That nation which indulges towards another a habitual hatred or a habitual fondness is in some degree a slave.
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The nation which indulges toward another a habitual hatred or a habitual fondness is in some degree a slave. It is a slave to it animosity or two its affection, either of which is sufficient to lead it astray from its duty and it's interest.
The Nation, which indulges towards another an habitual hatred, or an habitual fondness, is in some degree a slave. It is a slave to its animosity or to its affection, either of which is sufficient to lead it astray from its duty and its interest. ... The Nation, prompted by ill-will and resentment, sometimes impels to war the Government, contrary to the best calculations of policy. The Government sometimes participates in the national propensity, and adopts through passion what reason would reject; at other times, it makes the animosity of the nation subservient to projects of hostility instigated by pride, ambition, and other sinister and pernicious motives. The peace often, sometimes perhaps the liberty, of Nations has been the victim.
A country bent on conquest is necessarily a country internally enslaved.
Habit,to which all of us are more or less slaves.
This slavery breeds ugly passions in man.
Beware the nation in which one man rules, for it is a nation of slaves.
A nation is a society united by a delusion about its ancestry and a common hatred of its neighbors.
We are the slaves of slaves
We are all born slaves, and we must continue so;
Fear is the passion of slaves.
Slavery...dishonors labor. It introduces idleness into society, and with idleness, ignorance and pride, luxury and distress. It enervates the powers of the mind and benumbs the activity of man.
In a consumer society there are inevitably two kinds of slaves: the prisoners of addiction and the prisoners of envy.
MOST NATIONS HAVE AT ONE TIME OR OTHER BOTH condoned and practiced slavery. Greece and Rome founded their societies on it. India and Japan handled this state of affairs by creating untouchable classes which continue to this day. Arabia clung to formal slavery longer than most, while black countries like Ethiopia and Burundi were notorious. In the New World each colonial power devised a system precisely suited to its peculiar needs and in conformance with its national customs.
Who dares not speak his free thought is a slave.
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