Golda Meir Quotes

By all men bond to Nothing, Being slaves without a lord, By one blind idiot world obeyed, Too blind to be abhorred.

It must not be forgotten that it is especially dangerous to enslave men in the minor details of life.

I believe that any man who takes the liberty of another into his keeping is bound to become a tyrant, and that any man who yields up his liberty, in however slight the measure, is bound to become a slave.

Whatever crushes individuality is despotism, by whatever name it may be called and whether it professes to be enforcing the will of God or the injunctions of men.

It's sort of what the Johnny and Devi stories are about, the idea of always being a slave to something.

People demand freedom only when they have no power.

There is no such thing as liberty. You only change one sort of domination for another. All we can do is to choose our master.

Tyrants are seldom free; the cares and the instruments of their tyranny enslave them.

The tyrant is only the slave turned inside out.

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

To disarm the people—that was the best and most effective way to enslave them.

The path of freedom is blocked much more by those who wish to obey than by those who wish to command.

Force works on servile natures, not the free.

A thousand men enslaved fear one beast free.

He wants to enslave you.' 'I shudder at the thought of being free.

The man who speaks to you of sacrifice, speaks of slaves and masters. And intends to be the master.

Power, like a desolating pestilence, Pollutes whate'er it touches; and obedience, Bane of all genius, virtue, freedom, truth, Makes slaves of men, and of the human frame A mechanized automaton.

It is just as difficult and dangerous to try to free a people that wants to remain servile as it is to enslave a people that wants to remain free.

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

What whip lashed them to their knees in shame and submission? The worship of the word "We.

In your power, all the same. Subject to your will and your demands. No longer free! No! That's a thought I'll never endure! Never.

Familiarize yourselves with the chains of bondage and you prepare your own limbs to wear them. Accustomed to trample on the rights of others, you have lost the genius of your own independence and become the fit subjects of the first cunning tyrant who rises among you.

For the power of Man to make himself what he pleases means... the power of some men to make other men what THEY please.

Tyranny destroys or strengthens the individual; freedom enervates him, until he becomes no more than a puppet. Man has more chances of saving himself by hell than by paradise.

Every man is a prisoner, and the greatest irony of all is to be the prisoner of another man.