Slave Quotes
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Each man must create his own system or else he is a slave to another mans.
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Some people are blinded by their experience. Soldiers know how important war is. Owners of slaves learn every day how inferior subject peoples are.
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The believer is not a slave to fashion.
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So live, that when thy summons comes to join, The innumerable caravan which moves, To that mysterious realm where each shall take, His chamber in the silent halls of death, Thou go not, like the quarry-slave at night, Scourged by his dungeon, but, sustained and soothed, By an unfaltering trust, approach thy grave, Like one who wraps the drapery of his couch, About him, and lies down to pleasant dreams.
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Nearly all men are slaves for the same reason that the Spartans assigned for the servitude of the Persians -- lack of power to pronounce the syllable, "No." To be able to utter that word and live alone, are the only means to preserve one's freedom and one's character.
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There's nothing funny about, 'Yeah, I took a First Class plane ticket and I went to some designer beach and made out with a Laotian slave girl.' Who cares?
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Story is king. Everything else is a slave to the story.
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He who dares not (reason), is a slave.
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To every man, even though he be a slave, the light of heaven is sweet.
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About the girls she only thought of marriage, and about marriage she thought as an ignorant, dissatisfied, but helpless slave did of slavery.
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Thou art a slave, whom fortune's tender arm With favour never clasp'd; but bred a dog.
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Hope is a willing slave; despair is free.
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There is no getting around that fact. When a spirit of fear takes root in your life, you become a slave to that fear.
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A Briton even in love should be A subject, not a slave!
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I've never received a dollar royalty to any of my books because I feel, as a slave everything that I have is a gift of my messenger.
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Jefferson owned slaves. He did not believe that all were created equal. He was a racist.
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I never mean, unless some particular circumstances should compel it, to possess another slave by purchase, it being among my first wishes to see some plan adopted, by which slavery in this country may be abolished by law.
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One cannot make a slave of a free person, for a free person is free even in a prison.
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What we determine we often break. Purpose is but the slave to memory.
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That now-archaic word “likely,” ubiquitous in slave sale advertisements, had a cluster of converging meanings: vigorous, strong, capable, good-looking, attractive, promising—in other words, likely to reproduce.
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Woman has always been man's dependent, if not his slave; the two sexes have never shaped the world in equality. And even today woman is heavily handicapped, though her situation is beginning to change.
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...counselling man to treat her as a slave while persuading her that she is a queen.
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“Figures cannot calculate the amount collected by those public and private robbers: it is more than would liberate every slave in the United States; it would pay the British debt! They say, We do not force people to give. I see no difference between forcing a man out of his money, at the mouth of a pistol, and forcing it from by trick and cunning; the crime is the same.”
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Fear is a psychic tyrant that has no intention of letting its slave go free. It will say whatever it needs to say to confuse your thinking... It will always seek to preserve itself.
