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Enslave the liberty of but one human being and the liberties of the world are put in peril. -- William Lloyd Garrison
Freedom is slavery some poets tell us. Enslave yourself to the right leader's truth, Christ's or Karl Marx', and it will set you free. -- Robert Frost
Enslave a man and you destroy his ambition, his enterprise, his capacity. In the constitution of human nature, the desire of bettering one's condition is the mainspring of effort. The first touch of slavery snaps this spring. -- Horace Mann
Dictators free themselves, but they enslave the people. -- Charlie Chaplin
Tyrants are seldom free; the cares and the instruments of their tyranny enslave them. -- George Santayana
To become a popular religion, it is only necessary for a superstition to enslave a philosophy. -- William Ralph Inge
The freer that women become, the freer men will be. Because when you enslave someone, you are enslaved. -- Louise Berliawsky Nevelson
The greatest of all crimes are the wars that are carried on by governments, to plunder, enslave, and destroy mankind. -- Lysander Spooner
Action and faith enslave thought, both of them in order not be troubled or inconvenienced by reflection, criticism, and doubt. -- Henri Frederic Amiel
All national institutions of churches, whether Jewish, Christian or Turkish, appear to me no other than human inventions, set up to terrify and enslave mankind, and monopolize power and profit. -- Thomas Paine
If Germany, thanks to Hitler and his successors, were to enslave the European nations and destroy most of the treasures of their past, future historians would certainly pronounce that she had civilized Europe. -- Simone Weil
If we want technology to serve society rather than enslave it, we have to build systems accessible to all people - be they male or female, young, old, disabled, computer wizards or technophobes. -- Anita Borg
Art need no longer be an account of past sensations. It can become the direct organization of more highly evolved sensations. It is a question of producing ourselves, not things that enslave us. -- Angela Carter
A free America... means just this: individual freedom for all, rich or poor, or else this system of government we call democracy is only an expedient to enslave man to the machine and make him like it. -- Frank Lloyd Wright
I appeal to you, my friends, as mothers: are you willing to enslave your children? You stare back with horror and indignation at such questions. But why, if slavery is not wrong to those upon whom it is imposed? -- Angelina Grimke
I will not attack your doctrines nor your creeds if they accord liberty to me. If they hold thought to be dangerous - if they aver that doubt is a crime, then I attack them one and all, because they enslave the minds of men. -- Robert Green Ingersoll
Although we have, in theory, abolished human slavery, recognized women's rights, and stopped child labor, we continue to enslave other species who, if we simply pay attention, show quite clearly that they experience parental love, pain, and the desire for freedom, just as we do. -- Ingrid Newkirk
This is a career about images. It's celluloid; they last for ever. I'm a black woman from America. My people were slaves in America, and even though we're free on paper and in law, I'm not going to allow you to enslave me on film, in celluloid, for all to see. -- Angela Bassett
God saw fit, for wise reasons to allow the people of Israel thus to make and possess slaves; but is this any license to us to enslave any of our fellow-men, to kill any of our fellow-men whom we please and are able to destroy, and take possession of their estates? -- Samuel Hopkins
The notion that the species can be improved in some way, that everyone could live in harmony, is a really dangerous idea. Those who are afflicted with this notion are the first ones to give up their souls, their freedom. Your desire that it be that way will enslave you and make your life vacuous. -- Cormac McCarthy
Man alone can enslave man. -- Simone Weil
Board the cows! We've come to enslave your marigolds. -- Libba Bray
Memories are meant to serve you, not enslave you. -- A.J. Darkholme
You can never enslave somebody who knows who he is. -- Alex Haley
To enslave a people, give them money they didn't earn. -- James Cook
We cannot enslave others without enslaving a part of ourselves. -- Richard Paul Evans
They enslave their children's children who make compromise with sin. -- James Russell Lowell
Marriage and its entourage of possession and jealousy enslave the spirit. -- Irvin D. Yalom
I don't need handcuffs to enslave a woman." -Ranger to Stephanie -- Janet Evanovich
When kings interfere in matters of religion, they enslave instead of protecting it. -- Francois Fenelon
I'm too tired to reign over vampirekind, let alone enslave the human race. -- Heather Brewer
The rich will strive to establish their dominion and enslave the rest. They -- Gouverneur Morris
Pleasure can be used to enslave a people just as effectively as pain. -- Marianne Williamson
To disarm the people is the best and most effectual Way to enslave them. -- George Mason
Disarm the people- that is the best and most effective way to enslave them. -- James Madison
Nothing in the world has a greater power to enslave than fiction. ~ Aarush Kashyap -- Kirtida Gautam
You cannot enslave a mind that knows itself. That values itself. That understands itself. -- Wangari Maathai
He wants to enslave you.' 'I shudder at the thought of being free. -- Oscar Wilde
When the will is enslaved to a desire, it will in turn enslave the mind. -- Dallas Willard
It is harder to release a nation from servitude than to enslave a free nation. -- Simon Bolivar
In Soviet-Russia the Jew is forging the tool with which he wants to enslave Europe. -- Julius Streicher
The conscious experience of being a subject arises when a single organism learns to enslave itself. -- Thomas Metzinger
A child is born into a world of phenomena all equal in their power to enslave. -- Peter Shaffer
A man who will enslave his own blood, may not be safely relied on for magnamity. -- Frederick Douglass
Compound interest on debt was the banker's greatest invention, to capture, and enslave, a productive society. -- Albert Einstein
The Hindu civilisation is a diabolical contrivance to enslave humanity. Its proper name would be infamy. -- B. R. Ambedkar
Why not exploit, enslave, or exterminate a class that everybody is taught to regard as inferior? -- Carter G. Woodson
Remember that anybody who is clever enough to set you free is clever enough to enslave you. -- Eleanor Catton
Education makes a people easy to lead but difficult to drive easy to govern, but impossible to enslave. -- Henry Brougham, 1st Baron Brougham and Vaux
wealth means power: the power to subdue, to crush, to exploit, the power to enslave, to outrage, to degrade. -- Emma Goldman
The great wisdom of life is that we can be masters of the things that try to enslave us. -- Paulo Coelho
It must not be forgotten that it is especially dangerous to enslave men in the minor details of life. -- Alexis de Tocqueville
It is not life and wealth and power that enslave men, but the cleaving to life and wealth and power. -- Gautama Buddha
There are two ways to conquer and enslave a country. One is by the sword. The other is by debt. -- John Adams
We may always enslave ourselves to mankind if we do not clearly differentiate between showing respect to mankind from pleasing mankind -- Ernest Agyemang Yeboah
I look on that paper (the Constitution) as the most fatal plan that could possibly be conceived to enslave a free people. -- Patrick Henry
It is impossible to enslave, mentally or socially, a bible-reading people. The principles of the bible are the groundwork of human freedom. -- Horace Greeley
Keep it simple: own as little as you can get away with, schedule everything, keep a notebook, don't let technology enslave you. -- Blake Mycoskie
But, to protect men, we must have the power of controlling them. We must first enslave them before we can protect them. -- George Fitzhugh
Do you not know that the God of the Old Testament orders the Jews to consume and enslave the peoples of the earth? -- Julius Streicher
As we drive down the freeways, we see the new cars, but not the massive new-car loans that enslave their drivers to the banks. -- Gerry Spence
Dictators from the past, tyrants, were not unaware that it is easier to govern and enslave a nation of drinkers than that of abstainers. -- Samael Aun Weor
We fight not to enslave, but to set a country free, and to make room upon the earth for honest men to live in. -- Thomas Paine
Humans - who enslave, castrate, experiment on, and fillet other animals - have had an understandable penchant for pretending animals do not feel pain. -- Carl Sagan
Of all the tyrannies which have usurped power over humanity, few have been able to enslave the mind and body as imperiously as drug addiction. -- Freda Adler
The ideal tyranny is that which is ignorantly self-administered by its victims. The most perfect slaves are, therefore, those which blissfully and unawaredly enslave themselves. -- Donald James
Love it will not betray you, dismay or enslave you, it will set you free/to be more like the man you were made to be -- Marcus Mumford
A slave cannot be freed, save he do it himself. Nor can you enslave a free man; the very most you can do is kill him! -- Robert A. Heinlein
[A]ll churches, whether Jewish, Christian or Muslim, are simply human inventions. They use fear to enslave us. They are a monopoly for power and profit. -- Thomas Paine
Damning, with bell, book and candle / Some sinner whose opinions are a scandal. / A rite permitting Satan to enslave him / Forever, and forbidding Christ to save him. -- Ambrose Bierce
Democracy, which began by liberating man politically, has developed a dangerous tendency to enslave him through the tyranny of majorities and the deadly power of their opinion. -- Ludwig Lewisohn
There's a plot in this country to enslave every man, woman, and child. Before I leave this high and noble office, I intend to expose this plot. -- John F. Kennedy
Once men turned their thinking over to machines in the hope that this would set them free. But that only permitted other men with machines to enslave them. -- Frank Herbert
The only legitimate purpose of government is to serve citizens, and ... the only legitimate purpose of technology is to improve our lives, not to manipulate or enslave us. -- Rebecca MacKinnon
I have found both freedom and safety in my madness; the freedom of loneliness and the safety from being understood, for those who understand us enslave something in us. -- Khalil Gibran
You may chain my hands, you may shackle my feet; you may even throw me into a dark prison; but you shall not enslave my thinking, because it is free! -- Khalil Gibran
How fortunate it was for the world that when these great trials came upon it there was a generation that terror could not conquer and brutal violence could not enslave. -- Winston Churchill
How fortunate it was for the world that when these great trials came upon it there was a generation that terror could not conquer and brutal violence could not enslave. -- Winston Churchill
It is just as difficult and dangerous to try to free a people that wants to remain servile as it is to enslave a people that wants to remain free. -- Niccolo Machiavelli
We need to understand that being an accomplice or accessory to those who seek to enslave our posterity, is no better than being the folks that are locking the chains themselves. -- Matt Shea
Is there not something worthy of perpetuation in our Indian spirit of democracy, where Earth, our mother, was free to all, and no one sought to impoverish or enslave his neighbor? -- Charles Alexander Eastman
Luxury and dissipation, soft and gentle as their approaches are, and silently as they throw their silken chains about the heart, enslave it more than the most active and turbulent vices -- Hannah More
No man can have a right to impose an unchosen obligation , an unrewarded duty or an involuntary servitude on another man. There can be no such thing as " the right to enslave . -- Ayn Rand
Communism deprives no man of the ability to appropriate the fruits of his labour. The only thing it deprives him of is the ability to enslave others by means of such appropriations. -- Karl Marx
Art need no longer be an account of past sensations. It can become the direct organization of more highly evolved sensations. It is a question of producing ourselves, not things that enslave us. -- Angela Carter
religious superstitions more than all other influences put together cripple & enslave woman, but so long as women themselves do not see it & hug their chains, we have a great educational work to do ... -- Elizabeth Cady Stanton
Sexual energy becomes problematic if you use to enslave someone, to demoralize them, to hurt them, to wrap them up. The way most people use sexual energy is to hook somebody, to wrap them. -- Frederick Lenz
Freedom is a double-edged ideal, because true freedom comes without the protection of laws that also enslave us by defining us--female, male; Christian, Islamic; good, evil. All at the whim of a frail minority. -- Ellen Hopkins

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