“There will always be slaves, no matter what people promise and pretend.”
Douglas Reeman (1924–2017) British author
For My Country's Freedom, Cap 13 "Loneliness"
“Some people are by nature slaves and will always be so.”
Source: Writings, The Institutes of Biblical Law (1973), pp. 286
Help us to complete the source, original and additional information
Do you have more details about the quote "Some people are by nature slaves and will always be so." by Rousas John Rushdoony?
Rousas John Rushdoony99
American theologian 1916–2001Related quotes
Robert A. Heinlein book Sixth Column
Source: Sixth Column (1949; originally serialized in 1941), Chapter 5 (p. 62)
“Why is it that the stupidest people are always the most good-natured?”
Stefan Zweig book Beware of Pity
Beware of Pity (1939)
“It is the nature of the wise to resist pleasures, but the foolish to be a slave to them.”
Epictetus (50–138) philosopher from Ancient Greece
Peter Jennings (1938–2005) News anchor
In response to the question "Is it impossible to be totally objective?"
Larry King Interview (8 September 2003)
Context: My dad was part of the pioneers of public broadcasting in Canada. And he always told me the most important thing you can be in your career is fair. So we all start to see a box and hope that we see the box in the same way. But you recognize in time that people see the box or they see traffic accidents in entirely different ways. So you train yourself over the years to try and give accounting to the variety... and come to some decent place in the middle. But I'm not a slave to objectivity. I'm never quite sure what it means. And it means different things to different people.
Mia Mottley (1965) prime minister of Barbados
Mia Mottley (2021) cited in: " Mia Mottley: Barbados’ first female leader on a mission to transform island https://www.theguardian.com/world/2021/dec/03/mia-mottley-barbados-first-female-leader-mission-to-transform-island" in The Guardian, 3 December 2021.
“War is the father and king of all: some he has made gods, and some men; some slaves and some free.”
Heraclitus (-535) pre-Socratic Greek philosopher
John Jay (1745–1829) American politician and a founding father of the United States
Letter to the President of the English Society for Promoting the Manumission of Slaves http://www.vindicatingthefounders.com/library/jay-to-english-society.html (June 1788). <br class="br">1780s