Slaves Quotes

696 Slaves quotes by 483 unique authors

In 1790 we had less than eight hundred thousand slaves. Under our mild and humane administration of the system they have increased above four millions. — Robert Toombs
The Slave Trade, though nominally abolished, is actively pursued here, eighty-three slaves having been landed just before my arrival, and another cargo during my stay. — George Grey
All the principal people in the town are concerned in the slave trade, and their chief wealth consists in the number of slaves they possess;… — George Grey
It is the hour to be drunken! to escape being the martyred slaves of time, be ceaselessly drunk. On wine, on poetry, or on virtue,… — Charles Baudelaire
The wealthy have installed their slaves in the highest spheres of the state. The banks are privately owned. They are concerned solely with profits. They… — Stephane Hessel
People who think they are free eventually end up slaves to their own desires, and those who give their freedom away to the only One… — Philip Yancey
If corporate leaders and their acolytes are not slaves to some meritorious social purpose, they run the risk of being enslaved by their own ignoble… — Gary Hamel
There are, after all, between seventy-five thousand and a hundred thousand descendants of the Ball-family slaves. If I were to begin apologizing to every one… — Edward Ball
As I grew up, I began to discover a little bit about the situation of black people in America and experienced an immediate empathy with… — Ahmet Ertegun
God seeks comrades and claims love, the Devil seeks slaves and claims obedience. — Rabindranath Tagore
The modern banking system manufactures money out of nothing. The process is perhaps the most astounding piece of sleight-of-hand that was ever invented. Banking was… — Unknown Author
Civilization is drugs, alcohol, engines of war, prostitution, machines and machine slaves, low wages, bad food, bad taste, prisons, reformatories, lunatic asylums, divorce, perversion, brutal… — Henry Miller
War is the father of us all, King of all. Some it makes gods, some it makes men, some it makes slaves, some free. — Heraclitus Of Ephesus
True Christians are made to be slaves, and they know it and do not mind; this short life counts for too little in their eyes — Jean-Jacques Rousseau
When such a perfect society will be created or if it will ever be created is a question as difficult to answer as if the… — Sorin Cerin
Freedom hath a thousand charms to show, That slaves however contented never know — William Cowper
Every king springs from a race of slaves, and every slave had kings among his ancestors — Plato
Marriage is the state or condition of a community consisting of a master, a mistress and two slaves, making in all, two. — Ambrose Bierce
Men have been trained and conditioned by women, not unlike the way Pavlov conditioned his dogs, into becoming their slaves. As compensation for their labours… — Esther Vilar
This is my people. My people were Kanakas. Kanakas are people that were brought from other countries to be slaves. My people were slaved for… — Unknown Author
We are slaves of our thoughts, we can't really go beyond what we can think of... — Melchor Lim
I truly believe in you. In all of you. I am a humanist, perhaps the last. I believe in all of us. I believe if… — Vladislas Nikilovic
'Gold is the money of kings; silver is the money of gentlemen; barter is the money of peasants; but debt is the money of SLAVES!'… — Andrew Guzaldo
O wicked and evil knights thus shine within the pillars of ivory silk and wine; disgrace O slithering snake of thirsty greed and slaves of… — Johnny Luckett
As a rule, we must not be the slaves of passion; rather, we must be the possessors of great passions. Through passion commences power, but… — C. JoyBell C.

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