Top 100 Slave Quotes
#1. I would make Harry my personal slave and would make him drive me places.
Liam Payne
#2. The first step is for man to cease to be the slave of man. The second, is to cease to be the slave of the monsters of his own creation, the ghosts and phantoms of the air.
Robert Green Ingersoll
#3. Love the art, poor as it may be, that you have learned, and be content with it; and pass through the rest of life like one who has entrusted to the gods with his whole soul all that he has, making yourself neither the tyrant nor the slave of any man.
Marcus Aurelius
#4. Should I be worried about being a slave and being returned to slavery? Because certain things happened in the Constitution that had to change.
Whoopi Goldberg
#5. Yes here's to the founding fathers - slave-owners, British citizens who didn't want to pay taxes ...
David Mazzucchelli
#7. 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
#8. I have worked like a galley slave throughout these eight years, morning till night, and I have given all I could to this work. I am happy with the results.
Vladimir Putin
#9. Some, I verily believe, delight to be slave-men; it is a joy to them, and they would not change their condition; not only miserable village wretches, but men in good position, well-to-do sycophants.
Richard Jefferies
#10. I wanna explain something about the title 'Yeezus', simply put 'West' was my slave name and 'Yeezus' is my God name.
Kanye West
#12. [The married woman is] is a bonded slave, who takes her master's name, her master's bread, and serves her master's passion; [and] who passes through the ordeal of pregnancy and the throes of travail at his dictation.
Voltairine De Cleyre
#13. I won't be a slave to the past. I'll love where I choose.
Thomas Hardy
#14. All throughout filming '12 Years a Slave,' there was a focus like no other. Everyone took ownership of this film and gave their all.
Lupita Nyong'o
#15. The devil made you a slave. Your waitin' for the devil to come from the ground. Take a look around. Just look at the cross that the priest is holdin'. A beast, in sheep's clothin'. You are the prince of darkness. Hell born, demonic.
Ice Cube
#16. According to Rushdoony, the conditions of the Irish transport were as bad or worse than what we know of slave ships, and the condition of Irish immigrants on arrival was "far worse than that of slaves:
Julie Ingersoll
#17. With the Lincoln assassination, the South didn't feel it could mourn along with the North. But Garfield was beloved by all the American people. He was trusted and respected by North and South, by freed slaves and former slave owners. Also by pioneers, which his parents had been, and by immigrants.
Candice Millard
#18. The impression was gaining ground with me that it was a good thing to let the money be my slave and not make myself a slave to money.
John D. Rockefeller
#19. Physical circumstance will not cause happiness. Or if it does, there is the fear of loss. Now you are a slave to it. You have become bound to it.
Frederick Lenz
#20. I can understand the poor and stupid voting for Marxism or one of its fashionable variants. If you've no hope of being other than a slave, you may as well opt for the most efficient form of slavery.
P.D. James
#21. Rather I'd choose laboriously to bear A weight of woes, and breathe the vital air, A slave to some poor hind that toils for bread, Than reign the sceptred monarch of the dead.
Homer
#22. Outside everything was uncannily visible in the light of the full moon, but here in the dark shaded alleys the night was conscious of itself. ("The Moon Slave")
Barry Pain
#23. You know, I used to sweat sometimes when I was digging. My rheumatism would pull at my leg, and I would damn myself for a slave. And now, do you know, I'd like to spade and spade. It's beautiful work. A man is free when he is using a spade. And besides, who is going to prune my trees when I am gone?
Antoine De Saint-Exupery
#24. My body might be a slave, but not my mind. For you, it's the other way round.
Sue Monk Kidd
#25. In the end, there's no sort of difference between dying from ignorance and dying under the feet of thousands of men who have regained their freedom. You close your eyes, and then there's nothing anymore. And death is never difficult. It requires neither a hero nor a slave. It eats what it's served.
Philippe Claudel
#26. What should we suppose must naturally be the consequence of our carrying on a slave trade with Africa? With a country, vast in its extent, not utterly barbarous, but civilized in a very small degree? Does any one suppose a slave trade would help their civilization?
William Wilberforce
#28. Alike to the slave and his oppressor cometh night with sweet refreshment, and half of the life of the most wretched is gladdened by the soothings of sleep.
Martin Farquhar Tupper
#29. 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
#30. As yet, the Negroes themselves do not fully appreciate these old slave songs.
James Weldon Johnson
#31. I never knew a man who wished to be himself a slave. Consider if you know any good thing, that no man desires for himself.
Abraham Lincoln
#33. Lord, whatever You ask of me, I will do ... . Whatever You send or allow in my life, I will accept ... . With Your help I will endeavor to put the best things before good things ... . I present all that I am to You as a slave to Your purposes ... . I surrender it all to You. Amen.
Kurt Bjorklund
#34. There are more than 27 million people enslaved in the world today - that's double the amount of people taken from Africa during the entire trans-Atlantic slave trade.
Lisa Kristine
#35. I was a captive and a slave. I loved Dora Spenlow to distraction! She was more than human to me. She was a Fairy, a Sylph, I dont know what she was
anything that no one ever saw, and everything that everybody ever wanted.
David Copperfield
#36. Our powder and arrows are going to run out on us some time. And so are our food and water and joie de vivre and good books and everything. Why not walk out now and get made into somebody's favourite slave?
Dorothy Dunnett
#37. From the hell of the slave quarters would come some of the Deep South's great gifts to the continent: blues, jazz, gospel, and rock and roll, as well as the Caribbean-inspired foodways today enshrined in Southern-style barbeque joints from Miami to Anchorage.
Colin Woodard
#38. You are the master of my heart. I am a slave to you're soul. Intertwined in a perfect embrace that I will never release myself from.
Truth Devour
#39. It is a great mistake, as we have already remarked, to be afraid of Him and to act in His presence like a timid and craven slave trembling with fright before his master.
Alphonsus Liguori
#41. It's really sad that Wonder Woman is, she's really a slave. She belongs to DC. She's not a living person. And so she's at their mercy, and she's at the mercy of whoever writes her and whoever draws her.
Trina Robbins
#42. You are the part of rat race because you are letting them treat you like a rat. This is the modern definition of a slave.
Saurabh Sharma
#43. Just as the Atlantic slave trade did not stem from hatred towards Africans, so the modern animal industry is not motivated by animosity. Again, it is fuelled by indifference.
Yuval Noah Harari
#44. 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
#46. You don't have to become a slave in a corporate office or groupie of a celebrity architect, because all you need is a piece of paper, a pencil and the desire to make architecture.
Raimund Abraham
#47. When a slave begins to take pride in his fetters and hugs them like precious ornaments, the triumph of the slave-owner is complete.
Mahatma Gandhi
#48. 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
#50. Um," I asked, "isn't the whole point about being a slave that you don't have a choice to be anything else?" Prettying up the word slave with the adjective-noun constructions makes "enslaved African" sound nonchalant. As in "Those were the cabins of the jolly leprechauns.
Sarah Vowell
#51. impudicitia in ingenuo crimen est, in servo necessitas, in liberto officium ("to be the object of anal penetration is a crime in the freeborn, a necessity for a slave, a duty for a freedman").
David Graeber
#52. 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
#53. 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
#54. When white men were willing to put their own offspring in the kitchen and corn field and allowed them to be sold into bondage as slaves and degraded them as another man's slave, the retribution of wrath was hanging over this country and the South paid penance in four years of bloody war.
Rebecca Latimer Felton
#55. I be off the slave ships, building pyramids, writing my own hieroglyphs
Kendrick Lamar
#56. 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
#57. A warrior of the light is always committed. He is the slave of his dream and free to act
Paulo Coelho
#58. 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
#59. We call a man a bigot or a slave of dogma because he is a thinker who has thought thoroughly and to a definite end.
Gilbert K. Chesterton
#60. I am not the #Prisoner of my #Past neither the #Slave for my #Future !!
Tushar Upreti
#61. The problems with First Ladies is that you have to set the standard. My role is to be both star and slave.
Imelda Marcos
#62. Just fear me and love me ... and do as I say ... and I will be your slave.
A.C.H. Smith
#63. The borrower is slave to the lender.
Anonymous
#64. Literature takes its revenge on reality by making it the slave of fiction ...
Simone De Beauvoir
#65. The Bible says that man is born to trouble as the sparks fly upward. Well, trouble followed me like sharks trailing a slave ship. Even when I tried to get away it was there swirling in a vortex around me.
Adrian McKinty
#66. Man must begin, know this, where Nature ends; Nature and man can never be fast friends. Fool, if thou canst not pass her, rest her slave!
Matthew Arnold
#67. Wicked and cruel boy! I said. You are like a murderer - you are like a slave-driver - you are like the Roman emperors!
Charlotte Bronte
#68. Please, please be some sex-starved nutcase who wants to kidnap me and make me your love slave, I begged silently.
Cate Tiernan
#71. 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
#72. Don't be the slave for the society, be the entrepreneur for yourself.
Ade Santi
#73. ...true freedom is having the right to be a slave.
Paul Beatty
#74. ( ... ) the translator of prose is the slave of the author and the translator of poetry is his rival.
Andrei Makine
#75. There is a reason it used to be a crime in the Confederate states to teach a slave to read: Literacy is power.
Matt Taibbi
#76. A great, a good, and a right mind is a kind of divinity lodged in flesh, and may be the blessing of a slave as well as of a prince: it came from heaven, and to heaven it must return; and it is a kind of heavenly felicity, which a pure and virtuous mind enjoys, in some degree, even upon earth.
Seneca The Younger
#77. I starred in a Broadway play that was Sidney Poitier's first directing job and the cast was Lou Gossett, Cicely Tyson, Diana Ladd and I played a Jewish kid who offered himself as a slave to two Columbia University students as reparations.
David Steinberg
#79. The black man has become a shell, a shadow of man, completely defeated, drowning in his own misery, a slave, an ox bearing the yoke of oppression with sheepish timidity.
Steven Biko
#80. The sexually over-aggressive man can be collected easily by the naturally dominant woman, who can accumulate an entire slave camp simply by allowing herself to appear on the scene wearing the accoutrements of the "push-over" as bait.
Anton Szandor LaVey
#81. My double drags his coffin, humble slave,
I, at least, am real, though changed to flesh.
Far-off, I build me a church no hand can shape
("Winter Sonnets: III")
Vyacheslav Ivanov
#82. No one would have pity on the foolish slave of his own pity.
Stefan Zweig
#83. I thank God," he used to say, "that I was born Greek and not barbarian, freeman and not slave, man and not woman; but above all, that I was born in the age of
Will Durant
#84. You will be surprised how much more profitable an independent man is than a slave who thinks of nothing more than his next meal.
Brandon Sanderson
#85. Sacrifice and neon lights slave ships don't wait. Love many, trust few, and don't be late
Tom Morello
#86. He is sometimes slave who should be master; and sometimes master who should be slave.
Marcus Tullius Cicero
#87. No more turning a blind eye to Chinese spies in our nuclear labs. No more keeping silent about Chinese slave labor camps.
Steve Forbes
#88. There was no reason to deny humans the benefits of human civilisation, no matter what warlords, kings, emperors and even elected politicians thought about it. A society so primitive that it used gold as a means of exchange and practised the slave trade, didn't deserve to exist.
Christopher G. Nuttall
#89. I don't understand you. You could have handed over the slave and been free. (Paden)
Freedom bought on the back of a loved one isn't worth shit. (Devyn)
Sherrilyn Kenyon
#90. The gospel of licentiousness, of selfishness, of blaming all the difficulties of life on external factors - these are the things that are killing people today in ways that the slave whips and the overseers couldn't.
Alan Keyes
#91. Through this broad street, restless ever, ebbs and flows a human tide, wave on wave a living river; wealth and fashion side by side; Toiler, idler, slave and master, in the same quick current glide.
John Greenleaf Whittier
#92. If you have Jesus Christ, then you are no longer a slave to the forces of this sinful world; you are untouchable and unstoppable.Romans 8:15
Felix Wantang
#93. A remarkable documentary and the first in-depth record of many black women, slave and free.
Dorothy B. Porter
#94. She was a slave to his lust, while he was a slave to her pain.
M.S. Willis
#95. If you are ruled by mind you are a king; if by body, a slave.
Cato The Elder
#96. Oh while I live, to be the ruler of life, not a slave, to meet life as a powerful conqueror, and nothing exterior to me will ever take command of me
Walt Whitman
#97. Love is a weakness which converts even the strongest minds as its slave and makes them sing its tune.
Auliq Ice
#98. Plato says: "Every king springs from a race of slaves, and every slave has had kings among his ancestors." The flight of time, with its vicissitudes, has jumbled all such things together, and Fortune has turned them upside down. Then
Seneca.
#99. Place thy foot upon thy slave,
Oh thou, half of hell, half of dreams;
Among the shadows, dark and grave,
Thy extended body softly gleams.
Leopold Von Sacher-Masoch
#100. Woman has always been man's dependent, if not his slave; the two sexes have never shaped the world in equality. And even today woman is heavily handicapped, though her situation is beginning to change.
Simone De Beauvoir
