“The question may seem embarrassing, but it can be answered in a few words. For two people to live in peace they must both want peace; if one of them insists on using force to oblige the other to work for him and serve him, then the other, if he wishes to retain his dignity as a man and not be reduced to abject slavery, will be obliged in spite of his love of peace, to resist force with adequate means.” PeopleIfsMenWantMayMeanTwoSeemsForceWishDignitySlaverySpiteEmbarrassingHis LoveAdequateObligedFew WordsAdequate Means Author:Errico Malatesta
“At first glance, the rhythm may be confused with gaiety, but when you look more closely at the mechanism of social life and the painful slavery of both men and machines, you see that it is nothing but a kind of typical, empty anguish that makes even crime and gangs forgivable means of escape.” MenFirstsLooksKindMayMeanSocialCrimeEmptyMachinesSlaveryPainfulRhythmConfusedMechanismTypicalGlancesAnguishGangSocial LifeGaiety Author:Federico Garcia Lorca
“What does Christianity mean today? National Socialism is a religion. All we lack is a religious genius capable of uprooting outmoded religious practices and putting new ones in their place. We lack traditions and ritual. One day soon National Socialism will be the religion of all Germans. My Party is my church, and I believe I serve the Lord best if I do his will, and liberate my oppressed people from the fetters of slavery. That is my gospel.” PeopleIfsBelieveMeanDoeTodayI BelieveChurchReligiousPartyChristianityLordPracticeGeniusOne DayCapableTraditionSlaverySocialismRitualOppressedFettersReligious PracticesUprooting Author:Joseph Goebbels
“The Irishman frees himself from slavery when he realizes the truth that the capitalist system is the most foreign thing in Ireland. The Irish question is a social question. The whole age-long fight of the Irish people against their oppressors resolves itself in the last analysis into a fight for the mastery of the means of life, the sources of production, in Ireland. Who would own and control the land? The people, or the invaders; and if the invaders, which set of them - the most recent swarm of land thieves, or the sons of the thieves of a former generation?” PeopleIfsMeanLongWholeAgeLastsFightingSocialRealizingGenerationsLandSonSourceSlaveryProductionsFormerAnalysisResolveMasteryCapitalistIrelandThievesOppressorsSwarmsInvadersIrishmen Author:James Connolly
“Man is less interested in marriage, very much less interested. In fact not interested at all. If he agrees, he agrees only reluctantly - because marriage means responsibility. Marriage means bondage, marriage means now you are imprisoned. Now you are no more free to move with other women. For a man, marriage looks like a prison. For a woman, marriage looks like safety, security, a home. For a woman marriage means home, and for a man marriage means slavery. Total different beliefs, so they act differently. Conflicting beliefs.” IfsMenLooksMeanDifferentFactsHomeMovingBeliefResponsibilityMarriageSecurityAgreeSafetySlaveryPrisonNot InterestedBondageDifferent Beliefs Author:Rajneesh
“Arguably the most important parallel between mass incarceration and Jim Crow is that both have served to define the meaning and significance of race in America. Indeed, a primary function of any racial caste system is to define the meaning of race in its time. Slavery defined what it meant to be black (a slave), and Jim Crow defined what it meant to be black (a second-class citizen). Today mass incarceration defines the meaning of blackness in America: black people, especially black men, are criminals. That is what it means to be black.” PeopleMenMeanImportantTodayAmericaBlackRaceClassCitizensMassFunctionSlaverySlaveCriminalsDefinedPrimariesSignificanceMeant To BeBlack PeopleParallelsCrowBlacknessCastesIncarcerationJim CrowRace In AmericaCaste SystemMass IncarcerationSecond Class Citizens Author:Michelle Alexander
“This is the difference between slavery and freedom. The slave must do what his superior orders him to do, but the free citizen-and this is what freedom means-is in a position to choose his own way of life.” WayMeanOrderDifferencesPositionCitizensSlaverySlaveSuperiors Book:Economic Policy: Thoughts for Today and Tomorrow Source: Economic Policy: Thoughts for Today and Tomorrow
“The organization controlling the material equipment of our everyday life is such that what in itself would enable us to construct it richly plunges us instead into a poverty of abundance, making alienation all the more intolerable as each convenience promises liberation and turns out to be only one more burden. We are condemned to slavery to the means of liberation.” MeanLife IsTurnsPovertyMaterialsPromiseOrganizationSlaveryEverydayBurdenLiberationAbundanceMaterialismConsumerismEveryday LifeEquipmentConstructsAlienationConveniencePlungeOverconsumption Author:Raoul Vaneigem
“Freedom means you are unobstructed in living your life as you choose. Anything less is a form of slavery.” LifeMeanInspirationMotivationalFormFreedomMilitarySlaverySlavePatrioticYou ChooseLive Your LifeMemorial DayBe A SlavePrice Of FreedomSlavery In AmericaInspirational Freedom Author:Wayne Dyer
“We do not by any means think it desirable that the kingdom of righteousness and peace should be established on earth (because under any circumstances it would be the kingdom of the profoundest mediocrity and Chinaism); we rejoice in all men, who like ourselves love danger, war and adventure, who do not make compromises, nor let themselves be captured, conciliated and stunted; we count ourselves among the conquerors; we ponder over the need of a new order of things, even of a new slavery for every strengthening and elevation of the type "man" also involves a new form of slavery.” ThinkingMenNeedsShouldMeanWarWould BeEarthFormOrderDangerAdventureTypeSelf LoveCircumstancesSlaveryCharityKingdomsCompromiseRighteousnessMediocrityRejoicePhilanthropySelflessnessDesirableCapturedPonderingConquerorStrengtheningElevationDisinterest Book:The Joyful Wisdom Source: The Joyful Wisdom
“Identification with the body, with the mind, with our possessions, with our families, with our friends - any kind of identification takes you outwards. All your possessions will be outwards: your wife, your husband, your children, your body - your body is outside you; your mind - your mind is outside you. The only thing that is not outside you is the witnessing. Just the watchfulness - that is your buddha. Identification means losing witnessing, falling into the trap of attachment. That is our misery, that is our slavery.” MindKindMeanChildrenBodyFallWifeHusbandLosingOur ChildrenSlaveryMiseryPossessionYour BodyOur FamilyYour ChildrenAttachmentTrapsIdentificationYour HusbandWatchfulness Author:Rajneesh
“To reduce the imagination to a state of slavery --even though it would mean the elimination of what is commonly called happiness --is to betray all sense of absolute justice within oneself. Imagination alone offers me some intimation of what can be.” MeanStatesImaginationJusticeOffersAbsolutesSlaveryOneselfBetrayalBetrayMy ImaginationElimination Author:Andre Breton