A Quote by Hilde Bruch

The poet is a master of language, the schizophrenic is a slave to it.

Hilde Bruch

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Hilde Bruch
March 11, 1904 - December 15, 1984

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

If you can not master your language you must be it's slave.

Jenny Weber

If you cannot be the master of your language, you must be its slave.

Richard Mitchell

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

Albert Parsons

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

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

Cory Booker

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

Malcolm X

Children must master the language of things before they master the language of words.

Friedrich Frobel

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

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

If you cannot be the master of your language, you must be its slave. If you cannot examine your thoughts, you have no choice but to think them, however silly they may be.

Richard Mitchell

Slave girls on Gor address all free men as Master, though, of course only one such would be her true Master.