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The problem isn't Renzi, Renzi is a pawn, Renzi is a dumb slave, at the disposal of some nameless person who wants to control all our lives from Brussels. – Matteo Salvini	Found on Reuters 9 years ago
When money becomes an idol, it commands the choices of man. And thus it ruins man and condemns him. It makes him a slave, money at the service of life can be managed in the right way by cooperatives, on condition that it is a real cooperative where capital does not have command over men but men over capital. – Pope Francis	Found on Reuters 9 years ago
They have clearly been able to do it on the episodic side, I see no reason why they can't do it on the feature film side, the real challenge will be getting filmmakers in the door who want to make films for Amazon and giving those filmmakers the freedom to make the films that become '12 Years a Slave' or 'Birdman'. – Franklin Leonard	Found on Reuters 9 years ago
The real challenge will be getting filmmakers in the door who want to make films for Amazon and giving those filmmakers the freedom to make the films that become '12 Years a Slave' or 'Birdman'. – Franklin Leonard	Found on Reuters 9 years ago
Possibility number one: ’12 Years a Slave’ wins best picture, possibility number two: You’re all racists. – Ellen DeGeneres	Found on FOX News 9 years ago
The genius of any slave system is found in the dynamics which isolate slaves from each other, obscure the reality of a common condition, and make united rebellion against the oppressor inconceivable. – Andrea Dworkin	added by anonymous 10 years ago
The great artist is a slave to his ideals. – Christian Nevell Bovee	added by anonymous 10 years ago
The slave has but one master, the ambitious man has as many as there are persons whose aid may contribute to the advancement of his fortunes. – Jean de La Bruyère	added by anonymous 10 years ago
Nobody had ever instructed him that a slave-ship, with a procession of expectant sharks in its wake, is a missionary institution, by which closely-packed heathen are brought over to enjoy the light of the Gospel. – Harriet Beecher Stowe	added by anonymous 10 years ago
I want you to understand that I respect the rights of the poorest and weakest of colored people, oppressed [to deny others their rights or liberty] by the slave system, just as much as I do those of the most wealthy and powerful. That is the idea that has moved me, and that alone. – John Brown	added by anonymous 10 years ago
Do not discourage your children from hoarding, if they have a taste to it; whoever lays up his penny rather than part with it for a cake, at least is not the slave of gross appetite; and shows besides a preference always to be esteemed, of the future to the present moment. – Samuel Johnson	added by anonymous 10 years ago
I am the slave of my baptism. Parents, you have caused my misfortune, and you have caused your own. – Arthur Rimbaud	added by anonymous 10 years ago
“The more they lack material things, the more they indulge themselves when they can, but the less is their satisfaction with this world and they hunger for life after death(on Russian slave laborers.)” – Sophie Scholl	added by anonymous 10 years ago
To relive the relationship between owner and slave we can consider how we treat our cars and dogs -- a dog exercising a somewhat similar leverage on our mercies and an automobile being comparable in value to a slave in those days. – Edward Hoagland	added by anonymous 11 years ago
Through this broad street, restless ever, ebbs and flows a human tide, wave on wave a living river; wealth and fashion side by side; Toiler, idler, slave and master, in the same quick current glide. – John Greenleaf Whittier	added by anonymous 11 years ago
He who is a slave to his stomach seldom worships God. – Saadi	added by anonymous 11 years ago
Do not quench your inspiration and your imagination; do not become the slave of your model. – Vincent van Gogh	added by anonymous 11 years ago
The effects of the late civil strife have been to free the slave and make him a citizen. Yet he is not possessed of the civil rights which citizenship should carry with it. This is wrong, and should be corrected. – Ulysses S. Grant	added by anonymous 11 years ago
He that is kind is free, though he is a slave; he that is evil is a slave, though he be a king. – Augustine of Hippo	added by anonymous 11 years ago
Without self knowledge, without understanding the working and functions of his machine, man cannot be free, he cannot govern himself and he will always remain a slave. – G. I. Gurdjieff	added by anonymous 11 years ago
Freedom in capitalist society always remains about the same as it was in ancient Greek republics: Freedom for slave owners. – Vladimir Lenin	added by anonymous 11 years ago
From the Gulistan Be not over much angry with thy slave; Treat him not unjustly, and pain not his feelings. True, thou mayst have bought him for ten direms; But 'twas not by thy power that he was created. There is a tradition of the Prophet--peace be upon him!--that on the day of the resurrection the greatest grief will be when the pious slave is carried to Paradise, and his worthless master is borne away to Hell. – Saadi	added by anonymous 11 years ago
I am, what I am,I am the slave of allah. – Irfan ah.allayee	added by anonymous 11 years ago
If you are competing with slaves, then you are a slave yourself. – Bryant McGill	added by anonymous 12 years ago

The problem isn't Renzi, Renzi is a pawn, Renzi is a dumb slave, at the disposal of some nameless person who wants to control all our lives from Brussels.

– Matteo Salvini

Found on Reuters
9 years ago

When money becomes an idol, it commands the choices of man. And thus it ruins man and condemns him. It makes him a slave, money at the service of life can be managed in the right way by cooperatives, on condition that it is a real cooperative where capital does not have command over men but men over capital.

– Pope Francis

Found on Reuters
9 years ago

They have clearly been able to do it on the episodic side, I see no reason why they can't do it on the feature film side, the real challenge will be getting filmmakers in the door who want to make films for Amazon and giving those filmmakers the freedom to make the films that become '12 Years a Slave' or 'Birdman'.

– Franklin Leonard

Found on Reuters
9 years ago

The real challenge will be getting filmmakers in the door who want to make films for Amazon and giving those filmmakers the freedom to make the films that become '12 Years a Slave' or 'Birdman'.

– Franklin Leonard

Found on Reuters
9 years ago

Possibility number one: ’12 Years a Slave’ wins best picture, possibility number two: You’re all racists.

– Ellen DeGeneres

Found on FOX News
9 years ago

The genius of any slave system is found in the dynamics which isolate slaves from each other, obscure the reality of a common condition, and make united rebellion against the oppressor inconceivable.

– Andrea Dworkin

added by anonymous
10 years ago

The great artist is a slave to his ideals.

– Christian Nevell Bovee

added by anonymous
10 years ago

The slave has but one master, the ambitious man has as many as there are persons whose aid may contribute to the advancement of his fortunes.

– Jean de La Bruyère

added by anonymous
10 years ago

Nobody had ever instructed him that a slave-ship, with a procession of expectant sharks in its wake, is a missionary institution, by which closely-packed heathen are brought over to enjoy the light of the Gospel.

– Harriet Beecher Stowe

added by anonymous
10 years ago

I want you to understand that I respect the rights of the poorest and weakest of colored people, oppressed [to deny others their rights or liberty] by the slave system, just as much as I do those of the most wealthy and powerful. That is the idea that has moved me, and that alone.

– John Brown

added by anonymous
10 years ago

Do not discourage your children from hoarding, if they have a taste to it; whoever lays up his penny rather than part with it for a cake, at least is not the slave of gross appetite; and shows besides a preference always to be esteemed, of the future to the present moment.

– Samuel Johnson

added by anonymous
10 years ago

I am the slave of my baptism. Parents, you have caused my misfortune, and you have caused your own.

– Arthur Rimbaud

added by anonymous
10 years ago

“The more they lack material things, the more they indulge themselves when they can, but the less is their satisfaction with this world and they hunger for life after death(on Russian slave laborers.)”

– Sophie Scholl

added by anonymous
10 years ago

To relive the relationship between owner and slave we can consider how we treat our cars and dogs -- a dog exercising a somewhat similar leverage on our mercies and an automobile being comparable in value to a slave in those days.

– Edward Hoagland