Slaves Quotes

696 Slaves quotes by 483 unique authors

On occassion, slaves in Spanish New Orleans owned slaves, whose labor they could appropriate toward purchasing their own freedom, or whose ownership they could trade… — Ned Sublette
Like slaves on the sugar plantations of the Antilles, ...the sugar slaves of southern Louisiana had negative birthrates for as long as slavery lasted. — Ned Sublette
We may first observe that communism and socialism--which we shall hereafter group together and dub Statism--cannot live with Christianity nor with any religion that postulates… — J. Reuben Clark
I've been a prima-donna. I was taken care of since I was 13. That's why I am the way I am today. I was spoiled,… — Mike Tyson
Meek young men grow up in colleges and believe it is their duty to accept the views which books have given, and grow up slaves. — Ralph Waldo Emerson
Virtue cannot dwell with slaves, nor reign O'er those who cower to take a tyrant's yoke. — William C. Bryant
The blacks of this region are a cheerful, careless, dirty, race, not hard worked, and in many respects indulgently treated. It is of course the… — William C. Bryant
The worst thing about slavery is that the slaves eventually get to like it. — Aristotle
[I]t is easy to regard the mind and the body as two slaves trained to obey the imperial soul.... [I]n this trinity of soul, mind,… — Edward Everett Hale
The danger of the past was that men became slaves. The danger of the future is that men may become robots. True enough, robots do… — Erich Fromm
Liberty is the only true riches: of all the rest we are at once the masters and the slaves. — William Hazlitt
The slaves of power mind the cause they have to serve, because their own interest is concerned; but the friends of liberty always sacrifice their… — William Hazlitt
It is very strange, this domination of our intellect by our digestive organs. We cannot work, we cannot think, unless our stomach wills so. It… — Jerome K. Jerome
Tyrants are but the spawn of Ignorance, Begotten by the slaves they trample on. — James Russell Lowell
The family is an early expedient and in many ways irrational. If the race had developed a special sexless class to be nurses, pedagogues, and… — George Santayana
Either be wholly slaves or wholly free. — John Dryden
No man on earth is truly free, All are slaves of money or necessity. Public opinion or fear of prosecution forces each one, against his… — Euripides
We are all hostages, and we are all terrorists. This circuit has replaced that other one of masters and slaves, the dominating and the dominated,… — Jean Baudrillard
If there is a species which is more maltreated than children, then it must be their toys, which they handle in an incredibly off-hand manner.… — Jean Baudrillard
Nor was it only from the millions of slaves that chains had been removed; the whole nation had been in bondage; free speech had been… — Matthew Simpson
We're becoming slaves to our social networks - and that's not a bad thing. You like your favorite networks, so do you friends, and pretty… — Max Levchin
What do we mean by 'crazy?' What do we mean by 'mad?' At what point is a person just different and at what point can… — Jo Nesbo
Our purpose in this life is to gain the view of ourselves; otherwise, we are total slaves to others who psychically drain us, abuse us. — Frederick Lenz
I have always believed, heretofore, in the doctrines of the Declaration of Independence, that all men are born free and equal; but of late it… — Benjamin F. Wade
Rise above the limited conditions of pleasure and pain, success and failure, happiness and sorrow, that all the countless unenlightened beings in creation are slaves… — Frederick Lenz

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