Slave Quotes - Page 8

• A woman who does not become the slave of just one man becomes the slave of all men.

  Jose Bergamin

  Men, Doe, Just One

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• Jesus Christ has bought us with His blood, but, alas, He has not had His money's worth! He paid for ALL, and He has had but a fragment of our energy, time and earnings. By an act of consecration, let us ask Him to forgive the robbery of the past, and let us profess our desire to be henceforth utterly and only for Him- His slaves, owning no master other than Himself.

  F.B. Meyer

  Jesus, Past, Blood

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• Better to love God and die unknown than to love the world and bea hero; better to be content with poverty than to die a slave towealth; better to have taken some risks and lost than to havedone nothing and succeeded at it.

  Erwin W. Lutzer

  Taken, Hero, Risk

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• The people of Asia were slaves, because they had not learned how to pronounce the word 'no'.

  Winston Churchill

  Freedom, People, Political

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• Do not discourage your children from hoarding, if they have a taste to it; whoever lays up his penny rather than part with it for a cake, at least is not the slave of gross appetite; and shows besides a preference always to be esteemed, of the future to the present moment.

  Samuel Johnson

  Children, Cake, Taste

  Samuel Johnson (1836). “Johnsoniana, Or, Supplement to Boswell: Being Anecdotes and Sayings of Dr. Johnson”, p.47

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• To add to our misery and despair, a bloated aristocracy has sent to China - the greatest and oldest despotism in the world - for a cheap working slave.

  Denis Kearney

  Tyrants, Despair, World

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• You a slave to a page in my rhyme book.

  Nas

  Book, Pages, Nasty

  Song: I Made You Look, 2002

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• I love to revel in philosophical matters-especially astronomy. I study astronomy more than any other foolishness there is. I am a perfect slave to it. I am at it all the time. I have got more smoked glass than clothes. I am as familiar with the stars as the comets are. I know all the facts and figures and have all the knowledge there is concerning them. I yelp astronomy like a sun-dog, and paw the constellations like Ursa Major.

  Mark Twain

  Dog, Stars, Philosophical

  Mark Twain (2016). “The Wit and Wisdom of Mark Twain”, p.48, Chartwell

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• There, in the middle of this mall is the Washington Monument, 555 feet high. But if we put a one in front of that 555 feet, we get 1555, the year that our first fathers landed on the shores of Jamestown, Virginia as slaves.

  Louis Farrakhan

  Father, Stupid, Humorous

  Louis Farrakhan's speech at the Million Man March in Washington, D.C., www.cnn.com. October 17, 1995.

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• I despise 'animal welfare.' That's like saying, 'Let's beat the slaves three times a week instead of five times a week'.

  Gary Yourofsky

  Animal, Three, Welfare

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• Detach yourself from all that makes your mind restless. Renounce all that disturbs its peace. If you want peace, deserve it. By being a slave to your desires and fears, you disturb peace.

  Sri Nisargadatta Maharaj

  Inspiration, Practice, Meditation

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• But no sooner had morning broken than he took hold of his whip and ceremoniously stepped out to address his slaves. Each blow was liberating, it was like unshaking proof of the great lie of God's existence.

  Juhani Peltonen

  Morning, Atheist, Lying

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• There is no such thing as slow freedom. Freedom is like a birth. Till we are fully free we are slaves. All birth takes place in a moment.

  Mahatma Gandhi

  Birth, Moments

  Mahatma Gandhi, Mohandas Gandhi, Homer A. Jack (2005). “The Wit and Wisdom of Gandhi”, p.125, Courier Corporation

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• The preservation of a free government requires not merely that the metes and bounds which separate each department of power be invariably maintained; but more especially that neither of them be suffered to overleap the great Barrier which defends the rights of the people. The Rulers who are guilty of such an encroachment, exceed the commission from which they derive their authority and are Tyrants. The people who submit to it are governed by laws made neither by themselves nor by an authority derived from them, and are slaves.

  James Madison

  Rights, Government, Law

  James Madison (1867). “1769-1793”, p.163

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• Independent of its connection with human destiny hereafter, the fate of republican government is indissolubly bound up with the fate of the Christian religion, and a people who reject its holy faith will find themselves the slaves of their own evil passions and of arbitrary power.

  Lewis Cass

  Christian, Passion, Independent

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• If the public are bound to yield obedience to laws to which they cannot give their approbation, they are slaves to those who make such laws and enforce them.

  Samuel Adams

  Yield, Law, Giving

  Samuel Adams (1968). “The Writings of Samuel Adams: 1770-1773”

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• Being deceived into thinking the perks of slavery are a good thing, we can easily aquire a preference for chains and a taste for the slaves rations.

  Dennis Green

  Thinking, Taste, Slavery

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• That which commands admiration in the white woman only hastens the degradation of the female slave.

  Patricia Hill Collins

  White, Slave Girl, Female

  Patricia Hill Collins (2002). “Black Feminist Thought: Knowledge, Consciousness, and the Politics of Empowerment”, p.92, Routledge

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• Who is the descendant of the slavemasters a descendant of slaves to fight other people in thier own country?

  Muhammad Ali

  Country, War, Fighting

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• The ideal tyranny is that which is ignorantly self-administered by its victims. The most perfect slaves are, therefore, those which blissfully and unawaredly enslave themselves. A truth's initial commotion is directly proportional to how deeply the lie was believed. It wasn't the world being round that agitated people, but that the world wasn't flat. When a well-packaged web of lies has been sold gradually to the masses over generations, the truth will seem utterly preposterous and its speaker a raving lunatic.

  Donald James

  Truth, Lying, Self

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• War is the father and king of all: some he has made gods, and some men; some slaves and some free.

  Heraclitus

  Kings, Father, War

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• Power, like a desolating pestilence, Pollutes whate'er it touches; and obedience, Bane of all genius, virtue, freedom, truth, Makes slaves of men, and of the human frame A mechanized automaton.

  Percy Bysshe Shelley

  Men, Genius, Pestilence

  Samuel Taylor Coleridge, Percy Bysshe Shelley, John Keats (1829). “The Poetical Works of Coleridge, Shelley, and Keats: Complete in One Volume”

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• For still the new transcends the old In signs and tokens manifold; Slaves rise up men; the olive waves, With roots deep set in battle graves!

  John Greenleaf Whittier

  Men, Roots, Battle

  John Greenleaf Whittier (1873). “The Complete Poetical Works of John Greenleaf Whittier”, p.153

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• Don't become a slave to technology - manage your phone, don't let it manage you.

  Richard Branson

  Inspirational, Business, Technology

  Twitter post from Aug 26, 2013

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• I didn't want to be a slave to any passion anymore. I gave up card playing altogether, even bridge and gambling - more or less. It took me a few years to get out of it.

  Omar Sharif

  Passion, Years, Bridges

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