Slave Quotes

1576 Slave quotes by 962 unique authors

I should have known the power-hungry slave drivers at River's Edge would see my five days of freedom only as a challenge to be filled. — Cate Tiernan
Irony is the glory of slaves. — Czeslaw Milosz
They were indeed what was known as 'old money', which meant that it had been made so long ago that the black deeds which had… — Terry Pratchett
Disobedience- that is the nobility of slaves. — Friedrich Nietzsche
People get used to anything. The less you think about your oppression, the more your tolerance for it grows. After a while, people just think… — Assata Shakur
If, by happiness, you mean the absence of adversity I and all fabricants are the happiest stratum in corpocracy as genomicists insist. However, if happiness… — David Mitchell
I am afraid that woman appreciate cruelty, downright cruelty, more than anything else. They have wonderfully primitive instincts. We have emancipated them, but they remain… — Oscar Wilde
The difference between technology and slavery is that slaves are fully aware that they are not free — Nassim Nicholas Taleb
I have always thought that all men should be free; but if any should be slaves, it should be first those who desire for themselves,… — Abraham Lincoln
...counselling man to treat her as a slave while persuading her that she is a queen. — Simone de Beauvoir
Eventually your body will learn the alliances it has to make with itself,' Kenny had said - as if Cam was a factory full of… — Neal Shusterman
The Fundamentalist Christians have told me that I am a slave of Satan and should have my demons expelled with an exorcism. The Fundamentalist Materialists… — Robert Anton Wilson
The world is evil only when you become its slave. — Henri Nouwen
For over a thousand years Roman conquerors returning from the wars enjoyed the honor of triumph, a tumultuous parade. In the procession came trumpeteers, musicians… — George S. Patton
Despair is a free man--hope is a slave. — Lucy Maud Montgomery
When everything is subject to money, then the scarcity of money makes everything scarce, including the basis of human life and happiness. Such is the… — Charles Eisenstein
And it came to Marcus suddenly that slaves very seldom whistled. They might sing, if they felt like it or if the rhythm helped their… — Rosemary Sutcliff
I've been a Danish prince, a Texas slave-dealer, an Arab sheik, a Cheyenne Dog Soldier, and a Yankee navy lieutenant in my time, among other… — George MacDonald Fraser
The other one he loved like a slave, like a madman and like a beggar. Why? Ask the dust on the road and the falling… — Knut Hamsun
When a man says to me, 'Let us work together in the great cause you have undertaken, and let me be your companion and aid,… — Susan B. Anthony
It is a sad hardship and slavery to people who live in towns, that in their movements they know of one dimension only; they walk… — Isak Dinesen
Freedom of mind is the real freedom. A person whose mind is not free though he may not be in chains, is a slave, not… — B R Ambedkar
I don't like favors; they oppress and make me fell like a slave. I'd rather do everything for myself, and be perfectly independent. — Louisa May Alcott
Freedom is for the educated people who fought for it. We were slaves of the English, now we will be slaves of the educated Indians—or… — Khushwant Singh
Freedom is a state of mind, I said wondering where I'd heard it before, not a state of being. We are all slaves to gravity… — Walter Mosley

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