Prestonia Mann Martin Quotes

The natural course of power is to make the many slaves to the few.

Each new power won by man is a power over man as well.

Would you rather lead an army of slaves?

Everybody is owned by somebody.

Who owns a man, Durnik?” the blond young man asked sadly. “The one who rules him, or the one who pays him?

It is one thing to own a woman, and it is another to have her within the bonds of an excellent mastery.

Free election of masters does not abolish the masters or the slaves.

You carry forever the fingerprint that comes from being under someone's thumb.

It only stands to reason that where there's sacrifice, there's someone collecting the sacrificial offerings. Where there's service, there is someone being served. The man who speaks to you of sacrifice is speaking of slaves and masters, and intends to be the master.

Slavery, properly so called, is the establishment of a right which gives to one man such a power over another as renders him absolute master of his life and fortune.

People demand freedom only when they have no power.

If there is a State, then there is domination, and in turn, there is slavery.

To depend upon the Will of a Man is Slavery.

And this is the Anarchistic definition of the State: the embodiment of the principle of invasion in an individual, or a band of individuals, assuming to act as representatives or masters of the entire people within a given area.

If you look at slavery across all human history, and you sort of strip away the packaging, whether it's racialized or religious-based, and you look at the actual core of the slavery, it's one person completely controlling another one.

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.

Any society based on domination supports and condones violence.

Power over others is weakness disguised as strength.

It is a strange desire, to seek power, and to lose liberty; or to seek power over others, and to lose power over a man's self.

The tyrant is only the slave turned inside out.

All authority is quite degrading. It degrades those who exercise it, and it degrades those over whom it is exercised.

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

I have never been able to conceive how any rational being could propose happiness to himself from the exercise of power over others.

Every organism, every human being, must conquer or serve.

You only have power over people so long as you don’t take everything away from them. But when you’ve robbed a man of everything he’s no longer in your power — he’s free again.