Slave Quotations | Page 4

I am the very slave of circumstance And impulse -- borne away with every breath!

If thou dost still retain the same ill habits, the same follies, too, still thou art bound to vice, and still a slave.

Riches cannot rescue from the grave, which claims alike the monarch and the slave.

Either be wholly slaves or wholly free.

To tame the proud, the fetter'd slave to free, These are imperial arts.

I'd rather be a free man in my grave than living as a puppet or a slave.

But it is not the rich person only who is under the domination of things; they too are slaves who, having no money, are unhappy from the lack of it.

There is no slave but the creature that wills against its Creator.

I dare not say with Paul that I am the slave of Christ, but my highest aspiration and desire is to be the slave of Christ.

I don't have all these advisers, political advisers. I don't even talk to them because I'm not a slave to a campaign manager, and Trump isn't either.

The commerce of a free people is many times more valuable than that of slaves. Freemen produce and consume vastly more than slaves. They have therefore more to buy and more to sell. Hence the free states have a direct pecuniary interest in the civil freedom of all the other states. Commerce between free and slave states is not reciprocal or equal.

Despair is a free man--hope is a slave.

I don't like favors; they oppress and make me fell like a slave. I'd rather do everything for myself, and be perfectly independent.

Let them fear bondage who are slaves to fear; the sweetest freedom is an honest heart.

I was latching on to something that was part of my heritage, because many of the slaves who were brought here were Moslems.

The impression was gaining ground with me that it was a good thing to let the money be my slave and not make myself a slave to money.

I´m not a wandering slave, I am a woman of choice

Fashion makes fools of some, sinners of others, and slaves of all.

I'm gonna sit here on this runway until I'm at the end of it. Because that's that thing that people slave over. That's that thing that people are slaves to. That's that thing that I'm a slave to.

I can't be a slave to the machine, you feel like you're in the matrix.

None can be free who is a slave to, and ruled by, his passions.

We've got some new ways to make slaves here.

Every person's life is theirs by right. An individual's life can and must belong only to to himself, not to any society or community, or he is then but a slave.

We can easily become as much slaves to precaution as we can to fear.

Slave holding is very unusual among the English-speaking peoples. Canadians didn't do it. Australians didn't do it. The Democratic Party and the states they controlled did it!

All men shall be my slaves! All women shall succumb to my charms! All mankind shall grovel at my feet and not know why!

Flee the country where a lone man holds all power: It is a nation of slaves.

There are cases where the slave does not know his servitude and where it is necessary to bring the seed of his liberation to him from the outside: his submission is not enough to justify the tyranny which is imposed upon him.

...counselling man to treat her as a slave while persuading her that she is a queen.

You can't master your future if you're still a slave to your past.

If taxes are laid upon us without our having a legal representation where they are laid, we are reduced from the character of free subjects to the state of tributary slaves.

We cannot afford to raise any institution to the rank of a fetish. To do so would be simply to become the slaves of our own machinery.

If you have inner peace, nobody can force you to be a slave to the outer reality.

The best traders are simply slaves to the market's price action

One of the great things about African-Americans is that we've always had this attitude: We make do with what we got. It comes from our ancestors being slaves.

A man in armour is his armour's slave.

A man in armor is his armor's slave.

If you cannot be the master of your language, you must be its slave.

The right to freedom being the gift of God, it is not in the power of man to alienate this gift and voluntarily become a slave....

If you work without love, you are working like a slave. When you work with love, you work like an emperor. Your work is your joy, your work is your dance.

Let's live with that small pittance which we have; Who covets more is evermore a slave.

Who covets more is evermore a slave.

The worst of slaves is he whom passion rules.

Washington, not Jefferson, freed his slaves upon his death.

Jefferson owned slaves. He did not believe that all were created equal. He was a racist.

We can become slaves to things we don't understand

The dearest ambition of a slave is not liberty, but to have a slave of his own.

Don't become a slave to non-crucial matters.

Unquestioning obedience is for slaves, the uneducated and the pathetic.

If there is a God, there should be no slaves.

You know, I'll always be your slave 'til I'm buried, buried in my grave.

I'd rather be called a N*gger than a Slave.

The Confucian concept and Chinese ideograms for 'woman' and for 'slave' are the same.

We are not slaves of the market. Our human life has a greater meaning than making money, making profit, and working for the market or for multinational corporations.

Free men have arms; slaves do not.

No more slave States; no slave Territories.

No more slave States and no more slave territory.

The capital amassed in the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries through various forms of slave economy is still in circulation, said De Jong, still bearing interest, increasing many times over and continually burgeoning anew.

Mistaking insolence for freedom has always been the hallmark of the slave.

We are the slaves of slaves

We are all of us, more or less, the slaves of opinion.

Will the slave fight? If any man asks you, tell him No. But if anyone asks you will a Negro fight, tell him Yes!

My characters are galley slaves.

The violinist must possess the poets gift of piercing the protective hide which grows on propagandists, stockbrokers and slave traders, to penetrate the deeper truth which lies within.

Life is not a finished product, it is only what we make of it, and if we make nothing of it, someone else will, and we will be his slave.

But thought's the slave of life, and life time's fool.

The slaves were simply turned loose without any property. They were easily recognizable. They were black. They were suddenly free to go exploring.

Base is the slave that pays.

They are hare-brain'd slaves.

You are a slave of what you need in your soul.

Though no one would want to be sold as a slave, it is perhaps even more galling to be a sort of utility slave whom no one will buy.

The borrower is slave to the lender and the debtor to the creditor.

When you are in debt, then you are a slave.

Do not commit yourself to anybody or anything, for that is to be a slave, a slave to every man Above all, keep yourself free of commitments and obligations - they are the device of another to get you into his power

If, before undertaking some action, you must obtain the permission of society-you are not free, whether such permission is granted to you or not. Only a slave acts on permission. A permission is not a right.

But one of the worst results of being a slave and being forced to do things is that when there is no one to force you any more you find you have almost lost the power of forcing yourself.

Animals, whom we have made our slaves, we do not like to consider our equal.

There are some men who are masters of cities but slaves to women.

Formal religion was organized for slaves: it offered them consolation which earth did not provide.

There is only one condition in which we can imagine managers not needing subordinates, and masters not needing slaves. This condition would be that each (inanimate) instrument could do its own work.

He who is by nature not his own but another's man is by nature a slave.

When the looms spin by themselves, we'll have no need for slaves.

The worst thing about slavery is that the slaves eventually get to like it.

Towering genius...thirsts and burns for distinction; and, if possible, it will have it, whether at the expense of emancipating slaves or enslaving freeman.

Of all God's creatures there is only one that cannot be made the slave of the lash. That one is the cat. If man could be crossed with a cat it would improve man, but it would deteriorate the cat.

But thought's the slave of life, and life time's fool;And time, that takes survey of all the world,Must have a stop.

Freedom is not being a slave to any circumstance, to any constraint, to any chance; it means compelling Fortune to enter the lists on equal terms.

Johnny Hyde was wonderful, but he was not my Svengali. Milton Greene was not my Svengali I' m nobody's slave and never have been ... Now they write that Lee Strasberg is my Svengali . . . and Arthur Miller isn't my Svengali.

The reason is, and by rights ought to be, slave to the emotions.

All who are not lunatics are agreed about certain things : That it is better to be alive than dead, better to be adequately fed than starved, better to be free than a slave

The state is made for man, not man for the state.... That is to say, the state should be our servant and not we its slaves

If any should be slaves, it should be first those who desire it for themselves, and secondly, those who desire it for others

We must free the slaves or be ourselves subdued.

If I could save the Union without freeing any slave, I would do it.

When you get in debt you become a slave.

The future is the only kind of property that the masters willingly concede to the slaves.

The slave begins by demanding justice and ends by wanting to wear a crown.

One dedicated worker is worth a thousand slaves.

Who steals my purse steals trash: 'tis something, nothin', 'twas mine, 'tis his, and has been slave to thousands. But he who filches from me my good name, robs me of that which not enriches him and makes me poor indeed.

There is no slave out of heaven like a loving woman; and, of all loving women, there is no such slave as a mother