Slave Quotes

1576 Slave quotes by 962 unique authors

She’s a slave. (Paden) You better be glad I’m cuffed or you’d be looking for your teeth right now. Alix Gerran isn’t a slave. She’s… — Sherrilyn Kenyon
I shall choose friends among men, but neither slaves nor masters. And I shall choose only such as please me, and them I shall love… — Ayn Rand
I was a slave to something he believed to be silly and superstitious: the idea that all life was worth defending and that nothing justified… — Rick Yancey
One should say before sleeping: I have lived many lives. I have been a slave and a prince. Many a beloved has sat upon my… — William Butler Yeats
I am two women: one wants to have all the joy, passion and adventure that life can give me. The other wants to be a… — Paulo Coelho
We created time, and now we have become the slave of time. — Leo Buscaglia
I'm not their slave," the man mutters. "I am," I say. "That's why I killed Cato... and he killed Thresh... and he killed Clove... and… — Suzanne Collins
In the end they will lay their freedom at our feet and say to us, Make us your slaves, but feed us. — Fyodor Dostoevsky
When I have seen by Time's fell hand defaced The rich proud cost of outworn buried age; When sometime lofty towers I see down-razed And… — William Shakespeare
Each man must create his own system or else he is a slave to another mans — William Blake
All her life she'd been warned that men were slaves to their desires, that they held their impulses in barely controlled check. A woman--a lady--must… — Elizabeth Hoyt
You're a slave, a bound helpless slave to one thing in this world, your imagination. — F. Scott Fitzgerald
As long as human labor power, and, consequently, life itself, remain articles of sale and purchase, of exploitation and robbery, the principle of the “sacredness… — Leon Trotsky
Whether the mask is labeled fascism, democracy, or dictatorship of the proletariat, our great adversary remains the apparatus—the bureaucracy, the police, the military. Not the… — Simone Weil
Dropping her hand, she turned in his arms. Then, rising up on tiptoe, she cupped his face in her palms and drew him down. Her… — Nalini Singh
Slaves sing most when they are most unhappy. The songs of the slave represent the sorrows of his heart; and he is relieved by them,… — Frederick Douglass
Thou art beautiful because God created thee, but thou art a slave to sin... wickedness has made you ugly. — George MacDonald
There is no slave but the creature that wills against its Creator. — George MacDonald
I am burdened with what the Buddhists call the monkey mind. The thoughts that swing from limb to limb, stopping only to scratch themselves, spit… — Elizabeth Gilbert
i'm a slave to my emotions, to my likes, to my hatred of boredom, to most of my desires — F. Scott Fitzgerald
Man is the one who desires, woman the one who is desired. This is woman's entire but decisive advantage. Through man's passions, nature has given… — Leopold von Sacher-Masoch
The thing you fail to grasp is that people are not basically good. We are basically selfish. We shove and clamour and cry for adoration,… — Christopher Nolan
The undisciplined are slaves to moods, appetites and passions — Stephen Covey
There was a land of Cavaliers and Cotton Fields called the Old South. Here in this pretty world, Gallantry took its last bow. Here was… — Ben Hecht
XI I sang his name instead of song; Over and over I sang his name: Backward and forward I sang it along, With my sweetest… — Elizabeth Barrett Browning

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