Slave Quotes

1576 Slave quotes by 962 unique authors

Philosophy is antipoetic. Philosophize about mankind and you brush aside individual uniqueness, which a poet cannot do without self-damage. Unless, for a start, he has… — Robert Graves
I have wanted to give Iraq a lesson in democracy - because we're experienced with it, you know. And, in democracy, after a hundred years,… — Kurt Vonnegut
Christ preaches only servitude and dependence... True Christians are made to be slaves. — Jean-Jacques Rousseau
There was no place in the land where the seeker could not find some small budding sign of pity for the slave. No place in… — Mark Twain
It is unworthy of excellent men to lose hours like slaves in the labor of calculation which could be relegated to anyone else if machines… — Gottfried Leibniz
The morality of work is the morality of slaves, and the modern world has no need of slavery. — Bertrand Russell
If your body wants comfort, you try to make it learn to give up that. Try to make your body your slave and not you… — Nirmala Srivastava
Rehearse death. To say this is to tell a person to rehearse his freedom. A person who has learned how to die has unlearned how… — Seneca the Younger
The Cross! There, and there only (though the deist rave, and the atheist, if Earth bears so base a slave); There and there only, is… — William Cowper
When blessed with wealth, let them withdraw from the competition of vanity and be modest, retiring from ostentation, and not be the slaves of fashion. — William Wilberforce
In a consumer society there are inevitably two kinds of slaves: the prisoners of addiction and the prisoners of envy. — Ivan Illich
Better to starve free than be a fat slave — Aesop
Friendship is a disinterested commerce between equals; love, an abject intercourse between tyrants and slaves. — Oliver Goldsmith
For my own part I would as soon be descended from that heroic little monkey, who braved his dreaded enemy in order to save the… — Charles Darwin
People-trafficking is modern day slavery. There are more slaves today than there were at the height of the slave trade. — Ross Kemp
The first Western attempt to save Africa from itself was in the late 19th century. It was led by Christian missionaries who claimed to be… — Andrew Mwenda
When I put a quarter into an arcade machine or call up an emulated game on my computer, I do it to escape the world… — D. B. Weiss
Unsoundness in a slave, as well as in a horse, detracts materially from his value. If no warranty is given, a close examination is a… — Solomon Northup
The camera is the slave to the actor. — John Cassavetes
What should we suppose must naturally be the consequence of our carrying on a slave trade with Africa? With a country, vast in its extent,… — William Wilberforce
God Almighty has set before me two great objects: the suppression of the slave trade and the reformation of manners. — William Wilberforce
Some, I verily believe, delight to be slave-men; it is a joy to them, and they would not change their condition; not only miserable village… — Richard Jefferies
I love drawing on lead. Romans used to curse each other with sheets of it. My slave would come slide the sheet under your door… — Shea Hembrey
When you look at a corporation, just like when you look at a slave owner, you want to distinguish between the institution and the individual.… — Noam Chomsky
Comedy is the slave of time. What seemed funny then is unlikely to seem funny now, just as what strikes us as funny now would… — Craig Brown

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