Be a slave Quotes · Page 5

The most onerous slavery is to be a slave to oneself.

— Seneca the Younger

Whoever wants to be free, therefore, let him not want or avoid anything that is up to others. Otherwise he will necessarily…

— Epictetus

And ne'er shall the sons of Columbia be slaves, while the earth bears a plant, or the sea rolls its waves.

— Robert Treat Paine

As long as we have a master in heaven, we will be slaves on earth.

— Mikhail Bakunin

Nobody had ever instructed him that a slave-ship, with a procession of expectant sharks in its wake, is a missionary institution, by…

— Harriet Beecher Stowe

I believe that it is better to tell the truth than to lie. I believe that it is better to be free…

— H. L. Mencken

What else can I do? Once you've gone this far you aren't fit for anything else. Something happens to your mind. You're…

— Margaret Atwood

While I have often said that all men out to be free, yet I would allow those colored persons to be slaves…

— Abraham Lincoln

Abby: I could be a slave to your darkest desires. I can do things. Anything you want. Tommy: Well, that's terrific, because…

— Christopher Moore

If you want to be a slave in life, then continue going around asking others to do for you. They will oblige,…

— Terry Goodkind

Englishmen never will be slaves; they are free to do whatever the government and public opinion allow them.

— George Bernard Shaw

So plain that no one, high or low, ever does mistake it, except in a plainly selfish way; for although volume upon…

— Abraham Lincoln

[Slavery] is a weed that grows in every soil.

— Edmund Burke

Don't be a slave to style. Don't take more from the world than you're willing to give back. And learn to undo…

— Thanissaro Bhikkhu

In the first place, I insist that our fathers did not make this nation half slave and half free, or part slave…

— Abraham Lincoln

We do not know where death awaits us: so let us wait for it everywhere. To practice death is to practice freedom.…

— Michel de Montaigne

I stand by the Lost finale. It's the story that we wanted to tell, and we told it. No excuses. No apologies.…

— Damon Lindelof

You learn to cook so that you don't have to be a slave to recipes. You get what's in season and you…

— Julia Child

Do not commit yourself to anybody or anything, for that is to be a slave, a slave to every man Above all,…

— Baltasar Gracian

Do not become the slave of your model.

— Vincent Van Gogh

It is true that so far as wealth gives time for ideal ends and exercise to ideal energies, wealth is better than…

— William James

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

— Abraham Lincoln

The male corporate model is built on a mans greater willingness to be a slave of sorts - especially once he has…

— Warren Farrell

If I must be a slave to habit let me be a slave to good habits.

— Og Mandino

I don't wish to be a slave any longer to the stringent exigencies of literature.

— Philip Roth