Slave Quotes
1576 Slave quotes by 962 unique authors
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Having enough money has to go hand in hand with living in a way that you're not being a slave to your possessions.
— Patton Oswalt
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Too many would-be executives are slaves of routine.
— James Cash Penney
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Slave to no sect, who takes no private road, But looks through Nature up to Nature's God.
— Alexander Pope
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A slave is one who waits for someone to come and free him.
— Ezra Pound
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It only stands to reason that where there's sacrifice, there's someone collecting the sacrificial offerings. Where there's service, there is someone being served. The man…
— Ayn Rand
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Now is the time for the U.S. and the nations of Western Europe who engaged in the slave trade throughout this hemisphere to come forward…
— Charles Rangel
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We must find new lands from which we can easily obtain raw materials and at the same time exploit the cheap slave labor that is…
— Cecil Rhodes
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There can be no tyrants where there are no slaves.
— Jose Rizal
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That's libertarians for you - anarchists who want police protection from their slaves.
— Kim Stanley Robinson
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There are no galley-slaves in the royal vessel of divine love - every man works his oar voluntarily!
— Saint Francis de Sales
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The only time you really live fully is from thirty to sixty. The young are slaves to dreams; the old servants of regrets. Only the…
— Theodore Roosevelt
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And so, whether they came here on the Mayflower, on a slave ship, or on an airplane from Havana, we are all descendants of the…
— Marco Rubio
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Some slaves are scoured to their work by whips, others by their restlessness and ambition.
— John Ruskin
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The slave is doomed to worship time and fate and death, because they are greater than anything he finds in himself, and because all his…
— Bertrand Russell
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The perfection of our union, especially our commitment to equality of opportunity, has been a story of constant striving to live up to our Founding…
— Paul Ryan
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The scariest thought in the world is that someday I'll wake up and realize I've been sleepwalking through my life: underappreciating the people I love,…
— George Saunders
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The Bible is a radically pro-slavery document. Slave owners waved Bibles over their heads in the Civil War and justified it.
— Dan Savage
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I'm not interested in being commodified. I'm not into being sold. I'm not a slave.
— Jill Scott
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I am not saying that factory farming is the same as the Holocaust or the slave trade, but it's clear that there is an immense…
— Peter Singer
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I wanted to be a great white hunter, a prospector for gold, or a slave trader. But then, when I was eight, my parents sent…
— Wilbur Smith
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A man is no less a slave because he is allowed to choose a new master once in a term of years.
— Lysander Spooner
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A man who is without capital, and who, by prohibitions upon banking, is practically forbidden to hire any, is in a condition elevated but one…
— Lysander Spooner
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A slave government is an oligarchy; and one, too, of the most arbitrary and criminal character.
— Lysander Spooner
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If a jury have not the right to judge between the government and those who disobey its laws, and resist its oppressions, the government is…
— Lysander Spooner
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Now a slave is not 'held' by any legal contract, obligation, duty, or authority, which the laws will enforce. He is 'held' only by brute…
— Lysander Spooner
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