Famous Quotes & Sayings

Charles Wagner

Yes, I am positive that one of the great curatives of our evils, our maladies, social, moral, and intellectual, would be a return to the soil, a rehabilitation of the work of the fields.

Charles Dickens

I confess I have yet to learn that a lesson of the purest good may not be drawn from the vilest evil.

Charles Dickens

The aphorism "Whatever is, is right," would be as final as it is lazy, did it not include the troublesome consequence that nothing that ever was, was wrong.

Charles Caleb Colton

It is seldom that statesmen have the option of choosing between a good and an evil.

Charles Caleb Colton

Life often presents us with a choice of evils, rather than of goods.

Charles Caleb Colton

Human foresight often leaves its proudest possessor only a choice of evils.

Charles Caleb Colton

No propagation or multiplication is more rapid that that of evil, unless it be checked; no growth more certain.

Charles Caleb Colton

Accustom yourself to submit on all and every occasion, and on the most minute, no less than on the most important circumstances of life, to a small present evil, to obtain a greater distant good. This will give decision, tone, and energy to the mind, which, thus disciplined, will often reap victory from defeat and honor from repulse.

Charles Dickens

Good never come of such evil, a happier end was not in nature to so unhappy a beginning.

Chiwetel Ejiofor

In England, theres no acknowledgement the invention of slavery came from Britain.

Antoinette Brown Blackwell

Slavery is malignantly aristocratic.

Caleb Cushing

I declare and protest in advance, that I do not intend, at this time at least; to be drawn or driven into the question of slavery, in either of its subdivisions or forms.

Elbert Hubbard

To subjugate another is to subjugate yourself.

Aristotle

The worst thing about slavery is that the slaves eventually get to like it.

Benjamin Franklin

Slavery is ...an atrocious debasement of human nature.

Bob Edwards

But when you see personal artifacts relating to - by genealogy at least - a living human being, it was just more impressive to me than just about anything I've ever read about slavery before.

David Brooks

Freedom without structure is its own slavery.

Beau Willimon

The fact that slavery is written into the Constitution is about as entrenched a form of classism as you could possibly imagine.

Abraham Lincoln

Familiarize yourself with the chains of bondage and you prepare your own limbs to wear them.

Bible Bible

Wherefore he saith, When he ascended up on high, he led captivity captive, and gave gifts unto men.

Erik Anderson

What we're trying to do is trying to have reproduction of species in captivity so that if we do lose them in the wild, there's an option.

Roy Hallums

Coalition forces rescued American Roy Hallums and an Iraqi citizen from captivity in an isolated farm house located 15 miles (25 kilometres) south of Baghdad,

Bible Bible

For, lo, our fathers have fallen by the sword, and our sons and our daughters and our wives are in captivity for this.

Bob Barker

There's only one solution to the tragic, the embarrassing elephant problem going on at (the zoo), and it's to release those elephants from captivity and place them in a sanctuary.

K. A. Applegate

I think we have a real obligation when we do have animals in captivity to understand their needs and to care for them as well as we can.

K. A. Applegate

I hate to witness animals in captivity - or see circus elephants paraded down the streets. When animals are caged, it's a loss of what they are.

Evelyn Waugh

Mr. Wodehouse's idyllic world can never stale. He will continue to release future generations from captivity that may be more irksome than our own. He has made a world for us to live in and delight in.