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"This is a fight between a free world and a slave world."

Henry A. Wallace

"Aristotle [would] probably conclude most Americans, for all intents and purposes, are slaves."

David Graeber

"If the public are bound to yield obedience to laws to which they cannot give their approbation, they are slaves to those who make such laws and enforce them."

Samuel Adams

"So long as the people do not care to exercise their freedom, those who wish to tyrannize will do so; for tyrants are active and ardent, and will devote themselves in the name of any number of gods, religious and otherwise, to put shackles upon sleeping men."

Voltaire

"If we remain fearful, then we will be further stripped of power as we barrel towards this neofeudalistic state where there is a world of masters and serfs, a kind of permanent underclass. That's what's happening; that's what's being created. Rapacious corporate business interests have shattered all kinds of regulations and controls. They have carried out a coup d'etat in slow motion. And it's over; they've won."

Chris Hedges

"Don't let anyone turn you into a slave. You're a slave if you let the media tell you that sports and entertainment are more important than developing your brain."

Ben Carson

"The taxpayer gets literally nothing in return for the life of practical slavery he has to spend in the support of the Government."

Arthur Conan Doyle

"You are in prison. If you wish to get out of prison, the first thing you must do is realize that you are in prison. If you think you are free, you can't escape."

Georges I. Gurdjieff

"The only way to deal with an unfree world is to become so absolutely free that your very existence is an act of rebellion."

Albert Camus

"The worst thing I know is subservience or the desire to absolutely submit oneself, this joining in, going along, singing along, marching along, and at the same time falling into an embarrassing euphoria."

Heinrich Böll

"Freedom is never given; it is always won."

Heinrich Böll

"This concern with the basic condition of freedom -- the absence of physical constraint -- is unquestionably necessary, but is not all that is necessary. It is perfectly possible for a man to be out of prison and yet not free -- to be under no physical constraint and yet to be a psychological captive, compelled to think, feel and act as the representatives of the national State, or of some private interest within the nation, want him to think, feel and act."

Aldous Huxley

"Each person seeks mastery over a world of slaves."

James M. Buchanan

"Until they become conscious, they will never rebel, and until they rebel, they cannot become conscious."

George Orwell

"Mental slavery is the worst form of Slavery. It gives you the illusion of freedom, makes you trust, love and defend your oppressor while making an enemy of those who are trying to free you or open your eyes."

Words Of Wisdom

"School is a sophisticated means of control by the state, created (or usurped from similar approaches by competing entities—churches, cities, private individuals) to accustom all citizens to obedience from childhood, to instill in them the suggestion of the necessity of the state, to nip any idea of emancipation in the bud, to steer the development of their thinking into well-maintained channels, and to drill them into comfortably governable, humble subjects."

Walter Borgius

"Knowledge makes a man unfit to be a slave"

Frederick Douglass

"A man is no less a slave because he is allowed to choose a new master once in a term of years."

Lysander Spooner