Money is a new form of slavery, and distinguishable from the old simply by the fact that it is impersonal - that there is no human relation between master and slave
Leo Nikolaevich Tolstoy
Related Money is a new form of slavery, and distinguishable from the old simply by the fact that it is imper... COUNT LEO NIKOLAEVICH TOLSTOI OR TOLSTOY I believe that there is a Matrix and... to be more accurate I am in the Pornography Matrix. DEYTH BANGER To stand on the brink of what is coming, feeling eager, optimistic anticipation—with no feeli... ASK AND IT IS GIVEN I like to open for a band as it brings on sort of a challenge and it makes things more interesting. ... KELLY JONES Empathy is the new measurement of everything. It doesn't matter what religion you have, what God you... C. JOYBELL C. Life is weird and wonderful like that, is it not. SONYA.E.WILLIAMS Every one must understand that, whatever be the evil of slavery, it is not increased by its diffusio... JEFFERSON DAVIS When living is too sweet and swanky, it may be very hard to appreciate the simplest things in life. ... ERIK PEVERNAGIE It is a lie. ARTHUR MILLER The highest form of slavery is to make the slave think that he is free. DEDRICK D. L. PITTER I'm fucking the grave, I thought, I'm bringing the dead back to life... CHARLES BUKOWSKI His life seemed like a deck of cards, and in the midst of all those two’s and three’s someone ha... TEKOA MANNING Art is bad when ‘you see the intent and get put off.’ (Goethe) In Tolstoy one is unaware of the ... JOEL CARMICHAEL Integrity is not everything, but it is the only thing that matters. JEFFREY FRY It is what it is, it is what you make it. JAMES DURBIN Debt is simply selling a future to buy a present. ANONYMUS The Biggest Threat to our Democracy, Freedoms and Future is Leadership that fosters and Appeases the... MICHAEL HARRIS Life is not a game. Still, in this life, we choose the games we live to play. J.R. RIM The fact is, that civilization requires slaves. Human slavery is wrong, insecure, and demoralizing. ... OSCAR WILDE Mother Superior jump the gun... -The Beatles, Happiness is a Warm Gun LAUREN MYRACLE The free worker receives a wage; the slave an education, food, care, clothing; the money that the ma... ALEXIS DE TOCQUEVILLE What Fucks me... is that we both are the same... we all walk on the same path... but everything is a... DEYTH BANGER When carrying the burden of problems and stress that life seems to endlessly hurtle towards us. We g... GARY F EVANS... To have hope in an age where hope is very scarce and hurt, jealousy and pain are more prominent is a... GARY F EVANS... Truth metastasized into lurid fantasy. F. MULDER To search the sands of a lost desert for truth and justice in this world today you might as well be ... GARY F EVANS... I am Happy and satisfied with what I am.
10000 will take me wrong, 1000 will go against me, 100 will... NEHA KOTHARI If our mind was an ocean then every now and then we would have the perfect storm happening in it.Gar... GARY F EVANS... If we face the fact, for it is a fact, that there is no arm to cling to, but that we go alone and th... VIRGINIA WOOLF I would not dare to say that there is a direct relation between mathematics and madness, but there i... JOHN FORBES NASH, JR. I would not dare to say that there is a direct relation between mathematics and madness, but there i... JOHN FORBES NASH I regret that I wasn't more successful with my marriages, but it is what it is. TED TURNER Our life is a series of moments. Let them all go. Moments. All gathering towards this one. NOW IS GOOD The battle is not physical, it is spiritual and your mind is the battleground. Keep your mind pure a... JEANETTE CORON But believe me, my dear boy, there is nothing stronger than those two: patience and time, they will ... LEO TOLSTOY [A] great embarrassing fact… haunts all attempts to represent the market as the highest form of hu... DAVID GRAEBER There is no doubt that there is a huge difference between human and nonhuman animals. But what we ar... PETER SINGER The fact that slavery is written into the Constitution is about as entrenched a form of classism as ... BEAU WILLIMON Then that's what the Northern Lights are. All the lives that we're not living. ADI ALSAID Your latest news is just news being repeated over and over again. It's old news already. ANDONI GARCIA Today is about the now, the moment you live in, so do now what you want to do SOTONYE ANGA Being present is being connected to All Things. S. KELLEY HARRELL, M. DIV. Then the face of Big Brother faded away again and instead the three slogans of the Party stood out i... GEORGE ORWELL A man is no less a slave because he is allowed to choose a new master once in a term of years. LYSANDER SPOONER Dedication is the preparation to success! WERNER BOTHA We of the modern age are a bridge between the old human and the new one. We still have the mentality... BERNARD WERBER We are born in relation, we live in relation, we die in relation. There is, literally, no such human... CARTER HEYWARD I don't believe that my first name is Leo or that my last name is Tolstoy. I'm a storyteller... ROBERT LUDLUM When I die it will be game over,... but I know one life is short, to be selfish is not the best deci... DEYTH BANGER Slavery is so intolerable a condition that the slave can hardly escape deluding himself into thinkin... W. H. AUDEN You know, I don't think my music is important, I don't think it's changing the world, I ... SUFJAN STEVENS In this world, there is truly no one who is your relative. And those who are, are in the form of a '... DADA BHAGWAN If that form of government, that system of social order is not wrong - if those laws of the Southern... LEONARD BACON Patrick said that the problem was that since everything has happened already, it makes it hard to br... STEPHEN CHBOSKY If time is money and perhaps rightly said so, then with that count a person who does nothing for his... ANUJ SOMANY There is between sleep and us something like a pact, a treaty with no secret clauses, and according ... MAURICE BLANCHOT Human trafficking is a modern form of slavery. It is a scourge for humanity, and America must projec... JEFF FORTENBERRY Everyone thinks of changing the world, but no one thinks of changing himself. —Leo Tolstoy CHRISTINE PORATH The secret of my success is my hairspray. RICHARD GERE Love is blind, and a deaf-mute too. PATRICK ROTHFUSS The moment the slave resolves that he will no longer be a slave. His fetters fall... freedom and sla... MAHATMA GANDHI The moment the slave resolves that he will no longer be a slave, his fetters fall. Freedom and slave... MAHATMA GANDHI To hide from one's self within the nobility that is called labor, is a form of self imposed slavery ... TROY J. GAINEY Just a moment ago, I was thinking of postponing my dream for tomorrow, but I decided to take a look ... PHILIP T. M. Unpredictability means what it means. I don't know how you define it. It is what it is. MICHAEL KEATON She was scarcely a year older than I was, dark-haired, slender, with a face that would break your he... GEORGE R.R. MARTIN Here is one fact 1 minute to finish the class, 1 day to die, one day behind that fact, one day in th... DEYTH BANGER The essence of all slavery consists in taking the product of another's labor by force. It is immater... LEO NIKOLAEVICH TOLSTOY Life is a re-discovery. BRIAN BLESSED If you think that life is a celebration full of party poppers and merry go rounds it's not it's a ga... GARY F EVANS... Life Is a Misconception. DEYTH BANGER Life is a desire! DEYTH BANGER To trust someone you must firstly remember that it is a two way street that will go all the way if y... GARY F EVANS... Wrong? So you are saying, I'm wrong okay then... It's not possible every time to be right, one ... DEYTH BANGER A business venture is a money affair,for it to thrive new money will have to come in,in form of loan... DAVID ATTA (A.K.A DAVIED ATTLARS & MR DAIN) There is no conflict between the ideal of religion and the ideal of science, but science is opposed ... NIKOLA TESLA Now isn´t the time to change yourself to fit into the world... you should be changing the world to ... ALEXANDRA BRACKEN The priest is Christ's slave, and Christ himself took the form of a slave and became obedient to... ARTHUR MIDDLETON The end is the matter! A step to the end is a factor! ERNEST AGYEMANG YEBOAH Think of a new day and think of a new purpose. Think of a new reason out of the reasons of yesterday... ERNEST AGYEMANG YEBOAH Free yourself from one passion to be dominated by another and nobler one. But is not that, too, a fo... NIKOS KAZANTZAKIS The problem that has no name - which is simply the fact that American women are kept from growing to... BETTY FRIEDAN The problem that has no name - which is simply the fact that American women are kept from growing to... BETTY FRIEDAN Let fear once get possession of the soul, and it does not readily yield its place to another sentime... LEO TOLSTOY It is what it is, and it ain't nothin' else... Everything is clearly, openly, plainly delive... DAN FLAVIN With '10,000,' our aim was to make a film that was entertaining and a roller-coaster ride; i... STEVEN STRAIT If the best is possible, than good is never enough and only do the best. ROBERT SIAHAAN Typing is the future of talking and to don't forgot and brother of feature. DEYTH BANGER For generations, many people have known that Jefferson fathered children by Sally Hemings, ... The m... FRED NEWMAN Honesty is the best policy - when there is money in it. MARK TWAIN There is no proletarian, not even a Communist movement, that has not operated in the interests of mo... OSWALD SPENGLER With just about every script, in almost every corner of the set, I was faced with the truth: This wa... DIANE GUERRERO There is not only no free state which would now establish it, but there is no slave state, which, if... WILLIAM H. SEWARD Your mind is a Microcosm of strength and power. There’s all the magic you need in it. When all els... CHINONYE J. CHIDOLUE A common measure of poverty is how much money you have in relation to other people - that is useful ... WILLIAM T. VOLLMANN Pain Is Caused By Pleasure SULLY ERNA There is no conflict between Porsche and Volkswagen. The idea that Porsche could, or would, prevent ... BERND PISCHETSRIEDER I am losing precious days. I am degenerating into a machine for making money. I am learning nothing ... JOHN MUIR A new untruth is better than an old truth. OLIVER WENDELL HOLMES, JR. I wish I was home", She said miserably. She tried so hard to be brave, to be fierce as a... GEORGE R.R. MARTIN
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and more certain ... COUNT LEO NIKOLAEVICH TOLSTOY All happy families resemble one another, each unhappy family is unhappy in its own way. LEO TOLSTOY The sole meaning of life is to serve humanity. LEO TOLSTOY Truth, like gold, is to be obtained not by its growth, but by washing away from it all that is not g... LEO TOLSTOY Nietzsche was stupid and abnormal. LEO TOLSTOY All violence consists in some people forcing others, under threat of suffering or death, to do what ... LEO TOLSTOY One of the first conditions of happiness is that the link between Man and Nature shall not be broken... LEO TOLSTOY Even in the valley of the shadow of death, two and two do not make six. LEO TOLSTOY He never chooses an opinion; he just wears whatever happens to be in style. LEO TOLSTOY Our body is a machine for living. It is organized for that, it is its nature. Let life go on in it u... LEO TOLSTOY Music is the shorthand of emotion. LEO TOLSTOY True life is lived when tiny changes occur. 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LEO TOLSTOY The best generals I have known were... stupid or absent-minded men. Not only does a good army comman... LEO TOLSTOY The strongest of all warriors are these two LEO TOLSTOY I sit on a man's back, choking him and making him carry me, and yet assure myself and others that I ... LEO TOLSTOY A Frenchman is self-assured because he regards himself personally both in mind and body as irresisti... LEO TOLSTOY We lost because we told ourselves we lost. LEO TOLSTOY I am always with myself and it is I who am my tormentor. LEO TOLSTOY Christianity, with its doctrine of humility, of forgiveness, of love, is incompatible with the state... LEO TOLSTOY The sobs and tears of joy he had not foreseen rose with such force within him that his whole body sh... LEO TOLSTOY In historic events, the so-called great men are labels giving names to events, and like labels they ... LEO TOLSTOY There is no greatness where simplicity, goodness and truth are absent. LEO TOLSTOY The subject of history is the life of peoples and of humanity. To catch and pin down in words--that ... LEO TOLSTOY Though it is possible to utter words only with the intention to fulfill the will of God, it is very ... LEO TOLSTOY What a strange illusion it is to suppose that beauty is goodness. LEO TOLSTOY He never chooses an opinion, he just wears whatever happens to be in style. LEO TOLSTOY All happy families are alike, but an unhappy family is unhappy after its own fashion. LEO TOLSTOY Hypocrisy in anything whatever may deceive the cleverest and most penetrating man, but the least wid... LEO TOLSTOY Joy can only be real only if people look upon their life as a service, and have a definite object in... LEO TOLSTOY Which is worse? the wolf who cries before
eating the lamb or the wolf who does not. LEO TOLSTOY I know that most men, including those at ease with problems of the greatest complexity, can seldom a... LEO TOLSTOY The strongest of all warriors are these two — Time and Patience. LEO TOLSTOY How can one be well...when one suffers morally? LEO TOLSTOY The Kingdom of God is within you.. and all beings. LEO TOLSTOY It seldom happens that a man changes his life through his habitual reasoning. No matter how fully he... LEO TOLSTOY Happy families are all alike; every unhappy family is unhappy in its own way. LEO TOLSTOY But every acquisition that is disproportionate to the labor spent on it is dishonest. LEO TOLSTOY Is it really possible to tell someone else what one feels? LEO TOLSTOY There is no greatness where there is not simplicity, goodness, and truth. LEO TOLSTOY The two most powerful warriors are patience and time. LEO TOLSTOY There is no greatness where there is no simplicity, goodness and truth. LEO TOLSTOY War is so unjust and ugly that all who wage it must try to stifle the voice of conscience within the... LEO TOLSTOY The greater the state, the more wrong and cruel its patriotism, and the greater is the sum of suffer... LEO TOLSTOY It is amazing how complete is the delusion that beauty is goodness. LEO TOLSTOY Art is not a handicraft, it is the transmission of feeling the artist has experienced. LEO TOLSTOY Faith is the sense of life, that sense by virtue of which man does not destroy himself, but continue... LEO TOLSTOY Boredom: the desire for desires. LEO TOLSTOY If you want to be happy, be. LEO TOLSTOY Without knowing what I am and why I am here, life is impossible. LEO TOLSTOY He had never thought the question over clearly, but vaguely imagined that his wife had long suspecte... LEO TOLSTOY Seize the moments of happiness, love and be loved! That is the only reality in the world, all else i... LEO TOLSTOY Everything intelligent is so boring. LEO TOLSTOY I sit on a man's back, choking him and making him carry me, and yet assure myself and others tha... LEO TOLSTOY Government is an association of men who do violence to the rest of us. LEO TOLSTOY Man lives consciously for himself, but is an unconscious instrument in the attainment of the histori... LEO TOLSTOY A man can live and be healthy without killing animals for food; therefore, if he eats meat, he parti... LEO TOLSTOY The chief difference between words and deeds is that words are always intended for men for their app... LEO TOLSTOY