Slave Quotes · Page 20

If India becomes the slave of the machine, then, I say, heaven save the world.

— Mahatma Gandhi

Mistaking insolence for freedom has always been the hallmark of the slave.

— Wilhelm Reich

“The man who has no inner life is the slave of his surroundings.”

— Henri Frédéric Amiel

The only freedom that man ever has is when he becomes a slave to Jesus Christ.

— R. C. Sproul

Unquestioning obedience is for slaves, the uneducated and the pathetic.

— Trudi Canavan

You're a slave, a bound helpless slave to one thing in the world, your imagination.

— F. Scott Fitzgerald

You know, I'll always be your slave 'til I'm buried, buried in my grave.

— Sam Cooke

“I do not wish to work in a world that regards me as a slave.”

— Ayn Rand

Before the American Revolution there were frequent slave uprisings, and a lot of people would run away.

— Edward Ball

Why hast thou made me born in this country, The inhabitant of which is satisfied with being a slave?

— Muhammad Iqbal

A Gorean slave girl in the presence of a free man or woman always kneels, unless excused from doing so.

— John Norman

I WAS born a slave; but I never knew it till six years of happy childhood had passed away

— Harriet Ann Jacobs

Mathematics is the source of a wicked intellect that, while making man the lord of the earth, also makes him the slave…

— Robert Musil

Liberty is the only true riches: of all the rest we are at once the masters and the slaves.

— William Hazlitt

I WOULD RATHER FIGHT AND DIE FOR FREEDOM THAN TO BEG FOR MY LIFE AND LIVE LIKE A SLAVE

— Jah Reign

“I think the person who takes a job in order to live - that is to say, for the money [not for…

— Joseph Campbell

One should say before sleeping: I have lived many lives. I have been a slave and a prince. Many a beloved has…

— Anonymous

“The slave is held most securely when he is held by the chains of his own will and of his own fears,…

— Michael Bunker

Tsars and slaves, the intelligent and the obtuse, publicans and pharisees all have an identical legal and moral right to honor the…

— Anton Chekhov

So I began to think maybe it was true that when you were married and had children it was like being brainwashed,…

— Sylvia Plath

The American Dream, coupled with government subsidies of utilities and cheap consumer goods courtesy of slave labour somewhere else, has kept the…

— Elizabeth Wurtzel

The ant, who has toiled and dragged a crumb to his nest, will furiously defend the fruit of his labor, against whatever…

— Abraham Lincoln

“n medieval Europe, a new slave would place his head under his master’s arm, and have a strap placed around his neck,…

— David Livingstone Smith

When everything is subject to money, then the scarcity of money makes everything scarce, including the basis of human life and happiness.…

— Charles Eisenstein

On the other side, the conservative party, composed of the most moderate, able, and cultivated part of the population, is timid, and…

— Ralph Waldo Emerson

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

— Terry Goodkind

How can we speak of Democracy or Freedom when from the very beginning of life we mould the child to undergo tyranny,…

— Maria Montessori

Somewhere in the arrangement of this world there seems to be a great concern about giving us delight, which shows that, in…

— Rabindranath Tagore

It hurt the economic historians, the Marxists and the fabians, to admit that the Ten Hour Bill, the basic piece of 19th…

— Barbara Tuchman

As Muslim women, we have been liberated from this silent bondage. We don't need society's standard of beauty or fashion, to define…

— Yasmin Mogahed

The petition of persons under eighteen, praying that I would free all slave children, and the heading of which petition it appears…

— Abraham Lincoln

“Nox and Celaena remained by the table. His eyes were wide. “You were a slave in Endovier?” She couldn’t form the words…

— Maas Sarah J

This is a fight between a free world and a slave world.

— Henry A. Wallace

The man who has no inner-life is a slave to his surroundings.

— Henri Frederic Amiel

We are all slaves of our own actions. Why be angry with anyone else?

— Shantideva

Make your own rules or be a slave to another man's.

— William Blake

To be free means to choose, whose slave you want to be. ­

— Jeanne Moreau

“Get to your dusting, slave-girl. We vacationing men will take over the sleuthing!”

— Julie Campbell

Witchcraft scum exploiting the dumb turning children into punks and slaves.

— Bob Dylan

Sometimes, one must become a master to avoid becoming a slave.

— Octavia Butler