If you have inner peace, nobody can force you to be a slave to the outer reality. Votes: 4
Sri ChinmoyDisobedience is the true foundation of liberty. The obedient must be slaves. Votes: 3
Henry David ThoreauThe man who asks of freedom anything other than itself is born to be a slave. Votes: 3
Alexis de TocquevilleIt is the nature of the wise to resist pleasures, but the foolish to be a slave to them. Votes: 3
EpictetusAs I would not be a slave, so I would not be a master. This expresses my idea of democracy. Votes: 3
Abraham LincolnThe greatest slave in a kingdom is generally the king of it. Votes: 0
Fulke Greville, 1st Baron BrookeThe bibliophile is the master of his books, the bibliomaniac their slave. Votes: 0
Henry Ward BeecherHe that communicates his secret to another makes himself that other's slave. Votes: 0
Baltasar GracianI believe this Government cannot endure, permanently half slave and half free. Votes: 0
Abraham LincolnYour secret is your prisoner; once you reveal it, you become its slave. Votes: 0
Solomon Ibn GabirolVirtue, vain word, futile shadow, slave of chance! Alas! I believe in thee! Votes: 0
Marcus Junius Brutus the YoungerAs yet, the Negroes themselves do not fully appreciate these old slave songs. Votes: 0
James Weldon JohnsonLiterature takes its revenge on reality by making it the slave of fiction ... Votes: 0
Simone de BeauvoirBeauty and Genius must be kept afar if one would avoid becoming their slave. Votes: 0
Johann Wolfgang von GoetheTruth is no man's slave - but lies - what magnificent servants they make ... Votes: 0
Phyllis BottomeFashion condemns us to many follies, the greatest is to make oneself its slave. Votes: 0
Napoleon BonaparteThe world of employer and employee, like that of master and slave, debases both. Votes: 0
Edward AbbeyRiches cannot rescue from the grave, which claims alike the monarch and the slave. Votes: 0
John DrydenWhat the hell was an acquisitions consultant? An arms dealer? A white slave trader?" Votes: 0
Sarra ManningThe Confucian concept and Chinese ideograms for 'woman' and for 'slave' are the same. Votes: 0
Robin MorganPeople have called Christopher Columbus horrible, racist, a psycho-maniac killer and a slave owner. Votes: 0
Ruqaiyyah Waris MaqsoodPeople have called Christopher Columbus horrible, racist, a psycho-maniac killer and a slave owner. Votes: 0
Rush LimbaughWhat father ever gave up his son to death for the sake of his slave! Votes: 0
St. Catherine of SienaThe weak-minded man is the slave of his vices and the dupe of his virtues. Votes: 0
Jean Antoine Petit-SennTrue freedom is in not having a master, but in making the master your slave Votes: 0
Bangambiki HabyarimanaHe who seeks freedom for anything but freedom's self is made to be a slave. Votes: 0
Alexis de TocquevilleOne who is a slaveholder at heart never recognizes a human being in a slave. Votes: 0
Angelina GrimkeThe chains of a slave are broken the moment he considers himself a free man. Votes: 0
Mahatma GandhiThe artist is the lover of nature; therefore he is her slave and her master. Votes: 0
Rabindranath TagoreThere're two people in the world that are not likeable: a master and a slave. Votes: 0
Nikki GiovanniIf India becomes the slave of the machine, then, I say, heaven save the world. Votes: 0
Mahatma GandhiTremble not before the free man, but before the slave who has chains to break. Votes: 0
Margaret FullerEnvy, to which th' ignoble mind's a slave, Is emulation in the learn'd or brave. Votes: 0
Alexander PopeThe moment you recognize what is beautiful in this world, you stop being a slave Votes: 0
Aravind AdigaI am the very slave of circumstance And impulse -- borne away with every breath! Votes: 0
Lord ByronI don't wish to be a slave any longer to the stringent exigencies of literature. Votes: 0
Philip RothDon't become a slave to technology - manage your phone, don't let it manage you. Votes: 0
Richard BransonAn Enlightened Master is ideal only if your goal is to become a Benighted Slave. Votes: 0
Robert Anton WilsonI'm not interested in being commodified. I'm not into being sold. I'm not a slave. Votes: 0
Jill ScottMan should be master of his environment, not its slave. That is what freedom means. Votes: 0
Anthony EdenYou're a slave, a bound helpless slave to one thing in this world, your imagination. Votes: 0
F. Scott FitzgeraldOne thinks himself the master of others, and still remains a greater slave than they. Votes: 0
Jean-Jacques RousseauHe is sometimes slave who should be master; and sometimes master who should be slave. Votes: 0
Marcus Tullius CiceroI like to think of myself as being fashion-conscious without being a slave to fashion. Votes: 0
Frida LyngstadI like to think of myself as being fashion-conscious without being a slave to fashion. Votes: 0
Anni-Frid LyngstadThe Force is neither light nor dark, master nor slave, but a balance between extremes. Votes: 0
Tim LebbonAn integrated cup of coffee isn't sufficient pay for four hundred years of slave labor. Votes: 0
Malcolm XMake thy recreation servant to thy business, lest thou become a slave to thy recreation. Votes: 0
Francis QuarlesWhen the slave auctioneer asked in what he was proficient, he replied, "In ruling people . Votes: 0
DiogenesA remarkable documentary and the first in-depth record of many black women, slave and free. Votes: 0
Dorothy B. PorterAny labor which competes with slave labor must accept the economic conditions of slave labor. Votes: 0
Norbert WienerBefore passing different laws for different people, I'd relinquish myself unto you as your slave. Votes: 0
Franz GrillparzerEvery farm with slaves was a slave-breeding farm. Raising slaves was mostly a cottage industry... Votes: 0
Ned SubletteYes here's to the founding fathersâslave-owners, British citizens who didn't want to pay taxes... Votes: 0
David MazzucchelliEvery one of us should be ashamed to be free while his brother is a slave. Votes: 0
Frederick DouglassNo man in his senses can hesitate in choosing to be free, rather than a slave. Votes: 0
Alexander HamiltonThe only freedom that man ever has is when he becomes a slave to Jesus Christ. Votes: 0
R. C. SproulHeaven would that she these gifts should have, and I to live and die her slave. Votes: 0
William ShakespeareThe knowledge of God gives a person the opportunity to not be a slave to wealth. Votes: 0
Sunday AdelajaThe good man, though a slave, is free; the wicked, though he reigns, is a slave. Votes: 0
Saint AugustineThe slave should be resigned to his lot, in obeying his master he is obeying God. Votes: 0
Saint John ChrysostomMen make their own happiness, and a man may be respected even though only a slave. Votes: 0
G.A. Henty...counselling man to treat her as a slave while persuading her that she is a queen. Votes: 0
Simone de BeauvoirYour emotions are the slaves to your thoughts, and you are the slave to your emotions. Votes: 0
Elizabeth GilbertLet's live with that small pittance which we have; Who covets more is evermore a slave. Votes: 0
Robert HerrickSacrifice and neon lights slave ships don't wait. Love many, trust few, and don't be late Votes: 0
Tom MorelloFortune's unjust; she ruins oft the brave, and him who should be victor, makes the slave. Votes: 0
John DrydenDo not quench your inspiration and your imagination; do not become the slave of your model. Votes: 0
Vincent Van GoghWe want capitalism and market forces to be the slave of democracy rather than the opposite. Votes: 0
Thomas PikettyWas not Abraham Lincoln an extremist? - "This nation cannot survive half slave and half free." Votes: 0
Martin Luther King, Jr.Who Rebels? Who rises in arms? Rarely the slave, but almost always the oppressor turned slave. Votes: 0
Emile M. CioranA slave government is an oligarchy; and one, too, of the most arbitrary and criminal character. Votes: 0
Lysander SpoonerSocialism: nothing more than the theory that the slave is always more virtuous than his master. Votes: 0
H. L. MenckenThat which commands admiration in the white woman only hastens the degradation of the female slave. Votes: 0
Patricia Hill CollinsThis is the artist, then, life's hungry man, the glutton of eternity, beauty's miser, glory's slave. Votes: 0
Tom WolfeI see you are already as timid as a slave: you might as well be in love. Votes: 0
Pierre Choderlos de LaclosRise like the hero you were born to be, or die the slave you think you are. Votes: 0
Michael Joseph MuranoThe dearest ambition of a slave is not liberty, but to have a slave of his own. Votes: 0
Richard Francis BurtonIt wasn't so bad being a slave when your owner was yourself and stood up for you. Votes: 0
Orson Scott CardAll is mystery; but he is a slave who will not struggle to penetrate the dark veil. Votes: 0
Benjamin DisraeliIf you are worthy of its affection, a cat will be your friend but never your slave. Votes: 0
Theophile GautierIf you see anybody wail and complain, call him a slave, though he be clad in purple. Votes: 0
EpictetusThis is the posture of fortunes slave: one foot in the gravy, one foot in the grave. Votes: 0
James ThurberThe artist has a twofold relation to nature; he is at once her master and her slave. Votes: 0
Johann Wolfgang von GoetheI'm not a slave driver or a yeller. I was yelled at in kitchens and other workplaces. Votes: 0
Alton BrownI delivered leaflets for my dad and was paid £5 per thousand, which was slave labour. Votes: 0
Neil OliverWe'll free every slave in every town and region. Can anybody get a bigger army than that? Votes: 0
Dalton TrumboSlave to no sect, who takes no private road, But looks through Nature up to Nature's God. Votes: 0
Alexander PopeRoll, years of promise, rapidly roll round, till not a slave shall on this earth be found. Votes: 0
John Quincy AdamsThe Free State men, myself among them, took it for granted that Missouri was a slave state. Votes: 0
Buffalo BillThe worker is the slave of capitalist society, the female worker is the slave of that slave. Votes: 0
James Connolly12 Years a Slave' was very powerful, very moving, and deserved all of the acclaim it did get. Votes: 0
Glynn TurmanMan becomes a slave to his constantly repeated acts. What he at first chooses, at last compels. Votes: 0
Orison Swett MardenBooks are messengers of freedom. They can be hidden under a mattress or smuggled into slave nations. Votes: 0
Daniel J. BoorstinI didn't know I was a slave until I found out I couldn't do the things I wanted. Votes: 0
Frederick DouglassA woman who does not become the slave of just one man becomes the slave of all men. Votes: 0
Jose BergaminBe then my slave, and know what it means to be delivered into the hands of a woman. Votes: 0
Leopold von Sacher-MasochNever pray to be a better slave when God is trying to get you out of your situation. Votes: 0
Shannon L. AlderWho fears not to do ill fears the name, And free from conscience, is a slave to fame. Votes: 0
John DenhamIt is the man who can think of no alternative to his enslavement who is truly a slave. Votes: 0
Wendell BerryFor a genius to be a genius, he must have a selfless slave between himself and the world. Votes: 0
Dawn PowellIf you would have the slave show the virtues of the freeman, you must first make him free. Votes: 0
Henry GeorgeI am according to my slave's expectations of me: if good, then good, and if bad, then bad. Votes: 0
Alaa Al AswanyWhoe'er thou art, thy Lord and master see, Thou wast my Slave, thou art, or thou shalt be. Votes: 0
George Granville, 1st Baron LansdowneA man will work and slave in obscurity for ten years and then become famous in ten minutes. Votes: 0
Robert RipleySpeech remains as a slave to you, but the moment it leaves your mouth, you become its slave. Votes: 0
Ibn Qayyim Al-JawziyyaIf you don't first handle fear and desire, and you get rich, you'll only be a highpay slave. Votes: 0
Robert KiyosakiSpeak with contempt of none, from slave to king, The meanest Bee hath, and will use, a sting. Votes: 0
Benjamin FranklinSoul-force comes only through God's grace and never descends upon a man who is a slave to lust. Votes: 0
Mahatma GandhiThe artist, even when he imitates nature, always feels himself to be not a slave but a demigod. Votes: 0
Soseki NatsumeI am the slave of those who hunger and thirst after me and treat everything else as unimportant. Votes: 0
Sai BabaConversation is a partnership, not a relation of master and slave, as most people try to make it. Votes: 0
Alice Duer Miller(...) the translator of prose is the slave of the author and the translator of poetry is his rival. Votes: 0
Andreï MakineAs every artist who has used the method knows - photography's a loyal slave and a tyrannical master. Votes: 0
Robert GennIf you ever looked at me once with what I know is in you, I would be your slave. Votes: 0
Emily BronteI'm a slave to the beats of the story, not to the words we use to tell the story. Votes: 0
Steve DildarianTwo ways to treat a girl: Make her feel as a princess Or Make her feel as a slave. Votes: 0
Auliq IceIt is better to be a slave to your beloved woman than a free man to the unloved one. Votes: 0
Eric BerneOne cannot make a slave of a free person, for a free person is free even in a prison. Votes: 0
PlatoWhat good to me is the festive garment of freedom when I am in a slave's smock at home? Votes: 0
Johann Georg Hamanni'm a slave to my emotions, to my likes, to my hatred of boredom, to most of my desires Votes: 0
F. Scott FitzgeraldI WAS born a slave; but I never knew it till six years of happy childhood had passed away Votes: 0
Harriet Ann JacobsI WAS born a slave; but I never knew it till six years of happy childhood had passed away. Votes: 0
Harriet Ann JacobsThere shall be no slave in your home, male or female: Least of all the mother of your son. Votes: 0
Franz GrillparzerBe not the slave of your own past - plunge into the sublime seas, dive deep, and swim far. Votes: 0
Ralph Waldo EmersonI WAS born a slave; but I never knew it till six years of happy childhood had passed away." Votes: 0
Harriet Ann JacobsBeing a part of '12 Years a Slave' has been one of the most profound experiences of my life. Votes: 0
Lupita Nyong'oIf you put a chain around the neck of a slave, the other end fastens itself around your own. Votes: 0
Ralph Waldo EmersonAs long as a word remains unspoken, you are its master; once you utter it, you are its slave. Votes: 0
Solomon Ibn GabirolMan is born to seek power, yet his actual condition makes him a slave to the power of others. Votes: 0
Hans MorgenthauThis is a world of compensations; and he who would be no slave, must consent to have no slave. Votes: 0
Abraham LincolnThe family is one of the greatest traps that society has used for millennia to keep man a slave Votes: 0
OshoThis country was founded by a group of slave owners who told us that all men are created equal. Votes: 0
George CarlinHow do you react when you think you need people's love? Do you become a slave for their approval? Votes: 0
Byron KatieA fundamental condition of Being is slavery. Man is the slave of God, and God that of His vanity. Votes: 0
Kedar JoshiAt this very moment I'm behind on a compilation that Slave Labor is doing for Free Comic Book Day. Votes: 0
Jhonen VasquezI am the slave of my baptism. Parents, you have caused my misfortune, and you have caused your own. Votes: 0
Arthur RimbaudWho cannot resolve upon a moment's notice To live his own life, he forever lives A slave to others. Votes: 0
Gotthold Ephraim LessingWhy hast thou made me born in this country, The inhabitant of which is satisfied with being a slave? Votes: 0
Muhammad IqbalArt should never be a slave to commerce, but for all working artists that's exactly what it must be. Votes: 0
CaitlÃn R. KiernanI ask for so little.Just fear me, love me, do as I say and I will be your slave Votes: 0
David BowieYou have seen how a man was made a slave; you shall see how a slave was made a man. Votes: 0
Frederick DouglassThe covetous person is full of fear; and he or she who lives in fear will ever be a slave. Votes: 0
HoraceThe air of England has long been too pure for a slave, and every man is free who breathes it. Votes: 0
James MansfieldI could, as a free man, look across the bay toward the Eastern Shore where I was born a slave. Votes: 0
Frederick DouglassActors work and slave and it is the color of your hair that can determine your fate in the end. Votes: 0
Helen HayesHe who has no opinion of his own, but depends upon the opinion and taste of others, is a slave. Votes: 0
Friedrich Gottlieb KlopstockThe man born and bred a slave, even if freed, never loses wholly the feeling or manner of a slave. Votes: 0
Mary C. AmesVanity is the most despotic and iniquitous of masters, and I can never be the slave of my own vices. Votes: 0
George SandThe worst form of slavery is when the slave believes he is free. This is how women under Islam feel. Votes: 0
Wafa SultanI knew I hated him as only a woman can hate a man, as only a slave can hate his master. Votes: 0
Nawal El SaadawiIt is a law of nature that every decent man on earth is bound to be a coward and a slave Votes: 0
Fyodor DostoevskyHe that cannot reason is a fool. He that will not is a bigot. He that dare not is a slave. Votes: 0
Andrew CarnegieI will not be a slave to my image, nor will I be a slave to anyone else's interpretations of me, Votes: 0
Janelle MonaeNo slave is a slave to the same lengths, and in so full a sense of the word, as a wife is. Votes: 0
John Stuart MillHe who will not reason, is a bigot; he who cannot is a fool; and he who dares not is a slave. Votes: 0
William DrummondA man is no less a slave because he is allowed to choose a new master once in a term of years. Votes: 0
Lysander SpoonerThe soul of the slave, the soul of the "little man," is as dear to me as the soul of the great. Votes: 0
A. D. Gordon...I'm a slave to this leaf in a diary that lists what I must do, what I must say, every half hour. Votes: 0
Golda MeirHe that is kind is free, though he is a slave; he that is evil is a slave, though he be a king. Votes: 0
Saint AugustineWhat should we suppose must naturally be the consequence of our carrying on a slave trade with Africa? With a country, vast in its extent, not utterly barbarous, but civilized in a very small degree? Does any one suppose a slave trade would help their civilization? Votes: 1 William Wilberforce
I freed a thousand slaves I could have freed a thousand more if only they knew they were slaves. Votes: 2 Harriet Tubman
I think the person who takes a job in order to live - that is to say, for the money - has turned himself into a slave. Votes: 6 Joseph Campbell
Freedom in capitalist society always remains about the same as it was in ancient Greek republics: Freedom for slave owners. Votes: 3 Vladimir Lenin
So enormous, so dreadful, so irremediable did the [slave] trade's wickedness appear that my own mind was completely made up for abolition. Let the consequences be what they would: I from this time determined that I would never rest until I had effected its abolition. Votes: 4 William Wilberforce