--- title: "16 Slave Slave Quotes by 14 authors" description: "Browse 16 Slave Slave quotes by 14 authors. Discover the best Slave Slave sayings and thoughts." image: "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/2f2/anonymous-1_be-a-slave_only-when-the-mind-is-free-has-the-body_1061332.jpg" --- > [Only when the mind is free has the body a chance to be free. Yes, they must believe, they must believe. Because…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/anonymous/only-when-the-mind-is-free-has-the-body-a-chance-to-be-free-yes-they/) [Anonymous](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/anonymous/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/2f2/anonymous-1_be-a-slave_only-when-the-mind-is-free-has-the-body_1061332.jpg) > [I am the descendant of slaves, of people that were born from a slave and a slave master.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/cory-booker/i-am-the-descendant-of-slaves-of-people-that-were-born-from-a-slave/) [Cory Booker](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/cory-booker/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/f14/cory-booker-2546_am_i-am-the-descendant-of-slaves-of-people_1953454.jpg) > [When the master has come to do everything through the slave, the slave becomes his master, since he cannot live without him.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/george-bernard-shaw/when-the-master-has-come-to-do-everything-through-the-slave-the-slave/) [George Bernard Shaw](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/george-bernard-shaw/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/356/george-bernard-shaw-68_excellence_when-the-master-has-come-to-do-everythin_1990875.png) > [Let me state here and now that the black woman in America can justly be described as a 'slave of a slave.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/frances-m-beal/let-me-state-here-and-now-that-the-black-woman-in-america-can-justly/) [Frances M. Beal](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/frances-m-beal/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/a73/frances-m-beal-66555_america_let-me-state-here-and-now-that-the-black_141164.jpg) > [We are bound to earth by desire and also to God, heaven, and the angels. A slave is a slave whether to…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/swami-vivekananda/we-are-bound-to-earth-by-desire-and-also-to-god-heaven-and-the-angels/) [Swami Vivekananda](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/swami-vivekananda/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/d92/swami-vivekananda-53_angel_we-are-bound-to-earth-by-desire-and-also_1203356.jpg) > [No slave is a slave to the same lengths, and in so full a sense of the word, as a wife is.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/john-stuart-mill/no-slave-is-a-slave-to-the-same-lengths-and-in-so-full-a-sense-of-the-2/) [John Stuart Mill](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/john-stuart-mill/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/5b9/john-stuart-mill-477_marriage_no-slave-is-a-slave-to-the-same-lengths_2483354.png) > [“He didn't use me like an object, because a thing didn't need to be mastered. He didn't use me like a slave,…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/skye-warren/he-didn-t-use-me-like-an-object-because-a-thing-didn-t-need-to-be/) [Skye Warren](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/skye-warren/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/ff7/skye-warren-8216_quote_he-didn-t-use-me-like-an-object-because_1283497.jpg) > [“If the mind, which rules the body, ever forgets itself so far as to trample upon its slave, the slave is never…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/henry-wadsworth-longfellow/if-the-mind-which-rules-the-body-ever-forgets-itself-so-far-as-to/) [Henry Wadsworth Longfellow](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/henry-wadsworth-longfellow/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/7d6/henry-wadsworth-longfellow-284_psychology_if-the-mind-which-rules-the-body-ever-fo_2119897.jpg) > [If the mind, that rules the body, ever so far forgets itself as to trample on its slave, the slave is never…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/henry-wadsworth-longfellow/if-the-mind-that-rules-the-body-ever-so-far-forgets-itself-as-to/) [Henry Wadsworth Longfellow](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/henry-wadsworth-longfellow/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/c12/henry-wadsworth-longfellow-284_body_if-the-mind-that-rules-the-body-ever-so_768696.jpg) > [Give the slave the least elevation of religious sentiment, and he is not slave: you are the slave: he not only in…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/ralph-waldo-emerson/give-the-slave-the-least-elevation-of-religious-sentiment-and-he-is/) [Ralph Waldo Emerson](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/ralph-waldo-emerson/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/fd6/ralph-waldo-emerson-6_conditions_give-the-slave-the-least-elevation-of-re_809863.png) > [The good man, though a slave, is free; the wicked, though he reigns, is a slave, and not the slave of a…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/anonymous/the-good-man-though-a-slave-is-free-the-wicked-though-he-reigns-is-a-2/) [Anonymous](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/anonymous/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/efe/anonymous-1_freedom_the-good-man-though-a-slave-is-free-the_2570720.jpg) > [“If I am not master of my life, not sultan of my own being, then no man's logic and no man's ecstatic…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/vladimir-nabokov/if-i-am-not-master-of-my-life-not-sultan-of-my-own-being-then-no-man/) [Vladimir Nabokov](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/vladimir-nabokov/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/651/vladimir-nabokov-198_agnosticism_if-i-am-not-master-of-my-life-not-sultan_660779.jpg) > [“It is the story of society's purchase of a slave. A slave purchased from poverty, hunger, cold, loneliness, defenselessness, destitution. A squalid…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/victor-hugo/it-is-the-story-of-society-s-purchase-of-a-slave-a-slave-purchased/) [Victor Hugo](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/victor-hugo/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/a89/victor-hugo-32_human-soul_it-is-the-story-of-society-s-purchase-of_2141534.jpg) > [Do not commit yourself to anybody or anything, for that is to be a slave, a slave to every man Above all,…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/baltasar-gracian/do-not-commit-yourself-to-anybody-or-anything-for-that-is-to-be-a/) [Baltasar Gracian](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/baltasar-gracian/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/e26/baltasar-gracian-1090_be-a-slave_do-not-commit-yourself-to-anybody-or-any_2993811.jpg) > [“No slave is a slave to the same lengths, and in so full a sense of the word, as a wife is…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/carole-pateman/no-slave-is-a-slave-to-the-same-lengths-and-in-so-full-a-sense-of-the/) [Carole Pateman](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/carole-pateman/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/0eb/carole-pateman-35945_marriage_no-slave-is-a-slave-to-the-same-lengths_1730927.jpg) > [“How we hate to admit that we would like nothing better than to be the slave! Slave and master at the same…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/henry-miller/how-we-hate-to-admit-that-we-would-like-nothing-better-than-to-be-the/) [Henry Miller](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/henry-miller/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/b91/henry-miller-179_balance-of-power_how-we-hate-to-admit-that-we-would-like_2755165.jpg) ```json { "@context": "https://schema.org", "@graph": [ { "@type": "ItemList", "@id": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/about/slave-slave/#itemlist", "name": "Slave Slave Quotes", "numberOfItems": 16, "itemListElement": [ { "@type": "ListItem", "position": 1, "item": { "@type": "Quotation", "text": "Only when the mind is free has the body a chance to be free. Yes, they must believe, they must believe. Because I know what it means to be a slave. 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Slave and master at the same time! For even in love the slave is always the master in disguise. The man who must conquer the woman, subjugate her, bend her to his will, form her according to his desires—is he not the slave of his slave? How easy it is, in this relationship, for the woman to upset the balance of power! The mere threat of self-dependence, on the woman’s part, and the gallant despot is seized with vertigo. But if they are able to throw themselves at one another recklessly, concealing nothing, surrendering all, if they admit to one another their interdependence, do they not enjoy a great and unsuspected freedom? The man who admits to himself that he is a coward has made a step towards conquering his fear; but the man who frankly admits it to every one, who asks that you recognize it in him and make allowance for it in dealing with him, is on the way to becoming a hero. Such a man is often surprised, when the crucial test comes, to find that he knows no fear. Having lost the fear of regarding himself as a coward he is one no longer: only the demonstration is needed to prove the metamorphosis. It is the same in love. The man who admits not only to himself but to his fellowmen, and even to the woman he adores, that he can be twisted around a woman’s finger, that he is helpless where the other sex is concerned, usually discovers that he is the more powerful of the two. Nothing breaks a woman down more quickly than complete surrender. A woman is prepared to resist, to be laid siege to: she has been trained to behave that way. When she meets no resistance she falls headlong into the trap. To be able to give oneself wholly and completely is the greatest luxury that life affords. Real love only begins at this point of dissolution. The personal life is altogether based on dependence, mutual dependence. Society is the aggregate of persons all interdependent. 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