Quotes About Slave Masters

#1. Daddy once told me there's a rage passed down to every black man from his ancestors, born the moment they couldn't stop the slave masters from hurting their families. Daddy also said there's nothing more dangerous than when that rage is activated.

Angie Thomas

#2. Slave masters thought they were making a difference in black people's lives too. Saving them from their "wild African ways." Same shit, different century. I wish people like them would stop thinking that people like me need saving.

Angie Thomas

#3. Funny. Slave masters thought they were making a difference in black people's lives too. Saving them from their "wild African ways." Same shit, different century. I wish people like them would stop thinking that people like me need saving. One-Fifteen

Angie Thomas

#4. The attempt to regulate relations between people too closely, by means of the law, in the name of an abstraction such as equality, leads to both absurdity and cruelty. The British are fast turning themselves into a nation of slaves, where even the slave-masters are not free.

Anthony Daniels

#5. The bravest thing you'll ever do is walk into a booth every few years, where no one can see you, and press a button, to say which of two slave-masters you'd rather be owned by.

Larken Rose

#6. 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

#7. Vanity is the most despotic and iniquitous of masters, and I can never be the slave of my own vices.

George Sand

#8. The good man, though a slave, is free; the wicked, though he reigns, is a slave, and not the slave of a single man, but - what is worse - the slave of as many masters as he has vices.

Rubianne Wood

#9. Thus, a good man, though a slave, is free; but a wicked man, though a king, is a slave. For he serves, not one man alone, but what is worse, as many masters as he has vices.

Augustine Of Hippo

#10. If I say you are not free to associate with me, it also means I too am not free to associate with you. I might call you the slave but not less bound by the slavery I have created.- Prince Ikan

Ray Anyasi

#11. Every rebel is, with us, more or less a soldier who has missed his vocation, a being made for a heroic life ... The European race is a race of masters and soldiers. If you reduce this noble race to the work in a slave's prison like Negroes or Chinamen, it will rebel.

Ernest Renan

#12. Master-morality and Slave-morality.

Friedrich Nietzsche

#13. But there were certain incentives for slaves who showed loyalty to their masters, even if it meant betraying another slave.

Tracey Bateman

#14. The slave-breeders and slave-traders, are a small, odious and detested class, among you; and yet in politics, they dictate the course of all of you, and are as completely your masters, as you are the master of your own negroes.

Abraham Lincoln

#15. Money is the excellent slave and a horrible master.

P.T. Barnum

#16. We are all hostages, and we are all terrorists. This circuit has replaced that other one of masters and slaves, the dominating and the dominated, the exploiters and the exploited. It is worse than the one it replaces, but at least it liberates us from liberal nostalgia and the ruses of history.

Jean Baudrillard

#17. No more lies, little slave. I want all of you--your honest truth. You're mine. Even your tears are mine." ~His Human Slave

Renee Rose

#18. If the greatest danger one faces as a slave is displeasing one's masters, this is the second: pleasing them.

Jacqueline Carey

#19. Be your money's master, not its slave.

Publilius Syrus

#20. When the master has come to do everything through the slave, the slave becomes his master, since he cannot live without him.

George Bernard Shaw

#21. The most imperious masters over their own servants are at the same time the most abject slaves to the servants of others.

Seneca The Younger

#22. Good masters generally have bad slaves, and bad slaves have good masters.

Herodotus

#23. Now no one can be the slave of two masters

Stephen Schwartz

#24. Slavery was immensely profitable to some masters. James Madison told a British visitor shortly after the American Revolution that he could make 257 dollars on every (black slave) in a year, and spend only 12 or 13 dollars on his keep.

Howard Zinn

#25. As soon as extreme attachment comes, a man loses himself, he is no more master of himself, he is a slave.

Swami Vivekananda

#26. There are some men who are masters of cities but slaves to women.

Democritus

#27. Formerly the master selected the slave; today the slave selects his master.

Albert Parsons

#28. You belong to me and I protect what's mine. Understand?" ~His Human Slave

Renee Rose

#29. The masters and overseers were so good at employee development, in their absence, the employees still achieved the company's mission

Darnell Lamont Walker

#30. Whenever a man can get hold of numbers, they are invaluable: if correct, they assist in informing his own mind, but they are still more useful in deluding the minds of others. Numbers are the masters of the weak, but the slaves of the strong.

Charles Babbage

#31. There is only one condition in which we can imagine managers not needing subordinates, and masters not needing slaves. This condition would be that each (inanimate) instrument could do its own work.

Aristotle.

#32. 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

#33. One thinks himself the master of others, and still remains a greater slave than they.

Jean-Jacques Rousseau

#34. Slaves were expected to sing as well as to work. A silent slave was not liked, either by masters or overseers.

Frederick Douglass

#35. While humans play God, dogs learn from their masters.

Toba Beta

#36. Gold will be slave or master.

Horace

#37. Abolishing slavery leads to slaves without masters

George Fitzhugh

#38. The future is the only kind of property that the masters willingly concede to the slaves.

Albert Camus

#39. I fail to find a trace [in Protestantism] of any desire to set reason free. The most that can be discovered is a proposal to change masters. From being a slave of the papacy, the intellect was to become the serf of the Bible.

Thomas Huxley

#40. Keep a secret, it's your slave. Tell it, and it's your master.

Henry Wilson Allen

#41. Money is a great slave but a horrible master.

Daymond John

#42. We are masters of our characters and in turn, slaves of their outgrowth.

Mohammed Ali Bapir

#43. The master is a slave when he fears those whom he rules.

Publilius Syrus

#44. For a while, O King, the gods had sought to solve the riddles of Time, for a while They made him Their slave, and Time smiled and obeyed his masters, for a while, O King, for a while. He that hath spared nothing hath not spared the gods, nor yet shall he spare thee.

Lord Dunsany