Slave Quotes

1576 quotes by 962 authors

Mammon is the largest slave-holder in the world. — Arthur Frederick Saunders
You have been overcome; and whether you are overcome by envy or by a so-called noble influence, you are still a slave, you are not… — Jiddu Krishnamurti
The weak-minded man is the slave of his vices and the dupe of his virtues. — Jean Antoine Petit-Senn
It is profoundly tragic that I am a slave, but it is profoundly joyous that I am God's slave, not that of a devil. — Kedar Joshi
A fundamental condition of Being is slavery. Man is the slave of God, and God that of His vanity. — Kedar Joshi
He who has mastery over his incensive power has mastery also over the demons. But anyone who is a slave to it is a stranger… — Evagrius Ponticus
Slaves do what others want. Servants do what others need. — James Hunter
I think of the old slavery, and of the way The Economy has now improved upon it. The new slavery has improved upon the old… — Wendell Berry
Side by side with the miseries of underdevelopment...we find ourselves up against a form of superdevelopment, equally inadmissable. This superdevelopment consists in an excessive availability… — Pope John Paul II
Even if nonpolluting power were feasible and abundant, the use of energy on a massive scale acts on society like a drug that is physically… — Ivan Illich
The minimum that most minimalists want leaves in place just the institutions who protect their interests. That's libertarians for you - anarchists who want police… — Kim Stanley Robinson
The artist has a twofold relation to nature; he is at once her master and her slave. — Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
Speak with contempt of none, from slave to king, The meanest Bee hath, and will use, a sting. — Benjamin Franklin
Base is the slave that pays. — William Shakespeare
When watching men of power in action it must be always kept in mind that, whether they know it or not, their main purpose is… — Eric Hoffer
It is true that so far as wealth gives time for ideal ends and exercise to ideal energies, wealth is better than poverty and ought… — William James
Men are still men. The despot's wickedness Comes of ill teaching, and of power's excess,-- Comes of the purple he from childhood wears, Slaves would… — Victor Hugo
He is sometimes slave who should be master; and sometimes master who should be slave. — Marcus Tullius Cicero
The test of civilization is the estimate of woman. Among savages she is a slave. In the dark ages of Christianity she is a toy… — George William Curtis
The tongue is the vile slave's vilest part. — Juvenal

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