Slave Quotes · Page 3

Can man be free if woman be a slave?

— Percy Bysshe Shelley

When you get in debt you become a slave.

— Andrew Jackson

“Your slave and enemy, D.Karamazov”

— Fyodor Dostoyevsky

A man in armour is his armour's slave.

— Robert Browning

Dissimulation is the refuge of the slave.

— Anonymous

A well-paid slave is nonetheless a slave.

— Curt Flood

Reason is the slave of passion.

— Anonymous

What to the Slave is the 4th of July.

— Frederick Douglass

[Slavery] is a weed that grows in every soil.

— Edmund Burke

The worst thing about slavery is that the slaves eventually get to like it.

— Aristotle

Money is the excellent slave and a horrible master.

— P. T. Barnum

If you don't want to be a slave, stop acting like a slave.

— Stefan Molyneux

“MAN is a slave only to his own mental lethargy.”

— Mina Loy

There exists in the minds of men a tone of feeling toward women as toward slaves.

— Margaret Fuller

Be then my slave, and know what it means to be delivered into the hands of a woman.

— Leopold von Sacher-Masoch

The worst of slaves is he whom passion rules.

— Rupert Brooke

Time is really for those who really need it. I mean, I deal with it. A lot of people are slaves to…

— Ben Harper

“I have sometimes thought--that under the affectation of independent views you are as enslaved to the social code as any woman I…

— Thomas Hardy

The world's greatest need is preaching preachers. The Gospel is our emancipation proclamation: let's take it to the slaves of sin.

— Lester Roloff

All men shall be my slaves! All women shall succumb to my charms! All mankind shall grovel at my feet and not…

— L. Ron Hubbard

Please remember that my great grandmother was a slave. My grandmother was a sharecropper. My mother was a factory worker.

— Afeni Shakur

There are more than 27 million people enslaved in the world today - that's double the amount of people taken from Africa…

— Lisa Kristine

Slavery discourages arts and manufacturing ...[and] every master of slaves is born a petty tyrant.

— George Mason

To make your life being a writer, it's an auto-slavery ... you are both the slave and the task-master.

— Susan Sontag

I was freeborn according to the flesh; I am born of a father who was a decurion, but I sold my noble…

— Saint Patrick

I struggle with how humankind ended up this way. We made ourselves slaves to money, and we all have to work and…

— Jason Mraz

What we committed in the Indies stands out among the most unpardonable offenses ever committed against God and mankind and this trade…

— Bartolome de las Casas

The American sense of the importance, the fundamental importance of the black-white dichotomy, comes out of societies founded in the era of…

— Nell Irvin Painter

The investigation of the rights of the slave has led me to a better understanding of my own. I have found the…

— Angelina Grimke

Was not necessity the plea of every illegal exertion of power or exercise of oppression?...Necessity is the plea for very infringement of…

— William Pitt

We're the most captive nation of slaves that ever came along. The moral timidity of the average American is quite noticeable. Everybody's…

— Gore Vidal

People who want to live like Olympian gods must have slaves whom they throw into their fishponds and gladiators who fight during…

— Leopold von Sacher-Masoch

History is a continuum, it's not these separate moments. That's how we look at it. In the 1700s in Virginia before there…

— Titus Kaphar

A really large percentage of kids from Duke go to work on Wall Street, and they make a lot of money, but…

— Mike Posner

it is not men that most women worry about when they rise to the defense of the status quo. Their apparent endorsement…

— Elizabeth Gould Davis

Is it just or reasonable, that most voices against the main end of government should enslave the less number that would be…

— John Milton

It surprises people that there's actually a very large number of slaves in the world today-our best estimate is 27 million. And…

— Kevin Bales

Both read the same Bible, and pray to the same God; and each invokes His aid against the other. It may seem…

— Abraham Lincoln

As for me, you wonder why I am a socialist. I'll tell you. It is because socialism is inevitable; because the present…

— Jack London

The tenets of [the Christian life] seem paradoxes to carnal men; as first, that a Christian is the only freeman, and other…

— Richard Sibbes