Thraldom Quotes

#1. Obligation is thraldom, and thraldom is hateful.

Thomas Hobbes

#2. It lives and breathes in the light, because it has thousands of unfortunates toiling in the darkness. It lives and has its being in proud liberty because thousands are slaving for it, whose thraldom is the price of this liberty. This

Upton Sinclair

#3. Attack and defence, want and war, victory and defeat, lordship and thraldom, all sealed with the seal of blood: this from henceforth is the History of Man.

Richard Wagner

#4. Obligation is the bitterest thraldom.

Suzanne Curchod

#5. We can prevent Europe from becoming a spiritless machine that, in the end, grinds to a halt.

Jan Peter Balkenende

#6. The best guarantee against the abuse of power consists in the freedom, the purity, and the frequency of popular elections.

John Quincy Adams

#7. The word is a force you cannot see, but you can see the manifestation of that force, the expression of the word, which is your own life.

Don Miguel Ruiz

#8. Talk, not sex, constitutes most of the intercourse between a man and his wife.

Herman Wouk

#9. I have no idea who's steering, and I don't really care .. I just keep going whatever the inclination is ... there are threads that are continuous and hold everything together and a major thread is country music ...

Neil Young

#10. When someone screams at me to hurry up, I slow down.

Mario Lemieux

#11. A man is responsible for his ignorance.

Milan Kundera

#12. My old kindergarten behaviors, so appalling when I was a kindergartner myself, are apparently quite acceptable in a teacher.

Karen Joy Fowler

#13. I think the process is one of using the camera and sound in the way a detective uses a magnifying glass: to find the clues. They're discovery devices, not performance devices - you're watching things the way a cat does. You're not judging. You're there to witness something.

D. A. Pennebaker

#14. Maia did not want to wake up. Sleep lay on her like a dead bear and she had no strength to struggle out from under it.

Kim McDougall

#15. There's practically no religion that I know of that sees other people in a way that affirms the others' choices. But in our century we're forced to think about a pluralistic world.

Elaine Pagels