21047 | Aristotle thought slavery is just if it is both necessary and natural [Aristotle, by Sandel] |
21358 | Natural slaves are those naturally belonging to another, or who can manage no more than labouring [Aristotle] |
17227 | Slavery is a disgraceful crime [Spinoza] |
19923 | Slavery is not just obedience, but acting only in the interests of the master [Spinoza] |
19870 | If you try to enslave me, you have declared war on me [Locke] |
19883 | Slaves captured in a just war have no right to property, so are not part of civil society [Locke] |
19913 | A master forfeits ownership of slaves he abandons [Locke] |
20000 | Slavery is entirely bad; the master abandons the virtues, and they are pointless in the slave [Montesquieu] |
20003 | Slaves are not members of the society, so no law can forbid them to run away [Montesquieu] |
20006 | The demand for slavery is just the masters' demand for luxury [Montesquieu] |
19775 | People must be made dependent before they can be enslaved [Rousseau] |
19784 | Enslaved peoples often boast of their condition, calling it a state of 'peace' [Rousseau] |
19785 | If the child of a slave woman is born a slave, then a man is not born a man [Rousseau] |
19841 | Sometimes full liberty is only possible at the expense of some complete enslavement [Rousseau] |
19847 | We can never assume that the son of a slave is a slave [Rousseau] |
21783 | State slavery is a phase of education, moving towards a full culture [Hegel] |
21784 | Slavery is unjust, because humanity is essentially free [Hegel] |
22776 | Slaves are partly responsible for their own condition [Hegel] |
21789 | Slaves have no duties because they have no rights [Hegel] |
21486 | Poverty and slavery are virtually two words for the same thing [Schopenhauer] |
5285 | Slavery cannot be abolished without the steam-engine [Marx/Engels] |
22670 | Slavery undermines the morals and energy of a society [Tocqueville] |
24134 | There is always slavery, whether we like it or not [Nietzsche] |
14819 | Slavery cannot be judged by our standards, because the sense of justice was then less developed [Nietzsche] |
23158 | Slavery began the divorce between the work and the purposes of the worker [Russell] |
23811 | If effort is from necessity rather than for a good, it is slavery [Weil] |
23868 | The pleasure of completing tasks motivates just as well as the whip of slavery [Weil] |
7353 | The Pharisees undermined slavery, by giving slaves responsibility and status in law courts [Johnson,P] |
18649 | If everyone owned himself, that would prevent slavery [Kymlicka] |