To tame the proud, the fetter'd slave to free, These are imperial arts. — John Dryden Copy Share Image
The weak-minded man is the slave of his vices and the dupe of his virtues. — Jean Antoine Petit-Senn Copy Share Image
The man who asks of freedom anything other than itself is born to be a slave. — Alexis de Tocqueville Copy Share Image
As long as we have a master in heaven, we will be slaves on earth. — Mikhail Bakunin Copy Share Image
If you cannot be the master of your language, you must be its slave. — Richard Mitchell Copy Share Image
Fashion condemns us to many follies; the greatest is to make ourselves its slave — Napoleon Bonaparte Copy Share Image
Alike to the slave and his oppressor cometh night with sweet refreshment, and half of the life of the most wretched is… — Martin Farquhar Tupper Copy Share Image
Ask for this great deliverer now, and find him Eyeless in Gaza at the mill with slaves. — John Milton Copy Share Image
From that date the abandonment of the older State proceeded with a rapidity never before known, and with it grew the domestic… — Henry Charles Carey Copy Share Image
“If you care about what people think about you, you will end up being their slave. Reject and pull your own rope.” — Oscar Auliq-Ice Copy Share Image
There is no slave, after all, like a wife...Poor women, poor slaves All married women, all children and girls who live in… — Mary Boykin Chesnut Copy Share Image
As I would not be a slave, so I would not be a master. This expresses my idea of democracy. — Abraham Lincoln Copy Share Image
A servile race Who, in mere want of fault, all merit place; Who blind obedience pay to ancient schools, Bigots to Greece,… — Charles Churchill Copy Share Image
No Kingdom can be secured otherwise than by arming the people. The possession of arms is the distinction between a freeman and… — James Burgh Copy Share Image
“Once you cease to be a master, once you throw off your master's yoke, you are no longer human rubbish, you are… — Jamaica Kincaid Copy Share Image
My great-great-great-grandmother walked as a slave from Virginia to Eatonton, Georgia... It is in memory of this walk that I chose to… — Alice Walker Copy Share Image
One of the great things about the Bible, one of the things I think keeps people coming back to it, is that… — Ron Currie Jr Copy Share Image
Because one does not want to be disturbed, to be made uncertain, he establishes a pattern of conduct, of thought, a pattern… — Bruce Lee Copy Share Image
Nearly all men are slaves for the same reason that the Spartans assigned for the servitude of the Persians -- lack of… — Nicolas Chamfort Copy Share Image
As a biracial girl growing up in England, I'd never really seen any historical characters who looked like me depicted on film… — Gugu Mbatha-Raw Copy Share Image
Such as are in immediate fear of a losing their estates, of banishment, or of slavery, live in perpetual anguish, and lose… — Michel de Montaigne Copy Share Image
Detach yourself from all that makes your mind restless. Renounce all that disturbs its peace. If you want peace, deserve it. By… — Sri Nisargadatta Maharaj Copy Share Image
“Where did the idea come from that we should take life so seriously, anyway? Why should a man be such a slave… — Orison Swett Marden Copy Share Image
The other one he loved like a slave, like a madman and like a beggar. Why? Ask the dust on the road… — Knut Hamsun Copy Share Image
There can be no freedom of the individual, no democracy, without the capital system, the profit system, the private enterprise system. These… — Russell Cornell Leffingwell Copy Share Image
If you're creating a slave situation, you would almost never bring women. And if we look at Slavery for example, we look… — Nikki Giovanni Copy Share Image
A man in love ... is the master, so it seems, but only if his lady friend permits it! The need to… — Anne Desclos Copy Share Image
In 1841 you and I had together a tedious low-water trip, on a Steam Boat from Louisville to St. Louis. You may… — Abraham Lincoln Copy Share Image
Without self knowledge, without understanding the working and functions of his machine, man cannot be free, he cannot govern himself and he… — Deepak Chopra Copy Share Image
Get rid of the bondage of body; we have become slaves to it and learnt to hug our chains and love our… — Swami Vivekananda Copy Share Image
“She would forever belong to them, a willing slave to their love and desire.” — S.R. Roddy Copy Share Image
As long as we require someone else to make us happy, we are slaves. — Swami Vivekananda Copy Share Image
As yet, the Negroes themselves do not fully appreciate these old slave songs. — James Weldon Johnson Copy Share Image
I didn't know I was a slave until I found out I couldn't do the things I wanted. — Frederick Douglass Copy Share Image
I'd rather be a free man in my grave than living as a puppet or a slave. — Jimmy Cliff Copy Share Image
You're a slave, a bound helpless slave to one thing in the world, your imagination. — F. Scott Fitzgerald Copy Share Image
The only freedom that man ever has is when he becomes a slave to Jesus Christ. — R. C. Sproul Copy Share Image
