Slave Quotes

• My characters are galley slaves.

  

  Vladimir Nabokov
  • Character
  • Slave

• Slave power crushes freedom of speech and of opinion. Slave power degrades labor. Slave power is arrogant, is jealous and intrusive, is cruel, is despotic, not only over the slave but over the community, the state.

  

  Elizabeth Van Lew
  • Power
  • Community
  • Opinion

• The time is near at hand which must determine whether Americans are to be free men or slaves.

  

  George Washington
  • Men
  • Freedom
  • Determine

• He will always be a slave who does not know how to live upon a little.

  

  Horace
  • Life
  • Littles
  • Moderation

• Slave holding is very unusual among the English-speaking peoples. Canadians didn't do it. Australians didn't do it. The Democratic Party and the states they controlled did it!

  

  Sean Hannity
  • Party
  • Democratic
  • Unusual

• All men shall be my slaves! All women shall succumb to my charms! All mankind shall grovel at my feet and not know why!

  

  L. Ron Hubbard
  • Men
  • Women
  • Why

• Was not Abraham Lincoln an extremist? - "This nation cannot survive half slave and half free."

  

  Martin Luther King, Jr.
  • Free
  • Slave
  • Abraham Lincoln

• Wealth is the slave of a wise man. The master of a fool.

  

  Seneca the Younger
  • Fool
  • Wealth
  • Wise Man

• There is no slave out of heaven like a loving woman; and of all loving women, there is no such slave as a mother.

  

  Henry Ward Beecher
  • Heaven
  • Woman
  • Loving

• In giving freedom to the slave, we assure freedom to the free.

  

  Abraham Lincoln
  • Freedom
  • Slave
  • Assure

• It is a law of nature that every decent man on earth is bound to be a coward and a slave.

  

  Fyodor Dostoevsky
  • Earth
  • Slave
  • Law Of Nature

• But slaves that once conceive the glowing thought Of freedom, in that hope itself possess All that the contest calls for; spirit, strength, The scorn of danger, and united hearts, The surest presage of the good they seek.

  

  William Cowper
  • Heart
  • Spirit
  • Liberty

• Being your slave what should I do but tend, Upon the hours, and times of your desire? I have no precious time at all to spend; Nor services to do till you require.

  

  William Shakespeare
  • Time
  • Desire
  • Precious

• 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.

  

  Emilio G. Segre
  • Mother
  • Literature
  • Image

• They are hare-brain'd slaves.

  

  William Shakespeare
  • Brain
  • Sassy
  • Hares

• Virtue is shut out from no one; she is open to all, accepts all, invites all, gentlemen, freedmen, slaves, kings, and exiles; she selects neither house nor fortune; she is satisfied with a human being without adjuncts.

  

  Seneca the Younger
  • House
  • Virtue
  • Accepting

• The best slave does not need to be beaten. She beats herself.

  

  Erica Jong
  • Slave
  • Beats

• I am a galley slave to pen and ink.

  

  Honore de Balzac
  • Slave
  • Pen
  • Ink

• The chains of a slave are broken the moment he considers himself a free man.

  

  Mahatma Gandhi
  • Consider
  • Chains
  • Freeman

• A great, a good, and a right mind is a kind of divinity lodged in flesh, and may be the blessing of a slave as well as of a prince: it came from heaven, and to heaven it must return; and it is a kind of heavenly felicity, which a pure and virtuous mind enjoys, in some degree, even upon earth.

  

  Seneca the Younger
  • Mind
  • Earth
  • Kind

• At those moments I saw myself suddenly for what I was: a slave, willing to always do what he wanted, careful not to exaggerate in order not to get him in trouble, not to displease him. I wasted my time cooking for him, washing the dirty clothes he left in the house, listening to all his troubles at the university and in the many responsibilities that he was accumulating, thanks to the aura of good feeling that surrounded him and the small powers of his father-in-law; I always welcomed him joyfully, I wanted him to be happier with me than in the other house, I wanted him to relax, to confide, I felt sorry that he was continuously overwhelmed by obligations; I even wondered if Eleonora might love him more than I did, since she accepted every insult just to feel that he was still hers. But sometimes I couldn’t stand it anymore and I yelled at him, despite the risk that the girls might hear: Who am I for you, tell me why I’m in this city, why I wait for you every night, why I tolerate this situation.

  

  Elena Ferrante
  • Father
  • Risk
  • Trouble

• If a lady comes up to you and tells you that your dear mama is lying in a faint on the pavement round the corner, don't you believe her, don't have anything to do with her, do not go with her into the cab. It is the White Slave Traffic.

  

  Stevie Smith
  • Believe
  • Advice
  • Dear

• Is base in kind, and born to be a slave.

  

  William Cowper
  • Kind
  • Kindness
  • Slave

• Englishmen never will be slaves; they are free to do whatever the government and public opinion allow them.

  

  George Bernard Shaw
  • Never
  • Slave
  • Englishmen

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