Slave Quotes

1576 Slave quotes by 962 unique authors

A house divided against itself cannot stand." I believe this government cannot endure, permanently half slave and half free. I do not expect the Union… — Abraham Lincoln
People think that a liar gains a victory over his victim. What I’ve learned is that a lie is an act of self-abdication, because one… — Ayn Rand
in reference to Persepolis and all palaces, cities and temples of the past: could these wonders have come into being without that suffering? without the… — Ryszard Kapuscinski
Every nation that has ended in tyranny has come to that end by way of good order. It certainly does not follow from this that… — Alexis de Tocqueville
The person who risks nothing, does nothing, has nothing, is nothing, and becomes nothing. He may avoid suffering and sorrow, but he simply cannot learn,… — Leo Buscaglia
Reason is, and ought only to be the slave of the passions. — David Hume
Today as always, men fall into two groups: slaves and free men. Whoever does not have two-thirds of his day for himself, is a slave,… — Friedrich Nietzsche
Be not the slave of your own past - plunge into the sublime seas, dive deep, and swim far, so you shall come back with… — Ralph Waldo Emerson
Write about this man who, drop by drop, squeezes the slave's blood out of himself until he wakes one day to find the blood of… — Anton Chekhov
Out of the huts of history's shame I rise Up from a past that's rooted in pain I rise I'm a black ocean, leaping and… — Maya Angelou
Pirate Captain Jim "Walk the plank," says Pirate Jim "But Captain Jim, I cannot swim." "Then you must steer us through the gale." "But Captain… — Shel Silverstein
Good name in man and woman, dear my lord, Is the immediate jewel of their souls: Who steals my purse steals trash; ’tis something, nothing;… — William Shakespeare
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… — Mark Twain
Human reason is beautiful and invincible. No bars, no barbed wire, no pulping of books, No sentence of banishment can prevail against it. It puts… — Czeslaw Milosz
Never, never, never believe any war will be smooth and easy, or that anyone who embarks on the strange voyage can measure the tides and… — Winston Churchill
Let us in the name of the Holy Trinity go on sending all the slaves that can be sold. — Howard Zinn
Worker bees can leave. Even drones can fly away. The Queen is their slave. — Chuck Palahniuk
Your emotions are the slaves to your thoughts, and you are the slave to your emotions. — Elizabeth Gilbert
There was a time when you were not a slave, remember that. You walked alone, full of laughter, you bathed bare-bellied. You say you have… — Monique Wittig
Whenever all men are...hastening to be slaves or tyrants we make Liberalism the prime bogey. — C.S. Lewis
To begin depriving death of its greatest advantage over us, let us adopt a way clean contrary to that common one; let us deprive death… — Michel de Montaigne
She had an overwhelming desire to tell him, like the most banal of women. Don't let me go, hold me tight, make me your plaything,… — Milan Kundera
The world is filled with people who are no longer needed. And who try to make slaves of all of us. And they have their… — Woody Guthrie
The aim of education is to develop resources in the child that will contribute to his well-being as long as life endures; to develop power… — David O. McKay
So I began to think maybe it was true that when you were married and had children it was like being brainwashed, and afterward you… — Sylvia Plath

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