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None are more hopelessly enslaved than those who falsely believe they are free.
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

Free, None, Falsely

I must create a system or be enslaved by another mans; I will not reason and compare: my business is to create.
William Blake

Business, Another, Reason

We have enslaved the rest of the animal creation, and have treated our distant cousins in fur and feathers so badly that beyond doubt, if they were able to formulate a religion, they would depict the Devil in human form.
William Ralph Inge

Religion, Human, Doubt

Rhyme, that enslaved queen, that supreme charm of our poetry, that creator of our meter.
Victor Hugo

Poetry, Charm, Queen

The people made worse off by slavery were those who were enslaved. Their descendants would have been worse off today if born in Africa instead of America. Put differently, the terrible fate of their ancestors benefitted them.
Thomas Sowell

Today, America, Put

I love the natural world - it comes from my culture, which grew out of a people enslaved.
Alice Walker

Love, Culture, Natural

If my body is enslaved, still my mind is free.
Sophocles

Mind, Free, Body

There is nothing strange about fear: no matter in what guise it presents itself it is something with which we are all so familiar that when a man appears who is without it we are at once enslaved by him.
Henry Miller

Fear, Nothing, Him

Destiny waits alike for the free man as well as for him enslaved by another's might.
Aeschylus

Him, Destiny, Free

Idle youth, enslaved to everything; by being too sensitive I have wasted my life.
Arthur Rimbaud

Life, Youth, Sensitive

Most people seek after what they do not possess and are enslaved by the very things they want to acquire.
Anwar Sadat

After, Seek, Possess

The so-called modern education, with all its defects, however, does others so much more good than it does the Negro, because it has been worked out in conformity to the needs of those who have enslaved and oppressed weaker peoples.
Carter G. Woodson

Education, Good, Others

The freer that women become, the freer men will be. Because when you enslave someone, you are enslaved.
Louise Berliawsky Nevelson

Women, Men, Someone

We are enslaved by anything we do not consciously see. We are freed by conscious perception.
Vernon Howard

Perception, Conscious, Freed

The corporate woman has been defined as the 'liberated woman' and I see that as the exact opposite. I think she now is more enslaved, maybe even more than the housewife was; because she's so out of her power, and imitating male power is not female power.
Kenny Loggins

Power, Woman, Her

Cursed be he above all others Who's enslaved by love of money. Money takes the place of brothers, Money takes the place of parents, Money brings us war and slaughter.
Anacreon

Love, Money, War

No one is more enslaved than a slave who doesn't think they're enslaved.
Kate Beckinsale

Trust me that as I ignore all law to help the slave, so will I ignore it all to protect an enslaved woman.
Susan B. Anthony

Trust, Help, Woman

When one person is enslaved, we're all enslaved.
Demi Moore

Authors have odd relationships with their creations They owe their fame and fortune to their characters but feel enslaved by them.
Anthony Horowitz

Fame, Fortune, Characters

Muslim delegates concerned about rights in Palestine could have brought their enthusiasm closer to home by addressing the fate of black Christians being slaughtered and enslaved in the Sudan.
Jack Schwartz

Home, Black, Rights

Man will never be enslaved by machinery if the man tending the machine be paid enough.
Karel Capek

Enough, Paid, Machine

It is impossible to read for pleasure from something to which you are both father and mother, born in such travail that the writer despises the thing that enslaved him.
Jim Bishop

Mother, Father, Him

The poet's spoken discourse often depends on a mystique, on the spiritual freedom that finds itself enslaved on earth.
Salvatore Quasimodo

Freedom, Spiritual, Often

The world today is divided into the free and the enslaved.
Barbara Amiel

Today, Free, Divided

The truth is that I am enslaved... in one vast love affair with 70 children.
Sylvia Ashton-Warner

Love, Truth, Children

It has been said that Poland is dead, exhausted, enslaved, but here is the proof of her life and triumph.
Henryk Sienkiewicz

Life, Said, Here

I got interested in computers and how they could be enslaved to the megalomaniac impulses of a teenager.
Eugene Jarvis

Computers, Interested, Teenager

Keeping small nations enslaved because of the deals between the great nations or because of any pragmatic considerations that might have been there are totally unacceptable.
Mikhail Saakashvili

Great, Small, Between

I would prefer to be a citizen of an independent country rather than Emperor of an enslaved one.
Bao Dai

Country, Rather, Citizen

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