Slave Quotes

Slave to no sect, who takes no private road, But looks through Nature up to Nature's God.
Alexander Pope

Nature, God, Through

A slave is one who waits for someone to come and free him.
Ezra Pound

Someone, Him, Free

Remember this: your body is your slave; it works for you.
Jack LaLanne

Remember, Body, Works

Reason is, and ought only to be the slave of the passions, and can never pretend to any other office than to serve and obey them.
David Hume

Reason, Office, Serve

The scariest thought in the world is that someday I'll wake up and realize I've been sleepwalking through my life: underappreciating the people I love, making the same hurtful mistakes over and over, a slave to neuroses, fear, and the habitual.
George Saunders

Life, Love, Fear

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

Another, Makes, Secret

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.
Cecil Rhodes

Time, Find, Same

Create like a god, command like a king, work like a slave.
Constantin Brancusi

Work, God, Create

As long as a word remains unspoken, you are its master; once you utter it, you are its slave.
Solomon Ibn Gabirol

Long, Once, Word

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.
G. I. Gurdjieff

Knowledge, Self, Working

For what Harley Street specialist has time to understand the body, let alone the mind or both in combination, when he is a slave to thirteen thousand a year?
Virginia Woolf

Time, Alone, Mind

No slave is a slave to the same lengths, and in so full a sense of the word, as a wife is.
John Stuart Mill

Wife, Same, Sense

He that will not reason is a bigot; he that cannot reason is a fool; and he that dares not reason is a slave.
William Drummond

Fool, Cannot, Reason

Who Rebels? Who rises in arms? Rarely the slave, but almost always the oppressor turned slave.
Emile M. Cioran

Almost, Rarely, Oppressor

The slave has but one master, the ambitious man has as many as there are persons whose aid may contribute to the advancement of his fortunes.
Jean de la Bruyere

May, Whose, Master

Man is free; yet we must not suppose that he is at liberty to do everything he pleases, for he becomes a slave the moment he allows his actions to be ruled by passion.
Giacomo Casanova

Passion, Liberty, Free

A slave has but one master; an ambitious man has as many masters as there are people who may be useful in bettering his position.
Jean de la Bruyere

May, Useful, Position

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

Great, Artist, Ideals

The worker is the slave of capitalist society, the female worker is the slave of that slave.
James Connolly

Society, Female, Worker

The perfection of our union, especially our commitment to equality of opportunity, has been a story of constant striving to live up to our Founding principles. This is what Abraham Lincoln meant when he said, 'In giving freedom to the slave, we assure freedom to the free - honorable alike in what we give, and what we preserve.'
Paul Ryan

Freedom, Equality, Live

Why hast thou made me born in this country, The inhabitant of which is satisfied with being a slave?
Muhammad Iqbal

Country, Why, Born

Your secret is your prisoner; once you reveal it, you become its slave.
Solomon Ibn Gabirol

Become, Once, Secret

The problems with First Ladies is that you have to set the standard. My role is to be both star and slave.
Imelda Marcos

Problems, Both, Star

And so, whether they came here on the Mayflower, on a slave ship, or on an airplane from Havana, we are all descendants of the men and women who built here the nation that saved the world.
Marco Rubio

Women, Men, Here

The last four or five hundred years of European contact with Africa produced a body of literature that presented Africa in a very bad light and Africans in very lurid terms. The reason for this had to do with the need to justify the slave trade and slavery.
Chinua Achebe

Bad, Light, Reason

An Enlightened Master is ideal only if your goal is to become a Benighted Slave.
Robert Anton Wilson

Goal, Become, Master

I'm not a master of films, I'm rather a slave.
Ang Lee

Rather, Films, Master

Assure a man that he has a soul and then frighten him with old wives' tales as to what is to become of him afterward, and you have hooked a fish, a mental slave.
Theodore Dreiser

There're two people in the world that are not likeable: a master and a slave.
Nikki Giovanni

Two, Master, Likeable

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.
Andrea Dworkin

Reality, Against, Genius

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