Quotes By Catogory
“I freed a thousand slaves”, “I could have freed a thousand more if only they knew they were slaves”.
―Harriet Tubman
“Why did we become blind, I don’t know, perhaps one day we’ll find out, do you want me to tell you what I think, Yes, do, I don’t think we did go blind, I think we are blind, Blind but seeing, Blind people who can see, but do not see.”
―Jose Saramago
“But one of the worst results of being a slave and being forced to do things is that when there is no one to force you any more you find you have almost lost the power of forcing yourself.”
―C.S. Lewis
“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 Bruyere
“Those who deny freedom to others, deserve it not for themselves”
―Abraham Lincoln
“Knowledge makes a man unfit to be a slave.”
―Frederick Douglass
“In our generation, we have moved away only one step from slavery. The difference is that, every work deserves a payment nowadays. But the employees are still under the mercy of the employer.”
―Mwanandeke Kindembo
“As I would not be a slave, so I would not be a master. This expresses my idea of democracy. Whatever differs from this, to the extent of the difference, is no democracy.
—Abraham Lincoln
“The society of the future: slavery without masters”.
—Nicolas Gomez Davila
“I prefer liberty with danger than peace with slavery”.
—Jean Jacques Rousseau, 1712-1778, Swiss-French philosopher
“Man is born free, but everywhere he is found in chains”.
—Jean Jacques Rousseau, 1712-1778, Swiss-French philosopher
“Freedom in capitalist society always remains about the same as it was in the ancient Greek republics: freedom for the slave-owners”.
—Vladimir Lenin, 1870-1924, Soviet revolutionary & leader
“Those who will not reason, are bigots, those who cannot, are fools, and those who dare not, are slaves.”
―George Gordon Byron (Lord Byron)
“If there is such a thing as mental slavery, then we need a mental revolution to get rid of all the corrupt minds who wish to enslave mankind.”
―Mwanandeke Kindembo
“Looking at the world as a whole, the drift for many decades has been not towards anarchy but towards the reimposition of slavery”.
—George Orwell, 1903-1950, British writer
“Frederick Douglass taught that literacy is the path from slavery to freedom. There are many kinds of slavery and many kinds of freedom, but reading is still the path.”
―Carl Sagan
“When I look at history, I see hours of freedom and centuries of servitude”.
—Joseph Joubert, 1754-1824, French author of maxims
“Whenever I hear anyone arguing for slavery, I feel a strong impulse to see it tried on him personally.”
―Abraham Lincoln
“Make your own rules or be a slave to another man’s”.
—William Blake, 1757-1827, English poet & painter
“If you cannot live alone, you were born a slave”.
—Fernando Pessoa, 1888-1935, Portuguese poet & writer
“Happy slaves are the bitterest enemies of freedom”.
—Marie von Ebner-Eschenbach, 1830-1916, German author of maxims
“How do you convince an enslaved-mind that it is actually free …and kingly?”
―Mitta Xinindlu
“There is no dignity and there is no real life for the man who works twelve hours a day without knowing why he works”.
—André Malraux, 1901-1976, French writer & statesman
“Reason enslaves all whose minds are not strong enough to master her”.
—George Bernard Shaw, 1856-1950, Irish writer, Nobel 1925
“Disobedience is the true foundation of liberty. The obedient must be slaves.”
―Henry David Thoreau
“Slaves lose everything in their chains, even the desire of escaping from them: they love their servitude”.
—Jean Jacques Rousseau, 1712-1778, Swiss-French philosopher
“The good man is free, even if he is a slave. The evil man is a slave, even if he is a king”.
—Saint Augustine, 354-430, Christian theologian & philosopher
“The society that does not respect the sacrifices of their soldiers, remain slave of the corrupt political systems.”
―Dr. Ashok Anand
“The impact of colonization caused the delay in the evolution of mankind. The mental capacity of man has been reduced to that of animals. So, let’s break this mental slavery and the decolonization of the Will.”
―Mwanandeke Kindembo
“Freedom is the power to choose our own chains”.
—Jean Jacques Rousseau, 1712-1778, Swiss-French philosopher
“Today as always, men fall into two groups: slaves and free men. Whoever does not have two-thirds of his day for himself, is a slave, whatever he may be: a statesman, a businessman, an official, or a scholar.”
―Friedrich Nietzsche
“It can be concluded that to believe in predestination is to deprive us of our free will. No freedom, but we are all slaves to our actions.”
―Mwanandeke Kindembo, Destiny of Liberty
“It’s mentally draining to be in the slavery of one’s self. But when I am free, my circle will be so small that it can only contain two people.”
―Daniel Oluwaseun
“A creditor is worse than a slave-owner; for the master owns only your person, but a creditor owns your dignity, and can command it.” Victor Hugo, a French poet,
“Free yourself from mental slavery. Break those invisible chains your masters put on your spiritual neck to control you”.
―Bangambiki Habyarimana
“Until we are able to understand that our minds are enslaved, we cannot simply influence and deconstruct that belief system embedded in our lives as well as the rules we’ve been living with”.
―B.S.O kpechi
“Mental slavery is the worst form of Slavery. It gives you the illusion of freedom, makes you trust, love and defend your oppressor while making an enemy of those who are trying to free you or open your eyes”.
―Miss Fiyah
“To succeed, you need to find something to hold on to, something to motivate you, something to inspire you.”
―Tony Dorsett
“Success is not the key to happiness. Happiness is the key to success. If you love what you are doing, you will be successful”.
―Albert Schweitzer
“Coming together is a beginning; keeping together is progress; working together is success”.
―Edward Everett Hale
“Success consists of going from failure to failure without loss of enthusiasm”.
―Winston Churchill
“People who succeed have momentum. The more they succeed, the more they want to succeed, and the more they find a way to succeed. Similarly, when someone is failing, the tendency is to get on a downward spiral that can even become a self-fulfilling prophecy.”
―Tony Robbins
“Don’t be distracted by criticism. Remember–the only taste of success some people get is to take a bite out of you.”
―Zig Ziglar
“Try not to become a man of success. Rather become a man of value.”.
―Albert Einstein
“Success is to be measured not so much by the position that one has reached in life as by the obstacles which he has overcome”.
―Booker T. Washington
“Victory has a thousand fathers, but defeat is an orphan”.
―John F. Kennedy
“If you really want to do something, you’ll find a way. If you don’t, you’ll find an excuse.”
―Jim Rohn
“It doesn’t make sense to hire smart people and then tell them what to do. We hire smart people so they can tell us what to do.’”
―Steve Jobs
“Success is how high you bounce when you hit bottom”.
―Gen. George Patton
“However difficult life may seem, there is always something you can do and succeed at”.
―Stephen Hawking
“There is a powerful driving force inside every human being that, once unleashed, can make any vision, dream, or desire a reality.”
―Anthony Robbins
“A successful man is one who can lay a firm foundation with the bricks that other throw at him.”
―David Brinkley
“Many of life’s failures are people who did not realize how close they were to success when they gave up.”
―Thomas Edison
“Success is not final; failure is not fatal: It is the courage to continue that counts.”
―Winston S. Churchill
“The most important single ingredient in the formula of success is knowing how to get along with people”.
―Theodore Roosevelt
“It is better to fail in originality than to succeed in imitation.”
―Herman Melville
“I cannot give you the formula for success, but I can give you the formula for failure–It is: Try to please everybody.”
―Herbert Bayard Swope
“If you are not willing to risk the usual, you will have to settle for the ordinary.”
―Jim Rohn
“There are two types of people who will tell you that you cannot make a difference in this world: those who are afraid to try and those who are afraid you will succeed.”
―Ray Goforth
“Success is not measured by what you accomplish, but by the opposition you have encountered, and the courage with which you have maintained the struggle against overwhelming odds”.
―Orison Swett Marden
“Successful people do what unsuccessful people are not willing to do. Don’t wish it were easier; wish you were better.”
―Jim Rohn
“If you really look closely, most overnight successes took a long time.”
―Steve Jobs
“The real test is not whether you avoid this failure, because you won’t. It’s whether you let it harden or shame you into inaction, or whether you learn from it; whether you choose to persevere.”
―Barack Obama
“There are no secrets to success. It is the result of preparation, hard work, and learning from failure.”
―Colin Powell
“But in the end, one needs more courage to live than to kill himself.”
―Albert Camus
“Suicide doesn’t solve your problems. It only makes them infinitely, un-countably worse.”
―Sinead O’Connor
“Suicide is a permanent solution to a temporary problem.”
―Phil Donahue
“If you’ll accept the fact that every progress, big or small starts with you, you’ll understand that suicide is not an option”.
―B.S.O kpechi
“Did you really want to die?”
“No one commits suicide because they want to die.”
“Then why do they do it?”
“Because they want to stop the pain.”
―Tiffanie DeBartolo
“The only difference between a suicide and a martyrdom really is the amount of press coverage.”
―Chuck Palahniuk, Survivor
“Never never never give up.”
―Winston Churchill
“Hope is a necessity for normal life and the major weapon against the suicide impulse.”
―Karl A. Menninger
“We cannot tear out a single page of our life, but we can throw the whole book in the fire.”
―George Sand
“Suicide is man’s way of telling God, ‘You can’t fire me – I quit!”
―Bill Maher
“Suicide is not an answer, it’s destruction.”
―Al Green
“The bravest thing I ever did was continuing my life when I wanted to die.”
―Juliette Lewis
“Drunkenness is temporary suicide.”
―Bertrand Russell
“When it is darkest, we can see the stars.”
—Ralph Waldo Emerson
“The bravest thing I ever did was continuing my life when I wanted to die.”
―Juliette Lewis
“Suicide leaves everyone feeling guilty.”
―Robert Harris
“I am constantly torn between killing myself and killing everyone around me.”
―David Levithan
“Suicide is not a blot on anyone’s name; it is a tragedy.”
―Kay Redfield Jamison
“I’m the girl nobody knows until she commits suicide. Then suddenly everyone had a class with her.”
―Tom Leveen
“I went to the worst of bars hoping to get killed but all I could do was to get drunk again.”
―Charles Bukowski
“A suicide kills two people, Maggie, that’s what it’s for!”
―Arthur Miller
“The parts of me that used to think I was different or smarter or whatever, almost made me die.”
―David Foster Wallace
“One of the secrets of life is to make stepping stones out of stumbling blocks.”
—Jack Penn
“It is not seen as insane when a fighter, under an attack that will inevitably lead to his death, chooses to take his own life first. In fact, this act has been encouraged for centuries, and is accepted even now as an honourable reason to do the deed. How is it any different when you are under attack by your own mind?”
―Emilie Autumn
“It is not worth the bother of killing yourself, since you always kill yourself too late.”
―Emil Cioran
“Suicide is the last attempt of re-emergence of the will of life.”
―Lamine Pearlheart
“I’m trying to let him know what I’m about to do.
I’m hoping he can save me, even though I realize he can’t.”
―Matthew Quick
“There is hope, even when your brain tells you there isn’t.”
—John Green
“If your heart is still beating, God is not done with you yet.”
—Dillion Burroughs
“Let them think what they liked, but I didn’t mean to drown myself. I meant to swim till I sank — but that’s not the same thing.”
―Joseph Conrad, The Secret Sharer and other stories
“There comes a time when you look into the mirror and you realize that what you see is all that you will ever be. And then you accept it. Or you kill yourself. Or you stop looking in mirrors.”
―J. Michael Straczynski
“Life is like a game of chess. To win you have to make a move.
Knowing which move to make comes with IN-SIGHT and knowledge, and by learning the lessons that are
accumulated along the way. We become each and every piece within the game called life!”
―Allan Rufus
“Even the people who once fought for others tend to get weak and eventually “give up” and lose interest in the worth of fighting any longer.”
―Osjusn CC
“Killing oneself is, anyway, a misnomer. We don’t kill ourselves. We are simply defeated by the long, hard struggle to stay alive. When somebody dies after a long illness, people are apt to say, with a note of approval, “He fought so hard.” And they are inclined to think, about a suicide, that no fight was involved, that somebody simply gave up. This is quite wrong.”
―Sally Brampton, Shoot the Damn Dog: A Memoir of Depression
“There are far, far better things ahead than anything we leave behind.”
― C. S. Lewis
“The longer we dwell on our misfortunes, the greater is their power to harm us.”
―Voltaire
“I can’t eat and I can’t sleep. I’m not doing well in terms of being a functional human, you know?”
―Ned Vizzini
“If you ever think about giving up, remember why you held on for so long.”
―Hayley Williams
“I used to think it utterly normal that I suffered from “suicidal ideation” on an almost daily basis. In other words, for as long as I can remember, the thought of ending my life came to me frequently and obsessively.”
―Stephen Fry
“To anyone out there who’s hurting — it’s not a sign of weakness to ask for help. It’s a sign of strength.”
―Barack Obama
“On average, since the urge to kill myself isn’t so strong that I actually kill myself, the world is worth living in.”
―Tao Lin
“The literal meaning of life is whatever you’re doing that prevents you from killing yourself.”
―Albert Camus
“The fear of not living is a deep, abiding dread of watching your own potential decompose into irredeemable disappointment when ‘should be’ gets crushed by what is. Sometimes I think it would be easier to die than to face that, because ‘what could have been’ is much more highly regarded than ‘what should have been.’ Dead kids are put on pedestals, but mentally ill kids get hidden under the rug.”
―Neal Shusterman
“Write something, even if it’s just a suicide note.”
—Gore Vidal
“Sometimes even to live is an act of courage.”
―Lucius Annaeus Seneca
“The power of transformation lives in you; the impulse and the proclivity for suicide lives outside you”.
―B.S.O Kpechi
“Quote of the month”
“Until our mindset changes, nothing will ever change. It’s easy to unshackle the physical chains of slavery, than that of the chains of mental slavery”
BSO Kpechi
Inspirational Speaker
