Famous Quotes & Sayings

Chiwetel Ejiofor

In England, theres no acknowledgement the invention of slavery came from Britain.

David Brooks

Freedom without structure is its own slavery.

Beau Willimon

The fact that slavery is written into the Constitution is about as entrenched a form of classism as you could possibly imagine.

Caleb Cushing

I declare and protest in advance, that I do not intend, at this time at least; to be drawn or driven into the question of slavery, in either of its subdivisions or forms.

Benjamin Franklin

Slavery is ...an atrocious debasement of human nature.

Antoinette Brown Blackwell

Slavery is malignantly aristocratic.

Bob Edwards

But when you see personal artifacts relating to - by genealogy at least - a living human being, it was just more impressive to me than just about anything I've ever read about slavery before.

Elbert Hubbard

To subjugate another is to subjugate yourself.

Aristotle

The worst thing about slavery is that the slaves eventually get to like it.

Charles Dickens

Subdue your appetites, my dears, and you've conquered human nature .

Alan Watts

The more a thing tends to be permanent, the more it tends to be lifeless.

Bill Maher

Eell there always is a tendency in human nature to deify.

Jane Smiley

There can never be such a thing as a free market, because it is human nature to cheat, monopolize, and buy off others so as to corner the market.

Jane Smiley

English majors understand human nature better than economists do.

Baltasar Gracian

What the multitude says, is so, or soon will be so.

Ludwig von Mises

German Marxian's coined the dictum: If socialism is against human nature, then human nature must be changed.

Denis Diderot

It is not human nature we should accuse but the despicable conventions that pervert it.

Edward Abbey

Our big social institutions do not reflect human nature; they distort it.

Charlotte Bronte

You are human and fallible.

Edward G. Robinson

Nothing human is foreign to us

Ben Affleck

I'm human, just like anybody else.

Leroy Hood

What is unique about humans is their individuality.

Eric Lander

The more species we look at, the more, frankly, we find that humans are not exceptional here.

Paul Wolfowitz

This is a man who takes pride and pleasure in having killed thousands of innocent humans beings. And it confirms everything we've known about him already, ... This Week.

Lee Tien

This may be appropriate for cattle, pets or packages, but for humans it is a very different issue.

Yoav Gilad

The big question is why are humans so different?

Rita Ora

Some people may look at you almost like a fantasy at times, you know; some people don't think you're real. Because people forget that celebrities are humans too, sometimes.