Slaves Quotes
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The slaves who were ourselves had known terror intimately, confused sunrise with pain, & accepted indifference as kindness.
Ntozake Shange
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Curiosity is a mistress whose slaves decline no sacrifice.
William Faulkner
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Time has now come which must probably determine whether Americans are to be freemen or slaves.
Ziad K. Abdelnour
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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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The farmers had grown proud and haughty. They ate better than anyone else in Germany now. And, like Volkswagen and Siemens, they had slaves. All they had to do was feed the local Nazi power elite, and they could have all the slaves they wanted.
Edith Hahn Beer
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Some are slaves of ambition or money, but others are interested in understanding life itself. These give themselves the name of philosophers , and they value the contemplation and discovery of nature beyond all other pursuits.
Pythagoras
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Slaves have to obey their masters.
Bill Bright
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The New Englanders, by their canting, whining and insinuating tricks, have persuaded the rest of the colonies that the government is going to make absolute slaves of them.
Nicholas Cresswell
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There is much in this world that hurts us, but if we let pain become our master, we live our lives as slaves.
Hannah Hart
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Few persons enjoy real liberty; we are all slaves to ideas or habits.
Alfred de Musset
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For what accords better and more aptly with faith than to acknowledge ourselves divested of all virtue that we may be clothed by God, devoid of all goodness that we may be filled by him, the slaves of sin that he may give us freedom, blind that he may enlighten, lame that he may cure, and feeble that he may sustain us; to strip ourselves of all ground of glorying that he alone may shine forth glorious, and we be glorified in him?
John Calvin
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One leader, one people, signifies one master and millions of slaves.
Albert Camus
