Marcus Tullius Cicero Quotes About Slavery

Quotes about: Slavery

• Too much liberty leads both men and nations to slavery.

  Marcus Tullius Cicero

  Men, Liberty, Slavery

• To some extent I liken slavery to death.

  Marcus Tullius Cicero

  Philosophical, Slavery

• The name of peace is sweet and the thing itself good, but between peace and slavery there is the greatest difference.

  Marcus Tullius Cicero

  Sweet, Peace, Names

• Now in regard to trades and other means of livelihood, which ones are to be considered becoming to a gentleman and which ones are vulgar, we have been taught, in general, as follows. First, those means of livelihood are rejected as undesirable which incur people's ill-will, as those of tax-gatherers and usurers. Unbecoming to a gentleman, too, and vulgar are the means of livelihood of all hired workmen whom we pay for mere manual labour, not for artistic skill; for in their case the very wage they receive is a pledge of their slavery.

  Marcus Tullius Cicero

  Mean, Skills, Ill Will

  Marcus Tullius Cicero (2014). “Delphi Complete Works of Cicero (Illustrated)”, p.3108, Delphi Classics

• He is sometimes slave who should be master; and sometimes master who should be slave.

  Marcus Tullius Cicero

  Slavery, Sometimes, Should

  "Oratio Pro Rege Deiotaro", XI, as quoted in Hoyt's New Cyclopedia Of Practical Quotations (1922), p. 715-16,

• When time and need require, we should resist with all our might, and prefer death to slavery and disgrace.

  Marcus Tullius Cicero

  Might, Resistance, Needs

• Excessive liberty leads both nations and individuals into excessive slavery.
  [Lat., Nimia libertas et populis et privatis in nimiam servitutem cadit.]

  Marcus Tullius Cicero

  Liberty, Slavery, Individual

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