Slave Quotes

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He who can be, and therefore is, another's, and he who participates in reason enough to apprehend, but not to have, is a slave by… — Aristotle
The last four or five hundred years of European contact with Africa produced a body of literature that presented Africa in a very bad light… — Chinua Achebe
He that is kind is free, though he is a slave; he that is evil is a slave, though he be a king. — Saint Augustine
My father was a man of great charity towards the poor, and compassion for the sick, and also for servants; so much so, that he… — Teresa of Avila
The custom of speaking to God Almighty as freely as with a slave - caring nothing whether the words are suitable or not, but simply… — Teresa of Avila
The first revolt is against the supreme tyranny of theology, of the phantom of God. As long as we have a master in heaven, we… — Mikhail Bakunin
It is time to get drunk! So as not to be the martyred slaves of Time, get drunk; get drunk without stopping! On wine, on… — Charles Baudelaire
Be daring, be different, be impractical, be anything that will assert integrity of purpose and imaginative vision against the play-it-safers, the creatures of the commonplace,… — Cecil Beaton
I'm not gonna be a slave. I'm a rock n' roller. — Steven Adler
The Free State men, myself among them, took it for granted that Missouri was a slave state. — Buffalo Bill
Marriage, n: the state or condition of a community consisting of a master, a mistress, and two slaves, making in all, two. — Ambrose Bierce
It is important to recognize and politics positive thinking is often the slaves' virtue - something that people do to con themselves about the burden… — James Bovard
The great artist is a slave to his ideals. — Christian Nestell Bovee
Create like a god, command like a king, work like a slave. — Constantin Brancusi
The tyrant grinds down his slaves and they don't turn against him, they crush those beneath them. — Emily Bronte
The slave has but one master, the ambitious man has as many as there are persons whose aid may contribute to the advancement of his… — Jean de la Bruyere
Those who will not reason, are bigots, those who cannot, are fools, and those who dare not, are slaves. — Lord Byron
I think the person who takes a job in order to live - that is to say, for the money - has turned himself into… — Joseph Campbell
One leader, one people, signifies one master and millions of slaves. — Albert Camus
Every man needs slaves like he needs clean air. To rule is to breathe, is it not? And even the most disenfranchised get to breathe.… — Albert Camus

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