Like many others, I grew up in an age that preached liberty and built slave camps.
– Charles Simic
Related Quotes:
- Jesus not only preached liberty, but has the authority to direct history toward its final victory. – The Liberty Book
- Quing-Jao: I am a slave to the gods, and I rejoice in it.Jane: A slave who rejoices is a slave indeed. – Orson Scott Card
- A slave believes that the law should define the scope of liberty. A free person believes that liberty should define the scope of the law. – Jakub Boydar Winiewski
- Where faith increases, liberty follows.-The Liberty Book – The Liberty Book
- Satan doesn’t want the gospel to be preached in the whole world because he is afraid of what comes after that – the End of the Age. Matthew 24:14 – Felix Wantang
- The ambition of much of today’s literary theory seems to be to find ways to read literature without imagination. – Charles Simic
- The idea is to spin the wheel of metaphors and images until sparks of associations begin to fly for the reader. – Charles Simic
- Memory, all-night’s bedside tattoo artist. – Charles Simic
- The goodness of the world grew like moss in cracks, she thought. It grew, somehow, with hidden roots, nourished by something unseen. – KJ Bishop
- I have lived most of my life in soldiers’ camps. I know what they saw. I know how they think. Their confidence sours as sudden as curdled milk. – Geraldine Brooks
- Society as a whole is more and more splitting up into two great hostile camps – Karl Marx
- Soldiers in foreign camps, so far from being missionaries for good, require missionaries themselves, more than the natives. Andrew Carnegie – HW Brands
- Liberty will not descend to a people. A people must raisethemselves to liberty. It is a blessing that must be earned before it can be enjoyed. – Charles Caleb Colton
- Be a slave of your potential and not a slave of circumstances – Sunday Adelaja
- I am free. I am ransomed. I’ve never felt this way before, like a slave set free who was born a slave and never knew what freedom was like. – Frank E Peretti
- The unspiritual is a slave to sin.-¦! But spiritual is slave to righteousness in Christ Jesus. – Lailah Gifty Akita
- The good man is free, even if he is a slave. The evil man is a slave, even if he is a king. – Augustine of Hippo
- A person who is another man’s slave is better than one who is a slave to lust. – Michael Bassey Johnson
- The stomach is a slave that must accept everything that is given to it, but which avenges wrongs as slyly as does the slave. – mile Souvestre
- Do you want to work like a slave and live like a king or do you want to work like a king and live like a slave? Your choice – Nathanael Kanyinga
- I have also fantasised myself to be his female slave, but this does not suffice, for after all every woman can be the slave of her husband. – Richard von KrafftEbing
- [E]ach person is to have an equal right to the most extensive basic liberty compatible with a similar liberty for others. – John Rawls
- The age of the skyscraper is gone. This is the age of the housing project. Which is always a prelude to the age of the cave. – Ayn Rand
- Middle age is when your age starts to show through your middle-¦ and trust me, MIss, your age doesn’t show in the slightest.#dean – Shayla Orick
- The age of reason may have had its golden age, but the age of emotion endures forever. – Bangambiki Habyarimana
- Prosperity is always built on slave labor. Ask any Ameri-can’t. Or Bulgari-can. Yes, we can, eat from a trash can… – Will Advise
- I preached as never sure to preach again, and as a dying man to dying men. – Richard Baxter
- If I preached unity, I must act like a unifier, even at the risk of perhaps alienating some of my own colleagues. – Nelson Mandela
- We have taken the holistic message preached in the Old Testament and New Testaments and reduced our message to the entry point into the Kingdom. – Landa Cope
- Nothing can penetrate the loneliness of the human heart except the highest intensity of the sort of love the religious teachers have preached. – Bertrand Russell
- The doctrines that have been preached in our churches in Africa and globally has not been helpful for believers to dominate the earth. – Sunday Adelaja
- They recognize the Master, now that I have preached Truth to them. All the robots do. – Isaac Asimov
- I was born at a very early age. As I grew up, I got older… So far though, this is the oldest I’ve ever been. – Rebecca Hurley
- God built lighthouses to see people through storms. Then he built storms to remind people to find lighthouses. – Shannon L Alder
- Nothing is built on stone; All is built on sand, but we must build as if the sand were stone. – Jorge Luis Borges
- The last trillion-dollar industry was built on a code of 1s and 0s. The next will be built on our own genetic code. – Alec J Ross
- …the kind of weather that reminds you after a long winter that while the world wasn’t built for humans, we were built for the world. t – John Green
- Houses are built brick-by-brick. HOMEs are built word-by-word. Houses don’t build themselves. So YOU must build your home – Fela Durotoye
- Bridges are built not to cross over it but it is built to lift you to the other side safely. – Edwin Lawrence
- …the kind of weather that reminds you after a long winter that while the world wasn’t built for humans, we were built for the world. – John Green