Top 100 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. He who gives away shall have real gain. He who subdues himself shall be free; he shall cease to be a slave of passions. The righteous man casts off evil, and by rooting out lust, bitterness, and illusion do we reach Nirvana.
Buddha
#3. I didn't want to be a slave to any passion anymore. I gave up card playing altogether, even bridge and gambling - more or less. It took me a few years to get out of it.
Omar Sharif
#4. 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
#7. 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
#8. I don't want to be a slave to nostalgia.
Cullen Bunn
#9. Take a stand that reflects the widest horizons of your soul if you don't want to be a slave to external powers.
Janvier Chouteu-Chando
#10. I decided I didn't want to be a slave to any passion any more except for my work, i had too many passions - bridge, horses, gambling. I want to live a different kind of life, be with my family more because I didn't give them enough time.
Omar Sharif
#11. 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
#12. She narrowed her eyes. "You lost the collar I gave you."
It chafed. And I wasn't born to be a slave.
Joe Abercrombie
#13. Do not afflict others with anything that you yourself would not wish to suffer. if you would not like to be a slave, make sure no one is your slave. If you have slaves, you yourself are the greatest slave, for just as freedom is incompatible with slavery, so goodness is incompatible with hypocrisy.
Epictetus
#14. It is difficult, my dear Lucius, to escape becoming the person others believe one to be. A slave is twice enslaved, once by his chains and once again by the glances that fall upon him and say thou slave.
Thornton Wilder
#15. It is better to be a slave to your beloved woman than a free man to the unloved one.
Eric Berne
#16. 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
#17. For it is true now, as it always was and always will be, that to be free is the same thing as to be pious, to be wise, to be temperate and just, to be frugal and abstinent, and to be magnanimous and brave; and to be the opposite of all these is the same as to be a slave.
Albert Pike
#18. It is the nature of the wise to resist pleasures, but the foolish to be a slave to them.
Epictetus
#20. 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
#21. I don't wish to be a slave any longer to the stringent exigencies of literature.
Philip Roth
#22. 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
#24. I haven't been to a gas station in years. It feels so good not to be a slave to gas, playing the whole game of war for oil.
Daryl Hannah
#25. To be ignorant and to be deceived are two different things. To be ignorant is to be a slave of the world. To be deceived is to be the slave of another man. The question will always be: Why, when all men are ignorant, and therefore already slaves, does this latter slavery sting us so?
R. Scott Bakker
#27. I didn't have to be a slave to the worst tendencies of my personality.
Kevin Leman
#28. I believe that it is better to tell the truth than a lie. I believe it is better to be free than to be a slave. And I believe it is better to know than to be ignorant.
H.L. Mencken
#29. The individual who refuses to defend his rights when called by his government deserves to be a slave, and must be punished as an enemy of his country and a friend to her foe
Andrew Jackson
#30. 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
#31. Do not commit yourself to anybody or anything, for that is to be a slave, a slave to every man Above all, keep yourself free of commitments and obligations - they are the device of another to get you into his power
Baltasar Gracian
#32. 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
#33. This is what it means to be a slave; to be abused and bear it; compelled by violence to suffer wrong.
Euripides
#34. He was born a slave, but he was not born to be a slave.
R.A. Salvatore
#35. There has never been a slave who did not choose to be a slave,
George R R Martin
#36. I am two women: one wants to have all the joy, passion and adventure that life can give me. The other wants to be a slave to routine, to family life, to the things that can be planned and achieved. I'm a housewife and a prostitute, both of us living in the same body and doing battle with each other.
Paulo Coelho
#40. You learn to cook so that you don't have to be a slave to recipes. You get what's in season and you know what to do with it.
Julia Child
#42. ...true freedom is having the right to be a slave.
Paul Beatty
#43. Who you pretends you is, you comes to be. The nigger that bows to the Master on the street, who acts the fool, who forgets who he am, that man a slave. He shuts his bible, he deserves to be a slave
Donald McCaig
#44. It is not certain where Death awaits us, so let us await it everywhere. To think of death beforehand is to think of our liberty. Whoever learns how to die has learned how not to be a slave. Knowing how to die frees us from all subjection and constraint.xi
Michel De Montaigne
#45. 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
#46. 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
#47. 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
#48. 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
#49. 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
#50. So you settle to be a slave, eh? Yes, lord, no, lord, let me hold your prick while you piss all over me, lord?
Bernard Cornwell
#51. 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
#52. That, I decided, was what it meant to be a slave: your past didn't matter, in the present you were invisible and you had no claim on the future.
Lawrence Hill
#53. If you don't want to be a slave, stop acting like a slave.
Stefan Molyneux
#55. 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
#56. 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
#57. To every man, even though he be a slave, the light of heaven is sweet.
Euripides
#58. 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
#59. I will not be a slave to my image, nor will I be a slave to anyone else's interpretations of me,
Janelle Monae
#60. It is a law of nature that every decent man on earth is bound to be a coward and a slave
Fyodor Dostoyevsky
#61. 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
#62. Every one of us should be ashamed to be free while his brother is a slave.
Frederick Douglass
#63. 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.
#64. No man in his senses can hesitate in choosing to be free, rather than a slave.
Alexander Hamilton
#65. 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
#66. 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
#67. It's good to plan," Rakaji said, "but don't become a slave to your plans. Be open.
John A. White
#68. 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
#69. 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
#70. 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
#71. 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
#72. 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
#73. 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
#74. 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
#75. 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
#76. The knowledge of God gives a person the opportunity to not be a slave to wealth.
Sunday Adelaja
#77. 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
#78. If we cannot give freedom to every creature, let us do nothing that will impose slavery upon any other creature.
Abraham Lincoln
#79. After four hundred years of slave labor, we have some back pay coming, a bill owed to us that must be collected.
Malcolm X
#80. Better to starve free than be a fat slave
Aesop
#81. 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
#82. 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
#83. None can be free who is a slave to, and ruled by, his passions.
Pythagoras
#84. I should never have confessed my rank, I thought. Better to be a living slave than a dead ealdorman.
Bernard Cornwell
#85. 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
#86. 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
#87. 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
#88. 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
#89. 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
#90. 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
#91. 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
#92. 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
#93. 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
#94. This was life as it should be lived - proud, reasoned, and a slave to no other man.
Terry Goodkind
#95. 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
#96. 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
#97. 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
#98. 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
#99. 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
#100. 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
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