Top 100 Be A Slave Quotes
#1. I never liked to work because I don't want no one to be a slave. I want to be worked in my mind. Every thing that's going on, there's some big spirit behind me who send me to do the thing that I must do.
Lee "Scratch" Perry
#2. If you think too much about the future, about seeing me again, you won't exprience anything. You'll just be a slave to time.
Katie Kacvinsky
#3. He who gives away shall have real gain. He who subdues himself shall be free; he shall cease to be a slave of passions. The righteous man casts off evil, and by rooting out lust, bitterness, and illusion do we reach Nirvana.
Buddha
#4. To every man, even though he be a slave, the light of heaven is sweet.
Euripides
#5. I will not be a slave to my image, nor will I be a slave to anyone else's interpretations of me,
Janelle Monae
#6. You do not wish to earn your living, to have a task, to fulfil a duty! It bores you to be like other men? Well! You will be different. Labor is the law; he who rejects it will find ennui his torment. You do not wish to be a workingman, you will be a slave.
Victor Hugo
#7. I didn't want to be a slave to any passion anymore. I gave up card playing altogether, even bridge and gambling - more or less. It took me a few years to get out of it.
Omar Sharif
#8. Make your own rules or be a slave to another man's.
William Blake
#9. Pain is itself a god: the taskmaster of life. Pain cracks the whip, and all that lives will move. To live is to be a slave to pain.
Matthew Woodring Stover
#12. Is it freedom to be a slave to the senses, to anger, to jealousies and a hundred other petty things that must occur every day in human life?
Swami Vivekananda
#13. As I would not be a slave, so I would not be a master. This expresses my idea of democracy.
Abraham Lincoln
#14. Well, one must be a slave to something in this kind of a world,' he said.
L.M. Montgomery
#15. You think you're safe. Until you see a picture like that. And then you know you'll always be a slave to the present because the present is more powerful than the past, no matter how long ago the present happened.
Ann-Marie MacDonald
#16. I don't want to be a slave to nostalgia.
Cullen Bunn
#17. Is it the body you are going to serve and be a slave to or is it the spirit you are going to develop, and live happily in this life and in the world to come?
David O. McKay
#18. Take a stand that reflects the widest horizons of your soul if you don't want to be a slave to external powers.
Janvier Chouteu-Chando
#19. I decided I didn't want to be a slave to any passion any more except for my work, i had too many passions - bridge, horses, gambling. I want to live a different kind of life, be with my family more because I didn't give them enough time.
Omar Sharif
#20. Not only was I not born to be a slave: I was not born to hope to become the equal of the slave-master. They had, the masters, incontestably, the rope - in time, with enough, they would hang themselves with it. They were not to hang me: I was to see to that.
James Baldwin
#21. Don't be a slave to style. Don't take more from the world than you're willing to give back. And learn to undo the perceptions-so heavily promoted by the media-that shopping is a form of therapy and that a purchase is nothing but a victory or a gain.
Thanissaro Bhikkhu
#22. She narrowed her eyes. "You lost the collar I gave you."
It chafed. And I wasn't born to be a slave.
Joe Abercrombie
#24. To win true freeedom you must be a slave to philosophy.
Seneca.
#25. Would you rather be a slave in heaven or a free man in hell?
Wildbow
#26. The knowledge of God gives a person the opportunity to not be a slave to wealth.
Sunday Adelaja
#27. There was no point saying that everyone has a different sexual profile, as individual as their fingerprints; no one wanted to believe that. It was very dangerous being uninhibited in bed; there was always the fear that the other person might still be a slave to their preconceived ideas.
Paulo Coelho
#28. The moment the slave resolves that he will no longer be a slave, his fetters fall. Freedom and slavery are mental states.
Mahatma Gandhi
#29. Do not afflict others with anything that you yourself would not wish to suffer. if you would not like to be a slave, make sure no one is your slave. If you have slaves, you yourself are the greatest slave, for just as freedom is incompatible with slavery, so goodness is incompatible with hypocrisy.
Epictetus
#30. It is difficult, my dear Lucius, to escape becoming the person others believe one to be. A slave is twice enslaved, once by his chains and once again by the glances that fall upon him and say thou slave.
Thornton Wilder
#31. It is better to be a slave to your beloved woman than a free man to the unloved one.
Eric Berne
#32. Rehearse death. To say this is to tell a person to rehearse his freedom. A person who has learned how to die has unlearned how to be a slave. He is above, or at any rate, beyond the reach of, all political powers.
Seneca The Younger
#33. For it is true now, as it always was and always will be, that to be free is the same thing as to be pious, to be wise, to be temperate and just, to be frugal and abstinent, and to be magnanimous and brave; and to be the opposite of all these is the same as to be a slave.
Albert Pike
#34. It is the nature of the wise to resist pleasures, but the foolish to be a slave to them.
Epictetus
#35. With that kind of shooting, I don't believe you'll be a slave to anyone ever again. -Jesse to Cyrus.
M.A. Bookout
#37. I don't want to be a slave to history or facts. As long as I'm getting a good cursory understanding of what it is and I'm not drifting too far away at certain points, then I can play with the idea and take it anywhere I want to.
Scott Walker
#38. If I had my life to live over I would die fighting rather than be a slave again. I want no man's yoke on my shoulders no more.
Robert Falls
#39. I don't wish to be a slave any longer to the stringent exigencies of literature.
Philip Roth
#40. We do not know where death awaits us: so let us wait for it everywhere. To practice death is to practice freedom. A man who has learned how to die has unlearned how to be a slave. MONTAIGNE
Sogyal Rinpoche
#41. I would be a slave to achieve the maid whose sudden sight has thrilled my wounded eye.
David Levithan
#42. I don't owe Don King anything. I got things with my own sweat and blood. I don't know if I'll be associated with Don but I won't be a slave or puppet for him.
Larry Holmes
#44. I haven't been to a gas station in years. It feels so good not to be a slave to gas, playing the whole game of war for oil.
Daryl Hannah
#45. To be ignorant and to be deceived are two different things. To be ignorant is to be a slave of the world. To be deceived is to be the slave of another man. The question will always be: Why, when all men are ignorant, and therefore already slaves, does this latter slavery sting us so?
R. Scott Bakker
#46. I therefore concluded it was wisest to take quietly whatever he chose to inflict, but as the strokes fell upon my back, I firmly resolved that I would no longer be a slave. I would now escape or die in the attempt. They might shoot me down if they chose, but I would not live a slave.
James Curry
#47. Whoever then would be free, let him wish for nothing, let him decline nothing, which depends on others; else he must necessarily be a slave.
Epictetus
#48. The covetous person is full of fear; and he or she who lives in fear will ever be a slave.
Horace
#50. I didn't have to be a slave to the worst tendencies of my personality.
Kevin Leman
#51. The answer you seek lies in learning to combine the power of reason with the passion of emotion. If you let reason alone control your choices, you lose the power of intuition. If you let emotion control your choices, you will be a slave to every minor tragedy.
Roy Huff
#52. A horse can have a job and not be a slave. He can look forward to it and enjoy it. That's the same for me.
Buck Brannaman
#53. I believe that it is better to tell the truth than a lie. I believe it is better to be free than to be a slave. And I believe it is better to know than to be ignorant.
H.L. Mencken
#54. 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
Andrew Jackson
#55. Don't be a slave to your limiting beliefs. It's your mind, so take control of it today. Stop following the beliefs that don't help you. Create empowering beliefs that will serve you better.
Maddy Malhotra
#56. And how can one be a slave and not a slave? When he does all for God: when he feigns nothing, and does nothing out of eye-service towards men: that is how one who is a slave to men can be free.
John F. MacArthur Jr.
#57. To react, is to be A slave to someone else's actions. Sometimes, A warrior is faced with the decision to strike pre-emptively, trusting his intuition, wisdom and years of training
Soke Behzad Ahmadi
#58. 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
Baltasar Gracian
#59. Don't be a slave of 3 S's: Salt, Sugar and Sex.
Vinita Kinra
#60. Art should never be a slave to commerce, but for all working artists that's exactly what it must be.
Caitlin R. Kiernan
#61. Because a freeman ought not to be a slave in the acquisition of knowledge of any kind. Bodily exercise, when compulsory, does no harm to the body; but knowledge which is acquired under compulsion obtains no hold on the mind. Very true. Then,
Plato
#62. I'm not gonna be a slave. I'm a rock n' roller.
Steven Adler
#63. Unless you have found something in life to live for that is more important to you than your own life, you will always be a slave. For all another man needs to do is threaten to take your life to get you to do his bidding.
Martin Luther King Jr.
#64. He will always be a slave who does not know how to live upon a little.
Horace
#65. But believe it or not, I really do like to read. I don't think anyone can ever pull the wool over your eyes if you stay prayed up and read. Frederick Douglass said that no man can be a slave if he has knowledge.
Brandi L. Bates
#67. This is what it means to be a slave; to be abused and bear it; compelled by violence to suffer wrong.
Euripides
#68. If I thought, had any idea, that I'd ever be a slave again, I'd take a gun an' jus end it all right away. Because you're nothing but a dog. You're not a thing but a dog.
Fountain Hughes
#69. He was born a slave, but he was not born to be a slave.
R.A. Salvatore
#70. There has never been a slave who did not choose to be a slave,
George R R Martin
#71. Be a slave of your potential and not a slave of circumstances
Sunday Adelaja
#72. If we do not master ourselves, we will be a slave to ourselves.
Chris Matakas
#73. 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
#74. If you're not confident in the authority of the Scriptures, you will be a slave to what sounds right.
Matt Chandler
#75. I am two women: one wants to have all the joy, passion and adventure that life can give me. The other wants to be a slave to routine, to family life, to the things that can be planned and achieved. I'm a housewife and a prostitute, both of us living in the same body and doing battle with each other.
Paulo Coelho
#76. If I must be a slave to habit let me be a slave to good habits.
Og Mandino
#78. We make her paint her face and dance
If she won't be a slave, we say that she don't love us
If she's real, we say she's trying to be a man
While putting her down we pretend that she is above us
John Lennon
#79. Whoever wants to be free, therefore, let him not want or avoid anything that is up to others. Otherwise he will necessarily be a slave.
Epictetus
#80. My long-crushed spirit rose, cowardice departed, bold defiance took its place; and I now resolved that, however long I might remain a slave in form, the day had passed forever when I could be a slave in fact.
Frederick Douglass
#83. You learn to cook so that you don't have to be a slave to recipes. You get what's in season and you know what to do with it.
Julia Child
#85. Male werewolves treat their mates like beloved slaves. the thought set my back up. It was just a good thing I wasn't a werewolf or there would be a slave rebellion.
Patricia Briggs
#87. ...true freedom is having the right to be a slave.
Paul Beatty
#88. Who you pretends you is, you comes to be. The nigger that bows to the Master on the street, who acts the fool, who forgets who he am, that man a slave. He shuts his bible, he deserves to be a slave
Donald McCaig
#89. I can't be a slave to the machine, you feel like you're in the matrix.
Kanye West
#90. It is not certain where Death awaits us, so let us await it everywhere. To think of death beforehand is to think of our liberty. Whoever learns how to die has learned how not to be a slave. Knowing how to die frees us from all subjection and constraint.xi
Michel De Montaigne
#91. Only when the mind is free has the body a chance to be free. Yes, they must believe, they must believe. Because I know what it means to be a slave. I am a slave.
Ernest Gaines
#92. For if there was any kindness in slavery it was dependent on the docility of the slaves; any slave who was unwilling to be a slave broke through the myth of paternalism and benevolence, and brought down on himself the violence inherent in the system. A
Wendell Berry
#93. But the whole thing, after all, may be put very simply. I believe that it is better to tell the truth than to lie. I believe that it is better to be free than to be a slave. And I believe that it is better to know than be ignorant.
H.L. Mencken
#95. My body might be a slave, but not my mind. For you, it's the other way round.
Sue Monk Kidd
#96. I won't be a slave to the past. I'll love where I choose.
Thomas Hardy
#97. The male corporate model is built on a man's greater willingness to be a slave of sorts - especially once he has to provide for children.
Warren Farrell
#98. An idolatrous attachment can lead you to break any promise, rationalize any indiscretion, or betray any other allegiance, in order to hold on to it. It may drive you to violate all good and proper boundaries. To practice idolatry is to be a slave.
Timothy Keller
#100. Live every day to its fullest, and do not be a slave to your hopes for the future. If you do not learn to enjoy today you will not enjoy the future no matter what it may bring.
Jane Roberts
