Slaves Quotes

696 Slaves quotes by 483 unique authors

How subservient to Jesus, or to a humane God Almighty, were the leaders of this country back in the 1840's, when Marx said such a… — Kurt Vonnegut
Kings are the slaves of history. — Leo Tolstoy
Such as are in immediate fear of a losing their estates, of banishment, or of slavery, live in perpetual anguish, and lose all appetite and… — Michel de Montaigne
A really efficient totalitarian state would be one in which the all-powerful executive of political bosses and their army of managers control a population of… — Aldous Huxley
. . . freedom to creat and construct, to wonder and to venture. Such freedom requires that the individual be active and responsible, not a… — Erich Fromm
We gather at night to celebrate being human. Sometimes we call out low to the tambourine. Fish drink the sea, but the sea does not… — Unknown Author
We are turning into a nation of whimpering slaves to Fear—fear of war, fear of poverty, fear of random terrorism, fear of getting down-sized or… — Hunter S. Thompson
Those kids aren't dumb. But the people who run these schools want to make sure they don't get smart: they are really teaching the kids… — James A. Baldwin
as females in a patriarchal culture, we were not slaves of love; most of us were and are slaves of longing-- yearning for a master… — Bell Hooks
Why would the God of the universe want to be submitted to me?' Because we want you to join us in our circle of relationship.… — William P. Young
Without water we are nothing", the traveler thought. "Even an emperor, denied water, would swiftly turn to dust. Water is the real monarch and we… — Salman Rushdie
People quickly grow accustomed to being the slaves of mystery. — Guillaume Apollinaire
The world is filled with people who are no longer needed -- and who try to make slaves of all of us -- and they… — Woody Guthrie
Men fight for liberty and win it with hard knocks. Their children, brought up easy, let it slip away again, poor fools. And their grandchildren… — D. H. Lawrence
Even in this place one can survive, and therefore one must want to survive, to tell the story, to bear witness; and that to survive… — Primo Levi
Why are we smiling when we loathe each other?’ ‘Why do we sell happiness to the readers of this magazine when we are profoundly unhappy… — Paulo Coelho
Practical men who believe themselves to be quite exempt from any intellectual influence, are usually the slaves of some defunct economist. Madmen in authority, who… — John Maynard Keynes
Those who cannot bravely face danger are the slaves of their attackers. — Aristotle
In war, the strong make slaves of the weak, and in peace the rich makes slaves of the poor. — Oscar Wilde
There is very little real liberty in the world; even those who seem freest are often the most tightly bound. Law, custom, public opinion, fear… — Louisa May Alcott
Everyone had clearly spent far too long perfecting their appearance. I used to feel intimidated by people like this; now I see them as walking… — Charlie Brooker
We are the slaves of slaves — William Nicholson
I nearly forgot, Ragnak had a further message for you. He said if we lose this battle and loses his slaves as well, he's going… — John Flanagan
By declaring our Prophet infallible and not permitting ourselves to question him, we Muslims had set up a static tyranny. The Prophet Muhammad attempted to… — Ayaan Hirsi Ali
Not kill us," Pigeon corrected. "She was mainly just trying to turn us into mindless slaves. — Brandon Mull

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