Slave Quotes

“The unspiritual is a slave to sin.”

— Lailah Gifty Akita

Do not become the slave of your model.

— Vincent Van Gogh

“A realist is a slave to reality.”

— Mokokoma Mokhonoana

You're a Good Little Slave

— Mark Lawrence

They are hare-brain'd slaves.

— William Shakespeare

Be your money's master, not its slave.

— Publilius Syrus

“She is a slave, with no way home.”

— Heather Demetrios

we are slaves to the cost of living.

— Carolina Maria de Jesus

“I'd rather be a free man in my grave, than to live life as a puppet or a slave”

— Jimmy Cliff

You can't master your future if your still a slave to your past

— Unkown

The dearest ambition of a slave is not liberty, but to have a slave of his own.

— Richard Francis Burton

The undisciplined are slaves to moods, appetites and passions

— Anonymous

“You're giving me fucking consent to stalk you? Oh, slave...”

— Alaska Angelini

One dedicated worker is worth a thousand slaves.

— Confucius

Create like a god, command like a king, work like a slave.

— Constantin Brancusi

'You are a master of the words you don't say and a slave to the ones you do!'

— Anonymous

Mathematics is the source of a wicked intellect that, while making man the lord of the earth, also makes him the slave…

— Robert Musil

Liberty is the only true riches: of all the rest we are at once the masters and the slaves.

— William Hazlitt

I WOULD RATHER FIGHT AND DIE FOR FREEDOM THAN TO BEG FOR MY LIFE AND LIVE LIKE A SLAVE

— Jah Reign

I WAS born a slave; but I never knew it till six years of happy childhood had passed away

— Harriet Ann Jacobs

“MAN is born free; and everywhere he is in chains. One thinks himself the master of others, and still remains a greater…

— Jean-Jacques Rousseau

Life is not a finished product, it is only what we make of it, and if we make nothing of it, someone…

— Yehudi Menuhin

Before the American Revolution there were frequent slave uprisings, and a lot of people would run away.

— Edward Ball

Why hast thou made me born in this country, The inhabitant of which is satisfied with being a slave?

— Muhammad Iqbal

From the standpoint of modern political science the slave holders were right in declaring that liberty can be given only to those…

— Charles Edward Merriam

...I believe it is now the duty of the slaves of the South to rebuke their masters for their robbery, oppression and…

— Angelina Grimke

A man is none the less a slave because he is allowed to choose a new master once in a term of…

— Lysander Spooner

Pirate Captain Jim "Walk the plank," says Pirate Jim "But Captain Jim, I cannot swim." "Then you must steer us through the…

— Shel Silverstein

Disagreeing with the fervent patriotism of the Confederates: "I think it's hard winning a war with words, gentlemen. . . . I'm…

— Clark Gable

It's no longer necessary to slave over the vocals. I don't sing the lyrics until I write them, and singing is the…

— Todd Rundgren

It took Christians many years to realize that we cannot love God and also keep humans as slaves. It has taken even…

— Andrew Linzey

Through this broad street, restless ever, ebbs and flows a human tide, wave on wave a living river; wealth and fashion side…

— John Greenleaf Whittier

“We were happy and powerful. But the Europeans came to our country; it was from them that I learned the accomplishments which…

— Victor Hugo

Yes, twenty-seven million in slavery is a lot of people, but it is just .0043 percent of the world's population. Yes, $23…

— Kevin Bales

“I was never your slave, Caleb. You tried, I’ll give you that, but we both know you belong to me as much…

— C.J. Roberts

For white men, to live is to own, or to try to own more, or to die trying to own more. Their…

— David Mitchell

In the time just before the bombing of Pearl Harbor, when Perfidia opens, we were pre-psychologized. There were no concepts of identity,…

— James Ellroy

“What am I, your wife?' Boyd asked him, highly amused. Sin seemed to consider that for a moment. 'You would need to…

— Sonny Hassell

Long gone is the time when we opposed the notion that we all looked alike and talked alike. Somehow we have come…

— Clarence Thomas

When I would work freelance in production in Chicago, there were a lot of times when I was working for cheap, bad…

— Andy Richter