Be a slave Quote by W. H. Auden

A man who cannot command himself will always be a slave.

— Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

Slaves have to obey their masters.

— Bill Bright

The Slave must be made fit for his freedom by education and discipline, and thus made unfit for slavery. And as soon as he…

— Jefferson Davis

“Slaves are trained to obey in all things, but their submission is a pact: They give up free will in exchange for perfect treatment.…

— C.S. Pacat

A slave is he who cannot speak his thoughts.

— Euripides

There are cases where the slave does not know his servitude and where it is necessary to bring the seed of his liberation to…

— Simone de Beauvoir

“to make a contented slave, it is necessary to make a thoughtless one. It is necessary to darken his moral and mental vision, and,…

— Frederick Douglass

Slavery discourages arts and manufacturing ...[and] every master of slaves is born a petty tyrant.

— George Mason

“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

There must be sophistry in all this; but the condition of a slave confuses all principles of morality, and, in fact, renders the practice…

— Harriet Ann Jacobs

The art of being a slave is to rule one's master.

— Diogenes

Give the slave the least elevation of religious sentiment, and he is not slave: you are the slave: he not only in his humility…

— Ralph Waldo Emerson