Slave Quotes
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When you draw from the endless awareness of nirvana, you are no longer a slave to fortune. When pleasant experiences come your way, you can enjoy them. But if pain and misfortune befall you, you can rise above them and remain unaffected (Slave Quotes)
Women were the slave class that maintained the species in order to free the other half for the business of the world (Slave Quotes)
My life has not been the best possible. The slave of impulse, I have rushed forward to my own destruction (Slave Quotes)
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 (Slave Quotes)
Workers, black and white, need some kind of international affirmative action to protect them from unfair competition with unorganized or slave labor abroad and unfair competition with robots at home (Slave Quotes)
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 (Slave Quotes)
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 (Slave Quotes)
If the human being is a proud and honorable creature, he shouldn’t forget to act that way, even if he falls, even if the whole world is against him, even if he ends as a slave (Slave Quotes)
We want capitalism and market forces to be the slave of democracy rather than the opposite (Slave Quotes)
In emancipation from the fears that beset the slave of circumstance he will experience a profound joy, and through all the vicissitudes of his outward life he will remain in the depths of his being a happy man (Slave Quotes)
To give liberty to a slave before he understands its value is, perhaps, rather to impose a penalty than to bestow a blessing (Slave Quotes)
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 (Slave Quotes)
The admiration of power in others is as common to man as the love of it in himself; the one makes him a tyrant, the other a slave (Slave Quotes)
It’s not the suffering of birth, death, love that the young reject, but the suffering of endless labor without dream, eating the spare bread in bitterness, being a slave without the security of a slave (Slave Quotes)
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 (Slave Quotes)
It’s fine to be a great democrat when you’ve a slave to rub your boots on (Slave Quotes)
No social problem is as universal as the oppression of the child... No slave was ever so much the property of his master as the child is of his parent... Never were the rights of man ever so disregarded as in the case of the child (Slave Quotes)
I have stopped smoking now and then, for a few months at a time, but it was not on principle, it was only to show off; it was to pulverize those critics who said I was a slave to my habits and couldn’t break my bonds (Slave Quotes)
Show me a man who has acted, and who has not been the victim and slave of his action. What they have done commits and enforces them to do the same again. The first act, which was to be an experiment, becomes a sacrament (Slave Quotes)
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 (Slave Quotes)
Death is the wish of some, the relief of many, and the end of all. It sets the slave at liberty, carries the banished man home, and places all mortals on the same level, insomuch that life itself were a punishment without it (Slave Quotes)
The good man, though a slave, is free; the wicked, though he reigns, is a slave (Slave Quotes)
Don’t let anyone turn you into a slave. You’re a slave if you let the media tell you that sports and entertainment are more important than developing your brain (Slave Quotes)
He that is kind is free, though he is a slave; he that is evil is a slave, though he be a king (Slave Quotes)
He that cannot reason is a fool. He that will not is a bigot. He that dare not is a slave (Slave Quotes)
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 (Slave Quotes)
Reason is, and ought only to be the slave of the passions, and can never pretend to any other office than to serve and obey them (Slave Quotes)
The whole commerce between master and slave is a perpetual exercise of the most boisterous passions, the most unremitting despotism on the one part, and degrading submissions on the other. Our children see this, and learn to imitate it (Slave Quotes)
So I began to think maybe it was true that when you were married and had children it was like being brainwashed, and afterward you went about as numb as a slave in a totalitarian state (Slave Quotes)
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 (Slave Quotes)