Worse than material slavery is spiritual slavery.

Prolonged struggle against the power of a single passion is itself also slavery.

Break the shackles of slavery.

Not only fear gives rise to slavery, but also gullibility and carelessness.

The collar is just a symbol. Real slavery is born and nests in the depths of the skull, where many assume the location of the mind.

He who does not know what oppression is, will not understand compassion for the weak.

In which kingdom people are enslaved, in that kingdom people are not brave and timid to fight against the enemy.

No one is to blame if he was born a slave, but a slave who not only eschews the desire for his freedom, but embellishes and justifies his slavery, is a lackey and boor who inspires a legitimate feeling of indignation, contempt and disgust.

Dissimilar Thoughts on Slavery

A people who enslave another people forge their own chains.

Every man born into slavery is born into slavery; nothing can be truer than this. In chains, slaves lose everything, up to the desire to free themselves from them.

Inviolable dissimilar thoughts about slavery

The teacher-student relationship is a lot like slavery. Mental and sometimes even physical. A bad mentor gets indescribable pleasure, owning the minds of his students, inspiring them with hard-won, not real truths, forcing them to act in their own image and likeness...

Invented three ways to keep people in slavery: violence, money and freedom.

To be a slave or to be a citizen are social definitions, the relationship of person A to person B. Person A as such is not a slave. He is a slave in society and through society.

Capitalism is the exploitation of man by man, while communism is the opposite.

Slavery humiliates a person to the point that he begins to love his fetters.

Our masters are only slaves who have triumphed in the world's enslaving development.

A slave is only one who expects something from others ... Perhaps our common mistake is precisely in this. The one who needs nothing remains free.

You slavishly serve me, and then complain that I am not interested in you: who will be interested in a slave?

Domination has not been removed, but the master has been changed.

Slaves without a master turn into free people. Masters without slaves are nothing.

He is a slave! But perhaps he is free in spirit. He is a slave! Show me who is not a slave. One is in bondage to lust, the other to stinginess, the third to ambition, and all to fear.

Slaves triumph not by addition own forces but by taking away strength from the other: they separate the strong from what he is capable of.

Highly Dissimilar Thoughts on Slavery

The most miserable slave is a man who gives his mind into slavery and recognizes as true what his mind does not recognize.

A man who stays with another for a week turns him into a slave for a week.

It seems that, as humanity subjugates nature, man becomes a slave to other people, or else a slave to his own meanness.

The slave loses everything in his chains, even the desire to get rid of them.

Any indignation of a bonded person turns to him in. There is no such tight yoke that does not cause less pain to the one who drags it than to the one who tries to throw it off.

I don't want to be a slave, and I don't want to be a slave owner. This expresses my understanding of democracy.

Free is he who has escaped slavery from himself: this slavery is constant and irresistible, oppressive day and night, without respite, without vacation.

Probably the majority of people living today come from families of slaves.

Lack of freedom can conceal a large share of freedom; independence can be slavery.

The slave prefers the slave, the master prefers the master.

For one who is not free himself, others are not free either.

Do not call slavery, changing the meaning of concepts to the best of your cowardice.

Slave. I would have been capable of much if I had been ordered to.

One must first be a bad citizen in order to become a good slave.

Miscellaneous dissimilar thoughts about slavery

Man is a slave because freedom is difficult, but slavery is easy.

A slave who is content with his position is doubly a slave, because not only his body is in bondage, but also his soul.

Great fortune - great slavery.

There are slaves by nature.

How many slaves, so many enemies.

There is no hopeless slavery than the slavery of those slaves who consider themselves free from fetters.

Slavery is a weed that grows in any soil.

Lies are for slaves, free people must speak the truth.

Drop by drop squeezing a slave out of yourself, you risk squeezing yourself out entirely.

Do not let yourself be entangled with obligations to everyone and everyone - you will become a slave, and a universal one at that ... It is better for many to depend on you than for you to depend on one.

Man ceased to be the slave of man and became the slave of the thing...

The act of a slave is not always the act of a slave.

Squeezing a slave out of himself, he became an invisible man.

The meek are safer, but they are slaves.

Anyone who prefers money and all the benefits to freedom is a slave.

Slavery is a prison of the soul.

Submissive to fate dies a slave.

Exotic dissimilar thoughts on slavery

If one leg is chained in a block, then it is not necessary to put the head into the block.

A person who is guided only by affect or opinion differs from a person who is guided by reason. The first, against his will, does what he does not know at all; the second does only what he recognizes as the most important thing in life. Therefore, I call the first slave, the second - free.

A person cannot be made a slave against his will. There is always a choice, even between chains and death.

Slavery only makes a person unhappy, but does not deprive him of his dignity, while servility humiliates him.

The worst thing for the oppressed is nine days out of ten when they are not oppressed.

The biggest slavery is not having freedom, to consider yourself free.

The dream of slaves: a market where you could buy your own masters.

Few hold on to slavery, most hold on to their slavery.

Almost all people are slaves, and this is due to the same reason that the Spartans explained the humiliation of the Persians: they are unable to utter the word "no" ...

A man of any rank is free if he does, even if necessary, only what is to his advantage; only one who is forced to do something completely useless to him should be considered a slave.

Don't be a slave to one or a few. By becoming the slave of all, you become the friend of all.

Every government that acts without the consent of those it governs is the complete formula of slavery!

September 3rd, 2014 08:00 pm

From father to son

A man should be fed from childhood. This is my fundamental conviction, from which I am not ready to deviate under any circumstances. I'll explain why.

A hungry boy can become anyone in the future - even a homeless person, even a millionaire - but he will always have a slave complex, and I cannot accept this quality in any person.

There is no worse master than a former slave. If a guy born at the bottom comes to success, he certainly has strong character. It was the strength of character that helped him survive a childhood full of hardships and, despite a low start, go up in life.

Sounds nice? In my opinion, very much.

Now let's look at how strength of character is formed in a dysfunctional environment.

A dysfunctional environment is always full of humiliation. Humiliation is an inherent characteristic of a dysfunctional environment. Accordingly, children from this environment are divided into two categories: humiliating and humiliated. The strongest of them are those who, having gone through humiliation, did not break. These are truly iron, but their concept of strength of character, alas, is shaped by the environment in which they grew up: "either you or you."

In a redneck environment, boys have no choice: either you humiliate you, or they humiliate you. With this attitude, having already become adults, they continue to go through life, automatically switching the toggle switch from the humiliated to the humiliated.

If a man from an orphanage achieves success due to the strength of his character, then this strength at some point turns into cruelty rather than harshness. Being close to such a person, having any relationship with him - love, friendship, business - is very difficult.

So it turns out that if a hungry boy has not made it in life, he is a schmuck, and if he has made it, he is shit with whom it is impossible to build normal relations - even in love, even in friendship, even in business.

In a happy environment, things are different. There, the boys, in order not to be humiliated, do not need to humiliate themselves.

I'm not saying that a boy from a good family will certainly grow up to be a decent person. He can become a bastard, and an alcoholic, and a major, and any kind of nonentity.

I am only saying that a boy from a good family absolutely has a chance to become a normal person, and a boy from a dysfunctional environment does not have such a chance. It will always contain the humiliations seen and experienced in childhood.

A man should not be humiliated. Never. Nowhere. Not at any age. It destroys and demoralizes his personality. A woman can recover from humiliation, a man cannot. Self-esteem is a quality that is not regenerated in a man. Once bitten, so it will remain.

It is for this reason that, in any case, I will prefer the one who came from a prosperous family to a “samsebyasdelkin” who has made his way out of poverty, other things being equal. I like to deal with people with a healthy sense of dignity: not torn, not bitten, not wounded.

The American concept of self-made men is, of course, romantic and cinematic, but Russian wisdom about “from rags to riches” more honestly reflects reality: men conceived in filth, even in princes, are shit.

The strength of character lies in its nobility. And origin - including.

So should a man be full from childhood, or will it do? In the comments - the rationale for their point of view.

UPD: Hey, single-taskers, chill. Did I use the phrase "rich family" somewhere in the text? A hungry family and a rich family are not synonyms. A prosperous family and a rich family are not synonyms. Know how to read what is written, and not what you have imagined for yourself due to your own complexes. Or are you slaves?

Recently posted a picture with a statement by Mustafa Dzhemilev about the whip.
The natives had a kapets.
There were no humiliating relations between the Russian kingdom and the Crimea - this is how the Tatar ambassadors were received under Ivan the Terrible (testimony of the Austrian diplomat John Pernstein, who visited Moscow):
I do not deny, however, that I was told that in Muscovy there is a different treatment of the Ambassadors; so, for example, those sent from friendly Powers are received as I was received, but Polish and some other Ambassadors, including Swedish, Tatar and Turkish, are treated as they deserve (“Come meriteriano”), that is, worse than the Turks treat our Ambassadors.

My God, if only a whip!
... it remains only to find out how the Turks treated the Austrian ambassadors, although it is not clear what this quote has to do with it. No one is interested in how the Muscovites treated the ambassadors. It is important how the Crimean Tatar ambassadors treated the Moscow Tsar.

We read from Dlugosh:

Jana Długosza kanonika krakowskiego Dziejów polskich ksiąg dwanaście. T. 5, ks. 12

Translation in short:

The Tatar (Horde) ambassador arrives in Moscow. The Moscow prince goes out to meet him, gives the ambassador sitting on a horse a cup of koumiss. The ambassador drinks part of it, sprinkles koumiss on the horse's mane. to the Tatar ambassador and, together with the boyars, kneels before him to listen to the ambassador, which the khan deigned there.

Later, Ivan IV will be reminded of this by the Polish king Bathory:

A similar thing could happen when Ivan III met with the ambassadors of the Perekop khans (Herberstein did not specify in front of whose ambassadors Ivan had to humiliate himself), also after the capture of Moscow in 1571, when the suppressed Ivan IV in the scorched capital also had to meet with the ambassador Gireev. Perhaps, this could have happened in 1521, only instead of the prince, the boyars participated in the ritual.

And why, nevertheless, in the message of Litvin, the Perekop Tatars continue to call Ivan IV a serf? So they had reasons for that. The most important thing is that he was the GDL ambassador in the Crimea and could from the inside assess the real attitude of the Tatars towards the Moscow princes. This is the most valuable thing in his notes.

Translation in short: Once Muscovites (Moscovitae) were in such slavery among the Trans-Volga Tatars (tartarorum zavolhensіum) that their prince [along with other servility] went to meet every ambassador of the emperor and collector of tribute (census exactorі), who annually came to Muscovy ( in Moscoviam) outside the walls of the city and, taking [his] horse by the bridle, on foot led the rider to the court. And the ambassador sat on the princely (ducali) throne, and he himself listened to the ambassadors, kneeling 111. So even today the Trans-Volga and Perekop [Tatars who descend from them] call the prince of the Muscovites (Moscovum) their serf (cholop), t .e. peasant (rusticum).

in the footsteps

A slave, satisfied with his position, is doubly a slave, because not only his body is in slavery, but also his soul. (E. Burke)

Man is a slave because freedom is difficult, but slavery is easy. (N. Berdyaev)

Slavery can humiliate people to the point that they begin to love it. (L. Vovenarg)

Slaves always manage to get their own slave. (Ethel Lilian Voynich)

He who is afraid of others is a slave, although he does not notice it. (Antisthenes)

Slaves and tyrants fear each other. (E. Boschen)

The only way to make a people virtuous is to give them freedom; slavery breeds all vices, true freedom purifies the soul. (P. Buast)

Only the slave raises the fallen crown again. (D. Gibran)

Volunteer slaves produce more tyrants than tyrants produce slaves. (O. Mirabeau)

Violence created the first slaves, cowardice immortalized them. (J.J. Rousseau)

There is no slavery more shameful than voluntary slavery. (Seneca)

And as long as people feel that they are only a part, not noticing the whole, they will give themselves into complete slavery.

One who is not afraid to look death in the face cannot be a slave. He who is afraid cannot be a warrior. (Olga Brileva)

The slave owner is a slave himself, worse than the helots! (Ivan Efremov)

Is this really our insignificant lot: To be slaves to our lustful bodies? After all, not one of the living in the world. I couldn't satisfy my desires. (Omar Khayyam)

The government spits on us, do not talk about politics and religion - all this is enemy propaganda! Wars, catastrophes, murders - all this horror! The media make a sad face, characterizing this as a great human tragedy, but we know that - the media do not pursue the goal of destroying the evil of the world - no! Its task is to convince us to accept this evil, to adapt to live in it! The authorities want us to be passive observers! They left us no chance, except for a rare, absolutely symbolic general vote - choose the doll on the left or the doll on the right! (Author unknown)

He is not worth freedom who can be made a slave. (Maria Semyonova)

Slavery is the worst of all misfortunes. (Mark Tullius Cicero)

It is disgusting to be under the yoke - even in the name of freedom. (Karl Marx)

A people that enslaves another people forges its own chains. (Karl Marx)

... There is nothing more terrible, more humiliating than being the slave of a slave. (Karl Marx)

Animals have that noble peculiarity that, out of cowardice, a lion never becomes the slave of another lion, nor a horse the slave of another horse. (Michel de Montaigne)

In truth, prostitution is just another form of slavery. Based on misfortune, need, addiction to alcohol or drugs. Dependence of a woman on a man. (Janusz Leon Wisniewski, Malgorzata Domagalik)

There is no hopeless slavery than the slavery of those slaves who consider themselves free from fetters. (Johann Wolfgang von Goethe)

Almost all people are slaves, and this is due to the same reason that the Spartans explained the humiliation of the Persians: they are unable to pronounce the word "no" ... (Nicolas Chamfort)

The slave dreams not of freedom, but of his own slaves. (Boris Krutier)

In a totalitarian state, an all-powerful cohort of political bosses and an army of administrators subordinate to them will rule over a population of slaves who need not be coerced, for they love their slavery. (Aldous Huxley)

So, comrades, how is our life organized? Let's face it. Poverty, overwork, untimely death - this is our destiny. We are born, we get just enough food so as not to die of hunger, and work animals are also exhausted with work until all the juices are squeezed out of them, and when we are no longer good for anything, we are killed with monstrous cruelty. There is not an animal in England that does not say goodbye to leisure and joy of life as soon as he is a year old. There is no animal in England that has not been enslaved. (George Orwell.)

Only a person who has overcome the slave in himself knows freedom. (Henry Miller)

So, all the knowledge that scientists with solid diplomas and impressive titles gave him, like priceless treasures, was just a prison. He humbly thanked each time he was slightly lengthened leash, which remained a leash. We can live without a leash. (Bernard Werber)

Power over oneself is the most supreme power enslavement to one's passions is the most terrible slavery. (Lucius Annaeus Seneca)

- This is how freedom dies - to thunderous applause ... (Padmé Amidala, Star Wars)

The one who can be happy alone is a real person. If your happiness depends on others, then you are a slave, you are not free, you are in bondage. (Chandra Mohan Rajneesh)

You see, as soon as slavery is legalized somewhere, the lower rungs of the social ladder become terribly slippery ... Once you start measuring human life in money, and it turns out that this price can decrease penny by penny, until there is nothing left at all. (Robin Hobb)

Better freedom in hell than slavery in heaven. (Anatole France)

People mince, trying not to be late for work, many of them mutter on their mobile phones on the go, gradually drawing their sleepy brains into the morning bustle of the city. (Mobile phones now also perform the function of an additional alarm clock. If the first wakes you up for work, the second tells you that it has already begun.) Sometimes my imagination paints bales on the backs of slightly hunched figures, turning them into serf slaves who daily bring their masters tribute in the form of their own health, feelings and emotions. The most stupid and most terrible thing about this is that they do all this of their own free will, in the absence of any bonded serfdom. (Sergey Minaev)

Slavery is a prison of the soul. (Publius)

Habit reconciles with slavery. (Pythagoras of Samos)

People themselves hold on to a slave share. (Lucius Annaeus Seneca)

It is beautiful to die - it is shameful to be a slave. (Publius Sir)

Emancipation from slavery belongs to the law of nations. (Justinian I)

God did not create slavery, but endowed man with freedom. (John Chrysostom)

Slavery humiliates a person to the point that he begins to love his fetters. (Luc de Clapier de Vauvenargues)

The biggest slavery is not having freedom, to consider yourself free. (Johann Wolfgang von Goethe)

There is nothing more slavish than luxury and bliss, and nothing more regal than work. (Alexander the Great)

Woe to the people, if slavery could not humiliate them, such a people was created to be a slave. (Pyotr Yakovlevich Chaadaev)

Power over oneself is the highest power; enslavement by one's passions is the most terrible slavery. (Lucius Annaeus Seneca)

You slavishly serve me, and then complain that I am not interested in you: who will be interested in a slave? (George Bernard Shaw)

Every man born into slavery is born into slavery; nothing can be truer than this. In chains, slaves lose everything, up to the desire to free themselves from them. (Jean-Jacques Rousseau)

Debt is the beginning of slavery, even worse than slavery, because the creditor is more inexorable than the slave owner: he owns not only your body, but also your dignity and can, on occasion, inflict grave insults on him. (Victor Marie Hugo)

Since people began to live together, freedom has disappeared and slavery has arisen, for every law, limiting and narrowing the rights of one for the benefit of all, thereby encroaches on the freedom of an individual. (Raffaello Giovagnoli)

Servants who do not have a master do not become free people because of this - they have servility in their souls. (Heinrich Heinrich)

To become a free man... You need to squeeze a slave out of yourself drop by drop. (Chekhov Anton Pavlovich)

Who by nature does not belong to himself, but to another, and at the same time is still a man, is a slave. (Aristotle)

The dream of slaves: a bazaar where you can buy yourself a master. (Stanislav Jerzy Lec)