Slaves Quotes

696 Slaves quotes by 483 unique authors

There are no galley-slaves in the royal vessel of divine love - every man works his oar voluntarily! — Saint Francis de Sales
The only time you really live fully is from thirty to sixty. The young are slaves to dreams; the old servants of regrets. Only the… — Theodore Roosevelt
Some slaves are scoured to their work by whips, others by their restlessness and ambition. — John Ruskin
If a jury have not the right to judge between the government and those who disobey its laws, and resist its oppressions, the government is… — Lysander Spooner
The commerce of a free people is many times more valuable than that of slaves. Freemen produce and consume vastly more than slaves. They have… — Lysander Spooner
But if you want to continue to be slaves of the banks and pay the cost of your own slavery, then let bankers continue to… — Josiah Stamp
Ants are so much like human beings as to be an embarrassment. They farm fungi, raise aphids as livestock, launch armies into war, use chemical… — Lewis Thomas
Disobedience is the true foundation of liberty. The obedient must be slaves. — Henry David Thoreau
I freed a thousand slaves I could have freed a thousand more if only they knew they were slaves. — Harriet Tubman
If I could have convinced more slaves that they were slaves, I could have freed thousands more. — Harriet Tubman
In the Bible, we first encounter God when he sides with a bunch of slaves against a powerful Pharaoh, an act of grace freely given. — Desmond Tutu
Abraham Lincoln freed the slaves, Robert Lincoln bought a nice ski lodge. — Sarah Vowell
The time is near at hand which must determine whether Americans are to be free men or slaves. — George Washington
In our natural state, we are glorious beings. In the world of illusion, we are lost and imprisoned, slaves to our appetites and our will… — Marianne Williamson
Typically creative people are usually not clock-slaves or list-makers, so the idea of enforcing goals and deadlines can be somewhat daunting. — Kristin Armstrong
We are slaves in the sense that we depend for our daily survival upon an expand-or-expire agro-industrial empire—a crackpot machine—that the specialists cannot comprehend and… — Edward Abbey
Today as always, men fall into two groups: slaves and free men. Whoever does not have two-thirds of his day for himself, is a slave,… — Friedrich Nietzsche
Pirate Captain Jim "Walk the plank," says Pirate Jim "But Captain Jim, I cannot swim." "Then you must steer us through the gale." "But Captain… — Shel Silverstein
Let us in the name of the Holy Trinity go on sending all the slaves that can be sold. — Howard Zinn
Your emotions are the slaves to your thoughts, and you are the slave to your emotions. — Elizabeth Gilbert
Whenever all men are...hastening to be slaves or tyrants we make Liberalism the prime bogey. — C.S. Lewis
The world is filled with people who are no longer needed. And who try to make slaves of all of us. And they have their… — Woody Guthrie
It [feminism] is mixed up with a muddled idea that women are free when they serve their employers but slaves when they help their husbands. — Gilbert K. Chesterton
The slaves were simply turned loose without any property. They were easily recognizable. They were black. They were suddenly free to go exploring. — Kurt Vonnegut
Lies are the religion of slaves and masters. Truth is the god of the free man. — Maxim Gorky

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