Mental Enslavement Quotes

#1. One of the most tragic things about slavery was the mental enslavement, the way they made us believe that we were worth nothing; and that's what she's fighting against.

Jurnee Smollett

#2. The secret of being tiresome is in telling everything.

Voltaire

#3. Who can tell what metals the gods use in forging the subtle bond which we call sympathy, which we might as well call love.

Kate Chopin

#4. Once you hear the details of victory, it is hard to distinguish it from a defeat.

Jean-Paul Sartre

#5. [On David Hume]
Although he never admitted to being an atheist as such, he was clearly and unquestionably the most vividly elegant skeptic of them all.

Jonathan Miller

#6. Wrong is wrong; no fallacy can hide it, no subterfuge cover it so shrewdly but that the All-Seeing One will discover and punish it.

Antoine Rivarol

#7. Task switching exacts a cost few realize they are even paying.

Gary Keller

#8. Believe me, the drug of freedom is universally potent.

Natan Sharansky

#9. When you believe, or are led to believe, you are unable to act upon the greatest desires of the soul, the result is mental and spiritual enslavement.

Iyanla Vanzant

#10. Death. The end of sense-perception, of being controlled by our emotions, of mental activity, of enslavement to our bodies.

Marcus Aurelius

#11. That happy state of mind, so rarely possessed, in which we can say, "I have enough," is the highest attainment of philosophy.

Johann Georg Ritter Von Zimmermann

#12. Countries have largely been left alone to handle or ignore their educational problems as they see fit. In part, this was because we assumed that the contexts and challenges were so different from nation to nation that education could not be tackled at the international level.

Wendy Kopp

#13. Employment is world slavery

Sunday Adelaja