Slaves Quotes

696 Slaves quotes by 483 unique authors

I have wanted to give Iraq a lesson in democracy - because we're experienced with it, you know. And, in democracy, after a hundred years,… — Kurt Vonnegut
Christ preaches only servitude and dependence... True Christians are made to be slaves. — Jean-Jacques Rousseau
It is unworthy of excellent men to lose hours like slaves in the labor of calculation which could be relegated to anyone else if machines… — Gottfried Leibniz
The morality of work is the morality of slaves, and the modern world has no need of slavery. — Bertrand Russell
When blessed with wealth, let them withdraw from the competition of vanity and be modest, retiring from ostentation, and not be the slaves of fashion. — William Wilberforce
In a consumer society there are inevitably two kinds of slaves: the prisoners of addiction and the prisoners of envy. — Ivan Illich
Friendship is a disinterested commerce between equals; love, an abject intercourse between tyrants and slaves. — Oliver Goldsmith
For my own part I would as soon be descended from that heroic little monkey, who braved his dreaded enemy in order to save the… — Charles Darwin
Sometime in the not too distant future, denying gays the right to marry will be viewed as historically corrupt - as corrupt as denying slaves… — Mark McKinnon
People-trafficking is modern day slavery. There are more slaves today than there were at the height of the slave trade. — Ross Kemp
The contribution of West African languages to Ebonics is absolutely infinitesimal. What it actually is is a very interesting hybrid of regional dialects of Great… — John McWhorter
In 2009, at the Vancouver Peace Summit, I met a supporter of Free the Slaves, an NGO dedicated to eradicating modern-day slavery; weeks later, I… — Lisa Kristine
My first job was with an auto plant, Kansas City - they treated you like slaves. From there I went back to Chicago, worked in… — Ed Asner
I am a communist and a worker, and I have lived in a decadent capitalist society where the workers are slaves. — Lee Harvey Oswald
My people. I have given them a sense of individuality, integrity. I have not made them slaves of any god or any religion. Nor of… — Rajneesh
Knowledge has always flowed upwards to bishops and kings, not down to serfs and slaves. — Julian Assange
Some people are by nature slaves and will always be so. — Rousas John Rushdoony
We incarcerate more African-American men today than were slaves in 1850. — Marianne Williamson
Some have been ensnared in the net of excessive debt. The net of interest holds them fast, requiring them to sell their time and energies… — Joseph B. Wirthlin
Harriet Tubman and Sojourner Truth were slaves by birth, freedom fighters by temperament. — Nancy Gibbs
In the early 1800s, religion was often used as a way to keep slavery in place. Slaves were forced to attend the church of their… — Sue Monk Kidd
The purposeful restriction of knowledge has been at the heart of untold misery and hardship in this world. Serfs were kept illiterate so as to… — Niger Innis
Reason is the tool men use to determine if their statements about reality are valid: there is no other. Those who do not or cannot… — John C. Wright
If you keep on buying things made by child slaves in such conditions, you are equally responsible for the perpetration of slavery. — Kailash Satyarthi
Unquestionably, it is the duty of every master to watch over the religious and moral culture of his slaves, and to give them every comfort… — Roger B. Taney

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