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«Be daring, be different, be impractical, be anything that will assert integrity of purpose and imaginative vision against the play-it-safers, the creatures of the commonplace, the slaves of the ordinary.»
Author: Cecil Beaton
(Fashion designer, Photographer)
| Keywords:
against, assert, asserted, asserts, commonplace, commonplaces, creatures, Dare to Be Different, daring, different, imaginative, impractical, integrity, in ordinary, ordinary, play, purpose, slaves, slaving, The Creatures, the play, vision
«How intoxicating is the triumph of beauty, and how right it is to name it queen of the universe! How many courtiers, how many slaves, have submitted to it! But alas! Why must it be that what flatters our senses almost always deceives our souls?»
Author: de Surin
| Keywords:
alas, Almost always, courtier, courtiers, deceives, flatters, intoxicate, intoxicating, queen, Queen of, slaves, submitted
«Disobedience is the true foundation of liberty. The obedient must be slaves.»
Author: Henry David Thoreau
(Essayist, Philosopher, Poet)
| Keywords:
disobedience, foundation, liberty, obedient, On Liberty, slaves, slaving, the true
«In a consumer society there are inevitably two kinds of slaves: the prisoners of addiction and the prisoners of envy»
Author: Ivan Illich
| Keywords:
addiction, addictions, consumer, Consumer Society, envy, inevitably, kinds, prisoners, slaves, society, The Prisoner of
«In the end they will lay their freedom at our feet and say to us, 'Make us your slaves, but feed us»
Author: Fyodor Dostoyevsky
(Novelist, Writer)
| Keywords:
feed, freedom of the will, in the end, lay, slaves
«In our natural state, we are glorious beings. In the world of illusion, we are lost and imprisoned, slaves to our appetites and our will to false power.»
Author: Marianne Williamson
(Author, Lecturer)
| Keywords:
appetites, glorious, imprisoned, imprisons, natural state, natural world, slaves
«Friendship is a disinterested commerce between equals; love, an abject intercourse between tyrants and slaves»
Author: Oliver Goldsmith
(Dramatist, Essayist, Novelist, Poet)
| About:
Friendship
| Keywords:
abject, commerce, disinterested, equals, intercourse, slaves, tyrants
