Mental Slavery Quotes:

Mental slavery is worst than physical slavery

- Dave Hockaday

topic: Slavery, Worst, Mental Slavery

We are going to emancipate ourselves from mental slavery because whilst others might free the body, none but ourselves can free the mind. Mind is your only ruler, sovereign. The man who is not able to develop and use his mind is bound to be the slave of the other man who uses his mind.

- Marcus Garvey

source: Marcus Garvey (1991). “The Marcus Garvey and Universal Negro Improvement Association Papers”, p.791, Univ of California Press

topic: Men, Mind, Use, Mental Slavery

The man who is not able to develop and use his mind is bound to be the slave of the other man who uses his mind

- Marcus Garvey

source: Marcus Garvey (1991). “The Marcus Garvey and Universal Negro Improvement Association Papers”, p.791, Univ of California Press

topic: Men, Mind, Use, Mental Slavery

Mental slavery is mental death, and every man who has given up his intellectual freedom is the living coffin of his dead soul.

- Robert Green Ingersoll

source: Robert Green Ingersoll (1907). “The works of Robert G. Ingersoll”, p.103, Library of Alexandria

topic: Men, Soul, Intellectual, Intellectual Freedom, Nonconformity

Open your eyes, look within. Are you satisfied with the life you're living?

- Bob Marley

topic: Life, Music, Sadness, Hungry Eyes, Jamaican Music

Life is one big road with lots of signs. So when you riding through the ruts, don't complicate your mind. Flee from hate, mischief and jealousy. Don't bury your thoughts, put your vision to reality. Wake Up and Live!

- Bob Marley

source: "Song: 'Wake Up and Live!'". 1979.

topic: Inspirational, Life, Motivational, Waking Life, Burying

I invite you, wholeheartedly, to read books that remind you of your highest self and emancipate you from mental slavery or false beliefs and illusions. The more you invest in attracting books that resonate with the frequency of your true self, the more light you will bring to the world.

- Carlos Santana

topic: Book, Light, Self, Mental Slavery

The moment the slave resolves that he will no longer be a slave, his fetters fall. Freedom and slavery are mental states.

- Mahatma Gandhi

topic: Fall, Slavery, Moments, Fetters, Mental Slavery

Those who deny freedom to others deserve it not for themselves.

- Abraham Lincoln

source: Letter to Henry L. Pierce and Others, 6 Apr. 1859

topic: Freedom, 4th Of July, Patriotic, Independence And Freedom, Independence Day Patriotic

Self-hate is a form of mental slavery that results in poverty, ignorance, and crime.

- Susan L. Taylor

topic: Self Hate, Mental Slavery

One good thing about music, when it hits you, you feel no pain.

- Bob Marley

topic: Funny, Music, Wisdom, Love Freedom, Jamaican Music

War is peace. Freedom is slavery. Ignorance is strength.

- George Orwell

source: Nineteen Eighty-Four pt. 1, ch. 1 (1949)

topic: Freedom, War, Ignorance, Dystopia, Dystopian

Emancipate yourselves from mental slavery, none but ourselves can free our minds!

- Bob Marley

source: "Redemption Song" (song) (1980)

topic: Inspirational, Music, Song, Love Freedom, Independent Thinking

Don't you complicate your mind Flee from hate, mischief and jealousy.

- Bob Marley

source: "Song: 'Wake Up and Live!'". 1979.

topic: Rasta, Dont Hate, Road Sign, Mental Slavery, Reality Of Love

Don't gain the world and lose your soul; wisdom is better than silver or gold.

- Bob Marley

topic: Inspirational, Music, Wisdom, Love Freedom, Soul Life

Another thing rappers, I admire your rebellious spirit, but materialism is a form of mental slavery. Slow down on the jewelry, pick up a book.

- Dov Davidoff

topic: Book, Rapper, Slavery, Mental Slavery

Emancipate yourself from mental slavery.

- Bob Marley

source: "Song: 'Uprising'". 1979.

topic: Love Freedom, Jamaican Music, Rasta, Reggae Music, Love And Freedom

There is in fact a manly and legitimate passion for equality that spurs all men to wish to be strong and esteemed. This passion tends to elevate the lesser to the rank of the greater. But one also finds in the human heart a depraved taste for equality, which impels the weak to want to bring the strong down to their level, and which reduces men to preferring equality in servitude to inequality in freedom.

- Alexis de Tocqueville

source: "Democracy in America". Book by Alexis de Tocqueville. Chapter III, Part I, 1835.

topic: Freedom, Equality, America, Liberty And Equality, Democracy In America

Tell the children the truth.

- Bob Marley

topic: Children, Truth, Classic, Mental Slavery

Don't worry about a thing, every little thing is gonna be alright

- Bob Marley

topic: Inspirational, Life, Positive, Rasta, Mental Slavery

The artist must elect to fight for Freedom or for Slavery.

- Paul Robeson

topic: Freedom, Fighting, Artist, Fighting For Freedom, Mental Slavery