“Let us say your wife, husband, boyfriend, girlfriend makes you happy. If they leave, you're bound to be unhappy. You are the slave of the thing that makes you happy. You are a junkie and human relationships can be expensive habits.” IfsHumansHappinessWifeBuddhismHabitHusbandSlaveBoundsUnhappyGirlfriendExpensiveMake You HappyHuman RelationsHuman RelationshipsJunkie Author:Frederick Lenz
“Accounts of outrages committed by mobs form the every-day news of the times. They have pervaded the country from New England to Louisiana, they are neither peculiar to the eternal snows of the former nor the burning suns of the latter; they are not the creature of climate, neither are they confined to the slaveholding or the non-slaveholding States. Alike they spring up among the pleasure-hunting masters of Southern slaves, and the order-loving citizens of the land of steady habits. Whatever then their cause may be, it is common to the whole country.” MayCountryStatesWholeFormOrderCausesPleasureCommonSunLandMastersHabitCitizensCreaturesEternalNewsSpringAccountsEnglandSlaveClimateCommittedSnowFormerBurningLatterSouthernPeculiarSteadyHuntingConfinedOutrageLouisianaNew England Book:Lincoln: Political Writings and Speeches Source: Lincoln: Political Writings and Speeches
“If thou dost still retain the same ill habits, the same follies, too, still thou art bound to vice, and still a slave.” IfsArtStillsHabitSlaveBoundsIllVicesFolly Author:John Dryden
“I have stopped smoking now and then, for a few months at a time, but it was not on principle, it was only to show off; it was to pulverize those critics who said I was a slave to my habits and couldn't break my bonds.” SaidShowsPrinciplesBreakBrokenMonthsHabitSlaveCriticsSmokingNow And ThenShowing Off Book:Mark Twain Himself: A Pictorial Biography Source: Mark Twain Himself: A Pictorial Biography
“Custom, law bent my first years to the religion of the happy Muslims. I see it too clearly: the care taken of our childhood forms our feelings, our habits, our belief. By the Ganges I would have been a slave of the false gods, a Christian in Paris, a Muslim here.” YearsFirstsHas BeensFeelingsCareChristianFormLawBeliefTakenAtheismChildhoodHabitOur ChildrenSlavePositive AtheismParisCustomsBentFalse Gods Author:Voltaire
“People allow themselves to be slaves of their bad habits and society's bad habits - but they have free will, and if they wish to be free they can.” PeopleIfsWishHabitSlaveFree WillBad HabitsBe A Slave Author:Peace Pilgrim