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Servitude

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Within the next generation I believe that the world's leaders will discover that infant conditioning and narco-hypnosis are more efficient, as instruments of government, than clubs and prisons, and that the lust for power can be just as completely satisfied by suggesting people into loving their servitude as by flogging them and kicking them into obedience - Aldous Huxley 1949

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Within the next generation I believe that the world's leaders will discover that infant conditioning and narco-hypnosis are more efficient, as instruments of government, than clubs and prisons, and that the lust for power can be just as completely satisfied by suggesting people into loving their servitude as by flogging them and kicking them into obedience - Aldous Huxley 1949

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When the British slave trade was abolished, as result of the campaigns of Wilberforce and others there were a million slaves in the British Empire. According to UNESCO there are currently 27 million slaves world wide, and the average price is

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The only ones among you who will be really happy are those who will have sought and found how to serve - Albert Schweitzer

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The blunting effects of slavery upon the slaveholder's moral perceptions are known and conceded, the world over, and a privileged class, an aristocracy, is but a band of slaveholders under another name - Mark Twain, in A Connecticut Yankee in King Arthur's Court.

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Service to others is the rent you pay for your room here on earth -- Muhammad Ali (b. 1942)