To tame the proud, the fetter'd slave to free, These are imperial arts. — John Dryden Copy Share Image
The man who asks of freedom anything other than itself is born to be a slave. — Alexis de Tocqueville Copy Share Image
The weak-minded man is the slave of his vices and the dupe of his virtues. — Jean Antoine Petit-Senn Copy Share Image
As long as we have a master in heaven, we will be slaves on earth. — Mikhail Bakunin Copy Share Image
I never knew a man who wished to be himself a slave. Consider if you know any good thing, that no man… — Abraham Lincoln Copy Share Image
But as the unthought-on accident is guilty To what we wildly do, so we profess Ourselves to be the slaves of chance,… — William Shakespeare Copy Share Image
“The good man is free, even if he is a slave. The evil man is a slave, even if he is a… — Augustine of Hippo Copy Share Image
The true savage is a slave, and is always talking about what he must do; the true civilised man is a free… — Gilbert K. Chesterton Copy Share Image
Be the master of your fate, be the captain of your soul, but do not hesitate, should the chance befall you, to… — Robert Breault Copy Share Image
In the Constitution of the United States, Negroes are referred to as fellows although the word 'slave' is carefully avoided before the… — W. E. B. Du Bois Copy Share Image
The State is the absolute reality and the individual himself has objective existence, truth and morality only in his capacity as a… — Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel Copy Share Image
Who fears not to do ill fears the name, And free from conscience, is a slave to fame. — John Denham Copy Share Image
Through the history of the world there have always been exploiters and exploited. There always will be ... because the great mass… — W. Somerset Maugham Copy Share Image
“The whole commerce between master and slave is a perpetual exercise of the most boisterous passions, the most unremitting despotism on the… — Thomas Jefferson Copy Share Image
“Nikandros came to stand beside him. ‘Jokaste is confined in a cell in the east wing. Do you have further orders?’ ‘Strip… — C.S. Pacat Copy Share Image
There is no justification for the common claim that Christianity was responsible for the abolition of slavery. The Negro slave trade -… — Margaret E. Knight Copy Share Image
“We are at the mercy of whoever wields authority over the things we either desire or detest. If you would be free,… — Epictetus Copy Share Image
I hate luxury. I exercise moderation…It will be easy to forget your vision and purpose one you have fine clothes, fast horses… — Genghis Khan Copy Share Image
“Without education … what is man but a splendid slave, a reasoning savage vacillating between the dignity of an intelligence derived from… — Chukwudifu Oputa Copy Share Image
I'm not their slave," the man mutters. "I am," I say. "That's why I killed Cato... and he killed Thresh... and he… — Suzanne Collins Copy Share Image
The difference between a man who is led by opinion or emotion and one who is led by reason. The former, whether… — David Hume Copy Share Image
For over a thousand years Roman conquerors returning from the wars enjoyed the honor of triumph, a tumultuous parade. In the procession… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Slavery was a central concern of governance form the time of the first nation-state. The Code of Hammurabi, the earliest know set… — Derrick Jensen Copy Share Image
If abuses are destroyed, we must destroy them. If slaves are freed, we must free them. If new truths are discovered, we… — Robert Green Ingersoll Copy Share Image
the society which projects and undertakes the technological transformation of nature alters the base of domination by gradually replacing personal dependence (of… — Herbert Marcuse Copy Share Image
All fundamentalist theologians make the ordinances of creation an essential part of creation and absolutize them. Women belong at home, fulfil their… — Dorothee Solle Copy Share Image
Civilization is drugs, alcohol, engines of war, prostitution, machines and machine slaves, low wages, bad food, bad taste, prisons, reformatories, lunatic asylums,… — Henry Miller Copy Share Image
I have watched how steadily the general feeling, as shown at elections, has been rising against Slavery. What a proud thing for… — Charles Darwin Copy Share Image
Fashion condemns us to many follies; the greatest is to make ourselves its slave — Napoleon Bonaparte Copy Share Image
If you cannot be the master of your language, you must be its slave. — Richard Mitchell Copy Share Image
As long as we require someone else to make us happy, we are slaves. — Swami Vivekananda Copy Share Image
“She would forever belong to them, a willing slave to their love and desire.” — S.R. Roddy Copy Share Image