Top 18 Slave Morality Quotes
#1. While every aristocratic morality springs from a triumphant affirmation of its own demands, the slave morality says "no" from the very outset to what is "outside itself," "different from itself," and "not itself: and this "no" is its creative deed. This
Friedrich Nietzsche
#3. Lacanian theory must be understood as a kind of slave morality.
Judith Butler
#4. While every noble morality develops from a triumphant affirmation of itself, slave morality from the outset says No to what is "outside," what is "different," what is "not itself"; and this No is its creative deed.
Friedrich Nietzsche
#5. At this moment, I saw more clearly than ever the brutalizing effects of slavery upon the slave and slaveholder.
Frederick Douglass
#6. The mind is constituted to accept the god of the more powerful. If you have to choose between the god of the slave owner and the god of the enslaved, naturally you will choose the former ...
Barry Unsworth
#7. There can be no question, however, that prolonged commitment to mathematical exercises in economics can be damaging. It leads to the atrophy of judgement and intuition ...
John Kenneth Galbraith
#8. 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
#9. Life is too short to have debts and doubts,
Pay the bills, no regrets, be up and about.
Ana Claudia Antunes
#10. There must be sophistry in all this; but the condition of a slave confuses all principles of morality, and, in fact, renders the practice of them impossible.
Harriet Ann Jacobs
#11. Of course, to have money is just great because you can do what you think is important to you.
Paulo Coelho
#12. What you shun enduring yourself, attempt not to impose on others. You shun slavery- beware enslaving others! If you can endure to do that, one would think you had been once upon a time a slave yourself. For vice has nothing in common with virtue, nor Freedom with slavery.
Epictetus
#13. Of course, if you've made up your mind about it, you'll find an answer to everything.
Agatha Christie
#14. 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
#15. The State is the absolute reality and the individual himself has objective existence, truth and morality only in his capacity as a member of the State.
Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel
#16. After a few months without writing, months I've lived turned outward ... I fear going deaf, not being able to hear the silence.
Isabel Allende
#17. The law says you have the right to hold a nigger, but begging the law's pardon, it lies ... Is everything right because the law allows it? Suppose they'd pass a law taking away your liberty and making you a slave?
Solomon Northup
#18. Dostoevsky preaches the morality of the pariah, the morality of the slave.
Georg Brandes
