Henri La Fontaine Quotes

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.

The average European does not seem to feel free until he succeeds in enslaving and oppressing others.

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

Powerlessness also corrupts.

Most people say they're slaves, but in my opinion, to say that I am a slave is to take ownership of actually being a slave - to be a tool, be a thing. Basically cattle.

I think it's a dangerous thing for anyone to have power over other people.

Justice in the hands of the powerful is merely a governing system like any other. Why call it justice? Let us rather call it injustice, but of a sly effective order, based entirely on cruel knowledge of the resistance of the weak, their capacity for pain, humilation and misery. Injustice sustained at the exact degree of necessary tension to turn the cogs of the huge machine-for-the-making-of-rich-men, without bursting the boiler.

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

Sex, drugs, money, power etc. Just because you get to choose your master doesn't mean you aren't a slave.

Give a man a free hand and he'll try to put it all over you.

Those who make some other person their job... are dangerous.

People demand freedom only when they have no power.

Our sense of power is more vivid when we break a man's spirit than when we win his heart.

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

Any society based on domination supports and condones violence.

Power over others is weakness disguised as strength.

The more dependent you are, the more ignorant you must be, and that's how they want you.

To hold a man down, you have to stay down with him.

Give a man a free hand and he'll run it all over you.

To get power over is to defile. To possess is to defile.

Powerlessness corrupts: absolute powerlessness corrupts absolutely

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

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

The Americans will have no interest contrary to the grandeur and glory of England, when they are not oppressed by the weight of it …

The role of the inhabitants of the American hemisphere has for centuries been purely passive. Politically they were nonexistent. We are still in a position lower than slavery, and therefore it is more difficult for us to rise to the enjoyment of freedom.