Slave Quotes
1576 quotes by 962 authors
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Pirate Captain Jim "Walk the plank," says Pirate Jim "But Captain Jim, I cannot swim." "Then you must steer us through the gale." "But Captain…
— Shel Silverstein
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Good name in man and woman, dear my lord, Is the immediate jewel of their souls: Who steals my purse steals trash; ’tis something, nothing;…
— William Shakespeare
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Of all God's creatures, there is only one that cannot be made slave of the leash. That one is the cat. If man could be…
— Mark Twain
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Human reason is beautiful and invincible. No bars, no barbed wire, no pulping of books, No sentence of banishment can prevail against it. It puts…
— Czeslaw Milosz
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Never, never, never believe any war will be smooth and easy, or that anyone who embarks on the strange voyage can measure the tides and…
— Winston Churchill
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Let us in the name of the Holy Trinity go on sending all the slaves that can be sold.
— Howard Zinn
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Worker bees can leave. Even drones can fly away. The Queen is their slave.
— Chuck Palahniuk
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Your emotions are the slaves to your thoughts, and you are the slave to your emotions.
— Elizabeth Gilbert
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There was a time when you were not a slave, remember that. You walked alone, full of laughter, you bathed bare-bellied. You say you have…
— Monique Wittig
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Whenever all men are...hastening to be slaves or tyrants we make Liberalism the prime bogey.
— C.S. Lewis
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To begin depriving death of its greatest advantage over us, let us adopt a way clean contrary to that common one; let us deprive death…
— Michel de Montaigne
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She had an overwhelming desire to tell him, like the most banal of women. Don't let me go, hold me tight, make me your plaything,…
— Milan Kundera
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The world is filled with people who are no longer needed. And who try to make slaves of all of us. And they have their…
— Woody Guthrie
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The aim of education is to develop resources in the child that will contribute to his well-being as long as life endures; to develop power…
— David O. McKay
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So I began to think maybe it was true that when you were married and had children it was like being brainwashed, and afterward you…
— Sylvia Plath
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There is between sleep and us something like a pact, a treaty with no secret clauses, and according to this convention it is agreed that,…
— Maurice Blanchot
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But one of the worst results of being a slave and being forced to do things is that when there is no one to force…
— C.S. Lewis
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It [feminism] is mixed up with a muddled idea that women are free when they serve their employers but slaves when they help their husbands.
— Gilbert K. Chesterton
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Every man having been born free and master of himself, no one else may under any pretext whatever subject him without his consent. To assert…
— Jean-Jacques Rousseau
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No use slaving for me and then saying you want to be cared for: who cares for a slave? If you come back, come back…
— George Bernard Shaw
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