Social & Racial Sayings

Therefore, the bondage of the will to sin remains and yet such slavery is a voluntary and willful captivity.

I would, perhaps, rather come to you and your people, than to many rich folk who display inward poverty.

They probably think because I am so small and young, nothing of greatness and class can come out of me; but they shall soon find out.

By the grace of the Guru, one obtains the treasure of the True Name.

The sphere of the fixed stars is immovable and embraces all things.

The human race is governed by its imagination.

I hope, some day, we shall all be slaves to nothing but the laws.

If a man does not use his reason, he is a brute. If he does not use his will, he is a slave.

To every action there is always opposed an equal reaction.

I am a slave of God, but also a sovereign of my own will.

All men are therefore equal, not in the sense that they are all alike, but in the sense that they all have the same rights and duties.

It is from the bosom of the most perfect equality that the most monstrous despotism arises.

Slavery is not only natural but useful to certain peoples.

Virtue can only flourish amongst equals.

I fear me, I shall never be able to answer the King's Grace in these matters, but with peril of my life.

There are many who are more afraid of poverty than of hell.

It is dangerous to make a man see too clearly his equality with brutes without showing him his greatness.

It is a strange thing that a man should be so proud as to despise others for their poverty.

The human race is a monotonous affair.

I studied hard, and whoever is as diligent will be equally successful.