Arthur Desmond Quotes

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.

There is no such thing as liberty. You only change one sort of domination for another. All we can do is to choose our master.

It is bad to have a servant, but worse to have a master.

The natural course of power is to make the many slaves to the few.

Whether the institution to be defended is slavery, political absolutism, or the absolutism of the head of a family, we are always expected to judge of it from its best instances; and we are presented with pictures of loving exercise of authority on one side, loving submission to it on the other

Wild beasts hate nets, and people hate their superiors.

It is better to be the slave of a master than to be a slave of a slave.

It is one thing to own a woman, and it is another to have her within the bonds of an excellent mastery.

It only stands to reason that where there's sacrifice, there's someone collecting the sacrificial offerings. Where there's service, there is someone being served. The man who speaks to you of sacrifice is speaking of slaves and masters, and intends to be the master.

If there is a State, then there is domination, and in turn, there is slavery.

Some people are by nature slaves and will always be so.

Any society based on domination supports and condones violence.

Every man needs slaves like he needs clean air. To rule is to breathe, is it not? And even the most disenfranchised get to breathe. The lowest on the social scale have their spouses or their children.

He who can be, and therefore is, another's, and he who participates in reason enough to apprehend, but not to have, is a slave by nature.

It is a strange desire, to seek power, and to lose liberty; or to seek power over others, and to lose power over a man's self.

Man’s freedom is lacking if somebody else controls what he needs, for need may result in man’s enslavement of man..

The desire to conquer is itself a sort of subjection.

I always remember I'm the monkey and he's the organ-grinder.

Was there ever any domination which did not appear natural to those who possessed it?

How many, even of the better sort, would choose to be slaves to those above them, provided they might exercise an arbitrary and tyrannical rule over all below them?

The man who speaks to you of sacrifice, speaks of slaves and masters. And intends to be the master.

There's a certain amount of tyranny in all of us to some extent, and in some people it's much more developed than in others. It's a different balance which makes us all different.

The concept of power we admire is power over someone else.

Free election of masters does not abolish the masters or the slaves.

You carry forever the fingerprint that comes from being under someone's thumb.