Slave Quotes

1576 Slave quotes by 962 unique authors

Assure a man that he has a soul and then frighten him with old wives' tales as to what is to become of him afterward,… — Theodore Dreiser
The genius of any slave system is found in the dynamics which isolate slaves from each other, obscure the reality of a common condition, and… — Andrea Dworkin
If you are living out of a sense of obligation you are slave. — Wayne Dyer
The greatest task before civilization at present is to make machines what they ought to be, the slaves, instead of the masters of men. — Havelock Ellis
I am not ashamed of my grandparents for having been slaves. I am only ashamed of myself for having at one time being ashamed. — Ralph Ellison
A man in debt is so far a slave. — Ralph Waldo Emerson
Men's actions are too strong for them. Show me a man who has acted, and who has not been the victim and slave of his… — Ralph Waldo Emerson
It is the nature of the wise to resist pleasures, but the foolish to be a slave to them. — Epictetus
No one is truly free, they are a slave to wealth, fortune, the law, or other people restraining them from acting according to their will. — Euripides
Christians, like slaves and soldiers, ask no questions. — Jerry Falwell
Moses freed the Jews. Lincoln freed the slaves. I freed the neurotics. — Larry Flynt
No more turning a blind eye to Chinese spies in our nuclear labs. No more keeping silent about Chinese slave labor camps. — Steve Forbes
Actors work and slave and it is the color of your hair that can determine your fate in the end. — Helen Hayes
Fear is the passion of slaves. — Patrick Henry
The issue isn't just jobs. Even slaves had jobs. The issue is wages. — Jim Hightower
We are slaves to whatever we don't understand. — Vernon Howard
People can be slave-ships in shoes. — Zora Neale Hurston
A creditor is worse than a slave-owner; for the master owns only your person, but a creditor owns your dignity, and can command it. — Victor Hugo
Reason is, and ought only to be the slave of the passions, and can never pretend to any other office than to serve and obey… — David Hume
I believe that the human race has developed a form of collective schizophrenia in which we are not only the slaves to this imposed thought… — David Icke
Why hast thou made me born in this country, The inhabitant of which is satisfied with being a slave? — Muhammad Iqbal
When I'm rhyming it's all in my head... Like the slaves, when they were picking cotton, they would block out their minds. They would sing. — Wyclef Jean
The whole commerce between master and slave is a perpetual exercise of the most boisterous passions, the most unremitting despotism on the one part, and… — Thomas Jefferson
Most software today is very much like an Egyptian pyramid with millions of bricks piled on top of each other, with no structural integrity, but… — Alan Kay
There is no king who has not had a slave among his ancestors, and no slave who has not had a king among his. — Helen Keller

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