Slave Quotes

1576 Slave quotes by 962 unique authors

The commerce of a free people is many times more valuable than that of slaves. Freemen produce and consume vastly more than slaves. They have… — Lysander Spooner
When you're an actor, you're a slave to other people's visions. — Sylvester Stallone
But if you want to continue to be slaves of the banks and pay the cost of your own slavery, then let bankers continue to… — Josiah Stamp
There is a reason it used to be a crime in the Confederate states to teach a slave to read: Literacy is power. — Matt Taibbi
Ants are so much like human beings as to be an embarrassment. They farm fungi, raise aphids as livestock, launch armies into war, use chemical… — Lewis Thomas
I am an Addictive Personality, they say, a natural slave to passion - and many Doctors have warned me against it. I am a High-risk… — Hunter S. Thompson
Disobedience is the true foundation of liberty. The obedient must be slaves. — Henry David Thoreau
I freed a thousand slaves I could have freed a thousand more if only they knew they were slaves. — Harriet Tubman
If I could have convinced more slaves that they were slaves, I could have freed thousands more. — Harriet Tubman
In the Bible, we first encounter God when he sides with a bunch of slaves against a powerful Pharaoh, an act of grace freely given. — Desmond Tutu
Some people try to get you out of slavery for you to be their slave. — Mike Tyson
As with most things in my life, I believe you should try to enjoy yourself and never feel like you are a slave to a… — Donatella Versace
Abraham Lincoln freed the slaves, Robert Lincoln bought a nice ski lodge. — Sarah Vowell
The time is near at hand which must determine whether Americans are to be free men or slaves. — George Washington
Oh while I live, to be the ruler of life, not a slave, to meet life as a powerful conqueror, and nothing exterior to me… — Walt Whitman
In our natural state, we are glorious beings. In the world of illusion, we are lost and imprisoned, slaves to our appetites and our will… — Marianne Williamson
An Enlightened Master is ideal only if your goal is to become a Benighted Slave. — Robert Anton Wilson
For what Harley Street specialist has time to understand the body, let alone the mind or both in combination, when he is a slave to… — Virginia Woolf
Typically creative people are usually not clock-slaves or list-makers, so the idea of enforcing goals and deadlines can be somewhat daunting. — Kristin Armstrong
The American Dream, coupled with government subsidies of utilities and cheap consumer goods courtesy of slave labour somewhere else, has kept the poor huddled masses… — Elizabeth Wurtzel
I am a galley slave to pen and ink. — Honore de Balzac
All is mystery; but he is a slave who will not struggle to penetrate the dark veil. — Benjamin Disraeli
The man who does not do his own thinking is a slave, and is a traitor to himself and to his fellow-men. — Robert Green Ingersoll
I knew I hated him as only a woman can hate a man, as only a slave can hate his master. — Nawal El Saadawi
We are slaves in the sense that we depend for our daily survival upon an expand-or-expire agro-industrial empire—a crackpot machine—that the specialists cannot comprehend and… — Edward Abbey

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