Mental Slavery Quotes

To make a contented slave it is necessary to make a thoughtless one. It is necessary to darken the moral and mental vision and, as far as possible, to annihilate the power of reason.

A wise man will be master of his mind, a fool will be its slave.

The church knows that an educated man is an unbeliever. That is why there is a continual struggle on the part of the clergy to adulterate education with superstition. To maintain their untenable position they must keep the people shackled to a form of mental slavery.

Such a faith would be fatal to my reason, to my liberty, and even to the success of my undertakings; it would immediately transform me into a stupid slave, an instrument of the will and interests of others.

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.

Habit is, to weak minds, a species of moral predestination, from which they have no power to escape.

Ali helped raise black people in this country out of mental slavery. The entire experience of being black changed for millions of people because of Ali.

I will not attack your doctrines nor your creeds if they accord liberty to me. If they hold thought to be dangerous - if they aver that doubt is a crime, then I attack them one and all, because they enslave the minds of men.

Emancipate yourselves from mental slavery, none but ourselves can free our minds!

A slave is one who waits for someone to come and free him.

The most potent weapon in the hands of the oppressor is the mind of the oppressed.

I have always strenuously supported the right of every man to his own opinion, however different that opinion might be to mine. He who denies to another this right, makes a slave of himself to his present opinion, because he precludes himself the right of changing it.

I freed a thousand slaves I could have freed a thousand more if only they knew they were slaves.

The white man has succeeded in subduing the world by forcing everybody to think his way....The white man's propaganda has made him the master of the world, and all those who have come in contact with it and accepted it have become his slaves.

One that hath wine as a chain about his wits, such a one lives no life at all.

Es binden Sklavenfesseln nur die H a« nde, Der Sinn, er macht den Freien und den Knecht. The chains of slavery can only bind the hands. The mind makes us either free or enslaved.

To swallow and follow, whether old doctrine or new propaganda, is a weakness still dominating the human mind.

Government oppressed the body of the wage-slave, but Religion oppressed his mind, and poisoned the stream of progress at its source.

Ignorance is servitude, because as a man thinks, so he is; a man who does not think for himself and allows himself to be guided by the thought of another is like the beast led by a halter.

The Mind: a beautiful servant, a dangerous master.

If we were to drive out the English with the weapons with which they enslaved us, our slavery would still be with us even when they have gone.

While men stand proudly and face the sun, boasting that they have quenched the wickedness of slavery, what chains of slavery are, have been or ever could be so intimate a horror as the shackles on every limb—on every thought—on the very soul of an unwilling pregnant woman? .

If you lend your consciousness to someone else, you're a robot.

Ignorance and fear are twins whose mother is slavery and whose father is oppression, and the mentality of the whole family is that of slaves.