Quote by Georges Bataille
The sovereign being is burdened with a servitude that crushes him,

The sovereign being is burdened with a servitude that crushes him, and the condition of free men is deliberate servility. – Georges Bataille

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Intellectual despair results in neither weakness nor dreams, but in violence. It is only a matter of knowing how to give vent to ones rage whether one only wants to wander like madmen around prisons, or whether one wants to overturn them. – Georges Bataille

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A judgment about life has no meaning except the truth of the one who speaks last, and the mind is at ease only at the moment when everyone is shouting at once and no one can hear a thing. – Georges Bataille

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Slavery is an institution for converting men into monkeys. – Ralph Waldo Emerson

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Therere two people in the world that are not likeable: a master and a slave. – Nikki Giovanni

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The genius of any slave system is found in the dynamics which isolate slaves from each other, obscure the reality of a common condition, and make united rebellion against the oppressor inconceivable. – Andrea Dworkin

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The art of being a slave is to rule ones master. – Diogenes

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