The art of being a slave is to rule one's master.

You have to follow the old rule for a while. In fact, once you master the old rule, you are then the master-and masters…

— Peter McWilliams

Do not be a slave to a rule of life that rules

— Mak_786

Thou art a slave, whom fortune's tender arm With favour never clasp'd; but bred a dog.

— William Shakespeare

Art should never be a slave to commerce, but for all working artists that's exactly what it must be.

— Caitlín R. Kiernan

“Conquer thyself, till thou hast done this, thou art but a slave; for it is almost as well to be subjected to another's appetite…

— Anonymous

“Nobody is masterless, even ronin enslaved by his sword.”

— Toba Beta

I think it is the easiest mentality for a human being to be either colonized or to colonize. The structure of either the slave…

— Alice Oswald

Unquestionably, it is the duty of every master to watch over the religious and moral culture of his slaves, and to give them every…

— Roger B. Taney

Neither should men study war with a view to the enslavement of those who do not deserve to be enslaved; but first of all…

— Aristotle

“The master doesn’t need to chain his slaves; their needs will chain them to him. You can end slavery by the stroke of a…

— Bangambiki Habyarimana

Man preys on man; and you mourn for the idle tapestry that decorated a gothic pillar, and the dronish bell that summoned the fat…

— Mary Wollstonecraft

“Being a slave is to have nothing but still having something left to lose.”

— Lalita Tedemy

We know, Southern men declare that their slaves are better off than hired laborers amongst us. How little they know, whereof they speak! There…

— Abraham Lincoln

My favorite Founding Fathers, Christians like John Adams, were absolutely appalled by slavery, and did not own slaves. I think we're going to have…

— Ann Coulter

I have observed this in my experience of slavery, - that whenever my condition was improved, instead of its increasing my contentment, it only…

— Frederick Douglass