Slaves Quotes

696 Slaves quotes by 483 unique authors

We do not want the peace of slaves nor the peace of the grave. — Emiliano Zapata
Nor was civil society founded merely to preserve the lives of its members; but that they might live well: for otherwise a state might be… — Aristotle
Some people tell me that we professional players are soccer slaves. Well, if this is slavery, give me a life sentence. — Bobby Charlton
Slaves lose everything in their chains, even the desire of escaping from them. — Jean-Jacques Rousseau
The fact is, that civilization requires slaves. Human slavery is wrong, insecure, and demoralizing. On mechanical slavery, on the slavery of the machine, the future… — Oscar Wilde
Slavery is so intolerable a condition that the slave can hardly escape deluding himself into thinking that he is choosing to obey his master's commands… — Wystan Hugh Auden
Youths of the Pellaians and of the Macedonians and of the Hellenic Amphictiony and of the Lakedaimonians and of the Corinthians... and of all the… — Alexander the Great
The Autocrat of all the Russias will resign his crown, and proclaim his subjects free republicans sooner than will our American masters voluntarily give up… — Abraham Lincoln
He [Stephen Douglas] is blowing out the moral lights around us, when he contends that whoever wants slaves has a right to hold them; that… — Abraham Lincoln
When Judge Douglas says that whoever, or whatever community, wants slaves, they have a right to have them, he is perfectly logical if there is… — Abraham Lincoln
One eighth of the whole population were colored slaves, not distributed generally over the Union, but localized in the Southern part of it. These slaves… — Abraham Lincoln
Lots of old slaves closes the door before they tell the truth about their days of slavery. — Unknown Author
The universalists, the idealists, the Utopians all aim too high. They give promises of an unattainable paradise, and by doing so they deceive mankind. Whatever… — Adolf Hitler
Be not dumb, obedient slaves in an army of destruction! Be heroes in an army of construction! — Helen Keller
Ambition makes more trusty slaves than need — Ben Jonson
All mankind is divided, as it was at all times and is still, into slaves and freemen. — Friedrich Nietzsche
The fruits of Christianity were religious wars, butcheries, crusades, inquisitions, extermination of the natives of America, and the introduction of African slaves in their place. — Arthur Schopenhauer
The art of war is like the art of the courtesan; indeed they might be called sisters, since both are slaves of desperation. — Pietro Aretino
You may have to fight when there is no hope of victory, because it is better to perish than live as slaves. — Winston Churchill
I was latching on to something that was part of my heritage, because many of the slaves who were brought here were Moslems. — Kareem Abdul-Jabbar
The tenets of [the Christian life] seem paradoxes to carnal men; as first, that a Christian is the only freeman, and other men are slaves;… — Richard Sibbes
Somewhere in the arrangement of this world there seems to be a great concern about giving us delight, which shows that, in the universe, over… — Rabindranath Tagore
We are all of us, more or less, the slaves of opinion. — William Hazlitt
If all men are born free, why is it that all women are born slaves? — Mary Astell
But slaves that once conceive the glowing thought Of freedom, in that hope itself possess All that the contest calls for; spirit, strength, The scorn… — William Cowper

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