Quotes with slave-owner

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  • Joseph Campbell I think the person who takes a job in order to live - that is to say, for the money - has turned himself into a slave.
    Joseph Campbell
    American mythologist (1904 - 1987)
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  • Abigail Adams I wish most sincerely there was not a slave in this province. It always appeared a most iniquitous scheme to me - to fight ourselves for what we are daily robbing and plundering from those who have as good a right to freedom as we have.
    Source: Letter to John Adams (24 September 1774)
    Abigail Adams
    Wife of John Adams (1744 - 1818)
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  • Bill Goldberg I'm as passionate as any car owner or car collector that has one car or 300 cars.
    Bill Goldberg
    American professional wrestler and actor (1966 - )
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  • Billie Holiday I've been your slave
    Ever since I've been your babe
    But before I be your dog
    I'll see you in your grave.
    Source: Billies Blues
    Billie Holiday
    American jazz musician and singer-songwriter (1915 - 1959)
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  • Bob Dole If Lincoln had an affair with a slave woman, it would be an outrage, but when Clinton does it with one of his staff, everyone is okay with it.
    Source: Reported in Tom Crisp, The Book of Bob: Choice Words, Memorable Men (2007)
    Bob Dole
    American politician and attorney (1923 - )
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  • Caleb Cushing If there be any plausible reason for supposing that we have the right to legislate on the slave interests of the District, you cannot put down the investigation of the subject out of doors, by refusing to receive petitions.
    Caleb Cushing
    American Democratic politician and diplomat (1800 - 1879)
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  • Fran Lebowitz If you are a dog and your owner suggests that you wear a sweater suggest that he wear a tail.
    Fran Lebowitz
    American journalist (1950 - )
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  • Wayne Dyer If you are living out of a sense of obligation you are slave.
    Wayne Dyer
    American philosopher, self-help author, and a motivational speaker. (1940 - 2015)
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  • Casey Stengel If you're playing baseball and thinking about managing, you're crazy. You'd be better off thinking about being an owner.
    Casey Stengel
    American basketbal player and manager (1890 - 1975)
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  • Bill Flores Imagine having all of your freedoms taken away, being forced to work against your will, and constantly living under the threat of violence - in short, being forced to live as a slave. Sadly, this situation is a reality for millions of children, women, and men each year as part of the global human trafficking industry.
    Bill Flores
    American businessman and politician (1954 - )
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  • Jami In every veil you see, the Divine Beauty is concealed, making every heart a slave to him. In love to him the heart finds its life; in desire for him the soul finds its happiness. The heart which loves a fair one here, though it knows it not, is really his lover.
    Jami
    Arabic Sufi poet, scholar and writer
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  • Abraham Lincoln In giving freedom to the slave, we assure freedom to the free - honorable alike in what we give and what we preserve.
    Abraham Lincoln
    American statesman (1809 - 1865)
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  • Ben Hecht In the court of the movie Owner, none criticized, none doubted. And none dared speak of art. In the Owner's mind art was a synonym for bankruptcy. The movie Owners are the only troupe in the history of entertainment that has never been seduced by the adventure of the entertainment world.
    Ben Hecht
    American writer, playwright (1894 - 1964)
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  • Nikola Tesla In the twenty-first century, the robot will take the place which slave labor occupied in ancient civilization.
    Nikola Tesla
    Serbian-American inventor, engineer, physicist, and futurist (1856 - 1943)
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  • Thomas Szasz Involuntary mental hospitalization is like slavery. Refining the standards for commitment is like prettifying the slave plantations. The problem is not how to improve commitment, but how to abolish it.
    Thomas Szasz
    American psychiatrist (1920 - 2012)
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  • Alan Cohen It is not selfish to be happy. It is your highest purpose. Your joy is the greatest contribution you can make to life on the planet. A heart at peace with its owner blesses everyone it touches.
    Alan Cohen
    American businessman (1954 - )
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  • Auberon Herbert It is the small owner who offers the only really profitable and reliable material for taxation. He is made for taxation.
    Auberon Herbert
    British writer, theorist, philosopher
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  • Joseph Heller Like Olympic medals and tennis trophies, all they signified was that the owner had done something of no benefit to anyone more capably than everyone else.
    Joseph Heller
    American author (1923 - 1999)
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  • Hans J. Morgenthau Man is born to seek power, yet his actual condition makes him a slave to the power of others.
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  • Anthony Eden Man should be master of his environment, not its slave. That is what freedom means.
    Anthony Eden
    British politician (1897 - 1977)
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