Slave Master Quotes

#1. Maybe everything the slave catcher said was true, Cora thought, every justification, and the sons of Ham were cursed and the slave master performed the Lord's will. And maybe he was just a man talking to an outhouse door, waiting for someone to wipe her ass. -

Colson Whitehead

#2. The Slave master named Mahmel Was a nasty kind of thug, so Stiggy dropped a rock on him and squashed him like a bug.

John Flanagan

#3. For me, my 'X' replaced the white slave master name of 'Little' which some blue-eyed devil named Little had imposed on my parental forebears.

Malcolm X

#4. My father didn't know his real name. My father got his name from his grandfather and he got his name from his grandfather and he got it from the slave master.

Malcolm X

#5. 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

#6. Cassius Clay is a name that white people gave to my slave master. Now that I am free, that I don't belong anymore to anyone, that I'm not a slave anymore, I gave back their white name, and I chose a beautiful African one.

Muhammad Ali

#7. Discard your former slave-master's names and be willing and ready to accept one of Allah's Pure and Righteous Names that He Alone will give our people from His Own Mouth! A good name is, indeed, better than gold.

Elijah Muhammad

#8. Just as the slave master required the slaves to imitate the image he had of them, so women, who live in a relatively powerless position, politically and economically, feel obliged by a kind of implicit force to live up to culture's image of what is female.

Susan Griffin

#9. Grammar is nothing
But a slave-master of words:
Unchain your language!

Noel Shafi

#10. All black Americans have slave names. They have white names; names that the slave master has given to them.

Muhammad Ali

#11. TRUTH: When a child believes he must win to be worthy, when young adults define themselves by what they do and not who they are, it is a kind of slavery a slave master would envy.

Tom Shadyac

#12. By what standard of morality can the violence used by a slave to break his chains be considered the same as the violence of a slave master?

Walter Rodney

#13. Mary was the darkness to my monster. The blood to my blade.

Alaska Angelini

#14. The world of employer and employee, like that of master and slave, debases both.

Edward Abbey

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

Albert Parsons

#16. Slavery is so intolerable a condition that the slave can hardly escape deluding himself into thinking that he is choosing to obey his master's commands when, in fact, he is obliged to. Most slaves of habit suffer from this delusion and so do some writers, enslaved by an all too personal style.

W. H. Auden

#17. Every man and woman is made in the Father's image and likeness and thus shares in the dominion and dignity of the one God and King. This is one of the most astonishing elements of the story: God desires to relate to his creatures, not as a master to a slave but as a Father to his sons and daughters!

Tim Gray

#18. Thoughtout life, we all live our lives assuming two roles, the role of a slave and the role of a master. It only depend on an individual which role he assumes first

Nathanael Kanyinga

#19. Your son at five is your master, at ten your slave, at fifteen your double, and after that, your friend or foe, depending on his bringing up.

Hasdai Ibn Shaprut

#20. If God is the master of the universe, then what are we? The slaves of the universe? If so, let each man become proud Spartacus!

Mehmet Murat Ildan

#21. Socialism: nothing more than the theory that the slave is always more virtuous than his master.

H.L. Mencken

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

Renee Rose

#23. As I would not be a slave, so I would not be a master. This expresses my idea of democracy.

Abraham Lincoln

#24. I demanded a realm in which I should be both master and slave at the same time: The world of art is the only such realm.

Henry Miller

#25. You don't become completely free by just avoiding being a slave; you also need to avoid becoming a master.

Nassim Nicholas Taleb

#26. He'd never asked her whether she would prefer to have a master again, and now the thought of such a conversation made his throat tighten. In a sense it would be like asking someone whether they'd like to escape their present difficulties by killing themselves

Helene Wecker

#27. Take advice, but not orders. Only give yourself orders. Abraham Lincoln once said, 'Since I will be no one's slave, I will be no one's master.'

Jim Rohn

#28. In a way the better the master;the worse the condition of slave,because it makes him forget what he is.

Amitav Ghosh

#29. Suffice it to say, during the whole long day I came not to the conclusion, even once, that the southern slave, fed, clothed, whipped and protected by his master, is happier than the free colored citizen of the North. To that conclusion I have never since arrived.

Solomon Northup

#30. An Enlightened Master is ideal only if your goal is to become a Benighted Slave.

Robert Anton Wilson

#31. Mood has to be controlled.
Otherwise, it's your master.

Toba Beta

#32. In part because they had no choice, right? If you were a slave, you did what the master said. And they said to worship: "You're going to worship with us."

Michael Emerson

#33. Sometimes, one must become a master to avoid becoming a slave.

Octavia Butler

#34. We are free when we are not the slave of our impulses, but rather their master. Taking inward distance, we thus become the authors of our own dramas rather than characters in them.

Huston Smith

#35. A slave lacks incentives; for him it is better to work slowly and badly, since his effort benefits only the master, but free people work hard to save and get ahead,, that is their incentive.

Isabel Allende

#36. Original sin is not only the violation of a positive command ... but ... attempts ... to abolish fatherhood, destroying its rays which permeate the created world, placing in doubt the truth about God who is Love and leaving man with only a sense of the master-slave relationship.

Pope John Paul II

#37. If you cannot be the master of your language, you must be its slave. If you cannot examine your thoughts, you have no choice but to think them, however silly they may be.

Richard Mitchell

#38. 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

#39. Some of us realize the self-evident truth that no election, no constitution, no legislation, and no other pseudo-religious political ritual can bestow upon anyone the right to rule another. Nothing can make a man into a rightful master; nothing can make a man into a rightful slave.

Larken Rose

#40. 15You shall not give up to his master a slave who has escaped from his master to you. 16He shall dwell with you, in your midst, in the place that he shall choose within one of your towns, wherever it suits him. You shall not wrong him.

Anonymous

#41. A wise man is the master of his own mind" "A fool is a slave to his" - Publilius Syrus

Gareth F. Baines

#42. Be a master of your dreams, not the slave of your sorrows.

Vikrmn

#43. Give the slave the least elevation of religious sentiment, and he is not slave: you are the slave: he not only in his humility feels his superiority, feels that much deplored condition of his to be a fading trifle, but he makes you feel it too. He is the master.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

#44. It was the slave's continuing desire for recognition that was the motor which propelled history forward, not the idle complacency and unchanging self-identity of the master

Francis Fukuyama

#45. As long as a word remains unspoken, you are its master; once you utter it, you are its slave.

Solomon Ibn Gabirol

#46. I am master of my spoken words and slave to those which remain unspoken.

Ankita Singhal

#47. You can believe that you are neither a slave to inspiration nor its master, but something far more interesting - its partner - and that the two of you are working together toward something intriguing and worthwhile.

Elizabeth Gilbert

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

Jean-Jacques Rousseau

#49. A clever slave deserves a clever master, and you lot all look like fools.

George R R Martin

#50. Since early middle ages when people generally taking away the barbarity of their like, were pretty content. Although it was all an illicit contentment, what with the slave systems all over the world, in England especially, the peasants and the master, etc. People were incredibly content.

David Bowie

#51. To be one's own master is to be the slave of self.

Natalie Clifford Barney

#52. The man who is master of his passions is Reason's slave.

Cyril Connolly

#53. Every man having been born free and master of himself, no one else may under any pretext whatever subject him without his consent. To assert that the son of a slave is born a slave is to assert that he is not born a man.

Jean-Jacques Rousseau

#54. The Force is neither light nor dark, master nor slave, but a balance between extremes.

Tim Lebbon

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

Swami Vivekananda

#56. Gold will be slave or master.

Horace

#57. The probability of the people in power being individuals who would dislike the possession and exercise of power is on a level with the probability that an extremely tender-hearted person would get the job of whipping-master in a slave plantation.

Frank Knight

#58. He shook his head. No games, Serena. That isn't what this is about. If you want games of cat and mouse, disobedient slave to punishing master, you're better off with someone else. As much as this is a fantasy and not your reality, in the time you're with me, it will be real. In all ways.

Maya Banks

#59. Be the master of your fate, be the captain of your soul, but do not hesitate, should the chance befall you, to be the slave of your heart.

Robert Breault

#60. The poet is a master of language, the schizophrenic is a slave to it.

Hilde Bruch

#61. Wealth is the slave of the wise man and master of the fool.

Seneca.

#62. Mengistu seemed to symbolize the revolution. He was the baria, the slave who overthrew the master, the member of the conquered tribe who got even with the conquerors, the poorly educated son of a servant who rose against the intellectual elite.

Mengistu Haile Mariam

#63. The laws recognize no obligation on the part of the slave to labor for or serve his master. If he refuse to labor, the law will not interfere to compel him. The master must do his own flogging, as in the case of an ox or a horse.

Lysander Spooner

#64. Christian religion defines morality by a belief system based on a master-slave relationship, and rooted in resentment of the raw beauty and power of the life force.

John Lamb Lash

#65. In life, the categories we belong to can change very easily and can change so very easily that we in fact belong to every single category! We are hunter, we are victim; we are master, we are slave; we are rich, we are poor; we are lock, we are key! We belong to every category!

Mehmet Murat Ildan

#66. We must of necessity be servant to someone, either to God or to sin. The man who surrenders to Christ exchanges a cruel slave driver for a kind and gentle master whose yoke is easy and whose burden is light.

Aiden Wilson Tozer

#67. Asking, "If there is no God, what is the purpose of life?" is like asking, "If there is no master, whose slave will I be?" If your purpose of life is to submit as a slave, then your meaning comes from flattering the ego of a person whom who should detest.

Dan Barker

#68. Slave girls on Gor address all free men as Master, though, of course only one such would be her true Master.

John Norman

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

Henry Wilson Allen

#70. I started out her master, but had already become her slave.

Angelica Chase

#71. Stop being a slave to your past and you become the master of your future.

Stephen Richards

#72. It is the heaven-born instinct of a gracious soul to seek shelter from all ills beneath the wings of Jehovah. A hypocrite, when afflicted by God, resents the infliction, and, like a slave, would run from the Master who has scourged him

Charles Haddon Spurgeon

#73. Life here is probationary. It is man's duty to become the master, not the slave of nature. His appetites are to be controlled and used for the benefit of his health and the prolongation of his life-his passions mastered and controlled for the happiness and blessing of others.

David O. McKay

#74. Conversation is a partnership, not a relation of master and slave, as most people try to make it.

Alice Duer Miller

#75. Wealth is the slave of a wise man. The master of a fool

Seneca.

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

Daymond John

#77. The art of being a slave is to rule one's master.

Diogenes Of Sinope

#78. I say that ambition is absurd, and yet I remain in its thrall. It's like being a slave all your life, then learning one day that you never had a master, and returning to work all the same.

Tom Rachman

#79. The bibliophile is the master of his books, the bibliomaniac their slave.

Henry Ward Beecher

#80. It would be idle to say that we were not, from time to time, aware that a volcano slumbered fitfully beneath us. There were dark sides to the Slavery Question, for master, as for slave.

Mary Virginia Terhune

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

Mohammed Ali Bapir

#82. Man is slave of emotions when they arise, and master of them when they don't.

Raheel Farooq

#83. A strong human spirit with control over appetites of the flesh is master over emotions and passions and not a slave to them. That kind of freedom is as vital to the spirit as oxygen is to the body! Freedom from self-slavery is true liberation!

Russell M. Nelson

#84. A man is no less a slave because he is allowed to choose a new master once in a term of years.

Lysander Spooner

#85. If God had designed woman as man's master, he would have taken her from his head; if as his slave, he would have taken her from his feet; but as he designed her for his companion and equal, he took her from his side.

Augustine Of Hippo

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

Publilius Syrus

#87. Those who don't understand the true meaning of a Master/slave relationship will never see that in submission a woman holds more power than the man she's given herself to.

Michelle Hughes

#88. Man liveth from hour to hour, and knoweth not what may happen; Influences circle him on all sides, and yet must he answer for his actions: For the being that is master of himself, bendeth events to his will, But a slave to selfish passions is the wavering creature of circumstance.

Martin Farquhar Tupper

#89. Be the master of your dreams, not a slave of your sorrows.

Vikrmn

#90. Nobody is masterless,
even ronin enslaved by his sword.

Toba Beta

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

Toba Beta

#92. 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

#93. 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

#94. There's no room for pride, not in a slave,
not with the lord and master standing by.

Sophocles

#95. The ant, who has toiled and dragged a crumb to his nest, will furiously defend the fruit of his labor, against whatever robber assails him. So plain, that the most dumb and stupid slave that ever toiled for a master, does constantly know that he is wronged.

Abraham Lincoln

#96. The free worker receives a wage; the slave an education, food, care, clothing; the money that the master spends to keep the slave is drained little by little and in detail; one hardly perceives it.1

Alexis De Tocqueville

#97. No Christian ought to think of himself as his own master, but each should rather so think and act as though given by God to be slave to his like minded brethren (cf. I Cor. 9:19)?

Saint Basil

#98. Whatever you do, do it as a master, not as a slave.

Abhijit Naskar

#99. Marriage is supposed to be a union between two equals who love and support each other, not a master-slave relationship in which the man commands a docile woman.

Robert Thier

#100. Man should be master of his environment, not its slave. That is what freedom means.

Anthony Eden