Slave Quotes
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Free men have arms; slaves do not.
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I call that mind free which protects itself against the usurpations of society, and which does not cower to human opinion: Which refuses to be the slave or tool of the many or of the few, and guards its empire over itself as nobler than the empire of the world.
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Washington, not Jefferson, freed his slaves upon his death.
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This sounds really corny, but I am a slave to my work, a workaholic, and glad of it. I like what I do; this is my place, my little universe, one of them.
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A married woman is a slave you must know how to seat upon a throne.
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The most imperious masters over their own servants are at the same time the most abject slaves to the servants of others.
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We are the slaves of slaves
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In part because they had no choice, right? If you were a slave, you did what the master said. And they said to worship: "You're going to worship with us."
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I'm not a master of films. I'm rather a slave.
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Some people try to get you out of slavery for you to be their slave.
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We are free when we are not the slave of our impulses, but rather their master. Taking inward distance, we thus become the authors of our own dramas rather than characters in them.
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IN A MATTER of a little more than a year, I had gone from being the most despised creature in the Third Reich—a hunted Jewish slave girl dodging a transport to Poland—to being one of its most valued citizens, a breeding Aryan housewife. People treated me with concern and respect. If they only knew who I had been! If they only knew whose new life I was breeding!
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If you are ruled by mind you are a king; if by body, a slave.
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Though no one would want to be sold as a slave, it is perhaps even more galling to be a sort of utility slave whom no one will buy.
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A slave- holder, who has decided to abolish slavery, does not consult his slaves whether they desire freedom or not.
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The two systems slave and free-labor are incompatible. They have never permanently existed together in one country, and they never can.
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So enormous, so dreadful, so irremediable did the [slave] trade's wickedness appear that my own mind was completely made up for abolition. Let the consequences be what they would: I from this time determined that I would never rest until I had effected its abolition.
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Christ preaches only servitude and dependence... True Christians are made to be slaves.
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Virtue cannot dwell with slaves, nor reign O'er those who cower to take a tyrant's yoke.
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When a slave begins to take pride in his fetters and hugs them like precious ornaments, the triumph of the slave-owner is complete.
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A slave is he who cannot speak his thoughts.
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How many men Have spent their blood in their dear country's service, Yet now pine under want; while selfish slaves, That even would cut their throats whom now they fawn on, Like deadly locusts, eat the honey up, Which those industrious bees so hardly toil'd for.
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The translator of prose is the slave of the author, and the translator of poetry is his rival.
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He is the freeman whom the truth makes free, And all are slaves besides.
