Slave Quotes - Page 27

• Hope is a willing slave; despair is free.

  Charles G. Dawes

  Hope, Despair, Willing

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• I will have a care of being a slave to myself, for it is a perpetual, a shameful, and the heaviest of all servitudes; and this may be done by moderate desires.

  Seneca the Younger

  Desire, Done, Care

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• How great would be our peril if our slaves began to number us!

  Seneca the Younger

  Numbers, Would Be, Slavery

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• The most imperious masters over their own servants are at the same time the most abject slaves to the servants of others.

  Seneca the Younger

  Masters, Tyranny, Servant

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• Virtue is shut out from no one; she is open to all, accepts all, invites all, gentlemen, freedmen, slaves, kings, and exiles; she selects neither house nor fortune; she is satisfied with a human being without adjuncts.

  Seneca the Younger

  Kings, House, Gentleman

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• The most onerous slavery is to be a slave to oneself.

  Seneca the Younger

  Slavery, Be A Slave, Oneself

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• though money is a fine servant, as a god, it does seem to develop all the evil qualities of the slave seated between the cherubim.

  J. E. Buckrose

  Evil, Quality, Doe

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• . .women are house as well as factory slaves and are forced to bear a double workload.

  Clara Zetkin

  House, Bears, Factories

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• A choice is the root of all morality. Without choice, one can have no moral code. In a vacuum bereft of alternatives, there can be no values. And without values, there can be no reason for a code of ethics. What gives our lives meaning is which alternatives we choose. If we have no options, if we can take but one path, we are by definition slaves.

  Dave Galanter

  Roots, Giving, Choices

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• The spirit only can teach. Not any profane man, not any sensual, not any liar, not any slave can teach, but only he can give, whohas; he only can create, who is. The man on whom the soul descends, through whom the soul speaks, alone can teach. Courage, piety, love, wisdom, can teach; and every man can open his door to these angels, and they shall bring him the gift of tongues. But the man who aims to speak as books enable, as synods use, as the fashion guides, and as interest commands, babbles. Let him hush.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Education, Fashion, Liars

  Ralph Waldo Emerson (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of Ralph Waldo Emerson (Illustrated)”, p.1123, Delphi Classics

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• It is high time that the women of Republican America should know how much the laws that govern them are like the slave laws ofthe South.

  Harriot Kezia Hunt

  America, Law, Slavery

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• The devil made you a slave. Your waitin' for the devil to come from the ground. Take a look around. Just look at the cross that the priest is holdin'. A beast, in sheep's clothin'. You are the prince of darkness. Hell born, demonic.

  Ice Cube

  Sheep, Darkness, Devil

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• Everyone wants a happy life without difficulties or suffering. We create many of the problems we face. No one intentionally creates problems, but we tend to be slaves to powerful emotions like anger, hatred and attachment that are based on misconceived projections about people and things. We need to find ways of reducing these emotions by eliminating the ignorance that underlies them and applying opposing forces.

  Dalai Lama

  Powerful, Ignorance, Happy Life

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• The master not only governs the slave without his consent, but he governs him by a set of rules altogether different from those which he prescribes for himself. Allow ALL the governed an
  equal voice in the government, and that, and that only, is self-government.

  Abraham Lincoln

  Government, Self, Voice

  Address on the Repeal of the Missouri Compromise, delivered 16 October 1854, Peoria, Illinois

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• Mechanic slaves
  With greasy aprons, rules, and hammers, shall
  Uplift us to the view.

  William Shakespeare

  Uplifting, Views, Hammers

  William Shakespeare, David Bevington (2005). “Antony and Cleopatra”, p.260, Cambridge University Press

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• Thou art a slave, whom fortune's tender arm
  With favour never clasp'd; but bred a dog.

  William Shakespeare

  Dog, Art, Slavery

  William Shakespeare, Edmond Malone (1821). “The Plays and Poems of William Shakspeare: Cymbeline. Timon of Athens”, p.387

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• For it is true now, as it always was and always will be, that to be free is the same thing as to be pious, to be wise, to be temperate and just, to be frugal and abstinent, and to be magnanimous and brave; and to be the opposite of all these is the same as to be a slave.

  Albert Pike

  Wise, Opposites, Brave

  Albert Pike “Morals and Dogma : Scottish Rite in Freemasonry”, Lulu.com

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• At times we are slaves of sin. Lord, come to free us!

  Pope Francis

  Sin, Lord

  Pope Francis @Pontifex, twitter.com. December 23, 2014.

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• We are behaving like people without compassion and love for the most vulnerable section of society. The children of the universe are without a spokesperson, they are voiceless...We are all touched by the atrocities committed against children: sexual, physical abuse, child slave labor, educational neglect. We feel ashamed. Angry. Appalled. But there is no action...No action.

  Michael Jackson

  Love, Children, Educational

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• Freedom is the only real doctor of the sick slaves; and a good conscience, of the ill masters!

  Mehmet Murat Ildan

  Freedom, Real, Doctors

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• I decided I didn't want to be a slave to any passion any more except for my work, i had too many passions - bridge, horses, gambling. I want to live a different kind of life, be with my family more because I didn't give them enough time.

  Omar Sharif

  Life, Horse, Passion

  "Biography/ Mini Bio". www.imdb.com.

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• True liberty does violence to self and, like Christ, who disregarded that he was sovereign becomes a slave to serve others.

  Oscar Romero

  Self, Liberty, Doe

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• Do not compare your material forces with those of the enemy. Spirit cannot be compared with matter. You are human beings, they are beasts. You are free, they are slaves.

  Simon Bolivar

  Enemy, Matter, Spirit

  "Simon Bolivar". Book by Gerhard Masur, 1948.

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• It was really sad Bobby Neuwirth's and my affair. The only true, passionate, and lasting love scene, and I practically ended up in the psychopathic ward. I had really learned about sex from him, making love, loving, giving. It just completely blew my mind it drove me insane. I was like a sex slave to this man. I could make love for forty-eight hours, forty-eight hours, forty-eight hours, without getting tired. But the minute he left me alone, I felt so empty and lost that I would start popping pills.

  Edie Sedgwick

  Sex, Tired, Men

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• What should we suppose must naturally be the consequence of our carrying on a slave trade with Africa? With a country, vast in its extent, not utterly barbarous, but civilized in a very small degree? Does any one suppose a slave trade would help their civilization?

  William Wilberforce

  Country, Civilization, Degrees

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