Slave Quotes · Page 68

A slave's life is mostly composed of patience and study. Yes, study. If not with actual books, then following the example of…

— Laura Antoniou

I won't slave for beggar's pay, likewise gold and jewels, but I would slave to learn the way, to sink your ship…

— Robert Hunter

In this country, some aristocratic families automatically categorize persons with dark skin, thick lips, and kinky hair as "Barias" [Amharic for slave]...…

— Mengistu Haile Mariam

But really, for the most part - doing a prequel is great because you do have room to kind of free this…

— Jennifer Lawrence

(...) the translator of prose is the slave of the author and the translator of poetry is his rival.

— Andreï Makine

The essence of all slavery consists in taking the product of another's labor by force. It is immaterial whether this force be…

— Anonymous

I didn't know I was a slave until I found out I couldn't do the things I wanted.

— Frederick Douglass

Liberty is not for these slaves; I do not advocate inflicting it against their conscience. On the contrary, I am strongly in…

— H. L. Mencken

Between women love is contemplative; caresses are intended less to gain possession of the other than gradually to re-create the self through…

— Simone de Beauvoir

If Lincoln had an affair with a slave woman, it would be an outrage, but when Clinton does it with one of…

— Bob Dole

If you don't have many possessions, then you don't need to work all your life like a slave to sustain them, and…

— Jose Mujica

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

— Christopher Hitchens

[On disagreeing with her husband about his slave-holding:] I cannot give my conscience into the keeping of another human being or submit…

— Fanny Kemble

I mean to say that Congress can hereafter decide whether any states, slave or free, can be framed out of Texas. If…

— William H. Seward

To tame the proud, the fetter'd slave to free, These are imperial arts.

— John Dryden

Now, I ask you, had you not rather be killed than to be a slave to a tyrant, who takes the life…

— David Walker

I knew from reading about Sarah Grimke that she'd been given a handmaid to be her personal slave and that her name…

— Sue Monk Kidd

From deep in the slave hut is somebody calling over 150 years to all of our experiences and all of our ideas…

— Chiwetel Ejiofor

This is one of their [the Christians'] rules. Let no man that is learned, wise, or prudent come among us: but if…

— Aulus Cornelius Celsus

Everyone is a potential naked slave to you once you become a trainer.

— Anne Rice

If you see anybody wail and complain, call him a slave, though he be clad in purple.

— Epictetus

Because of the expensive system and the competition among various groups, democracy needs a lot of money. As a natural consequence it…

— Corneliu Zelea Codreanu

You can actually muck with history and think about what if, why not. What if there were dragons in the Incan Empire…

— Naomi Novik

“Stand here, he thought, and count the lighted windows of a city. You cannot do it. But behind each yellow rectangle that…

— Ayn Rand

But assuming the same premises, to wit, that all men are equal by the law of nature and of nations, the right…

— William H. Seward