A Quote by Herbert Marcuse

The slaves of developed industrial civilization are sublimated slaves.

Herbert Marcuse

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Civilization Developed Industrial

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Herbert Marcuse
German - Philosopher
July 19, 1898 - July 29, 1979

We are slaves in the hands of nature - slaves to a bit of bread, slaves to praise, slaves to blame, slaves to wife, to husband, to child, slaves to everything.

Swami Vivekananda

The fact is, that civilization requires slaves. Unless there are slaves to do the ugly, horrible, uninteresting work, culture and contemplation become almost impossible.

Oscar Wilde

We are slaves, all of us...Some are slaves to fear. Others are slaves to reason—or base desire. It is our lot to be slaves...and the question must be to what shall we owe our indenture? Will it be to truth or to falsehood, hope or despair, light or darkness? I choose to serve the light, even though that bondage often lies in darkness.

Rick Yancey

They are slaves who fear to speak For the fallen and the weak; They are slaves who will not choose Hatred, scoffing, and abuse, Rather than in silence shrink From the truth they needs must think; They are slaves who dare not be In the right with two or three.

James Russell Lowell

I often compared myself with a slave. Slaves were taken forcibly from Africa, and so was I. Slaves were sold a couple of times on their way to their final destination, and so was I. Slaves suddenly were assigned to somebody they didn't choose, and so was I.

Mohamedou Ould Slahi

...How can Americans living in the freest country in the world be 'slaves'? We don't even enjoy the liberty of serfs. ( A serf paid only 25% of his earnings to his feudal lord. How much income tax do you pay?) Don't kid yourselves, we're slaves. Slaves with weekends off.

Kenneth W. Royce

Freedom means Freedom for the Group, not Freedom for the Individual. (…) Men must not be slaves to other men, but they must be slaves to their group. For, if they are not slaves to their own group, they will assuredly become slaves to some other.

Liang Qichao

In war, the strong make slaves of the weak, and in peace the rich makes slaves of the poor.

Oscar Wilde

Men must be either the slaves of duty, or the slaves of force.

Joseph Joubert

Slaves and the descendants of slaves created world pop culture. Let's keep it real and be very respectful about that.

Fantastic Negrito

Slaves do not always welcome their deliverers. They become accustomed to being slaves. They would rather gear those ills they have

Martin Luther King, Jr.

I would have been able to free a thousand more slaves if I could only have convinced them that they were slaves.

Unknown

The difference between slaves in Roman and Ottoman days and today's employees is that slaves did not need to flatter their boss.

Nassim Nicholas Taleb

The slaves of socialism are slaves, but they are no one's property and therefore no one's loss.

George Reisman

In this room we're all here together, but there's probably a lot of different views, people sitting here thinking, I don't own any slaves, all the slaves are dead. Why am I responsible? My family were immigrants, too.