A man who cannot command himself will always be a slave. — Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Copy Share Image
If you have inner peace, nobody can force you to be a slave to the outer reality. — Sri Chinmoy Copy Share Image
The moment the slave resolves that he will no longer be a slave, his fetters fall. Freedom and slavery are mental states. — Mahatma Gandhi Copy Share Image
Art should never be a slave to commerce, but for all working artists that's exactly what it must be. — Caitlín R. Kiernan 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
If any should be slaves, it should be first those who desire it for themselves, and secondly, those who desire it for… — Abraham Lincoln Copy Share Image
There has never been a slave who did not choose to be a slave. Their choice may be between bondage and death,… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
He who seeks freedom for anything but freedom's self is made to be a slave. — Alexis de Tocqueville Copy Share Image
...it is impossible to make anything beautiful or desirable in the best regulated administration of slavery. — Harriet Beecher Stowe Copy Share Image
Aristotle said that some people were only fit to be slaves. I do not contradict him. But I reject slavery because I… — C. S. Lewis Copy Share Image
“Freedom is for the educated people who fought for it. We were slaves of the English, now we will be slaves of… — Khushwant Singh Copy Share Image
I hate it because of the monstrous injustice of slavery itself. I hate it because it deprives our republican example of its… — Abraham Lincoln Copy Share Image
Those kids aren't dumb. But the people who run these schools want to make sure they don't get smart: they are really… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
I have always thought that all men should be free; but if any should be slaves, it should be first those who… — Abraham Lincoln Copy Share Image
[S]ome people are self-starters, and some people are born lazy. Some people are born victims. Some people are just born to be… — Rush Limbaugh Copy Share Image
If the present generation, or any other, are disposed to be slaves, it does not lessen the right of the succeeding generation… — Thomas Paine Copy Share Image
To be ignorant and to be deceived are two different things. To be ignorant is to be a slave of the world.… — R. Scott Bakker Copy Share Image
Youths of the Pellaians and of the Macedonians and of the Hellenic Amphictiony and of the Lakedaimonians and of the Corinthians... and… — Alexander the Great Copy Share Image
But I am mistaken in speaking of a Christian republic; the terms are mutually exclusive. Christianity preaches only servitude and dependence. Its… — Jean-Jacques Rousseau Copy Share Image
Abraham Lincoln recognized that we could not survive as a free land when some men could decide that others were not fit… — Ronald Reagan Copy Share Image
I have sworn to uphold and defend the Constitution against all enemies, foreign and domestic, and I will…I have come to peace… — Timothy McVeigh Copy Share Image
Every lord's mansion stands on the foundation of your bones, soldier, every field has been saturated with your sweat, and you, peasant,… — Wladyslaw Stanislaw Reymont Copy Share Image
We are afraid of love because Love is a small death. Love requires that we should surrender, and we don't want to… — Rajneesh Copy Share Image
Everyone wants a happy life without difficulties or suffering. We create many of the problems we face. No one intentionally creates problems,… — Dalai Lama Copy Share Image
Nobody can turn you into a slave unless you allow them. Nobody can make you afraid of anything, unless you allow them.… — Suzy Kassem Copy Share Image
Slavery is theft - theft of a life, theft of work, theft of any property or produce, theft even of the children… — Kevin Bales Copy Share Image
I haven't been to a gas station in years. It feels so good not to be a slave to gas, playing the… — Daryl Hannah Copy Share Image
I will not be a slave to my image, nor will I be a slave to anyone else's interpretations of me, — Janelle Monae Copy Share Image
Pain is itself a god: the taskmaster of life. Pain cracks the whip, and all that lives will move. To live is… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
If you're not confident in the authority of the Scriptures, you will be a slave to what sounds right. — Matt Chandler Copy Share Image
A horse can have a job and not be a slave. He can look forward to it and enjoy it. That's the… — Buck Brannaman Copy Share Image
Slaves lose everything in their chains, even the desire of escaping from them. — Jean-Jacques Rousseau Copy Share Image
Christ preaches only servitude and dependence... True Christians are made to be slaves. — Jean-Jacques Rousseau Copy Share Image
...How can Americans living in the freest country in the world be 'slaves'? We don't even enjoy the liberty of serfs. (… — Kenneth W. Royce Copy Share Image