Habits Quote by Solomon Northup

“Who can blame slaves for being cunning? They are constantly compelled to resort to it. It is the only weapon of the weak and…

— Harriet Ann Jacobs

It is not the fault of the slaveholder that he is cruel, so much as it is the fault of the system under which…

— Solomon Northup

“In a way the better the master;the worse the condition of slave,because it makes him forget what he is.”

— Amitav Ghosh

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

“The lazy man is the slave of his own feelings. His body is his master; not his servant. He is the slave of circumstances.”

— William Dewitt Hyde

“He was his own victim, his own slave. He had made personality a profession, created a career out of selling himself. And he could…

— Jim Thompson

“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

“Those fierce animal passions of his were his masters, not his slaves, and he was as much their victim as those he punished when…

— Teresa Denys

“MAN is a slave only to his own mental lethargy.”

— Mina Loy

“Sad as the position of a slave is, my uncle’s hardness of heart added much to the unhappiness of those who had the misfortune…

— Victor Hugo

“the slave preaches the virtues of kindness and humility to his master, because as a slave he has need of them;but the master, better…

— Marquis de Sade

“Slavery is as much about the psychological control of the master over the slave as of the physical domination, cruelty and exploitation which we…

— Gabrielle Palmer