Slave famous quotes

Just fear me and love me...and do as I say...and I will be your slave.
-- A.C.H. Smith

#And Love #Slave

People say that slaves were taken from Africa. This is not true: People were taken from Africa, among them healers and priests, and were made into slaves.
-- Abdullah Ibrahim

#Taken #People #Slave

In giving freedom to the slave, we assure freedom to the free.
-- Abraham Lincoln

#Giving #Conservative #Slave

Better to starve free than be a fat slave
-- Aesop

#4th Of July #Slave #Fats

Desires make slaves out of kings and patience makes kings out of slaves.
-- Al-Ghazali

#Kings #Desire #Slave

I am according to my slave's expectations of me: if good, then good, and if bad, then bad.
-- Alaa Al Aswany

#Expectations #Slave

In this respect, granting homosexuals the right to marry is like granting plantation owners the right to own slaves.
-- Alan Keyes

#Slave #Owners #Homosexual

Many attempts had been made by colonial legislatures to cut off or to tax the importation of slaves.
-- Albert Bushnell Hart

#Cutting #Slave #Legislature

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

#Justice #Crowns #Slave

No man in his senses can hesitate in choosing to be free, rather than a slave.
-- Alexander Hamilton

#Men #Liberty #Slave

Imitation causes us to leave natural ways to enter into artificial ones; it therefore makes slaves.
-- Alexandre Vinet

#Way #Causes #Slave

The man who asks of freedom anything other than itself is born to be a slave.
-- Alexis de Tocqueville

#Men #Liberty #Slave

Slavery was regarded by Aristotle as an ordinance of nature, and so probably was it by the slaves themselves in olden time.
-- Alfred Marshall

#Slavery #Slave

It is a great mistake, as we have already remarked, to be afraid of Him and to act in His presence like a timid and craven slave trembling with fright before his master.
-- Alphonsus Liguori

#Mistake #Slave #Masters

from the slave ship to the citizenship we faced a lot of bullship
-- Amiri Baraka

#Ships #Citizenship #Slave

I'm a slave to my dogs and go out with them almost every day. They are poorly behaved if they don't run. They really act up.
-- Amy Chua

#Running #Dog #Slave

(...) the translator of prose is the slave of the author and the translator of poetry is his rival.
-- Andreï Makine

#Rivals #Slave #Poetry Is

In the end what separates a man from a slave? Money? Power? No, a man chooses, and a slave obeys!
-- Andrew Ryan

#Men #Slave #Ends

A free man chooses, a slave obeys
-- Andrew Ryan

#Men #Slave

I desire Virtue, though I love her not- I have no faith in her when she is got: I fear that she will bind and make me slave And send me songless to the sullen grave.
-- Anna Wickham

#Desire #Sullen #Slave

Everyone is a potential naked slave to you once you become a trainer.
-- Anne Rice

#Naked #Kinky #Slave

I like to think of myself as being fashion-conscious without being a slave to fashion.
-- Anni-Frid Lyngstad

#Fashion #Thinking #Slave

Man should be master of his environment, not its slave. That is what freedom means.
-- Anthony Eden

#Mean #Men #Slave

The best thing about writing has been the writer's life, the sense of being expressed, the ownership of the day, the entirely specious sense of freedom we have, however slave we are to some boss or other. I wouldn't trade it for any other life.
-- Anthony Minghella

#Writing #Boss #Slave

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

#Slavery #Slave #Worst

I am the slave of an internal power more powerful than my education.
-- Arnold Schoenberg

#Powerful #Slave #Internals

Mammon is the largest slave-holder in the world.
-- Arthur Frederick Saunders

#World #Slave

The priest is Christ's slave, and Christ himself took the form of a slave and became obedient to death. So the priest in serving human needs lives a Godward life, possessed by God and witnessing that only when lives are utterly possessed by God do they find their true freedom.
-- Arthur Middleton

#Needs #Christ #Slave

I am the slave of my baptism. Parents, you have caused my misfortune, and you have caused your own.
-- Arthur Rimbaud

#Parent #Baptism #Slave

To become free, you have to be acutely aware of being a slave.
-- Assata Shakur

#Slave

The man who produces while others dispose of his product is a slave.
-- Ayn Rand

#Freedom #Men #Slave

He that communicates his secret to another makes himself that other's slave.
-- Baltasar Gracian

#Reality #Secret #Slave

I like suggesting that ‘we are slaves to the objects around us,’ that ‘plenty should be enough,’ or that the ‘buyer should beware,’ within the context of conventional selling space.
-- Barbara Kruger

#Space #Slave #Enough

I have discovered that a famed familiarity in great ones is a note of certain usurpation on the less; for great and popular men feign themselves to be servants to others to make those slaves to them.
-- Ben Jonson

#Men #Slave #Popularity

Ambition makes more trusty slaves than need
-- Ben Jonson

#Ambition #Needs #Slave

The borrower is slave to the lender and the debtor to the creditor.
-- Benjamin Franklin

#Business #Debtors #Slave

If somebody makes me laugh, I’m his slave for life.
-- Bette Midler

#Laughing #Slave #Make Me Laugh

Good slaves are free, but bad free men are slaves of many passions.
-- Bion of Borysthenes

#Passion #Men #Slave

A [typical] worker is a part-time slave.
-- Bob Black

#Work #Typical #Slave

Not kill us," Pigeon corrected. "She was mainly just trying to turn us into mindless slaves.
-- Brandon Mull

#Trying #Pigeons #Slave

The Free State men, myself among them, took it for granted that Missouri was a slave state.
-- Buffalo Bill

#Men #Slave #Granted

If you are not their slaves, you are rebels.
-- C. L. R. James

#Rebel #Slave

Dissimulation is the refuge of the slave.
-- C. L. R. James

#Slave #Refuge

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.
-- C. S. Lewis

#Motivational #Religion #Slave

Art should never be a slave to commerce, but for all working artists that's exactly what it must be.
-- Caitlín R. Kiernan

#Art #Slave #Should

we are slaves to the cost of living.
-- Carolina Maria de Jesus

#Cost #Poverty #Slave

I should have known the power-hungry slave drivers at River's Edge would see my five days of freedom only as a challenge to be filled.
-- Cate Tiernan

#Rivers #Challenges #Slave

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

#Humility #Animal #Slave

Where is the man, who, if asked to become a slave, would not hurl back the offer indignantly in the teeth of the oppressor?
-- Charles Lenox Remond

#Men #Teeth #Slave

I am simply not such a slave to my vanity, and I don't want to be, because as you get older you really have to start accepting the inevitable.
-- Cherie Lunghi

#Vanity #Want #Slave

Happy white peoples independence day the slaves weren't free but I'm sure they enjoyed fireworks.
-- Chris Rock

#White #Independence #Slave

The great artist is a slave to his ideals.
-- Christian Nestell Bovee

#Art #Artist #Slave

How many women are there ... who because of their husbands' harshness spend their weary lives in the bond of marriage in greater suffering than if they were slaves among the Saracens?
-- Christine de Pizan

#Husband #Suffering #Slave

My parents never told us that our great-grandmothers had been slaves.
-- Constance Baker Motley

#Grandmother #Parent #Slave

A well-paid slave is nonetheless a slave.
-- Curt Flood

#Slave #Wells

Irony is the glory of slaves.
-- Czeslaw Milosz

#Irony #Slave #Glory

We must face the ultimate contradiction that our free and democratic society was made possible by massive slave labor.
-- David Brion Davis

#Faces #Slave #Contradiction

I was a captive and a slave. I loved Dora Spenlow to distraction! She was more than human to me. She was a Fairy, a Sylph, I dont know what she was--anything that no one ever saw, and everything that everybody ever wanted.
-- David Copperfield

#Saws #Fairy #Slave

Aristotle [would] probably conclude most Americans, for all intents and purposes, are slaves.
-- David Graeber

#Purpose #Slave

Reason is, and ought only to be the slave of the passions.
-- David Hume

#Philosophy #Passion #Slave

Slaves. though we be enrolled Minds are never to be sold.
-- David Ruggles

#Mind #Slave

Money is a great slave but a horrible master.
-- Daymond John

#Slave #Masters #Horrible

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

#Men #Cities #Slave

I'm nothing more than a sports slave.
-- Dennis Rodman

#Basketball #Sports #Slave

There is no logical reason why thoughts, which have no substance, should have so much power over you, nor is there any reason why you should become their slave
-- Dilgo Khyentse Rinpoche

#Over You #Substance #Slave

To Xeniades, who had purchased Diogenes at the slave market, he said, "Come, see that you obey orders.
-- Diogenes

#Order #Slave #Said

When the slave auctioneer asked in what he was proficient, he replied, "In ruling people .
-- Diogenes

#People #Slave #Ruling

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

#Art #Slave #Masters

I can't play a slave.
-- Dorothy Dandridge

#Play #Slave

Wisely used history can give pleasure and provide us with a useful tool; but we should not become its slaves.
-- Douglas Hurd

#Giving #Tools #Slave

We are all slaves to the shining metal.
-- Douglas William Jerrold

#Money #Shining #Slave

Boss up on your emotions before you become a slave to them.
-- dream hampton

#Boss #Emotion #Slave

The common root, of course, comes out of Africa. That's the pulse.The African pulse. It's all the way back from . . . the old slave chants and up through the blues, the jazz, and up through rock. And it's all got the African pulse.
-- Duke Ellington

#Jazz #Common #Slave

Theism tells men that they are the slaves of a God. Atheism assures men that they are the investigators and users of nature.
-- E. Haldeman-Julius

#Men #Atheism #Slave

When we forgive, the slave we free is ourselves.
-- Edward Hallowell

#Forgiveness #Forgiving #Slave

I regret the unhappiness of princes who are slaves to forms and fettered by caution.
-- Elizabeth I

#Regret #Slave #Unhappiness

Stomach: A slave that must accept everything that is given to it, but which avenges wrongs as slyly as does the slave.
-- Emile Souvestre

#Food #Doe #Slave

We do not want the peace of slaves nor the peace of the grave.
-- Emiliano Zapata

#Justice #Want #Slave

I would rather be a rebel than a slave.
-- Emmeline Pankhurst

#Rebel #Slave

Whoever then wishes to be free, let him neither wish for anything nor avoid anything which depends on others: if he does not observe this rule, he must be a slave.
-- Epictetus

#Wish #Doe #Slave

You're a slave, a bound helpless slave to one thing in this world, your imagination.
-- F. Scott Fitzgerald

#Imagination #World #Slave

Being frozen into the passive position of an object whose very existence depends on the eye of its beholder turn the educated modern Western women into a harem slave.
-- Fatema Mernissi

#Eye #Frozen #Slave

If you cannot live alone, you were born a slave.
-- Fernando Pessoa

#Solitude #Slave #Born

Let me state here and now that the black woman in America can justly be described as a 'slave of a slave.
-- Frances M. Beal

#America #Black #Slave

Make thy recreation servant to thy business, lest thou become a slave to thy recreation.
-- Francis Quarles

#Leisure #Slave #Recreation

You have seen how a man was made a slave; you shall see how a slave was made a man.
-- Frederick Douglass

#Men #Black History #Slave

I didn't know I was a slave until I found out I couldn't do the things I wanted.
-- Frederick Douglass

#Slavery #Slave #Found

He who has no opinion of his own, but depends upon the opinion and taste of others, is a slave.
-- Friedrich Gottlieb Klopstock

#Taste #Opinion #Slave

Men make their own happiness, and a man may be respected even though only a slave.
-- G.A. Henty

#Men #May #Slave

I despise 'animal welfare.' That's like saying, 'Let's beat the slaves three times a week instead of five times a week'.
-- Gary Yourofsky

#Animal #Three #Slave

Dostoevsky preaches the morality of the pariah, the morality of the slave.
-- Georg Brandes

#Morality #Slave #Pariahs

Whoe'er thou art, thy Lord and master see, Thou wast my Slave, thou art, or thou shalt be.
-- George Granville, 1st Baron Lansdowne

#Life #Art #Slave

The bachelors admired freedom is often a yoke, for the freer a man is to himself the greater slave he often is to the whims of others.
-- George Jean Nathan

#Men #Yoke #Slave

For slaves to fashion, the rules are made to be broken.
-- George Kotsiopoulos

#Fashion #Broken #Slave

The poor despise labor when performed by slaves.
-- George Mason

#Slave #Poor #Despise

The slaves of socialism are slaves, but they are no one's property and therefore no one's loss.
-- George Reisman

#Loss #Socialism #Slave

It's a Crime for the Slave to Love her Bonds.
-- Ghada al-Samman

#Feminism #Slave #Crime

Who cannot resolve upon a moment's notice To live his own life, he forever lives A slave to others.
-- Gotthold Ephraim Lessing

#Forever #Moments #Slave

But when you become a slave to a public persona and don’t feel comfortable without it, it becomes a shield and it shouldn’t come at the expense of your self-worth.
-- Gugu Mbatha-Raw

#Self Worth #Shields #Slave

See, it's no in between: you're either free or you're a slave.
-- H. Rap Brown

#Slave