Slave Quotes · Page 92

There were stories coming out of Thailand that slave labor was being used to catch and process the seafood we eat. They…

— Lourdes Garcia-Navarro

Without water we are nothing", the traveler thought. "Even an emperor, denied water, would swiftly turn to dust. Water is the real…

— Salman Rushdie

I defied the machinery to make me its slave. Its incessant discords could not drown the music of my thoughts if I…

— Lucy Larcom

Since the discovery of printing, knowledge has been called to power, and power has been used to make knowledge a slave.

— Napoleon Bonaparte

Children in Indonesia are scared because they are like the property of their parents and mostly treated as such. Women are scared…

— Andre Vltchek

A man is no less a slave because he is allowed to choose a new master once in a term of years.

— Lysander Spooner

This is the fantasy of every woman - to hold at our feet servile and tame slaves, like in Roman times. And…

— Thalia

This is a world of compensations; and he who would be no slave, must consent to have no slave.

— Abraham Lincoln

Slaves would be tyrants were the chance theirs.

— Victor Hugo

The male corporate model is built on a mans greater willingness to be a slave of sorts - especially once he has…

— Warren Farrell

Nearly all men are slaves for the same reason that the Spartans assigned for the servitude of the Persians -- lack of…

— Nicolas Chamfort

For still the new transcends the old In signs and tokens manifold; Slaves rise up men; the olive waves, With roots deep…

— John Greenleaf Whittier

Slave power crushes freedom of speech and of opinion. Slave power degrades labor. Slave power is arrogant, is jealous and intrusive, is…

— Elizabeth Van Lew

Neither fear nor self-interest can convert the soul. They may change the appearance, perhaps even the conduct, but never the object of…

— Anonymous

Being a part of '12 Years a Slave' has been one of the most profound experiences of my life.

— Lupita Nyong'o

Happy slaves are the bitterest enemies of freedom

— Marie von Ebner-Eschenbach

Take special care that thou never trust any friend or servant with any matter that may endanger thine estate; for so shalt…

— Walter Raleigh

I believe the bicentenary offers us a chance not just to say how profoundly shameful the slave trade was - how we…

— Tony Blair

Each suburban housewife spends her time presiding over a power plant sufficient to have staffed the palace of a Roman emperor with…

— Margaret Mead

The power of our Muse lies in her meaninglessness. Even the style can turn one into a slave if one does not…

— Gueorgui Pinkhassov

If you cannot live alone, you were born a slave.

— Fernando Pessoa

The will is truly free, when it is not the slave of vices and sins.

— Saint Augustine

I never mean, unless some particular circumstances should compel it, to possess another slave by purchase, it being among my first wishes…

— George Washington

I wouldn't call him a slave. I don't whip him when he does something wrong. Just when he does something good.

— Shannon Elizabeth

A [desire] to abolish slavery prevails in North America, many of the Pennsylvanians have set their slaves at liberty, and [Virginia legislators]…

— Benjamin Franklin