Victor Hugo Quotes About Slaves

Quotes about: Slaves

• A creditor is worse than a slave-owner; for the master owns only your person, but a creditor owns your dignity, and can command it.

  Victor Hugo

  Slave Owners, Debtors, Dignity

• We say that slavery has vanished from European civilization, but this is not true. Slavery still exists, but now it applies only to women and its name is prostitution.

  Victor Hugo

  Wisdom, Civilization, Names

  Victor Hugo (1980). “Les misérables”, Viking Pr

• Slaves would be tyrants were the chance theirs.

  Victor Hugo

  Work, Tyrants, Would Be

• Men are still men. The despot's wickedness Comes of ill teaching, and of power's excess,-- Comes of the purple he from childhood wears, Slaves would be tyrants if the chance were theirs.

  Victor Hugo

  Teaching, Men, Tyrants

  Victor Hugo (19??). “Poems. The history of a crime”

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