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His headstone saidFREE AT LAST, FREE AT LASTBut death is a slave's freedomWe seek the freedom of fre...

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Every king springs from a race of slaves, and every slave had kings among his ancestors.

A man in debt is so far a slave.

The World's Fair audience tended to think of the machine as unqualifiedly good, strong, stupid and o...

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Nevermore shall men make slaves of others! Not in Asgard--not on Earth--not any place where the hamm...

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I have sometimes thought--that under the affectation of independent views you are as enslaved to the...

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Hope is a slighter, tougher thing even than trust, he thought, pacing his room as the soundless, vag...

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Do not quench your inspiration and your imagination do not become the slave of your model.

Have you seena dog lick the hand that thrashed it?!

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Vladimir MayakovskyThe Bedbug and Selected Poetry

The violinist must possess the poet's gift of piercing the protective hide which grows on propagandi...

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When he speaks into your ear so thatno one can hear, he will say he is your slave, that he’s passed ...

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Man should be master of his environment, not its slave. That is what freedom means.

He that communicates his secret to another makes himself that other's slave.

People think that a liar gains a victory over his victim. What I’ve learned is that a lie is an act ...

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Stand here, he thought, and count the lighted windows of a city. You cannot do it. But behind each y...

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We must find new lands from which we can easily obtain raw materials and at the same time exploit th...

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Whenever a man can get hold of numbers, they are invaluable: if correct, they assist in informing hi...

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Charles BabbagePassages from the Life of a Philosopher

Create like a god, command like a king, work like a slave.

Freedom is the possibility of isolation. You are free if you can withdraw from people, not having to...

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e have men sold to build churches, women sold to support the gospel, and babes sold to purchase Bibl...

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Frederick DouglassNarrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass

I believe that religion, generally speaking, has been a curse to mankind — that its modest and great...

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H. L. MenckenThe Artist: A Drama Without Words

Disobedience is the true foundation of liberty. The obedient must be slaves.

The slave may be happy, but happiness is not enough.

Enlightenment is man's release from his self-incurred tutelage. Tutelage is man's inability to make ...

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Immanuel KantAn Answer to the Question: What Is Enlightenment?

Now a slave is not 'held' by any legal contract, obligation, duty, or authority, which the laws will...

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A slave government is an oligarchy; and one, too, of the most arbitrary and criminal character.