spiritual leader, born as Siddhartha Gautama (450 - 370)
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  • Logan Pearsall Smith He who goes against the fashion is himself its slave.
    Logan Pearsall Smith
    English writer (1865 - 1946)
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  • Saadi He who is a slave to his stomach seldom worships God.
    Saadi
    Persian poet and literary of the medieval period (1200 - 1292)
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  • Horace He will always be a slave who does not know how to live upon a little.
    Horace
    Roman poet
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  • Arthur Rimbaud I am the slave of my baptism. Parents, you have caused my misfortune, and you have caused your own.
    Arthur Rimbaud
    French poet (1854 - 1891)
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  • Henry Louis Mencken I believe that it is better to tell the truth than a lie. I believe it is better to be free than to be a slave. And I believe it is better to know than to be ignorant.
    Henry Louis Mencken
    American journalist and critic (1880 - 1956)
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  • Frederick Douglass I didn't know I was a slave until I found out I couldn't do the things I wanted.
    Frederick Douglass
    African-American social reformer, abolitionist, orator and writer (1818 - 1895)
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  • Martin Luther King I have a dream that one day on the red hills of Georgia the sons of former slaves and the sons of former slave owners will be able to sit down together at the table of brotherhood.
    Martin Luther King
    American preacher (1929 - 1968)
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