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Slaves Quotes by Jean-Jacques Rousseau
- Slaves lose everything in their chains, even the desire of escaping from them.
- In Genoa, the word, libertas can be read on the front of prisons and on the fetters of galley-slaves. The application of this motto is…
- Man was born free, and he is everywhere in chains. Those who think themselves the masters of others are indeed greater slaves than they.
- Christ preaches only servitude and dependence... True Christians are made to be slaves.
- True Christians are made to be slaves, and they know it and do not mind; this short life counts for too little in their eyes
More Slaves Quotes
- My father was a man of great charity towards the poor, and compassion for the sick, and also for servants; so much… — Teresa of Avila
- The first revolt is against the supreme tyranny of theology, of the phantom of God. As long as we have a master… — Mikhail Bakunin
- It is time to get drunk! So as not to be the martyred slaves of Time, get drunk; get drunk without stopping!… — Charles Baudelaire
- Be daring, be different, be impractical, be anything that will assert integrity of purpose and imaginative vision against the play-it-safers, the creatures… — Cecil Beaton
- Marriage, n: the state or condition of a community consisting of a master, a mistress, and two slaves, making in all, two. — Ambrose Bierce
- It is important to recognize and politics positive thinking is often the slaves' virtue - something that people do to con themselves… — James Bovard
- The tyrant grinds down his slaves and they don't turn against him, they crush those beneath them. — Emily Bronte
- Those who will not reason, are bigots, those who cannot, are fools, and those who dare not, are slaves. — Lord Byron
- One leader, one people, signifies one master and millions of slaves. — Albert Camus
- Every man needs slaves like he needs clean air. To rule is to breathe, is it not? And even the most disenfranchised… — Albert Camus
- I confront the European elite's self-image as tolerant 'while under their noses women are living like slaves. — Ayaan Hirsi Ali
- I separated from the Southern Baptists when they adopted the discriminatory attitude towards women, because I believe what Paul taught in Galatians… — Jimmy Carter