Vernon Howard Quotes

We are slaves to whatever we don't understand.

All people are enslaved by something.

Books are as useful to a stupid person as a mirror is useful to a blind person.

What difference is there, do you think, between those in Plato's cave who can only marvel at the shadows and images of various objects, provided they are content and don't know what they miss, and the philosopher who has emerged from the cave and sees the real things?

One of the best ways of enslaving a people is to keep them from education... The second way of enslaving a people is to suppress the sources of information, not only by burning books but by controlling all the other ways in which ideas are transmitted.

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

Education makes a people easy to lead, but difficult to drive; easy to govern, but impossible to enslave.

You may choose to look the other way but you can never again say you did not know.

When the master has come to do everything through the slave, the slave becomes his master, since he cannot live without him.

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

Blind eyes cannot read.

Our biggest problem as human beings is not knowing that we don't know.

Our true enemies are: ignorance and limitation.

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

I can't be a slave to the machine, you feel like you're in the matrix.

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

We can easily become as much slaves to precaution as we can to fear.

One of the best ways of enslaving a people is to keep them from education.

He who is not aware of his ignorance will be only misled by his knowledge.

Knowledge unfits a child to be a slave.

One thinks himself the master of others, and still remains a greater slave than they.

Towering genius...thirsts and burns for distinction; and, if possible, it will have it, whether at the expense of emancipating slaves or enslaving freeman.

You have been overcome; and whether you are overcome by envy or by a so-called noble influence, you are still a slave, you are not free.

In part because they had no choice, right? If you were a slave, you did what the master said. And they said to worship: "You're going to worship with us."

It is hard to have a Southern overseer; it is worse to have a Northern one; but worst of all when you are yourself the slave-driver.