To 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. 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

#4. To every man, even though he be a slave, the light of heaven is sweet.

Euripides

#5. It is the nature of slavery to render its victims so abject that at last, fearing to be free, they multiply their own chains. You can liberate a freeman, but you cannot liberate a slave.

Louis J. Halle

#6. I will not be a slave to my image, nor will I be a slave to anyone else's interpretations of me,

Janelle Monae

#7. It is a law of nature that every decent man on earth is bound to be a coward and a slave

Fyodor Dostoyevsky

#8. 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

#9. Freedom is the choice to be free than to be a slave.

Lailah Gifty Akita

#10. Is base in kind, and born to be a slave.

William Cowper

#11. Lord Hamlet, It seems you see all women as deceivers, be they beautiful or ugly. Perhaps the fault lies in the man who trust only his sight and is a slave to his base desire!

Lisa M. Klein

#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. Every one of us should be ashamed to be free while his brother is a slave.

Frederick Douglass

#14. I have a dream that one day on the red hills of Georgia, the sons of former slaves and the sons of former slave owners will be able to sit down together at the table of brotherhood.

Martin Luther King Jr.

#15. No man in his senses can hesitate in choosing to be free, rather than a slave.

Alexander Hamilton

#16. 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

#17. And yet never had she felt herself more totally committed to a will which was not her own, more totally a slave, and more content to be so. When

Pauline Reage

#18. It's good to plan," Rakaji said, "but don't become a slave to your plans. Be open.

John A. White

#19. If you have a slave around the house how can you expect to make a revolution outside it? The problem for women is that if we try to be free, then we naturally become lonely, because so many women are willing to become slaves, and men usually prefer that.

Yoko Ono

#20. I am simply not such a slave to my vanity, and I don't want to be, because as you get older you really have to start accepting the inevitable.

Cherie Lunghi

#21. 103When we try to be something that we are not, we become the slave of a rigid, fixed mind, following a rule about how things have to be. The violence and the anger in us remain unnoticed, because we are caught in our pictures of how we should be.

Charlotte Joko Beck

#22. When you are born as a man, you live as a man. When you born as a woman however, you have two choices; to live like a slave, or as a woman. I love the fact that I was born as a woman because I got to make my choices. Who did you chose to be?

Shahla Khan

#23. No use slaving for me and then saying you want to be cared for: who cares for a slave? If you come back, come back for the sake of good fellowship; for you'll get nothing else.

George Bernard Shaw

#24. To this wonderful page in our country's history another more glorious still will be added, and the slave shall show at last to his free brothers a sharpened sword forged from the links of his fetters.

Giuseppe Garibaldi

#25. When you look at a corporation, just like when you look at a slave owner, you want to distinguish between the institution and the individual. So slavery, for example, or other forms of tyranny, are inherently monstrous. The individuals participating in them may be the nicest guys you can imagine.

Noam Chomsky

#26. She narrowed her eyes. "You lost the collar I gave you."
It chafed. And I wasn't born to be a slave.

Joe Abercrombie

#27. What's so funny? (Astrid)
I'm just thinking, here I am a slave who touched a star who then made him a demigod. I have to be the luckiest bastard who ever lived. (Zarek)

Sherrilyn Kenyon

#28. The knowledge of God gives a person the opportunity to not be a slave to wealth.

Sunday Adelaja

#29. Because one does not want to be disturbed, to be made uncertain, he establishes a pattern of conduct, of thought, a pattern of relationship to man etc. Then he becomes a slave to the patter and takes the pattern to be the real thing.

Bruce Lee

#30. If we cannot give freedom to every creature, let us do nothing that will impose slavery upon any other creature.

Abraham Lincoln

#31. 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

#32. After four hundred years of slave labor, we have some back pay coming, a bill owed to us that must be collected.

Malcolm X

#33. Better to starve free than be a fat slave

Aesop

#34. I think you will like your life in the Transport Service, but it'll be far from normal. Being a slave ... or a goatherd's wife ... is closer to normal. A deep-space response ship pilot is a very, very rare thing.

J.Z. Colby

#35. The slave child had no thought for the morrow; but there came that blight, which too surely waits on every human being born to be a chattel.

Harriet Ann Jacobs

#36. None can be free who is a slave to, and ruled by, his passions.

Pythagoras

#37. I should never have confessed my rank, I thought. Better to be a living slave than a dead ealdorman.

Bernard Cornwell

#38. Success is like a "Tawaif" Noble, Artistic, Rich, literate, full of etiquette and of course an addiction.. Yet never loyal to anyone.. You have to be a "deserving slave" to get her ..

Himmilicious

#39. If you read the memoirs of slave-owning families, you'd be hard pressed to find evidence of black people in the lives of the whites, even though for most of the time on the plantations black people outnumbered whites by a ratio of seven to one.

Edward Ball

#40. 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

#41. You have lived on broken hearts all your life," said Caspian, "and if you are beggared, it is better to be a beggar than a slave. But where is my other friend?

C.S. Lewis

#42. This is a world of compensation; and he who would be no slave must consent to have no slave. Those who deny freedom to others deserve it not for themselves, and, under a just God, cannot long retain it.

Abraham Lincoln

#43. Terrence, the Roman slave who freed himself with his writings, once observed, "I am a human being. Nothing human is alien to me." That could be the motto of literature!

Julia Alvarez

#44. 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

#45. If you are a slave to your emotions, life will be a roller coaster ride. There will be highs, but a lot of lows, and you will not make much progress.

Shiv Harsh

#46. At the Oscars, if you didn't vote for '12 Years a Slave,' you were a racist. You have to be very careful about what you say. I do have particular views and opinions that most of this town doesn't share, but it's not like I'm a fascist or a racist. There's nothing like that in my history.

Gary Oldman

#47. 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

#48. The status of women up to now has been compared to that of a slave; women have been tied to the home, and only socialism can save them from this. They will only be completely emancipated when we change from small-scale individual farming to collective farming and collective working of the land.

Vladimir Lenin

#49. This was life as it should be lived - proud, reasoned, and a slave to no other man.

Terry Goodkind

#50. And it would be a death of the worst kind; becoming the very thing that I hunted myself, or worse. It was far more terrifying than the end of life completely. I'd rather be gone from this world for all of eternity than become a slave to Hell.

L.J. Kentowski

#51. Morning, noon & bloody night,
Seven sodding days a week,
I slave at filthy WORK, that might
Be done by any book-drunk freak.
This goes on until I kick the bucket.
FUCK IT FUCK IT FUCK IT FUCK IT

Philip Larkin

#52. 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

#53. Each of us has been endowed with the perfect power to be free. Slavery is a state of mind that fails to acknowledge the slave's own power.

Gerry Spence

#54. I didn't have to be a slave to the worst tendencies of my personality.

Kevin Leman

#55. 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

#56. Absolute freedom is an illusion. For while an employed man might be free from starvation, he is a slave to his employer's financial aspirations, and, working-hours.

Mokokoma Mokhonoana

#57. I am thrilled beyond words that The Academy has recognized my performance in Steve McQueen's '12 Years a Slave,' and I am deeply proud to be in the company of my fellow nominees.

Lupita Nyong'o

#58. A slave was supposed to be like the Holy Ghost - don't see it, don't hear it, but it's always hovering round on ready.

Sue Monk Kidd

#59. Fallacy, Fallacy. - He cannot rule himself; therefore that woman concludes that it will be easy to rule him, and throws out her lines to catch him;-the poor creature, who in a short time will be his slave.

Friedrich Nietzsche

#60. I should have known the power-hungry slave drivers at River's Edge would see my five days of freedom only as a challenge to be filled.

Cate Tiernan

#61. 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

#62. Emancipation, to be of any value to the slave, must be the free, voluntary act of the master, performed from a conviction of its propriety.

Elijah Parish Lovejoy

#63. 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

#64. Conquer thyself, till thou has done this, thou art but a slave; for it is almost as well to be subjected to another's appetite as to thine own.

Richard Francis Burton

#65. Iqbal, that great poet, was so right. The moment you recognize what is beautiful in this world, you stop being a slave. To hell with the Naxals and their guns shipped from China. If you taught every poor boy how to paint, that would be the end of the rich in India.

Aravind Adiga

#66. 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

#67. Lord Byron is an exceedingly interesting person, and as such is it not to be regretted that he is a slave to the vilest and most vulgar prejudices, and as mad as the winds?
There have been many definitions of beauty in art. What is it? Beauty is what the untrained eyes consider abominable.

Edmond De Goncourt

#68. Better to love God and die unknown than to love the world and bea hero; better to be content with poverty than to die a slave towealth; better to have taken some risks and lost than to havedone nothing and succeeded at it.

Erwin W. Lutzer

#69. He was born a slave, but he was not born to be a slave.

R.A. Salvatore

#70. Do not discourage your children from hoarding, if they have a taste to it; whoever lays up his penny rather than part with it for a cake, at least is not the slave of gross appetite; and shows besides a preference always to be esteemed, of the future to the present moment.

Samuel Johnson

#71. For a genius to be a genius, he must have a selfless slave between himself and the world.

Dawn Powell

#72. If I must be a slave to habit let me be a slave to good habits.

Og Mandino

#73. 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

#74. 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

#75. An individualist is a man who says: 'I will not run anyone's life - nor let anyone run mine. I will not rule or be ruled. I will not be a master nor a slave. I will not sacrifice myself to anyone - nor sacrifice anyone to myself.'

Ayn Rand

#76. It takes a lot of courage to be a true slave, Jaime,

Claire Thompson

#77. According to the Gorean way of looking at things a taste of the slave ring is thought to be occasionally beneficial to all women, even the exalted free woman.

John Norman

#78. Better than being slave to a man who has no regard for me other than a broodmare for his children. (Rowena)
True. I should hate to be a broodmare for a man. (Stryder)

Kinley MacGregor

#79. He who seeks freedom for anything but freedom's self is made to be a slave.

Alexis De Tocqueville

#80. sometimes it's easier to search for treasure than to find it, because finding it forces you to make decisions about what to do with it, and it makes you fear the reality of how hard it may be to keep it without becoming a slave to it!

The Urban Griot

#81. Bremer also observed "a pretty little white boy of about seven years of age sitting among some tall Negro girls. The child had light hair, the most lovely light brown eyes, and cheeks as red as roses; he was, nevertheless, the child of a slave mother, and was to be sold as a slave.

Michelle Gordon Jackson

#82. I knew from reading about Sarah Grimke that she'd been given a handmaid to be her personal slave and that her name was Hetty. The only other fact I knew about her was that Sarah taught her to read: They conspired in a very subversive way, by locking the door and screening the keyhole.

Sue Monk Kidd

#83. Where's the purpose in life for a proper submissive, and loving slave, without a strong Master to care for, tending to his every need as it should be?

Johnny Stone

#84. 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

#85. Am I such a slave as that? Dependent on a man to complete me! I thought I couldn't be anything without him- I can be my own creator!

Nan Shepherd

#86. 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

#87. 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

#88. 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

#89. 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

#90. 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

#91. 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

#92. 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

#93. You can say I had a severe case of 'Roots' envy. I wanted to be like Alex Haley, and I wanted to be able to ... do my family tree back to the slave ship and then reverse the Middle Passage, as I like to put it, and find the tribe or ethnic group that I was from in Africa.

Henry Louis Gates

#94. Never be a slave of loyalty to unloyal people.

Shannon L. Alder

#95. I am above eighty years old; it is about time for me to be going. I have been forty years a slave and forty years free and would be here forty years more to have equal rights for all.

Sojourner Truth

#96. I'm not a slave to anything anymore. And I never will be again.

Leif Garrett

#97. A slave should be sincere, loyal, discreet, clean, modest, honest, graceful, intelligent (that is able to learn what is required for her position), respectful of herself and others, observant, attentive, and ethical.

Christina Abernathy

#98. This is a world of compensations; and he who would be no slave, must consent to have no slave.

Abraham Lincoln

#99. It is easy to be a slave to the letter, and difficult to enter into the spirit; easy to obey a number of outward rules, difficult to enter intelligently and self-sacrificingly into the will of God.

Frederic Farrar

#100. They tell me: If you see a slave sleeping, do not wake him lest he be dreaming of freedom. I tell them: If you see a slave sleeping, wake him and explain to him freedom.

Khalil Gibran