Slave Quotes · Page 30

He who passes not his days in the realm of dreams is the slave of the days.

— Khalil Gibran

“the way a rich man was born was, is exactly the way a slave was born”

— Mariam

A cocaine measurer, part time lover A full time sex slave, never find another

— Wale

Worker bees can leave. Even drones can fly away. The Queen is their slave.

— Chuck Palahniuk

We do not want the peace of slaves nor the peace of the grave.

— Emiliano Zapata

The masses will lick our feet and serve us as our slaves.

— Menachem Begin

“Have you seen a dog lick the hand that thrashed it?!”

— Vladimir Mayakovsky

If slaves will make good soldiers, then our whole theory of slavery is wrong.

— Howell Cobb

A remarkable documentary and the first in-depth record of many black women, slave and free.

— Dorothy B. Porter

We want capitalism and market forces to be the slave of democracy rather than the opposite.

— Thomas Piketty

“Free yourself from mental slavery. Break those invisible chains your masters put on your spiritual neck to control you”

— Bangambiki Habyarimana

Fugitive slaves were rare then, and as a fugitive slave lecturer, I had the advantage of being the first one out.

— Frederick Douglass

I'm not a slave driver or a yeller. I was yelled at in kitchens and other workplaces.

— Alton Brown

This is a world of compensations; and he who would be no slave, must consent to have no slave.

— Abraham Lincoln

I feel like a slave, and in a way like an artist, because I need to get inspiration everyday, from everything and…

— Sonia Rykiel

Imitation causes us to leave natural ways to enter into artificial ones; it therefore makes slaves.

— Alexandre Vinet

I starred in a Broadway play that was Sidney Poitier's first directing job and the cast was Lou Gossett, Cicely Tyson, Diana…

— David Steinberg

For I cannot think that GOD Almighty ever made them [women] so delicate, so glorious creatures; and furnished them with such charms,…

— Daniel Defoe

It is a great mistake, as we have already remarked, to be afraid of Him and to act in His presence like…

— Alphonsus Liguori

It's really sad that Wonder Woman is, she's really a slave. She belongs to DC. She's not a living person. And so…

— Trina Robbins

If I had my way, any man guilty of golf would be barred from any public office in the United States and…

— H. L. Mencken

Democracy has proved only that the best way to gain power over people is to assure the people that they are ruling…

— Joseph Sobran

From these prejudices there arises conflict, transient joys and suffering. But we are unconscious of this, unconscious that we are slaves to…

— Jiddu Krishnamurti

The feeling of patriotism - It is an immoral feeling because, instead of confessing himself a son of God . . .…

— Leo Tolstoy

Great God! What have I turned into? What right have you people to clutter up my life, steal my time, probe my…

— Henry Miller

“My new mistress proved to be all she appeared when I first met her at the door,—a woman of the kindest heart…

— Frederick Douglass

I saw that the kingdom must be interior before it can be exterior, that it is a kingdom of ideas, and not…

— Hannah Whitall Smith

It's worse than slave trade because what is being traded is the very knowledge that makes survival possible for 80 percent of…

— Vandana Shiva

Had Allah lifted the veil for his slave and shown him how He handles his affairs for him, and how Allah is…

— Ibn Qayyim Al-Jawziyya

Tremble with awe, O men! The insults God suffered for the sake of our salvation you too must endure! God is slapped…

— Symeon the New Theologian

In the ancient world individuals have sold themselves as slaves, in order to eat. So in society. Here is a witch-doctor who…

— C. S. Lewis

For him who is perfect in love and has reached the summit of dispassion there is no difference between his own or…

— Maximus the Confessor

The best traders are simply slaves to the market's price action

— Steve Burns

Fashion condemns us to many follies, the greatest is to make oneself its slave.

— Napoleon Bonaparte

Economics is a slave-driver. No one has free time; no one has any leisure.

— James Hillman

Man should be master of his environment, not its slave. That is what freedom means.

— Anthony Eden

To be one's own master is to be the slave of self.

— Natalie Clifford Barney

Remember this: your body is your slave; it works for you.

— Jack LaLanne

I have always hated slavery, I think as much as any Abolitionist.

— Abraham Lincoln

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

— Anonymous