"A creditor is worse than a slave-owner; for the master owns only your person, but a creditor owns your dignity, and can command it."

-- Victor Hugo

#Debt Quotes #Dignity Quotes #Slave Quotes

“T's [King James Bible] subject is majesty, not tyranny, and it's political purpose was unifying and enfolding, to elide the kingliness of God with the godliness of kings, to make royal power and divine glory into one invisible garment which could be wrapped around the nation as a whole.”
“I am, and ever will be, a white-socks, pocket-protector, nerdy engineer, born under the second law of thermodynamics, steeped in steam tables, in love with free-body diagrams, transformed by Laplace and propelled by compressible flow.”
“But things change, of course, and so do the ways in which people see themselves.”
“Thou art relieved of thy duties!”
“To live at all is miracle enough.”

Source : Mervyn Peake (2012). “Collected Poems”, p.307, Carcanet
“Rich could play way better than Krupa.”
“During this time we've been apart, it's you I've thought of when I'm at my weakest, and you who have pulled me through.”
“I got a cable from New York saying that what I'd written about the growth of Soviet agricultural production didn't make sense because the same levels were reached under the czars. I wanted to confirm it, but by then the censors were on to me.”

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