Slave Quotes

1576 Slave quotes by 962 unique authors

La femme marie e est un esclave qu'il faut savoir mettre sur un tro" n e. A married woman is a slave whom one must… — Honore de Balzac
Mathematics is the source of a wicked intellect that, while making man the lord of the earth, also makes him the slave of the machine. — Robert Musil
seeming's enough for slaves of space and time ours is the now and here of freedom . Come — E E Cummings
Do not mistake your objection to defeat for an objection to fighting, your objection to being a slave for an objection to slavery, your objection… — George Bernard Shaw
When the master has come to do everything through the slave, the slave becomes his master, since he cannot live without him. — George Bernard Shaw
The body was the slave of the vortex; but the slave has become the master; and we must free ourselves from that tyranny. It is… — George Bernard Shaw
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… — C.S. Lewis
I can understand the poor and stupid voting for Marxism or one of its fashionable variants. If you've no hope of being other than a… — P.D. James
In pious times, ere priest-craft did begin, Before polygamy was made a sin; When man, on many, multipli'd his kind, Ere one to one was… — John Dryden
Swords were given to men, that none might be Slaves, but such as know not how to use them. — Algernon Sidney
Christianity is most admirably adapted to the training of slaves, to the perpetuation of a slave society; in short, to the very conditions confronting us… — Emma Goldman
What the working man sells is not directly his Labor, but his Laboring Power, the temporary disposal of which he makes over to the capitalist.… — Karl Marx
for nothing can be more reasonable, than that slaves and flatterers should exact the same taxes on all below them, which they themselves pay to… — Henry Fielding
I was thinking what a curious thing love is; only a sentiment, and yet it has power to make fools of men and slaves of… — Louisa May Alcott
To every man, even though he be a slave, the light of heaven is sweet. — Euripides
It is often asserted that as woman has always been man's slave--subject--inferior--dependent, under all forms of government and religion, slavery must be her normal condition.… — Susan B. Anthony
Whether our ancestors came here on the Mayflower, on slave ships, whether they came to Ellis Island or LAX in Los Angeles, whether they came… — William J. Clinton
Man, who wert once a despot and a slave, A dupe and a deceiver! a decay, A traveller from the cradle to the grave Through… — Percy Bysshe Shelley
Roll, years of promise, rapidly roll round, till not a slave shall on this earth be found. — John Quincy Adams
As soon as slavery fired upon the flag it was felt, we all felt, even those who did not object to slaves, that slavery must… — Ulysses S. Grant
The cause of the great War of the Rebellion against the United Status will have to be attributed to slavery. For some years before the… — Ulysses S. Grant
I was born and raised in the University of Chicago area and had an uneventful middle-class Catholic childhood. I had a heavy Catholic upbringing and… — Chaka Khan
The danger of the past was that men became slaves. The danger of the future is that man may become robots. — Erich Fromm
It seems that it is madder never to abandon one's self than often to be infatuated; better to be wounded, a captive and a slave,… — Margaret Fuller
As long as a word remains unspoken, you are its master; once you utter it, you are its slave. — Solomon Ibn Gabirol

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