Slave Quotes
1576 quotes by 962 authors
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It is a law of nature that every decent man on earth is bound to be a coward and a slave
— Fyodor Dostoevsky
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Just know that it’s fear that keeps most people working at a job. The fear of not paying their bills. The fear of being fired.…
— Robert Kiyosaki
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Aristotle said that some people were only fit to be slaves. I do not contradict him. But I reject slavery because I see no men…
— C.S. Lewis
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Be then my slave, and know what it means to be delivered into the hands of a woman.
— Leopold von Sacher-Masoch
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Hindustan had become free. Pakistan had become independent soon after its inception but man was still slave in both these countries -- slave of prejudice…
— Saadat Hasan Manto
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I should have known the power-hungry slave drivers at River's Edge would see my five days of freedom only as a challenge to be filled.
— Cate Tiernan
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Irony is the glory of slaves.
— Czeslaw Milosz
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They were indeed what was known as 'old money', which meant that it had been made so long ago that the black deeds which had…
— Terry Pratchett
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Disobedience- that is the nobility of slaves.
— Friedrich Nietzsche
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People get used to anything. The less you think about your oppression, the more your tolerance for it grows. After a while, people just think…
— Assata Shakur
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If, by happiness, you mean the absence of adversity I and all fabricants are the happiest stratum in corpocracy as genomicists insist. However, if happiness…
— David Mitchell
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I am afraid that woman appreciate cruelty, downright cruelty, more than anything else. They have wonderfully primitive instincts. We have emancipated them, but they remain…
— Oscar Wilde
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The difference between technology and slavery is that slaves are fully aware that they are not free
— Nassim Nicholas Taleb
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I have always thought that all men should be free; but if any should be slaves, it should be first those who desire for themselves,…
— Abraham Lincoln
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...counselling man to treat her as a slave while persuading her that she is a queen.
— Simone de Beauvoir
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Eventually your body will learn the alliances it has to make with itself,' Kenny had said - as if Cam was a factory full of…
— Neal Shusterman
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The Fundamentalist Christians have told me that I am a slave of Satan and should have my demons expelled with an exorcism. The Fundamentalist Materialists…
— Robert Anton Wilson
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The world is evil only when you become its slave.
— Henri Nouwen
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For over a thousand years Roman conquerors returning from the wars enjoyed the honor of triumph, a tumultuous parade. In the procession came trumpeteers, musicians…
— George S. Patton
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Despair is a free man--hope is a slave.
— Lucy Maud Montgomery
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