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Slave Quotes by C.S. Lewis
- In the ancient world individuals have sold themselves as slaves, in order to eat. So in society. Here is a witch-doctor who can save us…
- It is the magician's bargain: give up our soul, get power in return. But once our souls, that is, ourselves, have been given up, the…
- Whenever all men are...hastening to be slaves or tyrants we make Liberalism the prime bogey.
- 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…
- I have received no assurance that anything we can do will eradicate suffering. I think the best results are obtained by people who work quietly…
- Though no one would want to be sold as a slave, it is perhaps even more galling to be a sort of utility slave whom…
- 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…
More Slave Quotes
- He who can be, and therefore is, another's, and he who participates in reason enough to apprehend, but not to have, is… — Aristotle
- The last four or five hundred years of European contact with Africa produced a body of literature that presented Africa in a… — Chinua Achebe
- He that is kind is free, though he is a slave; he that is evil is a slave, though he be a… — Saint Augustine
- My father was a man of great charity towards the poor, and compassion for the sick, and also for servants; so much… — Teresa of Avila
- The custom of speaking to God Almighty as freely as with a slave - caring nothing whether the words are suitable or… — Teresa of Avila
- The first revolt is against the supreme tyranny of theology, of the phantom of God. As long as we have a master… — Mikhail Bakunin
- It is time to get drunk! So as not to be the martyred slaves of Time, get drunk; get drunk without stopping!… — Charles Baudelaire
- Be daring, be different, be impractical, be anything that will assert integrity of purpose and imaginative vision against the play-it-safers, the creatures… — Cecil Beaton