Slaves Quotes
696 Slaves quotes by 483 unique authors
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Marriage is the only actual bondage known to our law. There remain no legal slaves, except the mistress of every house.
— John Stuart Mill
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You cannot put a rope around the neck of an idea: you can not put an idea up against a barracks-square wall and riddle it…
— Sean O'Casey
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That makes me think, my friend, as I have often done before, how natural it is that those who have spent a long time in…
— Plato
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Garden writing is often very tame, a real waste when you think how opinionated, inquisitive, irreverent and lascivious gardeners themselves tend to be. Nobody talks…
— Unknown Author
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Classification of Christian children, as they plan it, are to be used as human sacrifice. Where? Within the black mass ceremonies, they will participate in…
— Unknown Author
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Wars and revolutions and battles are due simply and solely to the body and its desires. All wars are undertaken for the acquisition of wealth;…
— Socrates
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Human beings have capitalized on the silence of animals, just as certain human beings have historically imposed silence on certain other human beings by denying…
— Gary Steiner
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We are the slaves of objects around us, and appear little or important according as these contract or give us room to expand.
— Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
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That a majority of women do not wish for any important change in their social and civil condition, merely proves that they are the unreflecting…
— Lydia M. Child
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In all the ages the Roman Church has owned slaves, bought and sold slaves, authorized and encouraged her children to trade in them. . .…
— Mark Twain
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Wherever a man comes, there comes revolution. The old is for slaves.
— Ralph Waldo Emerson
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[S]ome people are self-starters, and some people are born lazy. Some people are born victims. Some people are just born to be slaves. Some people…
— Rush Limbaugh
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No nation ancient or modern ever lost the liberty of freely speaking, writing, or publishing their sentiments, but forthwith lost their liberty in general and…
— John Peter Zenger
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Disagreeing with the fervent patriotism of the Confederates: "I think it's hard winning a war with words, gentlemen. . . . I'm saying very plainly…
— Clark Gable
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Thousands of years ago, weren't we capable of building enormous structures like the pyramids? Weren't we capable of worshiping gods, weaving, making fire, finding lovers…
— Paulo Coelho
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Pornographers are the enemies of women only because our contemporary ideology of pornography does not encompass the possibility of change, as if we were the…
— Angela Carter
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Passion has overthrown tyrants and freed prisoners and slaves. Passion has brought justice where there was savagery. Passion has created freedom where there was nothing…
— Jim Butcher
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Desires make slaves out of kings and patience makes kings out of slaves.
— Al-Ghazali
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How many women are there ... who because of their husbands' harshness spend their weary lives in the bond of marriage in greater suffering than…
— Christine de Pizan
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One thing I've learned is this: Never allow yourself to hate a people because of the actions of a few. Hatred and bigotry destroyed my…
— Erich Hartmann
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The Islamic people, the Arabs, were the ones who captured Africans, put them in slavery, and sent them to America as slaves. Why would the…
— Pat Robertson
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Nations are not communities and never have been. The history of any country, presented as the history of a family, conceals the fierce conflicts of…
— Howard Zinn
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We are turning into a nation of whimpering slaves to Fear
— Hunter S. Thompson
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In this respect, granting homosexuals the right to marry is like granting plantation owners the right to own slaves.
— Alan Keyes
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Englishmen never will be slaves; they are free to do whatever the government and public opinion allow them.
— George Bernard Shaw
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