Kanye West Quotes

Man minus the Machine is a slave; Man plus the Machine is a freeman.

Once men turned their thinking over to machines in the hope that this would set them free. But that only permitted other men with machines to enslave them.

The difference between technology and slavery is that slaves are fully aware that they are not free

To be free means to choose, whose slave you want to be. ­

It all depends on whether you have things, or they have you.

To depend upon the Will of a Man is Slavery.

Man’s freedom is lacking if somebody else controls what he needs, for need may result in man’s enslavement of man..

The danger of the past was that men became slaves. The danger of the future is that men may become robots.

Our faith in technology is no longer fully consistent with our belief in liberty.

We can become slaves to things we don't understand

He who is by nature not his own but another's man is by nature a slave.

Do not commit yourself to anybody or anything, for that is to be a slave, a slave to every man Above all, keep yourself free of commitments and obligations - they are the device of another to get you into his power

Sex, drugs, money, power etc. Just because you get to choose your master doesn't mean you aren't a slave.

Sometimes, one must become a master to avoid becoming a slave.

I´m not a wandering slave, I am a woman of choice

Whoever then wishes to be free, let him neither wish for anything nor avoid anything which depends on others: if he does not observe this rule, he must be a slave.

Freedom is not empowerment. Empowerment is what the Serbs have in Bosnia. Anybody can grab a gun and be empowered. It's not entitlement. An entitlement is what people on welfare get, and how free are they? It's not an endlessly expanding list of rights - the "right" to education, the "right" to food and housing. That's not freedom, that's dependency. Those aren't rights, those are the rations of slavery - hay and a barn for human cattle.

The gentle government that promises to hold your hand as you cross the street refuses to let go on the other side.

There is only one condition in which we can imagine managers not needing subordinates, and masters not needing slaves. This condition would be that each (inanimate) instrument could do its own work.

A well-paid slave is nonetheless a slave.

If you are not their slaves, you are rebels.

Where is the man, who, if asked to become a slave, would not hurl back the offer indignantly in the teeth of the oppressor?

Sometimes you might think the machines we worship make all the chief appointments, promoting the human beings who seem closest to them.

Whoever wants to be free, therefore, let him not want or avoid anything that is up to others. Otherwise he will necessarily be a slave.

Unquestioning obedience is for slaves, the uneducated and the pathetic.