That god forbid, that made me first your slave, I should in thought control your times of pleasure, Or at your hand… — William Shakespeare Copy Share Image
If you cannot be the master of your language, you must be its slave. If you cannot examine your thoughts, you have… — Richard Mitchell Copy Share Image
Let us remember that the automatic machine is the precise economic equivalent of slave labor. Any labor which competes with slave labor… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
In America, you don't even have proper holidays. It's really one of the most prosperous slave societies in history. People work their… — Pankaj Mishra Copy Share Image
Before God, there is neither Greek nor barbarian, neither rich nor poor, and the slave is as good as his master, for… — Lord Acton Copy Share Image
The mind must become the servant of the intellect, not the slave of the senses. It must discriminate and detach itself from… — Sathya Sai Baba Copy Share Image
He was by no means opposed to hard labour on principle, for he would work away at a cricket-match by the day… — Charles Dickens Copy Share Image
A nation of slaves is always prepared to applaud the clemency of their master who, in the abuse of absolute power, does… — Edward Gibbon Copy Share Image
“In the softest little voice he said, “This slave is beneath your attention.” In Akielos, submission was an art, and the slave… — C.S. Pacat Copy Share Image
Talk about slavery! It is not the peculiar institution of the South. It exists wherever men are bought and sold, wherever a… — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
“People think blood red, but blood don't got no colour. Not when blood wash the floor she lying on as she scream… — Marlon James Copy Share Image
A choice is the root of all morality. Without choice, one can have no moral code. In a vacuum bereft of alternatives,… — Dave Galanter Copy Share Image
Monarchies, aristocracies, and religions are all based upon that large defect in your race - the individual's distrust of his neighbor, and… — Mark Twain Copy Share Image
I have a dream that one day on the red hills of Georgia, sons of former slaves and sons of former slave-owners… — Martin Luther King, Jr Copy Share Image
Neither should men study war with a view to the enslavement of those who do not deserve to be enslaved; but first… — Aristotle Copy Share Image
The capitalists owned everything in the world, and everyone else was their slave. They owned all the land, all the houses, all… — George Orwell Copy Share Image
“Slave masters thought they were making a difference in black people’s lives too. Saving them from their “wild African ways.” Same shit,… — Angie Thomas Copy Share Image
People who think they are free eventually end up slaves to their own desires, and those who give their freedom away to… — Philip Yancey Copy Share Image
When we Chinese girls listened to the adults talk-story, we learned that we failed if we grew up to be but wives… — Maxine Hong Kingston Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share Image
Essayists must not only be succinct but have original ideas and, even harder to come by, or to fake, likable voices. Consciously… — Cyra McFadden Copy Share Image
If you take something like the slave-auction sketch, the warmth of the light gives it a crisp 12 Years a Slave look.… — Keegan-Michael Key Copy Share Image
Now, you integration-minded Negroes are trying to force yourselves on your former slave master, trying to make him accept you in his… — Malcolm X Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share Image
There was a land of Cavaliers and Cotton Fields called the Old South. Here in this pretty world, Gallantry took its last… — Ben Hecht Copy Share Image
Everyone had clearly spent far too long perfecting their appearance. I used to feel intimidated by people like this; now I see… — Charlie Brooker Copy Share Image
The laws of custom make our [returning a visit] necessary. O how I hate this vile custom which obliges us to make… — Fanny Burney Copy Share Image
I was a slave to something he believed to be silly and superstitious: the idea that all life was worth defending and… — Rick Yancey Copy Share Image
This huge and terrible industry [the slave trade] was blessed by all churches and for a long time aroused absolutely no religious… — Christopher Hitchens Copy Share Image
The same Power that brought the slave out of bondage will, in His own good time and way, bring about the emancipation… — Amelia Bloomer Copy Share Image
I’ve been a slave to football. It follows you home, it follows you everywhere, and eats into your family life. But every… — Bill Shankly Copy Share Image
I can't do it. I've been here before and it's not a room with a view. The only power I have is… — Jeanette Winterson Copy Share Image
The ideal tyranny is that which is ignorantly self-administered by its victims. The most perfect slaves are, therefore, those which blissfully and… — Donald James Copy Share Image
“There was no slave,’ said Laurent. ‘He never existed. I don’t know what manner of man stands before me now. All I… — C.S. Pacat Copy Share Image
XI I sang his name instead of song; Over and over I sang his name: Backward and forward I sang it along,… — Elizabeth Barrett Browning Copy Share Image
Custom, law bent my first years to the religion of the happy Muslims. I see it too clearly: the care taken of… — Voltaire Copy Share Image
“There was always something about our family, and I don't mean color--there was something about us that impeded you. You think like… — Philip Roth Copy Share Image
Fear is a psychic tyrant that has no intention of letting its slave go free. It will say whatever it needs to… — Marianne Williamson Copy Share Image
Though slavery is thought, by some, to be mild in Missouri, when compared with the cotton, sugar and rice growing states, yet… — William Wells Brown Copy Share Image
If the mind, that rules the body, ever so far forgets itself as to trample on its slave, the slave is never… — Henry Wadsworth Longfellow Copy Share Image
![“The laws of custom make our [returning a visit] necessary. O how I hate this vile custom which obliges us to make slaves of ourselves! to sell the most precious property we boast, our time;--and to sacrifice it to every prattling impertinent who chooses to demand it!” quote by Fanny Burney](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/img-quotes/d6b/fanny-burney-7403_boast_the-laws-of-custom-make-our-returning-a_580819.jpg)
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