As I would not be a slave, so I would not be a master. This expresses my idea of democracy. Votes: 6
Abraham LincolnI believe this Government cannot endure, permanently half slave and half free. Votes: 4
Abraham LincolnSlaves lose everything in their chains, even the desire of escaping from them. Votes: 4
Jean-Jacques RousseauI didn't know I was a slave until I found out I couldn't do the things I wanted. Votes: 4
Frederick DouglassIt is the nature of the wise to resist pleasures, but the foolish to be a slave to them. Votes: 4
EpictetusA man is no less a slave because he is allowed to choose a new master once in a term of years. Votes: 4
Lysander SpoonerAn Enlightened Master is ideal only if your goal is to become a Benighted Slave. Votes: 3
Robert Anton WilsonSlave to no sect, who takes no private road, But looks through Nature up to Nature's God. Votes: 3
Alexander Pope12 Years a Slave' was very powerful, very moving, and deserved all of the acclaim it did get. Votes: 3
Glynn TurmanWhoe'er thou art, thy Lord and master see, Thou wast my Slave, thou art, or thou shalt be. Votes: 3
George Granville, 1st Baron LansdowneBeing a part of '12 Years a Slave' has been one of the most profound experiences of my life. Votes: 3
Lupita Nyong'oAt this very moment I'm behind on a compilation that Slave Labor is doing for Free Comic Book Day. Votes: 3
Jhonen VasquezYour secret is your prisoner; once you reveal it, you become its slave. Votes: 2
Solomon Ibn GabirolIf you are worthy of its affection, a cat will be your friend but never your slave. Votes: 2
Theophile GautierAs long as a word remains unspoken, you are its master; once you utter it, you are its slave. Votes: 2
Solomon Ibn GabirolHe that is kind is free, though he is a slave; he that is evil is a slave, though he be a king. Votes: 2
Saint AugustineHe that communicates his secret to another makes himself that other's slave. Votes: 0
Baltasar GracianThe bibliophile is the master of his books, the bibliomaniac their slave. Votes: 0
Henry Ward BeecherThe greatest slave in a kingdom is generally the king of it. Votes: 0
Fulke Greville, 1st Baron BrookeLiterature takes its revenge on reality by making it the slave of fiction ... Votes: 0
Simone de BeauvoirAs yet, the Negroes themselves do not fully appreciate these old slave songs. Votes: 0
James Weldon JohnsonVirtue, vain word, futile shadow, slave of chance! Alas! I believe in thee! Votes: 0
Marcus Junius Brutus the YoungerThe world of employer and employee, like that of master and slave, debases both. Votes: 0
Edward AbbeyPeople have called Christopher Columbus horrible, racist, a psycho-maniac killer and a slave owner. Votes: 0
Rush LimbaughWhat the hell was an acquisitions consultant? An arms dealer? A white slave trader?" Votes: 0
Sarra ManningThe Confucian concept and Chinese ideograms for 'woman' and for 'slave' are the same. Votes: 0
Robin MorganPeople have called Christopher Columbus horrible, racist, a psycho-maniac killer and a slave owner. Votes: 0
Ruqaiyyah Waris MaqsoodRiches cannot rescue from the grave, which claims alike the monarch and the slave. Votes: 0
John DrydenBeauty and Genius must be kept afar if one would avoid becoming their slave. Votes: 0
Johann Wolfgang von GoetheFashion condemns us to many follies, the greatest is to make oneself its slave. Votes: 0
Napoleon BonaparteTruth is no man's slave - but lies - what magnificent servants they make ... Votes: 0
Phyllis BottomeThe artist is the lover of nature; therefore he is her slave and her master. Votes: 0
Rabindranath TagoreThere're two people in the world that are not likeable: a master and a slave. Votes: 0
Nikki GiovanniThe chains of a slave are broken the moment he considers himself a free man. Votes: 0
Mahatma GandhiA remarkable documentary and the first in-depth record of many black women, slave and free. Votes: 0
Dorothy B. PorterHe is sometimes slave who should be master; and sometimes master who should be slave. Votes: 0
Marcus Tullius CiceroIf India becomes the slave of the machine, then, I say, heaven save the world. Votes: 0
Mahatma GandhiTremble not before the free man, but before the slave who has chains to break. Votes: 0
Margaret FullerWhen the slave auctioneer asked in what he was proficient, he replied, "In ruling people . Votes: 0
DiogenesI like to think of myself as being fashion-conscious without being a slave to fashion. Votes: 0
Frida LyngstadEnvy, to which th' ignoble mind's a slave, Is emulation in the learn'd or brave. Votes: 0
Alexander PopeI like to think of myself as being fashion-conscious without being a slave to fashion. Votes: 0
Anni-Frid LyngstadThe moment you recognize what is beautiful in this world, you stop being a slave Votes: 0
Aravind AdigaMake thy recreation servant to thy business, lest thou become a slave to thy recreation. Votes: 0
Francis QuarlesI am the very slave of circumstance And impulse -- borne away with every breath! Votes: 0
Lord ByronI don't wish to be a slave any longer to the stringent exigencies of literature. Votes: 0
Philip RothDon't become a slave to technology - manage your phone, don't let it manage you. Votes: 0
Richard BransonOne who is a slaveholder at heart never recognizes a human being in a slave. Votes: 0
Angelina GrimkeYes here's to the founding fathersâslave-owners, British citizens who didn't want to pay taxes... Votes: 0
David MazzucchelliBefore passing different laws for different people, I'd relinquish myself unto you as your slave. Votes: 0
Franz GrillparzerEvery farm with slaves was a slave-breeding farm. Raising slaves was mostly a cottage industry... Votes: 0
Ned SubletteYou're a slave, a bound helpless slave to one thing in this world, your imagination. Votes: 0
F. Scott FitzgeraldWhat father ever gave up his son to death for the sake of his slave! Votes: 0
St. Catherine of SienaThe Force is neither light nor dark, master nor slave, but a balance between extremes. Votes: 0
Tim LebbonHe who seeks freedom for anything but freedom's self is made to be a slave. Votes: 0
Alexis de TocquevilleAn integrated cup of coffee isn't sufficient pay for four hundred years of slave labor. Votes: 0
Malcolm XMan should be master of his environment, not its slave. That is what freedom means. Votes: 0
Anthony EdenOne thinks himself the master of others, and still remains a greater slave than they. Votes: 0
Jean-Jacques RousseauThe weak-minded man is the slave of his vices and the dupe of his virtues. Votes: 0
Jean Antoine Petit-SennAny labor which competes with slave labor must accept the economic conditions of slave labor. Votes: 0
Norbert WienerI'm not interested in being commodified. I'm not into being sold. I'm not a slave. Votes: 0
Jill ScottTrue freedom is in not having a master, but in making the master your slave Votes: 0
Bangambiki HabyarimanaYour emotions are the slaves to your thoughts, and you are the slave to your emotions. Votes: 0
Elizabeth GilbertSocialism: nothing more than the theory that the slave is always more virtuous than his master. Votes: 0
H. L. MenckenLet's live with that small pittance which we have; Who covets more is evermore a slave. Votes: 0
Robert HerrickSacrifice and neon lights slave ships don't wait. Love many, trust few, and don't be late Votes: 0
Tom MorelloFortune's unjust; she ruins oft the brave, and him who should be victor, makes the slave. Votes: 0
John DrydenDo not quench your inspiration and your imagination; do not become the slave of your model. Votes: 0
Vincent Van GoghWe want capitalism and market forces to be the slave of democracy rather than the opposite. Votes: 0
Thomas PikettyWas not Abraham Lincoln an extremist? - "This nation cannot survive half slave and half free." Votes: 0
Martin Luther King, Jr.Who Rebels? Who rises in arms? Rarely the slave, but almost always the oppressor turned slave. Votes: 0
Emile M. CioranA slave government is an oligarchy; and one, too, of the most arbitrary and criminal character. Votes: 0
Lysander SpoonerThis is the artist, then, life's hungry man, the glutton of eternity, beauty's miser, glory's slave. Votes: 0
Tom WolfeThat which commands admiration in the white woman only hastens the degradation of the female slave. Votes: 0
Patricia Hill Collins...counselling man to treat her as a slave while persuading her that she is a queen. Votes: 0
Simone de BeauvoirHeaven would that she these gifts should have, and I to live and die her slave. Votes: 0
William ShakespeareThe good man, though a slave, is free; the wicked, though he reigns, is a slave. Votes: 0
Saint AugustineThe man who asks of freedom anything other than itself is born to be a slave. Votes: 0
Alexis de TocquevilleThe knowledge of God gives a person the opportunity to not be a slave to wealth. Votes: 0
Sunday AdelajaThe slave should be resigned to his lot, in obeying his master he is obeying God. Votes: 0
Saint John ChrysostomNo man in his senses can hesitate in choosing to be free, rather than a slave. Votes: 0
Alexander HamiltonThe only freedom that man ever has is when he becomes a slave to Jesus Christ. Votes: 0
R. C. SproulMen make their own happiness, and a man may be respected even though only a slave. Votes: 0
G.A. HentyEvery one of us should be ashamed to be free while his brother is a slave. Votes: 0
Frederick DouglassI see you are already as timid as a slave: you might as well be in love. Votes: 0
Pierre Choderlos de LaclosThe dearest ambition of a slave is not liberty, but to have a slave of his own. Votes: 0
Richard Francis BurtonRise like the hero you were born to be, or die the slave you think you are. Votes: 0
Michael Joseph MuranoBooks are messengers of freedom. They can be hidden under a mattress or smuggled into slave nations. Votes: 0
Daniel J. BoorstinWe'll free every slave in every town and region. Can anybody get a bigger army than that? Votes: 0
Dalton TrumboMan becomes a slave to his constantly repeated acts. What he at first chooses, at last compels. Votes: 0
Orison Swett MardenI delivered leaflets for my dad and was paid £5 per thousand, which was slave labour. Votes: 0
Neil OliverIf you have inner peace, nobody can force you to be a slave to the outer reality. Votes: 0
Sri ChinmoyThe worker is the slave of capitalist society, the female worker is the slave of that slave. Votes: 0
James ConnollyThe Free State men, myself among them, took it for granted that Missouri was a slave state. Votes: 0
Buffalo BillIt wasn't so bad being a slave when your owner was yourself and stood up for you. Votes: 0
Orson Scott CardI'm not a slave driver or a yeller. I was yelled at in kitchens and other workplaces. Votes: 0
Alton BrownAll is mystery; but he is a slave who will not struggle to penetrate the dark veil. Votes: 0
Benjamin DisraeliThe artist has a twofold relation to nature; he is at once her master and her slave. Votes: 0
Johann Wolfgang von GoetheThis is the posture of fortunes slave: one foot in the gravy, one foot in the grave. Votes: 0
James ThurberIf you see anybody wail and complain, call him a slave, though he be clad in purple. Votes: 0
EpictetusRoll, years of promise, rapidly roll round, till not a slave shall on this earth be found. Votes: 0
John Quincy AdamsIf you don't first handle fear and desire, and you get rich, you'll only be a highpay slave. Votes: 0
Robert KiyosakiNever pray to be a better slave when God is trying to get you out of your situation. Votes: 0
Shannon L. AlderSpeak with contempt of none, from slave to king, The meanest Bee hath, and will use, a sting. Votes: 0
Benjamin FranklinAs every artist who has used the method knows - photography's a loyal slave and a tyrannical master. Votes: 0
Robert GennSoul-force comes only through God's grace and never descends upon a man who is a slave to lust. Votes: 0
Mahatma GandhiThe artist, even when he imitates nature, always feels himself to be not a slave but a demigod. Votes: 0
Soseki NatsumeI am the slave of those who hunger and thirst after me and treat everything else as unimportant. Votes: 0
Sai BabaConversation is a partnership, not a relation of master and slave, as most people try to make it. Votes: 0
Alice Duer MillerSpeech remains as a slave to you, but the moment it leaves your mouth, you become its slave. Votes: 0
Ibn Qayyim Al-JawziyyaA woman who does not become the slave of just one man becomes the slave of all men. Votes: 0
Jose BergaminA man will work and slave in obscurity for ten years and then become famous in ten minutes. Votes: 0
Robert RipleyFor a genius to be a genius, he must have a selfless slave between himself and the world. Votes: 0
Dawn PowellIt is the man who can think of no alternative to his enslavement who is truly a slave. Votes: 0
Wendell Berry(...) the translator of prose is the slave of the author and the translator of poetry is his rival. Votes: 0
Andreï MakineWho fears not to do ill fears the name, And free from conscience, is a slave to fame. Votes: 0
John DenhamIf you would have the slave show the virtues of the freeman, you must first make him free. Votes: 0
Henry GeorgeI am according to my slave's expectations of me: if good, then good, and if bad, then bad. Votes: 0
Alaa Al AswanyBe then my slave, and know what it means to be delivered into the hands of a woman. Votes: 0
Leopold von Sacher-MasochWhy hast thou made me born in this country, The inhabitant of which is satisfied with being a slave? Votes: 0
Muhammad IqbalArt should never be a slave to commerce, but for all working artists that's exactly what it must be. Votes: 0
CaitlÃn R. KiernanWho cannot resolve upon a moment's notice To live his own life, he forever lives A slave to others. Votes: 0
Gotthold Ephraim LessingThere shall be no slave in your home, male or female: Least of all the mother of your son. Votes: 0
Franz GrillparzerI am the slave of my baptism. Parents, you have caused my misfortune, and you have caused your own. Votes: 0
Arthur RimbaudMan is born to seek power, yet his actual condition makes him a slave to the power of others. Votes: 0
Hans MorgenthauIf you ever looked at me once with what I know is in you, I would be your slave. Votes: 0
Emily BronteI'm a slave to the beats of the story, not to the words we use to tell the story. Votes: 0
Steve DildarianTwo ways to treat a girl: Make her feel as a princess Or Make her feel as a slave. Votes: 0
Auliq IceOne cannot make a slave of a free person, for a free person is free even in a prison. Votes: 0
PlatoWhat good to me is the festive garment of freedom when I am in a slave's smock at home? Votes: 0
Johann Georg Hamanni'm a slave to my emotions, to my likes, to my hatred of boredom, to most of my desires Votes: 0
F. Scott FitzgeraldI WAS born a slave; but I never knew it till six years of happy childhood had passed away Votes: 0
Harriet Ann JacobsI WAS born a slave; but I never knew it till six years of happy childhood had passed away. Votes: 0
Harriet Ann JacobsBe not the slave of your own past - plunge into the sublime seas, dive deep, and swim far. Votes: 0
Ralph Waldo EmersonI WAS born a slave; but I never knew it till six years of happy childhood had passed away." Votes: 0
Harriet Ann JacobsIf you put a chain around the neck of a slave, the other end fastens itself around your own. Votes: 0
Ralph Waldo EmersonIt is better to be a slave to your beloved woman than a free man to the unloved one. Votes: 0
Eric BerneThe family is one of the greatest traps that society has used for millennia to keep man a slave Votes: 0
OshoThis is a world of compensations; and he who would be no slave, must consent to have no slave. Votes: 0
Abraham LincolnA fundamental condition of Being is slavery. Man is the slave of God, and God that of His vanity. Votes: 0
Kedar JoshiHow do you react when you think you need people's love? Do you become a slave for their approval? Votes: 0
Byron KatieThis country was founded by a group of slave owners who told us that all men are created equal. Votes: 0
George CarlinHe who has no opinion of his own, but depends upon the opinion and taste of others, is a slave. Votes: 0
Friedrich Gottlieb KlopstockI ask for so little.Just fear me, love me, do as I say and I will be your slave Votes: 0
David BowieThe man born and bred a slave, even if freed, never loses wholly the feeling or manner of a slave. Votes: 0
Mary C. AmesI could, as a free man, look across the bay toward the Eastern Shore where I was born a slave. Votes: 0
Frederick DouglassThe covetous person is full of fear; and he or she who lives in fear will ever be a slave. Votes: 0
HoraceYou have seen how a man was made a slave; you shall see how a slave was made a man. Votes: 0
Frederick DouglassThe worst form of slavery is when the slave believes he is free. This is how women under Islam feel. Votes: 0
Wafa SultanVanity is the most despotic and iniquitous of masters, and I can never be the slave of my own vices. Votes: 0
George SandActors work and slave and it is the color of your hair that can determine your fate in the end. Votes: 0
Helen HayesThe air of England has long been too pure for a slave, and every man is free who breathes it. Votes: 0
James MansfieldI will not be a slave to my image, nor will I be a slave to anyone else's interpretations of me, Votes: 0
Janelle MonaeI knew I hated him as only a woman can hate a man, as only a slave can hate his master. Votes: 0
Nawal El SaadawiIt is a law of nature that every decent man on earth is bound to be a coward and a slave Votes: 0
Fyodor DostoevskyHe that cannot reason is a fool. He that will not is a bigot. He that dare not is a slave. Votes: 0
Andrew CarnegieHe who will not reason, is a bigot; he who cannot is a fool; and he who dares not is a slave. Votes: 0
William DrummondNo slave is a slave to the same lengths, and in so full a sense of the word, as a wife is. Votes: 0
John Stuart Mill...I'm a slave to this leaf in a diary that lists what I must do, what I must say, every half hour. Votes: 0
Golda MeirThe soul of the slave, the soul of the "little man," is as dear to me as the soul of the great. Votes: 0
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