“God, or rather the fiction of God, is thus the sanction and the intellectual and moral cause of all the slavery on earth, and the liberty of men will not be complete, unless it will have completely annihilated the inauspicious fiction of a heavenly master.” MenEarthCausesFictionLibertyMoralAtheismMastersIntellectualSlaveryPositive AtheismHeavenlySanctions Author:Mikhail Bakunin
“Without the institution of slavery, civilization would never have been achieved, for no one could ever have done anything intellectual if he had to spend all his time hewing and digging and fighting.” IfsHas BeensDoneFightingCivilizationIntellectualInstitutionsSlaveryDigging Author:Jeff Cooper
“Intellectual slavery, of whatever nature it may be, will always have as a natural result both political and social slavery.” MayPoliticalSocialNaturalResultsIntellectualSlavery Author:Mikhail Bakunin
“To repress rebellion is to maintain the status quo, a condition which binds the mortal creature in a state of intellectual or physical slavery. But it is impossible to chain man merely by slaving his body; the mind also must be held, and to accomplish this, fear is the accepted weapon. The common man must fear life, fear death, fear God, fear the Devil, and fear most the overlords, the keepers of his destiny.” MenMindStatesBodyCommonDestinyImpossibleConditionsCreaturesWeaponsIntellectualDevilSlaveryAccomplishAcceptedChainsMortalsRebellionStatus QuoFear Of DeathKeepersCommon ManFear God Author:Manly Hall
“Emerson was not passionate about abolition. He wasn't a passionate person. He was a cool intellectual, and I think he probably was a little uncomfortable with passionate people, but he was against slavery.” PeopleThinkingLittlesPersonsIntellectualSlaveryPassionateUncomfortableAbolition Author:Nell Irvin Painter
“You can reasonably make the intellectual journey from thinking it's permissible to eat shrimp to thinking it's not permissible, or vice versa, whereas our slavery journey was uni-directional. We are as certain we are not going back to that old kind of slavery as we are that we aren't going back to the geocentric universe.” ThinkingKindCertainUniverseJourneyIntellectualSlaveryVicesVice VersaShrimp Author:Catherine Wilson
“The atheist realizes that there must not only be an acceptance of his right to hold his opinion, but that ultimately his is the job to turn his culture from religion, to eliminate those irrational ideas which have held the human race in intellectual slavery.” HumansIdeasJobsTurnsCultureRealizingRaceOpinionAcceptanceEvolutionIntellectualSlaveryAtheistHuman RaceIrrational Author:Madalyn Murray O'Hair
“Mental slavery is mental death, and every man who has given up his intellectual freedom is the living coffin of his dead soul.” MenSoulGivenIntellectualSlaveryIndividualityEvery ManGiven UpCoffinsNonconformityIntellectual FreedomConformity And IndividualityMental Slavery Book:The Works of Robert G. Ingersoll Source: The Works of Robert G. Ingersoll
“What a revolting contrast exists in England between the slavery of women and the intellectual superiority of women writers.” IntellectualEnglandSlaveryContrastSuperiorityFloraIntellectual Superiority Author:Flora Tristan
“Whoever is fortunate enough to be an American citizen came into the greatest inheritance man has ever enjoyed. He has had the benefit of every heroic and intellectual effort men have made for many thousands of years, realized at last. If Americans should now turn back, submit again to slavery, it would be a betrayal so base the human race might better perish.” IfsMenShouldYearsHumansMadeEnoughMightWould BeLastsTurnsEffortRaceCitizensBenefitsIntellectualSlaveryBetrayalEnjoyedFortunateHuman RaceHeroicSubmitInheritanceAmerican Citizens Author:Isabel Paterson