Slave Quotes · Page 30

When Rimbaud became a slave trader, he stopped writing poetry.

— Chinua Achebe

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

— James Hillman

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

— Napoleon Bonaparte

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

— Steve Burns

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

— Anthony Eden

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

— Abraham Lincoln

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

As every artist who has used the method knows - photography's a loyal slave and a tyrannical master.

— Robert Genn

La femme marie e est un esclave qu'il faut savoir mettre sur un tro" n e. A married woman is a slave…

— Honore de Balzac

Only in thought is man a God; in action and desire we are the slaves of circumstance.

— Bertrand Russell

The one who is good, is free even being a slave; the one who is bad remains a slave even being a…

— Saint Augustine

“the full moon, the white beacon that so often agitated the slave with a mind to run.”

— Colson Whitehead

Can you not see that women could do and would do a hundred times more for the slave, if she were not…

— Angelina Grimke

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

— Anonymous

The morality of work is the morality of slaves, and the modern world has no need of slavery.

— Bertrand Russell

Haiti is unique - the first successful slave revolt in history, the first black republic etc., and then when you get into…

— Ben Fountain

The laws of custom make our [returning a visit] necessary. O how I hate this vile custom which obliges us to make…

— Fanny Burney

Everyone had clearly spent far too long perfecting their appearance. I used to feel intimidated by people like this; now I see…

— Charlie Brooker

Oh! If those selfish men, who are the cause of all one's misery, only knew what their poor slaves go through! What…

— Queen Victoria

There was a land of Cavaliers and Cotton Fields called the Old South. Here in this pretty world, Gallantry took its last…

— Ben Hecht

This huge and terrible industry [the slave trade] was blessed by all churches and for a long time aroused absolutely no religious…

— Christopher Hitchens

I was a slave to something he believed to be silly and superstitious: the idea that all life was worth defending and…

— Rick Yancey

Some, I verily believe, delight to be slave-men; it is a joy to them, and they would not change their condition; not…

— Richard Jefferies

“Your second trial is tomorrow night,' he said neutrally. The gold and silver thread in his black tunic shone in the candlelight.…

— Sarah J. Maas

But, if you think that by hanging us, you can stamp out the labor movement - the movement from which the downtrodden…

— August Spies

I've said repeatedly that where we see terrorist organizations like al-Qaeda or ISIL, they have perverted and distorted and tried to claim…

— Barack Obama

As Day and other observers had reported, the slaves were leading very comfortable lives. After this tactic [slave rebellions in the South]…

— Eustace Mullins

The preservation of a free government requires not merely that the metes and bounds which separate each department of power be invariably…

— James Madison

Very often, the way love is defined, it does violence to both people. It almost makes them a slave to the other.…

— Marshall B. Rosenberg

Ask yourself why totalitarian dictatorships find it necessary to pour money and effort into propaganda for their own helpless, chained, gagged slaves,…

— Ayn Rand

Nobody can turn you into a slave unless you allow them. Nobody can make you afraid of anything, unless you allow them.…

— Suzy Kassem

Whatever day Makes man a slave, takes half his worth away.

— Homer

Desires make slaves out of kings and patience makes kings out of slaves.

— Al-Ghazali

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

— Toba Beta

I want to die a slave to principles. Not to men.

— Emiliano Zapata

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

— Anonymous

But thought's the slave of life, and life time's fool.

— William Shakespeare

If all men are born free, why is it that all women are born slaves?

— Anonymous

Remember, Sir, that [England] began the slave trade!

— Benjamin Franklin