Slave Quotes

The one who is good, is free even being a slave; the one who is bad remains a slave even being a king. (Augustine of Hippo)
Every man who is not a monster, a mathematician, or a mad philosopher, is the slave of some woman or other. View quote
George Eliot
The individual who refuses to defend his rights when called by his government deserves to be a slave, and must be punished as an enemy of his country and a friend to her foe. View quote
Andrew Jackson
I want to die a slave to principles. Not to men. View quote
Emiliano Zapata
Of two friends, one is always the slave of the other, although frequently neither acknowledges the fact to himself. View quote
Mikhail Lermontov
Conquer thyself, till thou has done this, thou art but a slave; for it is almost as well to be subjected to another's appetite as to thine own. View quote
Richard Francis Burton
Freedom in capitalist society always remains about the same as it was in ancient Greek republics: Freedom for slave owners. View quote
Vladimir Lenin
Be not a slave of words. View quote
Thomas Carlyle
The violinist must possess the poet's gift of piercing the protective hide which grows on propagandists, stockbrokers and slave traders, to penetrate the deeper truth which lies within. View quote
Yehudi Menuhin
A slave is one who waits for someone to come and free him. View quote
Ezra Pound
Who Rebels? Who rises in arms? Rarely the slave, but almost always the oppressor turned slave. (Emil Cioran)
We must find new lands from which we can easily obtain raw materials and at the same time exploit the cheap slave labor that is available from the natives of the colonies. The colonies would also provide a dumping ground for the surplus goods produced in our factories. View quote
Cecil Rhodes
God Almighty has set before me two great objects, the suppression of the slave trade and the reformation of manners. View quote
William Wilberforce
Actors work and slave and it is the color of your hair that can determine your fate in the end. View quote
Helen Hayes
The worker is the slave of capitalist society, the female worker is the slave of that slave. View quote
James Connolly
Without self knowledge, without understanding the working and functions of his machine, man cannot be free, he cannot govern himself and he will always remain a slave. View quote
G. I. Gurdjieff
The genius of any slave system is found in the dynamics which isolate slaves from each other, obscure the reality of a common condition, and make united rebellion against the oppressor inconceivable. View quote
Andrea Dworkin
The slave is doomed to worship time and fate and death, because they are greater than anything he finds in himself, and because all his thoughts are of things which they devour. View quote
Bertrand Russell
It is better to be a slave to your beloved woman than a free man to the unloved one. View quote
Eric Berne
A man is none the less a slave because he is allowed to choose a new master once in a term of years. View quote
Lysander Spooner
Do not quench your inspiration and your imagination; do not become the slave of your model. (Vincent van Gogh)
Some people try to get you out of slavery for you to be their slave. View quote
Mike Tyson
The dearest ambition of a slave is not liberty, but to have a slave of his own. View quote
Richard Francis Burton
The man who seeks freedom for anything but freedom's self is made to be a slave. View quote
Alexis de Tocqueville
It is the nature of the wise to resist pleasures, but the foolish to be a slave to them. View quote
Epictetus
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