Be a slave Quote by Jean-Jacques Rousseau Download Open image “Slaves lose everything in their chains, even the desire of escaping from them.” — Jean-Jacques Rousseau ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 4.1 out of 5 (8 ratings) Copy quoteShare Be a slave Chains Desire Escaping Loses Slave Slavery Social contract
The slave is doomed to worship time and fate and death, because they are greater than anything he finds in himself, and because all… — Bertrand Russell Copy Share Image
“Slaves in the past were captured by force; today’s slaves surrender themselves. The masters are the same old folk (who are now more civilized)… — Bangambiki Habyarimana Copy Share Image
It is the nature of slavery to render its victims so abject that at last, fearing to be free, they multiply their own chains.… — Louis J. Halle Copy Share Image
They never pay the slaves enough so they can get free, just enough so they can stay alive and come back to work. — Charles Bukowski Copy Share Image
“Being a slave is to have nothing but still having something left to lose.” — Lalita Tedemy Copy Share Image
In war," answered the weaver, "the strong make slaves of the weak, and in peace the rich make slaves of the poor. We must… — Oscar Wilde Copy Share Image
...Slavery appears such a relatively mild business that one begins to wonder why Frederick Douglass and so many others ever tried to escape. — Dinesh D'Souza Copy Share Image
Enslaved people worked hard to preserve family ties and maintain kinship networks. They married, even as the law would not recognize their unions, and… — Jamelle Bouie Copy Share Image
Her dignity consists in being unknown to the world; her glory is in the esteem of her husband; her pleasures in the happiness of… — Jean-Jacques Rousseau Copy Share Image
Take the course opposite to custom and you will almost always do well. — Jean-Jacques Rousseau Copy Share Image
Everything we do not have at our birth and which we need when we are grown is given to us by education. — Jean-Jacques Rousseau Copy Share Image
The first person who, having enclosed a plot of land, took it into his head to say this is mine and found people simple… — Jean-Jacques Rousseau Copy Share Image
...in respect of riches, no citizen shall ever be wealthy enough to buy another, and none poor enough to be forced to sell himself. — Jean-Jacques Rousseau Copy Share Image
Take from the philosopher the pleasure of being heard and his desire for knowledge ceases. — Jean-Jacques Rousseau Copy Share Image
Men, in general, are not this or that, they are what they are made to be. — Jean-Jacques Rousseau Copy Share Image
I would rather be a man of paradoxes than a man of prejudices. — Jean-Jacques Rousseau Copy Share Image
“O Fabricius! What would your great soul have thought, if to your own misfortune you had been called back to life and had seen… — Jean-Jacques Rousseau Copy Share Image
“The sword wears out its sheath, as it is sometimes said. That is my story. My passions have made me live, and my passions… — Jean-Jacques Rousseau Copy Share Image
Whence do I get my rules of conduct? I find them in my heart. Whatever I feel to be good is good. Whatever I… — Jean-Jacques Rousseau Copy Share Image
“If one divided all of human science into two parts - the one common to all men, the other particular to the learned -… — Jean-Jacques Rousseau 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
Neither should men study war with a view to the enslavement of those who do not deserve to be enslaved; but first of all… — Aristotle Copy Share Image
Once a man has tasted freedom he will never be content to be a slave. That is why I believe that this frightfulness we… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Abraham Lincoln recognized that we could not survive as a free land when some men could decide that others were not fit to be… — Ronald Reagan Copy Share Image
If you're not confident in the authority of the Scriptures, you will be a slave to what sounds right. — Matt Chandler Copy Share Image
Christ preaches only servitude and dependence... True Christians are made to be slaves. — Jean-Jacques Rousseau Copy Share Image
Everyone wants a happy life without difficulties or suffering. We create many of the problems we face. No one intentionally creates problems, but we… — Dalai Lama Copy Share Image
Unless you have found something in life to live for that is more important to you than your own life, you will always be… — Martin Luther King, Jr Copy Share Image
People allow themselves to be slaves of their bad habits and society's bad habits - but they have free will, and if they wish… — Peace Pilgrim Copy Share Image
Colonization was the idea that once slavery ended African-Americans should be encouraged - or required, in some people's view - required to leave the… — Eric Foner Copy Share Image
