One could call a master a good master because he did not whip his slaves, but ultimately he was still and owner of men, and men were not made to be owned.
In a consumer society there are inevitably two kinds of slaves: the prisoners of addiction and the prisoners of envy.
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Ivan Illich
So long as this country is cursed with slavery, so too will it be cursed with vampires.
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Seth GrahameSmith
Sometimes you got to lie on the outside to keep your voice loud on the inside. We don’t owe the master the truth. He owes us. Nothing comes from the master. He is the thief in the night. He steals it all. And every time...
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Jonathan Odell
Technical people don't make good slaves. Without their wholehearted cooperation, things fall apart.
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Vernor Vinge
Slaves sing most when they are most unhappy. The songs of the slave represent the sorrows of his heart; and he is relieved by them, only as an aching heart is relieved by its tears.
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Frederick Douglass
More Quotes By Nick Lake
Every generation that goes into your genes is a generation of fighters, of survivors. And all those millions of lives are in you, in your blood.
Reading is awesome. Just escaping into someone else's life, into another world. In books, everything is possible.
This is the thing: people think that magic doesn't exist, but it does, all the time. We use spells every day: the spell of forgiveness, the spell of thanks.
When you keep hurting someone, you do one of three things. Either you fill them up with hate, and they destroy everything around them. Or you fill them up with sadness, and they destroy themselves. Or you fill them up with justice, and they try...
I know for an absolute honest-to-goodness fact that life can kick you to pieces, break you into a thousand little shards, and that you can get up again and mend yourself. I promise.
