Slave Quotes

1576 quotes by 962 authors

The petition of persons under eighteen, praying that I would free all slave children, and the heading of which petition it appears you wrote, was… — Abraham Lincoln
If God is, man is a slave; now, man can and must be free; then, God does not exist. I defy anyone whomsoever to avoid… — Mikhail Bakunin
The fruits of Christianity were religious wars, butcheries, crusades, inquisitions, extermination of the natives of America, and the introduction of African slaves in their place. — Arthur Schopenhauer
The art of war is like the art of the courtesan; indeed they might be called sisters, since both are slaves of desperation. — Pietro Aretino
I think a person who takes a job in order to live - that is to say, for the money - has turned himself into… — Joseph Campbell
You may have to fight when there is no hope of victory, because it is better to perish than live as slaves. — Winston Churchill
I was latching on to something that was part of my heritage, because many of the slaves who were brought here were Moslems. — Kareem Abdul-Jabbar
I'm nothing more than a sports slave. — Dennis Rodman
If you have inner peace, nobody can force you to be a slave to the outer reality. — Sri Chinmoy
If you are worthy of its affection, a cat will be your friend but never your slave. — Theophile Gautier
Heaven would that she these gifts should have, and I to live and die her slave. — William Shakespeare
This is what it means to be a slave; to be abused and bear it; compelled by violence to suffer wrong. — Euripides
The tenets of [the Christian life] seem paradoxes to carnal men; as first, that a Christian is the only freeman, and other men are slaves;… — Richard Sibbes
Somewhere in the arrangement of this world there seems to be a great concern about giving us delight, which shows that, in the universe, over… — Rabindranath Tagore
We are all of us, more or less, the slaves of opinion. — William Hazlitt
Every child has to disobey the father. Unless a child disobeys the father he never becomes mature. It is nothing, original, it is very simple… — Rajneesh
The individual has totally different interests from the society, because the society has no soul. The society is soulless. And if you become too much… — Rajneesh
We are afraid of love because Love is a small death. Love requires that we should surrender, and we don't want to surrender at all.… — Rajneesh
If all men are born free, why is it that all women are born slaves? — Mary Astell
The Museum is not meant either for the wanderer to see by accident or for the pilgrim to see with awe. It is meant for… — Gilbert K. Chesterton

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