Slaves Quotes
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When some one boasted that at the Pythian games he had vanquished men, Diogenes replied, "Nay, I defeat men, you defeat slaves."
Diogenes
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One class. No masters. No slaves. No black. No white. No Jew. No Christian. One race-- The human race.
Edith Hahn Beer
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But if you want to continue to be slaves of the banks and pay the cost of your own slavery, then let bankers continue to create money and control credit.
Josiah Stamp
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How great would be our peril if our slaves began to number us!
Seneca the Younger
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Every farm with slaves was a slave-breeding farm. Raising slaves was mostly a cottage industry.
Ned Sublette
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Prisoners, slaves, women and children, the sick, weak, disabled, animals, the earth itself – all were fair game for the cruel sport of those who had power. It was wrong, it was evil, but it was a fact of life.
Abigail Padgett
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The fruits of Christianity were religious wars, butcheries, crusades, inquisitions, extermination of the natives of America, and the introduction of African slaves in their place.
Arthur Schopenhauer
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Every man needs slaves like he needs clean air. To rule is to breathe, is it not? And even the most disenfranchised get to breathe. The lowest on the social scale have their spouses or their children.
Albert Camus
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I've been a prima-dona. I was taken care of since I was 13. That's why I am the way I am today. I was spoiled, like a brat. I had anything I wanted. That's crazy to be that way all your life. Everybody's taking care of you, but manipulating you at the same time. Very few people have a life like that. Most people have to work like slaves their whole lives. I've never had a job in my life. What I know how to do is hurt big, tough men - in the street and off.
Mike Tyson
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I have always thought that all men should be free; but if any should be slaves, it should be first those who desire for themselves, and secondly those who desire it for others. Whenever I hear anyone arguing for slavery, I feel a strong impulse to see it tried on him personally.
Abraham Lincoln
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Slaves, whose legal status was comparable to that of livestock, were expected to provide a farm owner with marketable children.
Ned Sublette
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I free slaves because I believe we are all created equal. I just can't think of anything that has a higher purpose than putting value on human life.
Virginia Williams
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Men have been trained and conditioned by women, not unlike the way Pavlov conditioned his dogs, into becoming their slaves.
Esther Vilar
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Already in the 1550s, 10% of Lisbon’s population were slaves; by 1800 there were close to a million slaves among the 2,500,000 or so inhabitants of Portugal’s Brazil.
Benedict Anderson
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Although Christianity has a poor record on animals (as it does, it must be said, on the treatment of slaves, women, children, and gays), it is also the case that Christian theology, when creatively and critically handled, can provide a strong basis for animal rights.
Andrew Linzey
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We are free today because we are the stronger; we will be slaves again when the government becomes the stronger.
Toussaint Louverture
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Only hell itself bears a likeness to the suffering of these enforced slaves of Christ. Over the fate of Hell, Dante says, are inscribed the words ‘Abandon every hope, who enter here.’ The same could be inscribed over the portals of convents
Arcangela Tarabotti
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Good masters generally have bad slaves, and bad slaves have good masters.
Herodotus
