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Quotations
 | Fire and Axe to those who submit! — Theodoros Kolokotronis, 1770-1843, Hero of the Greek Revolution (during a crucial phase of the Greek Revolution, when Ibrahim Pasha invaded the Morea) 12 likes |
 | People who bite the hand that feeds them usually lick the boot that kicks them. — Eric Hoffer, 1902-1983, American writer & philosopher 11 likes |
 | Unthinking respect for authority is the greatest enemy of truth. — Albert Einstein, 1879-1955, German-Jewish physicist 9 likes |
 | Just as an enemy is more dangerous to a retreating army, so every trouble that fortune brings attacks us all the harder if we yield and turn our backs. — Seneca, 5 AD-65 AD, Roman philosopher 8 likes |
 | Kiss the feet of Popes provided their hands are tied. — Napoleon, 1769-1821, French Emperor 7 likes |
 | Slaves lose everything in their chains, even the desire of escaping from them: they love their servitude. — Jean Jacques Rousseau, 1712-1778, Swiss-French philosopher 7 likes |
 | I hate victims who respect their executioners. — Jean-Paul Sartre, 1905-1980, French philosopher 6 likes |
 | Destroy my desires, eradicate my ideals, show me something better, and I will follow you. — Fyodor Dostoyevsky, 1821-1881, Russian writer 6 likes |
 | The slave has only one master. The ambitious man has as masters all those who can contribute to his rise. — Jean de La Bruyère, 1645-1696, French writer 6 likes |
 | No one can make you feel inferior without your consent. — Eleanor Roosevelt, 1884-1962, Wife of the 32nd USA president 5 likes |
 | Never say yes to anything you can’t say no to. — Marty Rubin, 1930-1994, Canadian gay activist, author & journalist 4 likes |
 | You start out giving your hat, then you give your coat, then your shirt, then your skin and finally your soul. — Charles de Gaulle, 1890-1970, French President 3 likes |
 | Legislators, priests, philosophers, writers, and scientists have striven to show that the subordinate position of woman is favored in heaven and advantageous on earth. |
| From primitive times to our own, intercourse has always been considered a "service" for which the male thanks the woman by giving her presents or assuring her maintenance; but to serve is to give oneself a master. |
 | Man cannot do anything brave in the world unless he submits his life to a Master superior to him. |
 | Every idol, however exalted, turns out, in the long run, to be a Moloch, hungry for human sacrifice. |
| The question of the next generation will not be one of how to liberate the masses, but rather, how to make them love their servitude. |
| So long as men worship the Caesars and Napoleons, Caesars and Napoleons will duly rise and make them miserable. |
 | The whole world yearns after freedom, yet each creature is in love with his chains; this is the first paradox and inextricable knot of our nature. — Sri Aurobindo, 1872-1950, Indian nationalist, yogi & philosopher |
 | 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. |
 | The great would not think themselves demigods if the little did not worship them. |
 | Habit is the denial of creativity and the negation of freedom; a self-imposed straitjacket of which the wearer is unaware. |
 | There's a big difference between kneeling down and bending over. |
 | Conquered people tend to be witty. — Saul Bellow, 1914-2005, Canadian-American writer, Nobel 1976 |
 | “I wear the chain I forged in life,” replied the Ghost. “I made it link by link, and yard by yard; I girded it on of my own free will, and of my own free will I wore it.” |
 | The taste of the masses is characterized not by their antipathy to the excellent, but by the passivity with which they enjoy equally the good, the mediocre, and the bad. The masses do not have bad taste. They simply do not have taste. |
Latin Quotes
 | Woe to the vanquished. Vae victis. (said by Brennus, leader of an army of Gauls who captured Rome in 390 BC) 23 likes |
Quotes in Verse
 | No matter how far I look, I see kneeling people –like they are praying. |
Funny Quotes
 | I don't want any yes-men around me. I want everybody to tell me the truth even if it costs them their job. — Sam Goldwyn, 1879-1974, American film producer 2 likes |
Ancient Greek
 | I don’t blame those who want to rule but those who are more ready to obey. Ου τοις άρχειν βουλομένοις μέμφομαι, αλλά τοις υπακούειν ετοιμοτέροις ούσιν. — Thucydides, 460-394 BC, Ancient Greek historian 3 likes |
 | Yet, for a man to get what he wants, he must go against his own nature and act like a slave. Αλλ’ εις το κέρδος παρά φύσιν δουλευτέον. — Euripides, 480-406 BC, Ancient Greek tragedian ‐ Phoenissae 3 likes |
 | Earth and water. Γη και ύδωρ. — Herodotus, 480-420 BC, Ancient Greek historian, the “ father of History” (the demand of the Persians from the cities which surrendered to them) 3 likes |
| Do not challenge authority. Τοις κρατούσι μη μάχου. — Euripides, 480-406 BC, Ancient Greek tragedian ‐ Hecuba 2 likes |
Proverbs
 | If you bow at all, bow low. 2 likes |
