Slave Quotes · Page 43

I define democracy as control by the people. Slaves are those who allow others to control their lives. Insofar as people succeed…

— Peace Pilgrim

Say, ye oppress'd by some fantastic woes, Some jarring nerve that baffles your repose; Who press the downy couch, while slaves advance…

— George Crabbe

I would rather be a freeman among slaves than a slave among freemen.

— Jonathan Swift

Writing means being a fascinated slave to current events.

— Anonymous

Seduced, shaggy Samson snored. She scissored short. Sorely shorn, Soon shackled slave, Samson sighed, Silently scheming, Sightlessly seeking Some savage, spectacular suicide.

— Stanislaw Lem

Habit, to which all of us are more or less slaves.

— Jean de La Fontaine

"Animal" is my favorite song because it's a reminder for me every night when I step on to stage that I am…

— Andrew Ripp

Slavery discourages arts and manufacturing ...[and] every master of slaves is born a petty tyrant.

— George Mason

No more slave States; no slave Territories.

— Salmon P. Chase

Moses freed the Jews. Lincoln freed the slaves. I freed the neurotics.

— Larry Flynt

Heroes have gone out; quacks have come in; the reign of quacks has not ended with the nineteenth century. The sceptre is…

— Thomas Carlyle

'12 Years a Slave' was very powerful, very moving, and deserved all of the acclaim it did get.

— Glynn Turman

Where is the man, who, if asked to become a slave, would not hurl back the offer indignantly in the teeth of…

— Charles Lenox Remond

Hundreds of thousands and millions of wage slaves of capital and peasants downtrodden by the serf-owners are going to the slaughter for…

— Vladimir Lenin

Take advice, but not orders. Only give yourself orders. Abraham Lincoln once said, 'Since I will be no one's slave, I will…

— Jim Rohn

Everything we are is anchored in our childhoods. The drama comes in how we deal with it. Are we slaves to our…

— Robert Crais

What father ever gave up his son to death for the sake of his slave!

— St. Catherine of Siena

As long as a word remains unspoken, you are its master; once you utter it, you are its slave.

— Solomon Ibn Gabirol

Slaves lose everything in their chains, even the desire of escaping from them.

— Jean-Jacques Rousseau

Contrary to what people think, I slave over my books.

— James A. Michener

Pity, but never love bestows kind words upon the slave.

— Franz Grillparzer

The reasons for legal intervention in favour of children apply not less strongly to the case of those unfortunate slaves and victims…

— John Stuart Mill

From that date the abandonment of the older State proceeded with a rapidity never before known, and with it grew the domestic…

— Henry Charles Carey

The American sense of the importance, the fundamental importance of the black-white dichotomy, comes out of societies founded in the era of…

— Nell Irvin Painter

Human beings have capitalized on the silence of animals, just as certain human beings have historically imposed silence on certain other human…

— Gary Steiner