Slave Quotes
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The moment the slave resolves that he will no longer be a slave, his fetters fall. Freedom and slavery are mental states (Slave Quotes)
The statesman who yields to war fever... is no longer the master of policy but the slave of unforeseeable and uncontrollable events (Slave Quotes)
If you have inner peace, nobody can force you to be a slave to the outer reality (Slave Quotes)
The man who asks of freedom anything other than itself is born to be a slave (Slave Quotes)
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 (Slave Quotes)
An integrated cup of coffee isn’t sufficient pay for four hundred years of slave labor (Slave Quotes)
You must master your time rather than becoming a slave to the constant flow of events and demands on your time. And you must organize your life to achieve balance, harmony, and inner peace (Slave Quotes)
Whoever then wishes to be free, let him neither wish for anything nor avoid anything which depends on others: if he does not observe this rule, he must be a slave (Slave Quotes)
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 (Slave Quotes)
Looking at the world as a whole, the drift for many decades has been not towards anarchy but towards the reimposition of slavery. We may be heading not for general breakdown but for an epoch as horribly stable as the slave empires of antiquity (Slave Quotes)
You don’t become completely free by just avoiding being a slave; you also need to avoid becoming a master (Slave Quotes)
God did not create woman from man’s head, that he should command her, nor from his feet, that she should be his slave, but rather from his side, that she should be near his heart (Slave Quotes)
It is the man who can think of no alternative to his enslavement who is truly a slave (Slave Quotes)
If you see anybody wail and complain, call him a slave, though he be clad in purple (Slave Quotes)
One may gain political and social independence, but if one is a slave to his passions and desires, one cannot feel the pure joy of real freedom (Slave Quotes)
Take responsibility for your finances or get used to taking orders for the rest of your life. You’re either a master of money or a slave to it. Your choice (Slave Quotes)
Fear is a psychic tyrant that has no intention of letting its slave go free. It will say whatever it needs to say to confuse your thinking... It will always seek to preserve itself (Slave Quotes)
There are cases where the slave does not know his servitude and where it is necessary to bring the seed of his liberation to him from the outside: his submission is not enough to justify the tyranny which is imposed upon him (Slave Quotes)
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? (Slave Quotes)
Of all insults, the temporary condescension of a master to a slave is the most outrageous and galling. That potentate who most condescends, mark him well; for that potentate, if occasion come, will prove your uttermost tyrant (Slave Quotes)
As soon as extreme attachment comes, a man loses himself, he is no more master of himself, he is a slave (Slave Quotes)
I’m gonna sit here on this runway until I’m at the end of it. Because that’s that thing that people slave over. That’s that thing that people are slaves to. That’s that thing that I’m a slave to (Slave Quotes)
This country was founded by a group of slave owners who told us that all men are created equal (Slave Quotes)
After four hundred years of slave labor, we have some back pay coming, a bill owed to us that must be collected (Slave Quotes)
The slave has but one master, the ambitious man has as many as there are persons whose aid may contribute to the advancement of his fortunes (Slave Quotes)
The person who risks nothing, does nothing, has nothing, is nothing, and becomes nothing. He may avoid suffering and sorrow, but he simply cannot learn, feel, change, grow or love. Chained by his certitude, he is a slave; he has forfeited his freedom. Only the person who risks is truly free (Slave Quotes)
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 (Slave Quotes)
Education is a companion which no misfortune can depress, no crime can destroy, no enemy can alienate, no despotism can enslave. At home, a friend, abroad, an introduction, in solitude a solace and in society an ornament. It chastens vice, it guides virtue, it gives at once grace and government to genius. Without it, what is man? A splendid slave, a reasoning savage (Slave Quotes)
I’ve read stories of slave owners who were very generous. They didn’t keep them in shackles, they didn’t whip the slaves, they built schools and churches for them, free housing, free food, free everything. It’s wrong. No matter how nice you make it look, it’s wrong (Slave Quotes)
Abby: I could be a slave to your darkest desires. I can do things. Anything you want. Tommy: Well, that’s terrific, because we have a lot of laundry piled up and the apartment is a wreck. Abby: Anything you desire, my lord. I can do laundry, clean, bring you small creatures to quench your thirst until I am worthy (Slave Quotes)