The actors today really need the whip hand. They're so lazy. They haven't got the sense of pride in their profession that the less... socially elevated musical comedy and music hall people or acrobats have. The theater has never been any good since the actors became gentlemen.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
The basis of political economy is non-interference. The only safe rule is found in the self-adjusting meter of demand and supply. ...Do not legislate. Meddle, and you snap the sinews with your sumptuary laws.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
The moral equalizes all; enriches, empowers all. It is the coin which buys all, and which all find in their pocket. Under the whip... of the driver, the slave shall feel his equality with saints and heroes.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
The animal wrests the whip from its master and whips itself in order to become a master, not knowing that this is only a fantasy p...roduced by a new knot in the master's whiplash.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
At Passadumkeag we found ... earnest politicians, to wit,--white ones, I mean,--on the alert to know how the election was likely t...o go; men who talk rapidly, with subdued voice, and a sort of factitious earnestness you could not help believing, hardly waiting for an introduction, one on each side of your buggy, endeavoring to say much in little, for they see you hold the whip impatiently, but always saying little in much. Caucuses they have had, it seems, and caucuses they are to have again,--victory and defeat. Somebody may be elected, somebody may not. One man, a total stranger, who stood by our carriage in the dusk, actually frightened the horse with his asseverations, growing more solemnly positive as there was less in him to be positive about.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
The stroke of the whip maketh marks in the flesh: but the stroke of the tongue breaketh the bones. Many have fallen by the edge of... the sword: but not so many as have fallen by the tongue.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
Let those who desire a secure homeland conquer it. Let those who do not conquer it live under the whip and in exile, watched over ...like wild animals, cast from one country to another, concealing the death of their souls with a beggar's smile from the scorn of free men.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »