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.

Antoinette Brown Blackwell

Slavery is malignantly aristocratic.

Benjamin Franklin

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

Algernon Blackwood

Not easily may an individual escape the deep slavery of the herd.

Alfred Marshall

Slavery was regarded by Aristotle as an ordinance of nature, and so probably was it by the slaves themselves in olden time.

Albert Einstein

Marriage is but slavery made to appear civilized.

Ava Gardner

What I'd really like to say about stardom is that it gave me everything I never wanted.

Salman Khan

I guess I don't take my stardom too seriously. I think I am one of the guys.

Tom Courtenay

I never did anything about my stardom, it never meant anything to me.

LeBron James

I never get too high on my stardom or what I can do.

Lauren Bacall

Stardom isn't a profession, it's an accident.

David Richards

Poland Spring: A Tale of the Gilded Age, 1860-1900.

David Novak

She can do anything she wants in her house, ... But it is a gilded cage.

William Shakespeare

Not marble, nor the gilded monumentsOf princes, shall outlive this powerful rhyme.

William Shakespeare

The purest treasure mortal times afford, is spotless reputation; that away, men are but gilded loam or painted clay.