Slave Quotes
1576 quotes by 962 authors
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Woman has always been man's dependent, if not his slave; the two sexes have never shaped the world in equality. And even today woman is…
— Simone de Beauvoir
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We are all hostages, and we are all terrorists. This circuit has replaced that other one of masters and slaves, the dominating and the dominated,…
— Jean Baudrillard
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If there is a species which is more maltreated than children, then it must be their toys, which they handle in an incredibly off-hand manner.…
— Jean Baudrillard
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Can man be free if woman be a slave?
— Percy Bysshe Shelley
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Nor was it only from the millions of slaves that chains had been removed; the whole nation had been in bondage; free speech had been…
— Matthew Simpson
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I've always been a slave to my heart.
— Willie Stargell
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I mean to say that Congress can hereafter decide whether any states, slave or free, can be framed out of Texas. If they should never…
— William H. Seward
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The proposition of an established classification of states as slave states and free states, as insisted on by some, and into northern and southern, as…
— William H. Seward
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The right to have a slave implies the right in some one to make the slave; that right must be equal and mutual, and this…
— William H. Seward
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The man who is master of his passions is Reason's slave.
— Cyril Connolly
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All socialism involves slavery. That which fundamentally distinguishes the slave is that he labours under coercion to satisfy anothers desires.
— Herbert Spencer
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The feudal concept of self-preservation is poisoned at the core by the virulent assumption of master and man, of potentate and slave, of external and…
— Louis Sullivan
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Who cannot resolve upon a moment's notice To live his own life, he forever lives A slave to others.
— Gotthold Ephraim Lessing
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We're becoming slaves to our social networks - and that's not a bad thing. You like your favorite networks, so do you friends, and pretty…
— Max Levchin
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What do we mean by 'crazy?' What do we mean by 'mad?' At what point is a person just different and at what point can…
— Jo Nesbo
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I'm a slave to the culture, so I see an Audi, a Denali, or an Escalade, my neighbor got the four-door Porsche. I have a…
— Patrice O'Neal
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I'm not a slave to fashion; I'm into exercising my individuality.
— Sandra Oh
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Lincoln emancipated nobody. The man freed not a single slave.
— L. Neil Smith
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Our purpose in this life is to gain the view of ourselves; otherwise, we are total slaves to others who psychically drain us, abuse us.
— Frederick Lenz
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Stop trying to do things that will make you happy. Happiness is a state of mind; because otherwise, you are a slave to circumstance.
— Frederick Lenz
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