Quotes of Subjugation - somelinesforyou

“ When work is a pleasure, life is a joy! When work is a duty, life is slavery. ”

- Maxim Gorky

“ Man has no right to kill his brother, it is no excuse that he does so in uniform. He only adds the infamy of servitude to the crime of murder. ”

- Percy Bysshe Shelley

“ A day, an hour, of virtuous liberty is worth a whole eternity in bondage. ”

- Joseph Addison

“ The man who gives me employment, which I must have or suffer, that man is my master, let me call him what I will. ”

- Henry George

“ Wealth is a tool of freedom, but the pursuit of wealth is the way to slavery. ”

- Frank Herbert

“ Habit is not mere subjugation, it is a tender tie; when one remembers habit it seems to have been happiness. ”

- Elizabeth Bowen

“ Where bastard Freedom waves Her fustian flag in mockery over slaves. ”

- Thomas Moore

“ Whenever I hear anyone arguing for slavery, I feel a strong impulse to see it tried on him personally. ”

- Abraham Lincoln

“ Lean liberty is better than fat slavery. ”

- John Ray

“ Machines are worshipped because they are beautiful and valued because they confer power; they are hated because they are hideous and loathed because they impose slavery. ”

- Bertrand Russell

“ If the preservation of the home means the enslavement of women, economically or morally, then we had better break it. ”

- Agnes Macphail

“ Democracy and socialism have nothing in common but one word, equality. But notice the difference: while democracy seeks equality in liberty, socialism seeks equality in restraint and servitude. ”

- Alexis De Tocqueville

“ He is sometimes slave who should be master; and sometimes master who should be slave. ”

- Marcus Tullius Cicero

“ All revolutions...have been led by persons who knew oppression well, but not on their own skin. ”

- Primo Levi

“ Monsanto doesn't care about feeding the world. We have to think about the wage slavery of migrant workers and salary slavery of those who are desperately unhappy. ”

- Wendell Berry

“ Americans are so enamored of equality that they would rather be equal in slavery than unequal in freedom. ”

- Alexis De Tocqueville

“ In giving freedom to the slave, we assure freedom to the free — honorable alike in what we give and what we preserve. ”

- Abraham Lincoln

“ Impatience is the mark of independence, not of bondage. ”

- Marianne Moore

“ We are in bondage to the law so that we might be free. ”

- Cicero

“ The moment the slave resolves that he will no longer be a slave. His fetters fall… freedom and slavery are mental states. ”

- Mahatma Gandhi

“ Nothing brings more pain than too much pleasure; nothing more bondage than too much liberty, (or libertinism.). ”

- Benjamin Franklin

“ Human trafficking is nothing less than a modern form of slavery. ”

- Condoleezza Rice

“ Corrupted freemen are the worst of slaves. ”

- David Garrick

“ When work is a pleasure, life is a joy! When work is a duty, life is slavery. ”

- Maximilien Robespierre

“ I am as free as nature first made man, Ere the base laws of servitude began, When wild in woods the noble savage ran. ”

- John Dryden

“ Bondage is… subjection to external influences and internal negative thoughts and attitudes. ”

- W. Clement Stone

“ In charity to all mankind, bearing no malice or ill-will to any human being, and even compassionating those who hold in bondage their fellow-men, not knowing what they do. ”

- John Quincy Adams

“ As long as the mind is enslaved, the body can never be free. Psychological freedom, a firm sense of self-esteem, is the most powerful weapon against the long night of physical slavery. ”

- Martin Luther King Jr.

“ They are slaves who fear to speak,For the fallen and the weak. ”

- James Russell Lowell

“ Excessive liberty leads both nations and individuals into excessive slavery. ”

- Marcus Tullius Cicero
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