#enslaved

Man will never be enslaved by machinery if the man tending the machine be paid enough. ↗

— Karel Capek

#enslaved #machine #machinery #man #never

Rhyme, that enslaved queen, that supreme charm of our poetry, that creator of our meter. ↗

— Victor Hugo

#creator #enslaved #meter #our #poetry

The truth is that I am enslaved... in one vast love affair with 70 children. ↗

— Sylvia Ashton-Warner

#am #children #enslaved #i #i am

They say it came from Africa, carried in the screams of the enslaved; that it was the death bane of the Tainos, uttered just as one world perished and another began; that it was a demon drawn into Creation through the nightmare door that was cracked open in the Antilles. Fukú americanus, or more colloquially, fukú - generally a curse or doom of some kind; specifically the Curse and the Doom of the New World. No matter what its name or provenance, it is believed that the arrival of Europeans on Hispaniola unleashed fukú on the world, and we've all been in the shit ever since. ↗

— Junot Díaz

#antilles #curse #demon #enslaved #fukú

There is nothing strange about fear: no matter in what guise it presents itself it is something with which we are all so familiar that when a man appears who is without it we are at once enslaved by him. ↗

— Henry Miller

#appears #enslaved #familiar #fear #guise

The poet's spoken discourse often depends on a mystique, on the spiritual freedom that finds itself enslaved on earth. ↗

— Salvatore Quasimodo

#discourse #earth #enslaved #finds #freedom

Destiny waits alike for the free man as well as for him enslaved by another's might. ↗

— Aeschylus

#another #destiny #enslaved #free #free man

Many people on the political left found my work psychologically liberating. They began to say: once you realize that standards emerge historically, then you can see through and discard all the norms to which we have been falsely enslaved. ↗

— Stanley Fish

#began #discard #emerge #enslaved #falsely

None are more hopelessly enslaved than those who falsely believe they are free. ↗

— Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

#believe #enslaved #falsely #free #hopelessly

Trust me that as I ignore all law to help the slave, so will I ignore it all to protect an enslaved woman. ↗

— Susan B. Anthony

#help #i #ignore #law #me