The Slavery of Our TimesDodd, Mead, 1900 - 186 pagini |
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Pagina vii
... majority of men , without know- ing why , are still constrained to labour long hours at tasks they dislike , and often to live in unhealthy conditions . It is not that man has so little control over nature that to obtain a subsistence ...
... majority of men , without know- ing why , are still constrained to labour long hours at tasks they dislike , and often to live in unhealthy conditions . It is not that man has so little control over nature that to obtain a subsistence ...
Pagina xix
... majority of one already . " Holding these views , he refused to pay the poll - tax , and was put in prison for one night , till some one paid the tax for him , much to his disgust . Tolstoy , therefore , is in good company in holding ...
... majority of one already . " Holding these views , he refused to pay the poll - tax , and was put in prison for one night , till some one paid the tax for him , much to his disgust . Tolstoy , therefore , is in good company in holding ...
Pagina 28
... majority of people in our world do not know the details of these tranquillising scientific explanations any more than they for- merly knew the details of the theological ex- planations which justified their position , yet they all know ...
... majority of people in our world do not know the details of these tranquillising scientific explanations any more than they for- merly knew the details of the theological ex- planations which justified their position , yet they all know ...
Pagina 67
... majority of the serf owners and of people of the well - to - do classes , if they acknowledged the serf's posi- tion to be not quite satisfactory , yet recom- mended only such alterations as would not de- prive the owners of what was ...
... majority of the serf owners and of people of the well - to - do classes , if they acknowledged the serf's posi- tion to be not quite satisfactory , yet recom- mended only such alterations as would not de- prive the owners of what was ...
Pagina 68
... majority of well - to - do people to - day advise employers to look after the well - being of their work - people , but do not admit the thought of any such alteration of the economic structure of life as would set the labourers quite ...
... majority of well - to - do people to - day advise employers to look after the well - being of their work - people , but do not admit the thought of any such alteration of the economic structure of life as would set the labourers quite ...
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Pagina xix - I do not hesitate to say, that those who call themselves Abolitionists should at once effectually withdraw their support, both in person and property, from the government of Massachusetts and not wait till they constitute a majority of one, before they suffer the right to prevail through them. I think that it is enough if they have God on their side, without waiting for that other one. Moreover, any man more right than his neighbors constitutes a majority of one already.
Pagina xx - If the tax-gatherer, or any other public officer, asks me, as one has done, " But what shall I do ? " my answer is, " If you really wish to do anything, resign your office.
Pagina xxiii - And he said unto them, The kings of the Gentiles exercise lordship over them; and they that exercise authority upon them are called benefactors. But ye shall not be so: but he that is greatest among you, let him be as the younger; and he that is chief, as he that doth serve.
Pagina xxx - Men may be beaten, chained, tormented, yoked like cattle, slaughtered like summer flies, and yet remain in one sense, and the best sense, free. But to smother their souls within them, to blight and hew into rotting pollards the suckling branches of their human intelligence, to make the flesh and skin, which, after the worm's work on it, is to see God, into leathern thongs to yoke machinery with— this it is to be slave-masters indeed; and there might be more freedom in England, though her feudal...
Pagina xxx - It is verily this degradation of the operative into a machine, which, more than any other evil of the times, is leading the mass of the nations everywhere into vain, incoherent, destructive struggling for a freedom of which they cannot explain the nature to themselves.
Pagina xxix - Give to every man that asketh of' thee; and of him that taketh away thy goods ask them not again.
Pagina xxix - He answered and said unto them, "When it is evening ye say, 'It will be fair weather; for the sky is red.' And in the morning, 'It will be foul weather today; for the sky is red and lowering.' O ye hypocrites, ye can discern the face of the sky; but can ye not discern the signs of the times?
Pagina xxxi - These do much, and have done much in all ages; but the foundations of society were never yet shaken as they are at this day. It is not that men are ill-fed, but that they have no pleasure in the work by which they make their bread, and therefore look to wealth as the only means of pleasure.
Pagina xix - It is not a man's duty, as a matter of course, to devote himself to the eradication of any, even the most enormous wrong; he may still properly have other concerns to engage him; but it is his duty, at least, to wash his hands of it, and, if he gives it no thought longer, not to give it practically his support.
Pagina xx - If a thousand men were not to pay their tax-bills this year, that would not be a violent and bloody measure, as it would be to pay them, and enable the State to commit violence and shed innocent blood. This is, in fact, the definition of a peaceable revolution, if any such is possible. If the taxgatherer, or any other public officer, asks me, as one has done, "But what shall I do?