Being Quote by Alice Oswald

Sometimes, one must become a master to avoid becoming a slave.

— Octavia Butler

We have never been colonized, because of our attitude... We have the confidence, the moral authority, and our people are also enough to tell…

— Hailemariam Desalegn

I know what it means to be a slave, both physically and emotionally.

— Park Yeon-mi

Sex, drugs, money, power etc. Just because you get to choose your master doesn't mean you aren't a slave.

— LeCrae

I was on the wrong side of colonization. My ancestry is mostly mired in having the colonial experience as colonized subjects, first as slaves…

— Fred D'Aguiar

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

— Natalie Clifford Barney

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

— Anthony Eden

A slave has but one master; an ambitious man has as many masters as there are people who may be useful in bettering his…

— Jean de la Bruyere

The art of being a slave is to rule one's master.

— Diogenes

I never knew a man who wished to be himself a slave. Consider if you know any good thing, that no man desires for…

— Abraham Lincoln

One thinks himself the master of others, and still remains a greater slave than they.

— Jean-Jacques Rousseau

“The whole commerce between master and slave is a perpetual exercise of the most boisterous passions, the most unremitting despotism on the one part,…

— Thomas Jefferson