Slave Quotes - Page 33

• People allow themselves to be slaves of their bad habits and society's bad habits - but they have free will, and if they wish to be free they can.

  Peace Pilgrim

  People, Wish, Free Will

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• C'm'on lefties! Admit that Trump has been very tough on China. He has been especially tough on Chinese kids who slave away in sweatboxes, making his clothing lines.

  Michael R. Burch

  Kids, Clothing Line, Chinese

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• I rejoice that horses and steers have to be broken before they can be made the slaves of men, and that men themselves have some wild oats still left to sow before they become submissive members of society. Undoubtedly, all men are not equally fit subjects for civilization; and because the majority, like dogs and sheep, are tame by inherited disposition, this is no reason why the others should have their natures broken that they may be reduced to the same level.

  Henry David Thoreau

  Dog, Horse, Men

  Henry David Thoreau (2002). “The Essays of Henry D. Thoreau: Selected and Edited by Lewis Hyde”, p.252, North Point Press

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• But thought's the slave of life, and life time's fool.

  William Shakespeare

  Fool, Life Time

  'Henry IV, Part 1' (1597) act 5, sc. 4, l. [81]

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• If God is the master of the universe, then what are we? The slaves of the universe? If so, let each man become proud Spartacus!

  Mehmet Murat Ildan

  Men, Proud, Masters

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• Under the freest constitution ignorant people are still slaves.

  Nicolas de Caritat, marquis de Condorcet

  People, Ignorant, Constitution

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• Towering genius...thirsts and burns for distinction; and, if possible, it will have it, whether at the expense of emancipating slaves or enslaving freeman.

  Abraham Lincoln

  Genius, Distinction, Thirst

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• The more we hold on to our hurts, anger and bitterness, the more we become slaves to unforgiveness.

  Nancy Leigh DeMoss

  Hurt, Bitterness, Anger And Bitterness

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• When a player knows he is a slave he'll never give his employer his heart.

  Jerzy Dudek

  Heart, Player, Giving

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• We can become slaves to things we don't understand

  Vernon Howard

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• Aristotle and Plato considered Greeks so innately superior to barbarians that slavery is justified so long as the master is Greek and the slave barbarian.

  Bertrand Russell

  Plato, Long, Greek

  Bertrand Russell (2009). “The Basic Writings of Bertrand Russell”, p.56, Routledge

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• That's our mirror. Every dip, every crash, every bubble that's burst, a testament to our brilliant stupidity. This one gave us the railroads. This one the Internet. This one the slave trade. And if we hope to do anything about saving the environment, or getting to other worlds, we'll need a bubble for that too. Everything I've ever done in my life worth anything has been done in a bubble: in a state of extreme hope and trust and stupidity.

  Lucy Prebble

  Mirrors, Other Worlds, Stupidity

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• Politicians argue for abortion largely because they do not want to spend the necessary money to feed, clothe and educate more people... There are those who argue that the right to privacy is of higher order than the right to life. I do not share that view... That was the premise of slavery. You could not protest the existence or treatment of slaves on the plantation because that was private and therefore outside of your right to concerned.

  Jesse Jackson

  Views, Order, People

  "How we respect life is the over-riding moral issue" by Jesse Jackson in "Right to Life News", groups.csail.mit.edu. January 1977.

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• Plato once wanted to punish one of his slaves and asked his nephew to do the actual whipping for he himself did not own his anger.

  Seneca the Younger

  Plato, Nephew, Whipping

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• God took Eve from the side of Adam, not from his foot to be his menial or slave or servant, not from his head to be his mental superior, and did take him from that which is nearest his heart, that he might love her, and that which is under his arm, that he might protect her.

  Matthew Henry

  Heart, Feet, Arms

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• But I am mistaken in speaking of a Christian republic; the terms are mutually exclusive. Christianity preaches only servitude and dependence. Its spirit is so favorable to tyranny that it always profits by such a regime. True Christians are made to be slaves, and they know it and do not much mind; this short life counts for too little in their eyes.

  Jean-Jacques Rousseau

  Christian, Short Life, Eye

  Jean-Jacques Rousseau, G. D. H. Cole (2003). “On the Social Contract”, p.95, Courier Corporation

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• Woman, as Nature has created her and as she is currently reared by man, is his enemy and can only be his slave or his despot, but never his companion. She will be able to become his companion only when she has the same rights as he, when she is his equal in education and work.

  Leopold von Sacher-Masoch

  Men, Rights, Enemy

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• It will startle you to see what slaves we are to by-gone times-to Death, if we give the matter the right word! ... We read in Dead Men's books! We laugh at Dead Men's jokes, and cry at Dead Men's pathos! . . . Whatever we seek to do, of our own free motion, a Dead Man's icy hand obstructs us!

  Nathaniel Hawthorne

  Book, Men, Hands

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• All fundamentalist theologians make the ordinances of creation an essential part of creation and absolutize them. Women belong at home, fulfil their life through motherhood, by caring for their husbands and serving them. The fixed role pattern of one particular economic and family order is transformed into an order willed by God and given by creation. With a methodologically similar logic, slaves were understood as those elected by God to serve the whites.

  Dorothee Solle

  Husband, Home, Caring

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• Books are messengers of freedom. They can be hidden under a mattress or smuggled into slave nations.

  Daniel J. Boorstin

  Book, Messengers, Mattresses

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• Curiosity is a mistress whose slaves decline no sacrifice.

  William Faulkner

  Sacrifice, Curiosity, Mistress

  William Faulkner (2011). “Snopes: The Hamlet, The Town, The Mansion”, p.969, Modern Library

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• The worst of slaves is he whom passion rules.

  Rupert Brooke

  Passion, Worst

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• A man in armour is his armour's slave.

  Robert Browning

  Men, Armour

  Robert Browning (2015). “Complete Plays of Robert Browning”, p.695, e-artnow sro

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• The number of those men who know how to use wholly irresponsible power humanely and generously is small. Everybody knows this, and the slave knows it best of all.

  Harriet Beecher Stowe

  Men, Numbers, Use

  Harriet Beecher Stowe, Harriet Beecher STOWE (2016). “Collected Works (Complete and Illustrated Editions: Uncle Tom's Cabin, Queer Little Folks, The Chimney-Corner, ...)”, p.292, Harriet Beecher Stowe

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• We hear often of the distress of the negro servants, on the loss of a kind master; and with good reason, for no creature on God's earth is left more utterly unprotected and desolate than the slave in these circumstances.

  Harriet Beecher Stowe

  Loss, Earth, Kind

  Harriet Beecher Stowe, Harriet Beecher STOWE (2016). “Collected Works (Complete and Illustrated Editions: Uncle Tom's Cabin, Queer Little Folks, The Chimney-Corner, ...)”, p.292, Harriet Beecher Stowe

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