Quotes in the category enslavement.
Among other possibilities, money was invented to make it possible for a foolish man to control wise men; a weak man, strong men; a child, old men; an ignorant man, knowledgeable men; and for a dwarf to control giants.
Your realm is an insane place. In Volaria, no-one goes hungry, slaves are no use when they starve. Those freeborn too lazy or lacking in intelligence to turn sufficient profit to feed themselves are made slaves so they can generate wealth for those deserving of freedom, and be fed in return. Here, your people are chained by their freedom, free to starve and beg from the rich. It's disgusting.
Many if not most slaves would have each readily jumped, and many if not most slaves would each readily jump, at the opportunity to be a master, if such an opportunity presents or had presented itself.
It isn't a coincidence that governments everywhere want to educate children. Government education, in turn, is supposed to be evidence of the state's goodness and its concern for our well-being. The real explanation is less flattering. If the government's propaganda can take root as children grow up, those kids will be no threat to the state apparatus. They'll fasten the chains to their own ankles.
Our streets are littered with university graduates holding paper certificates and looking for a way to enslave themselves again under a boss in the name of looking for a job.
The desire to get money through jobs enslaves us
A job is a contract whereby you sell out a bit of your life daily
The world system enslaves through jobs
Perhaps, there is no such person who can be called truly free, but only those who can be deemed so by comparison.
We have to show these men and women freedom by enslaving them, and show them courage by frightening them.
It is not the chains of some tyrant that robs us of freedom. Rather, it is the staleness of our attitude.
Until you realize how easily it is for your mind to be manipulated, you remain the puppet of someone else's game.
Marriage and its entourage of possession and jealousy enslave the spirit.
Fear is what created the monster in the room, and in order to overcome the many problems and enslavements that we have today, it is not about getting rid of the monster, but about getting rid of the fear.
Employment frees man from the nightmare of unemployment, while it chains him to his employer’s dream.
Life has always been a series of the same choices: enslavement, apathy or freedom.
You are blood of my blood and you will answer to me when I command.
He says that there can be no high civilization without enslavement of the masses, either nominal or real. There must, he says, be a lower class, given up to physical toil and confined to an animal nature; and a higher one thereby acquires leisure and wealth for a more expanded intelligence and improvement, and becomes the directing soul of the lower. So he reasons, because, as I said, he is born an aristocrat;—so I don't believe, because I was born a democrat.
Intensity-seeking is an enslavement of our own perpetuation. When we step out of the delirium of always seeking someone new, and meet the same old sad and lonely child within, our healing journey begins. Exhausting ourselves with novelty is a defense against our deepest pain, one that we cannot outrun. But once we stop and feel our losses, we can begin our healing journey and be the authentic, joyous person we were born to be.
Although it would lead me to believe otherwise, fear has little interest in intimidating me. Rather, it much prefers to enslave me.
We are slaves whose masters are dead. For we are mostly controlled by doctrines which were established centuries heretofore.
Do not treat others as you would not like to be treated' frees one from hypocrisy. 'Treat others as you would like to be treated' enslaves one with insincerity.
My strings are being pulled, this time by a different puppet master.
To live with unforgiveness is to become a captive cultured citizen whose taxation is that of demonically ticketed torment.
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