A Quote by Jean-Jacques Rousseau

One thinks himself the master of others, and still remains a greater slave than they.

Jean-Jacques Rousseau

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Greater Himself Master Others Remains Slave Still Than Thinks

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Jean-Jacques Rousseau
French - Philosopher
June 28, 1712 - July 2, 1778

No kingdom can be secured otherwise than by arming the people. The possession of arms is the distinction between a freeman and a slave. He, who has nothing, and who himself belongs to another, must be defended by him, whose property he is, and needs no arms. But he, who thinks he is his own master, and has what he can call his own, ought to have arms to defend himself, and what he possesses; else he lives precariously, and at discretion.

James Burgh

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

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

Malcolm X

There are more slaves alive today than all the people stolen from Africa in the time of the transatlantic slave trade. Put another way, today's slave population is greater than the population of Canada, and six times greater than the population of Israel.

Kevin Bales

The bachelors admired freedom is often a yoke, for the freer a man is to himself the greater slave he often is to the whims of others.

George Jean Nathan

As soon as extreme attachment comes, a man loses himself, he is no more master of himself, he is a slave.

Swami Vivekananda

As long as a word remains unspoken, you are its master; once you utter it, you are its slave.

Solomon Ibn Gabirol

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

I feel that man can transcend himself to a point where he can accomplish greater things than he thinks.

Jack Kirby

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

Albert Parsons

There is no greater fool than the man who thinks himself wise; no one is wiser than he who suspects he is a fool.

Margaret of Valois

When you oppose the shaykh, it's like the slave who kills himself over a quarrel with his master. 'Hey, why are you killing yourself over a quarrel?' He says, 'So my master will suffer loss.'

Shams Tabrizi

He who reforms himself, has done much toward reforming others; and one reason why the world is not reformed, is, because each would have others make a beginning, and never thinks of himself doing it.

Thomas Adams

He is a very humble man, that thinks not himself better than some others.

Joseph Hall

The slave is doomed to worship time and fate and death, because they are greater than anything he finds in himself, and because all his thoughts are of things which they devour.

Bertrand Russell

He that is master of himself will soon be master of others.

Henry George Bohn

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