Slave Quote by Donald James Download Open image “Better a sovereign in squalor than a slave in splendor.” — Donald James ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 2.3 out of 5 (7 ratings) Copy quoteShare Slave Sovereign Splendor Squalor
Let's live with that small pittance which we have; Who covets more is evermore a slave. — Robert Herrick Copy Share Image
The greatest slave is not he who is ruled by a despot, great though that evil be, but he who is in the thrall… — Samuel Smiles Copy Share Image
The greatest slave in a kingdom is generally the king of it. — Fulke Greville, 1st Baron Brooke Copy Share Image
Sovereigns always see with pleasure a taste for the arts of amusement and superfluity, which do not result in the exportation of bullion, increase… — Jean-Jacques Rousseau Copy Share Image
No matter whether you claim a slave by purchase or capture, the title is bad. They who claim to own their fellow-men, look down… — Zeno of Citium Copy Share Image
I won't slave for beggar's pay, likewise gold and jewels, but I would slave to learn the way, to sink your ship of fools. — Robert Hunter Copy Share Image
The dearest ambition of a slave is not liberty, but to have a slave of his own. — Richard Francis Burton Copy Share Image
The ideal tyranny is that which is ignorantly self-administered by its victims. The most perfect slaves are, therefore, those which blissfully and unawaredly enslave… — Donald James Copy Share Image
At least half of my life's many mistakes can be safely put down to impetuosity: the other half derive from inertia. — Donald James Copy Share Image
That got me a look so intense I was unable to interpret it - like the way cats sometimes fix on you. What they… — Donald James Copy Share Image
The ideal tyranny is that which is ignorantly self-administered by its victims. The most perfect slaves are, therefore, those which blissfully and unawaredly enslave… — Donald James Copy Share Image
I have observed this in my experience of slavery, - that whenever my condition was improved, instead of its increasing my contentment, it only… — Frederick Douglass Copy Share Image
“In American terms, the accomplishment of Genghis Khan might be understood if the United States, instead of being created by a group of educated… — Jack Weatherford Copy Share Image
The minimum that most minimalists want leaves in place just the institutions who protect their interests. That's libertarians for you - anarchists who want… — Kim Stanley Robinson Copy Share Image
Perhaps no order of mammals presents us with so extraordinary a series of gradations as this [step by step, from humans to apes to… — Thomas Huxley Copy Share Image
I didn't want to be a slave to any passion anymore. I gave up card playing altogether, even bridge and gambling - more or… — Omar Sharif Copy Share Image
“Freedom is for the educated people who fought for it. We were slaves of the English, now we will be slaves of the educated… — Khushwant Singh Copy Share Image
My favorite Founding Fathers, Christians like John Adams, were absolutely appalled by slavery, and did not own slaves. I think we're going to have… — Ann Coulter Copy Share Image
We know, Southern men declare that their slaves are better off than hired laborers amongst us. How little they know, whereof they speak! There… — Abraham Lincoln Copy Share Image
Man preys on man; and you mourn for the idle tapestry that decorated a gothic pillar, and the dronish bell that summoned the fat… — Mary Wollstonecraft Copy Share Image
“People think blood red, but blood don't got no colour. Not when blood wash the floor she lying on as she scream for that… — Marlon James Copy Share Image
It's so Canada. On some level, you laugh, but on another level, it's just depressing. We pride ourselves: We're not like the bad old… — Constance Backhouse Copy Share Image
