Slave Quotes · Page 17

If you are ruled by mind you are a king; if by body, a slave.

— Cato the Elder

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

— Anne Rice

To be one's own master is to be the slave of self.

— Natalie Clifford Barney

Remember this: your body is your slave; it works for you.

— Jack LaLanne

I have always hated slavery, I think as much as any Abolitionist.

— Abraham Lincoln

Man should be master of his environment, not its slave. That is what freedom means.

— Anthony Eden

Fashion condemns us to many follies, the greatest is to make oneself its slave.

— Napoleon Bonaparte

Economics is a slave-driver. No one has free time; no one has any leisure.

— James Hillman

“A slave will amuse himself in his dungeon; a free man must file through his chains and dig through his prison-walls before…

— George MacDonald

Someone is always at my elbow reminding me that I am the granddaughter of slaves. It fails to register depression with me.

— Zora Neale Hurston

There is no such thing as slow freedom. Freedom is like a birth. Till we are fully free we are slaves. All…

— Mahatma Gandhi

. .women are house as well as factory slaves and are forced to bear a double workload.

— Clara Zetkin

The air of England has long been too pure for a slave, and every man is free who breathes it.

— James Mansfield

The worst form of slavery is when the slave believes he is free. This is how women under Islam feel.

— Wafa Sultan

Assure a man that he has a soul and then frighten him with old wives' tales as to what is to become…

— Theodore Dreiser

Man becomes a slave to his constantly repeated acts. What he at first chooses, at last compels.

— Orison Swett Marden

“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

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

There is no justification for the common claim that Christianity was responsible for the abolition of slavery. The Negro slave trade -…

— Margaret E. Knight

“We are at the mercy of whoever wields authority over the things we either desire or detest. If you would be free,…

— Epictetus

“Without education … what is man but a splendid slave, a reasoning savage vacillating between the dignity of an intelligence derived from…

— Chukwudifu Oputa

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

“Angelina, I think of you as my friend, the dearest of friends, and it tortures me to go against you, but now…

— Sue Monk Kidd

It doesn’t bother you that your canine brethren are being paraded around show rings like slaves?” “My canine brethren?” I said. “I…

— Carrie Vaughn

It is very strange, this domination of our intellect by our digestive organs. We cannot work, we cannot think, unless our stomach…

— Jerome K. Jerome

Jesus Christ has bought us with His blood, but, alas, He has not had His money's worth! He paid for ALL, and…

— F.B. Meyer

Why is one a slave to thought ? Why has thought become so important in all our lives -thought being ideas, being…

— Jiddu Krishnamurti

I adopted the theory of Reincarnation when I was twenty six. Religion offered nothing to the point. Even work could not give…

— Henry Ford

The distinctions of personal merit and influence, so conspicuous in a republic, so feeble and obscure under a monarchy, were abolished by…

— Edward Gibbon

The coast's a jungle of Moors, Turks, Jews, renegades from all over Europe, sitting in palaces built from the sale of Christian…

— Dorothy Dunnett

The marriage institution cannot exist among slaves, and one sixth of the population of democratic America is denied it's privileges by the…

— Frederick Douglass

. . . freedom to creat and construct, to wonder and to venture. Such freedom requires that the individual be active and…

— Erich Fromm

The best traders are simply slaves to the market's price action

— Steve Burns

Servitude is inherent; we are all slaves to duty or to force.

— Margaret of Valois

It's as if all identity has been stolen from them, except their identity as slaves.

— Kevin Bales

A slave is someone who sits down, and waits for someone to free them.

— Frederick Douglass

“Quite an experience to live in fear, isn’t it? That’s what it is to be a slave.”

— Philip K. Dick

How great would be our peril if our slaves began to number us!

— Seneca the Younger

“If you are on time you are a slave, if you are late you are free”

— SK

“The slave is a living tool, just as a tool is an inanimate slave. Hence”

— Eduardo Galeano