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He will always be a slave who does not know how to live upon a little.

Horace Mann

Wealth is the slave of a wise man. The master of a fool.

Seneca

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

Seneca

God Almighty has set before me two great objects, the suppression of the slave trade and the reformation of manners.

William Wilberforce

A slave begins by demanding justice and ends by wanting to wear a crown.

Albert Camus

The right to life is the source of all rights--and the right to property is their only implementation. Without property rights, no other rights are possible. Since man has to sustain his life by his own effort, the man who has no right to the product of his effort has no means to sustain his life. The man who produces while others dispose of his product, is a slave.

Ayn Rand

There is no king who has not had a slave among his ancestors, and no slave who has not had a king among his.

Helen Keller

It doesn't take a genius to pump up the GNP [of a developing country] by burning down rainforests, using slave labor and social repression to keep things in place.

Hazel Henderson

The lesson I learned was: When in doubt, build your own damn truck. It's a lesson we all need to learn. You need to educate yourselves, learn every language you can. You need to not be a slave to the credit system and gain economic independence. You need to build your own damn truck rather than wait for someone to give you one.

Luis Valdez

A cat will be your friend, but never your slave.

Theophile Gautier

He that will not reason is a bigot; he that cannot reason is a fool; he that dares not reason is a slave.

Sir William Drummond

It seems that it is madder never to abandon one's self than often to be infatuated; better to be wounded, a captive and a slave, than always to walk in armor.

Margaret Fuller

Every man who is not a monster, mathematician or a mad philosopher, is the slave of some woman or other.

George Eliot

If you are worthy of its affection, a cat will be your friend but never your slave.

Theophile Gautier

The Bible says the borrower is slave to the lender.

Jay Carter

For instance, he spoke about how the eastern part of Africa had their own slave trade too, I didn't know about that.

Rev. Greg Grady

The worker is the slave of capitalist society, the female worker is the slave of that slave.

James Connolly

I'm not a slave to objectivity. I'm never quite sure what it means. And it means different things to different people.

Peter Jennings

What is Friendship when complete?'Tis to share all joy and grief; 'Tis to lend all due relief From the tongue, the heart, the hand; 'Tis to mortgage house and land; For a friend be sold a slave; 'Tis to die upon a grave, If a friend therein do lie.

Anne Finch

Their blood has washed out their foul footsteps' pollution. No refuge could save the hireling and slave from the terror of flight or the gloom of the grave.

Francis Scott Key

Be not the slave of your own past. Plunge into the sublime seas, dive deep and swim far, so you shall come back with self-respect, with new power, with an advanced experience that shall explain and overlook the old.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

What is the end of our revolution? The tranquil enjoyment of liberty and equality; the reign of that eternal justice, the laws of which are graven, not on marble or stone, but in the hearts of men, even in the heart of the slave who has forgotten them, and in that of the tyrant who disowns them.

Maximilien Robespierre

As far as I know, the use of the word 'slave' has never been even proposed by anyone as offensive.

Roger Payne

If somebody makes me laugh, I'm his slave for life.

Bette Midler

A free race cannot be born of slave mothers.

Margaret Sanger

I have this mental picture of free guys and slave guys working side by side, along with these Irish guys who are shoveling sand and lugging lumber up to the fourth floor - and everybody sitting down having coffee. It just is almost unbelievable for us to picture, but that's the kind of inference you get from these records.

Robert Emlen

How did Taney know that slave ownership was a constitutional right? Such a right is nowhere to be found in the Constitution. He knew it because he was passionately convinced that it must be a constitutional right.

Robert H. Bork

Usually, a donkey brings the water, but since the family had a slave, it was my job. Even if I finished everything they asked me to do, [the family] would let other people borrow me.

Simon Deng

The art of being a slave is to rule one's master.

Diogenes Of Sinope

Slavery still exists today. I am standing before you as living proof. As a slave, I didn't know how to say no, I only knew how to say yes. I was beaten if I didn't say yes loudly enough; I was beaten for no reason at all.

Simon Deng

The duty I owe to the slave, to truth, and to God, demands that I should use my pen and tongue so long as life and health are vouchsafed to me to employ them, or until the last chain shall fall from the limbs of the last slave in America and the worl.

William Wells Brown

I am a galley slave to pen and ink.

Honore De Balzac

The test of civilization is the estimate of woman. Among savages she is a slave. In the dark ages of Christianity she is a toy and a sentimental goddess. With increasing moral light, and greater liberty, and more universal justice, she begins to deve.

George William Curtis

Fugitive slaves were rare then, and as a fugitive slave lecturer, I had the advantage of being the first one out.

Frederick Douglass

Assure a man that he has a soul and then frighten him with old wives' tales as to what is to become of him afterward, and you have hooked a fish, a mental slave.

Theodore Dreiser

He believed he was paying basically to have her be his sex slave.

Jeanine Pirro

Secession by the South was a reaction against Lincoln's high-tax policy. In 1861 the slave issue was not critical.

Charles Adams

I have observed this in my experience of slavery, that whenever my condition was improved, instead of increasing my contentment, it only increased my desire to be free, and set me to thinking of plans to gain my freedom. I have found that, to make a contented slave, it is necessary to make a thoughtless one.

Frederick Douglass

EMANCIPATION, n. A bondman's change from the tyranny of another to the despotism of himself. He was a slave: at word he went and came; His iron collar cut him to the bone. Then Liberty erased his owner's name, Tightened the rivets and inscribed his own. G.J.

Ambrose Bierce

She believed it was her obligation to pay off (the debt), ... She was essentially a sex slave for the defendant.

Jeanine Pirro

I have only to speak for myself; to speak for freedom for myself; to determine for freedom for myself; and in doing so, I speak and determine for the freedom of every slave on every plantation, and for the fugitives on my right hand.

Charles Lenox Remond

I told my kids that I don't have the education that they have right now. I didn't have the freedom that they have right now. The living conditions ? you sleep on the ground and you live day by day. Your life is in the hands of the communist regime as a slave, basically.

James Suong

One hundred and seventy five years ago we were slaves here in Mississippi. We came here as a slave with no rights, but today we come back to be part of the rebuilding of the state. How beautiful is that?

Quetel Osterval

Man should be master of his environment, not its slave. That is what freedom means.

Anthony Eden

He who will not reason is a bigot; he who cannot is a fool; and he who dares not is a slave.

Sir William Drummond

He who is a slave to his stomach seldom worships God.

Saadi

I?m like a slave. I have to pay what they want.

Wendy Johnson

He was the chief architect of the Fugitive Slave Act -- though he abhorred slavery. Runaway slaves could be returned to their masters no matter where they were, no matter how long they had been living free. It was violently detested. There were riots.

Robert Schenkkan

We do not want to lose the essence of what made those properties and characters appealing in the first place. You're not going to see any swearing or adult situations in our comics but [the Slave Labor adaptations] will probably be over the heads of very young children.

Dan Vado

Overall, it makes it possible to learn a lot more about the fate of individuals and to learn a lot more about the Holocaust itself ? concentration camps, deportations, slave-enforced labor and displaced persons.

Paul Shapiro

So much is man the slave of his heart that he will shut his eyes to what does not please him and believe all that he hopes.

Mika Waltari

(According to those who drove the slave ship), if we lose 25 to 50 percent of 'cargo,' we could make money.

Michael Barnes

No one is more enslaved than a slave who doesn't think they're enslaved.

Kate Beckinsale

Mammon is the largest slave-holder in the world.

Frederick Saunders

It is my PRIDE, my damn d, native, unconquerable Pride, that plunges me into Distraction. You must know that 19 --20th of my Composition is Pride. I must either live a Slave, a Servant; to have no Will of my own, no Sentiments of my own which I may freely declare as such; --or DIE --perplexing alternative!

Thomas Chatterton

Moreover, the vast majority of them were drafted - they were forced to serve Hitler just as other Jews were forced to become slave laborers in Auschwitz and elsewhere.

Bryan Mark Rigg

The slave has but one master, the ambitious man has as many as can help in making his fortune.

Jean De La Bruyere

I expect to plead not for the slave only, but for suffering humanity everywhere. Especially do I mean to labor for the elevation of my sex.

Lucy Stone

To be one's own master is to be the slave of self.

Natalie Clifford Barney

You'll get pie in the sky when you die (The Preacher and The Slave).

Joe Hill

What we know today is that children all over America have the right to learn-whether their ancestors came to America on slave ships or the Mayflower.

Mark Pryor

I especially love Michelangelo's great slave sculptures.

Donald Lipski

We didn't have means, education, jobs and women couldn't vote. She (Tubman) was born to slave parents. She didn't have any means or economic things. But nevertheless she would fight. One sometimes is the majority.

Frances Pratt

Keep a secret, it's your slave. Tell it, and it's your master.

William Henry Hudson

The way that trafficking is stopped is just ordinary people become aware of it and they see something awry and then call in a tip, ... And until people can fathom that their next-door neighbor might have a slave in their house, they're not going to see the signs and think to call the police.

Mira Sorvino

You have seen how a man was made a slave; you shall see how a slave was made a man.

Frederick Douglass

Freedom in capitalist society always remains about the same as it was in ancient Greek republics: Freedom for slave owners.

Vladimir Lenin

He who dares not (reason), is a slave.

Sir William Drummond

I am hungry for ratings, because it's a job review, a daily job review. But I try not to be a slave to them.

Andrew O'keefe

Just as the slave master required the slaves to imitate the image he had of them, so women, who live in a relatively powerless position, politically and economically, feel obliged by a kind of implicit force to live up to culture's image of what is female.

Susan Griffin

Nobody had ever instructed him that a slave-ship, with a procession of expectant sharks in its wake, is a missionary institution, by which closely-packed heathen are brought over to enjoy the light of the Gospel.

Harriet Beecher Stowe

It's a slave camp. You have no rights. The food is horrible. We were not allowed to go in public places. We walked three kilometers on Sunday in restricted areas. That's the way we lived until the end of war.

Alexander Bunegin

There is between sleep and us something like a pact, a treaty with no secret clauses, and according to this convention it is agreed that, far from being a dangerous, bewitching force, sleep will become domesticated and serve as an instrument of our power to act. We surrender to sleep, but in the way that the master entrusts himself to the slave who serves him.

Maurice Blanchot

The genius of any slave system is found in the dynamics which isolate slaves from each other, obscure the reality of a common condition, and make united rebellion against the oppressor inconceivable.

Andrea Dworkin

How To Kill the Job Culture Before It Kills You: Living a Life of Autonomy in a Wage-Slave Society ... sucking the vitality out of our lives, families and communities.

Claire Wolfe

No kingdom can be secured otherwise than by arming the people. The possession of arms is the distinction between a freeman and a slave.

James Burgh

Noah was a gardener who used to sell his produce on Central Avenue, ... It was quite an accomplishment for an ex-slave to purchase land. We want to give him his recognition.

Jackson Five

They want low to absolute minimal maintenance. People don't want to be a slave to their plants.

Mike Zettel

I like to think of myself as being fashion-conscious without being a slave to fashion.

Anni frid Lyngstad

A man is no less a slave because he is allowed to choose a new master once in a term of years.

Lysander Spooner

The tyrant is only the slave turned inside out.

Egyptian Proverb

By a divine paradox, wherever there is one slave there are two. So in the wonderful reciprocities of being, we can never reach the higher levels until all our fellows ascend with us.

Edwin Markham

Homelessness is the actor's fate; physical incapacity to attain what is most required and desired by such a spirit as I am a slave to.

Edwin Booth

Human must not be enslaved by material. To be a man, you have to be the master of yourself, not the slave of things.

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