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Slave Quotes by Mark Twain
- Strange a God who mouths Golden Rules and forgiveness, then invented hell; who mouths morals to other people and has none Himself; who frowns upon…
- Man is the only slave. And he is the only animal who enslaves. He has always been a slave in one form or another, and…
- Monarchies, aristocracies, and religions are all based upon that large defect in your race - the individual's distrust of his neighbor, and his desire, for…
- My first American ancestor, gentlemen, was an Indian-an early Indian. Your ancestors skinned him alive, and I am an orphan. All those Salem witches were…
- In all the ages the Roman Church has owned slaves, bought and sold slaves, authorized and encouraged her children to trade in them. . .…
- I love to revel in philosophical matters-especially astronomy. I study astronomy more than any other foolishness there is. I am a perfect slave to it.…
- 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…
- There was no place in the land where the seeker could not find some small budding sign of pity for the slave. No place in…
More Slave Quotes
- Nothing is more disgusting than the crowing about liberty by slaves, as most men are, and the flippant mistaking for freedom of… — Ralph Waldo Emerson
- The custom of speaking to God Almighty as freely as with a slave - caring nothing whether the words are suitable or… — Teresa of Avila
- You don't become completely free by just avoiding being a slave; you also need to avoid becoming a master. — Nassim Nicholas Taleb
- 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
- Man is free; yet we must not suppose that he is at liberty to do everything he pleases, for he becomes a… — Giacomo Casanova
- I said there was a society of men among us, bred up from their youth in the art of proving by words… — Jonathan Swift
- I wanted to be a great white hunter, a prospector for gold, or a slave trader. But then, when I was eight,… — Wilbur Smith