A Quote by Alice Duer Miller

Conversation is a partnership, not a relation of master and slave, as most people try to make it.

Alice Duer Miller

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Alice Duer Miller
American - Poet
July 28, 1874 - August 22, 1942

All you have to do is go back to slavery - days, and there were two types of slaves, the house slave and the field slave. The house slave was the one who believed in the master, who had confidence in the master and usually was very friendly with the master. And usually he was also used by the master to try and keep the other slaves pacified.

Malcolm X

When the master has come to do everything through the slave, the slave becomes his master, since he cannot live without him.

George Bernard Shaw

Money is a new form of slavery, and distinguishable from the old simply by the fact that it is impersonal - that there is no human relation between master and slave.

Leo Tolstoy

I think it is the easiest mentality for a human being to be either colonized or to colonize. The structure of either the slave or the master seems to be the simplest and the most relaxing one to slip into. Either you are a slave, and you don't have to think for yourself, or you're a master, and you don't have to work for yourself.

Alice Oswald

The artist has a twofold relation to nature; he is at once her master and her slave.

Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

Formerly the master selected the slave; today the slave selects his master.

Albert Parsons

I am the descendant of slaves, of people that were born from a slave and a slave master.

Cory Booker

Artists have a double relationship towards nature: they are her master and her slave at the same time. They are her slave in so far as they must work with means of this world so as to be understood; her master in so far as they subject these means to their higher goals and make them subservient to them.

Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

People also like partnerships because they can identify with the drama of two people in partnership. They can feed off a partnership, and that keeps people entertained. Besides, if you have a successful partnership, it's self-sustaining.

Mick Jagger

The most important thing is to have the conversation, and let people who do make mistakes feel comfortable enough to continue the conversation.

Zach Anner

The Negro is nothing but an ex-slave who is now trying to get himself integrated into the slave master's house.

Malcolm X

If your body wants comfort, you try to make it learn to give up that. Try to make your body your slave and not you the slave of the body.

Nirmala Srivastava

Give the slave the least elevation of religious sentiment, and he is not slave: you are the slave: he not only in his humility feels his superiority, feels that much deplored condition of his to be a fading trifle, but he makes you feel it too. He is the master.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

[The married woman is] is a bonded slave, who takes her master's name, her master's bread, and serves her master's passion; [and] who passes through the ordeal of pregnancy and the throes of travail at his dictation.

Voltairine de Cleyre

The whole commerce between master and slave is a perpetual exercise of the most boisterous passions, the most unremitting despotism on the one part, and degrading submissions on the other. Our children see this, and learn to imitate it.