Slave Quotes

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In our natural state, we are glorious beings. In the world of illusion, we are lost and imprisoned, slaves to our appetites and our will… — Marianne Williamson
An Enlightened Master is ideal only if your goal is to become a Benighted Slave. — Robert Anton Wilson
For what Harley Street specialist has time to understand the body, let alone the mind or both in combination, when he is a slave to… — Virginia Woolf
Typically creative people are usually not clock-slaves or list-makers, so the idea of enforcing goals and deadlines can be somewhat daunting. — Kristin Armstrong
The American Dream, coupled with government subsidies of utilities and cheap consumer goods courtesy of slave labour somewhere else, has kept the poor huddled masses… — Elizabeth Wurtzel
I am a galley slave to pen and ink. — Honore de Balzac
All is mystery; but he is a slave who will not struggle to penetrate the dark veil. — Benjamin Disraeli
The man who does not do his own thinking is a slave, and is a traitor to himself and to his fellow-men. — Robert Green Ingersoll
I knew I hated him as only a woman can hate a man, as only a slave can hate his master. — Nawal El Saadawi
We are slaves in the sense that we depend for our daily survival upon an expand-or-expire agro-industrial empireâ€”a crackpot machineâ€”that the specialists cannot comprehend and… — Edward Abbey
A house divided against itself cannot stand." I believe this government cannot endure, permanently half slave and half free. I do not expect the Union… — Abraham Lincoln
People think that a liar gains a victory over his victim. What Iâ€™ve learned is that a lie is an act of self-abdication, because one… — Ayn Rand
in reference to Persepolis and all palaces, cities and temples of the past: could these wonders have come into being without that suffering? without the… — Ryszard Kapuscinski
Every nation that has ended in tyranny has come to that end by way of good order. It certainly does not follow from this that… — Alexis de Tocqueville
The person who risks nothing, does nothing, has nothing, is nothing, and becomes nothing. He may avoid suffering and sorrow, but he simply cannot learn,… — Leo Buscaglia
Reason is, and ought only to be the slave of the passions. — David Hume
Today as always, men fall into two groups: slaves and free men. Whoever does not have two-thirds of his day for himself, is a slave,… — Friedrich Nietzsche
Be not the slave of your own past - plunge into the sublime seas, dive deep, and swim far, so you shall come back with… — Ralph Waldo Emerson
Write about this man who, drop by drop, squeezes the slave's blood out of himself until he wakes one day to find the blood of… — Anton Chekhov
Out of the huts of history's shame I rise Up from a past that's rooted in pain I rise I'm a black ocean, leaping and… — Maya Angelou

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