Slaves Quotes
696 Slaves quotes by 483 unique authors
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Freedom is like birth. Till we are fully free, we are slaves.
— Mahatma Gandhi
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Ay, down to the dust with them, slaves as they are! From this hour let the blood in their dastardly veins, That shrunk at the…
— Charles Lamb
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Democracy is the suggestion box for slaves.
— Stefan Molyneux
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I don't think anyone has exhausted the range of sound possible in a conventional rock band, but people do become slaves to their own easiest…
— Steve Albini
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I'd like to teach Iraq about Democracy because we're so experienced with it. First they should know that after 100 years they should free their…
— Kurt Vonnegut
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Bystanders wandered in and out of the merchant's stall, passing the time, talking of dreams they might purchase. Workers and slaves stooped from labor asked…
— David Berlinski
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Time is a factory where everyone slaves away earning enough love to break their own chains.
— Hafez
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Slaves would be tyrants were the chance theirs.
— Victor Hugo
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There is only one condition in which we can imagine managers not needing subordinates, and masters not needing slaves. This condition would be that each…
— Aristotle
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Slaves do not always welcome their deliverers. They become accustomed to being slaves. They would rather gear those ills they have
— Martin Luther King, Jr.
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Those who call me God, will fall into the deep pit of hell. Regard me as one of his slaves and have no doubt whatever…
— Guru Gobind Singh
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This is one of their [the Christians'] rules. Let no man that is learned, wise, or prudent come among us: but if they be unlearned,…
— Aulus Cornelius Celsus
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Footballers are slaves. I know this from the personal experience of being a footballer.
— Sepp Blatter
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If We allow Slaves, we act against the very Principles by which we associated together, which was to relieve the distressed.
— Unknown Author
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Any unarmed people are slaves, or are subject to slavery at any given moment. If the guns are taken out of the hands of the…
— Huey Newton
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We are slaves of what we don't know;of what we know we are masters.Whatever vice or weakness in ourselves we discoverand understand its cause and…
— Sri Nisargadatta Maharaj
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We know now that the soul is the body, and the body the soul. They tell us they are different because they want to persuade…
— George Bernard Shaw
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Here the Frenchman, Spaniard, and Englishman all passed, leaving each his legend; and a brilliant and more or less feudal civilization with its aristocracy and…
— Hervey Allen
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Slavery was regarded by Aristotle as an ordinance of nature, and so probably was it by the slaves themselves in olden time.
— Alfred Marshall
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The prejudice of the race appears stronger in the States that have abolished slaves than in the States where slavery still exists. White carpenters, white…
— Alexis de Tocqueville
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We show our sympathy with slavery by emancipating slaves where we cannot reach them, and holding them in bondage where we can set them free.
— William H. Seward
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Officers in command of colored troops are in constant habit of pressing all able-bodied slaves into the military service of the U.S.
— Unknown Author
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...So Englishmen saw it. Lincoln's insincerity was regarded as proven by two things: his earlier denial of any lawful right or wish to free the…
— Sheldon Vanauken
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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…
— Jean-Jacques Rousseau
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Who would be free themselves must strike the blow. Better even to die free than to live slaves.
— Frederick Douglass
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