Slave Quotes
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She Chien-Shiung Wu is a slave driver. She is the image of the militant woman so well known in Chinese literature as either empress or mother.
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Slaves do not always welcome their deliverers. They become accustomed to being slaves. They would rather gear those ills they have.
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Wealth is the slave of a wise man. The master of a fool.
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Good name in man and woman, dear my lord, Is the immediate jewel of their souls: Who steals my purse steals trash; ’tis something, nothing; ’twas mine, ’tis his, and has been slave to thousands; But he that filches from me my good name Robs me of that which not enriches him, And makes me poor indeed.
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Soul-force comes only through God's grace and never descends upon a man who is a slave to lust.
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When you tell yourself that there is nothing you can do to arrest the global slave trade, you underestimate your own potential and abandon hope for those trapped in captivity.
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Unless you have found something in life to live for that is more important to you than your own life, you will always be a slave. For all another man needs to do is threaten to take your life to get you to do his bidding.
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Heaven would that she these gifts should have, and I to live and die her slave.
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I ask for so little.Just fear me, love me, do as I say and I will be your slave
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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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It is a law of nature that every decent man on earth is bound to be a coward and a slave.
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Live loath'd and long, Most smiling, smooth, detested parasites, Courteous destroyers, affable wolves, meek bears, You fools of fortune, trencher friends, time flies Cap and knee slaves, vapors, and minute jacks.
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Englishmen never will be slaves; they are free to do whatever the government and public opinion allow them.
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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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You can say I had a severe case of 'Roots' envy. I wanted to be like Alex Haley, and I wanted to be able to... do my family tree back to the slave ship and then reverse the Middle Passage, as I like to put it, and find the tribe or ethnic group that I was from in Africa.
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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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Has not the experience of two centuries shown that gradualism in theory is perpetuity in practice? Is there an instance, in the history of the world, where slaves have been educated for freedom by their task-masters?
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No one chains a slave without chaining himself.
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Finance is a slave's word.
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I am a galley slave to pen and ink.
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I see I have made myself a slave to Philosophy, but if I get free of Mr. Linus's business I will resolutely bid adew to it eternally, excepting for what I do for my private satisfaction or leave to come out after me. For I see a man must either resolve to put out nothing new or to become a slave to defend it.
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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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Do not become the slave of your model.
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You had one guy who was a slave, and another who wasn't. And I actually know what happened to them. Juan Garrido ended up getting good jobs and a pension in Mexico which was the center of New Spain, as it was called. Esteban ended up being killed by the Zuni Indians.
