Be A Slave Quotes

The best slave does not need to be beaten. She beats herself.

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

I could, as a free man, look across the bay toward the Eastern Shore where I was born a slave.

He who strays from the customary becomes a sacrifice to the extraordinary; he who keeps to the customary becomes its slave. He iscondemned to perish in either case.

The State is the absolute reality and the individual himself has objective existence, truth and morality only in his capacity as a member of the State.

The bachelors admired freedom is often a yoke, for the freer a man is to himself the greater slave he often is to the whims of others.

Thou art beautiful because God created thee, but thou art a slave to sin... wickedness has made you ugly.

I dare not say with Paul that I am the slave of Christ, but my highest aspiration and desire is to be the slave of Christ.

The poor despise labor when performed by slaves.

The Southern slave would obey God in respect to marriage, and also to the reading and studying of His word. But this, as we have seen, is forbidden him.

I'm a slave to this leaf in a diary that lists what I must do, what I must say, every half hour.

As with cows, mares, female camels, slave girls, buffalo cows, she goats, and ewes, it is not the begetter ,or his owner who obtains the offspring, even thus ,it is with the wives of others.

If I had my way, any man guilty of golf would be barred from any public office in the United States and the families of the breed would be shipped off to the white slave corrals of Argentina.

Then it was that the exports of slaves from Virginia and the Carolinas was so great that the population of those States remained almost, if not quite stationary.

Man minus the Machine is a slave; Man plus the Machine is a freeman.

Fear is the virtue of slaves; but the heart that loveth is willing.

I am a galley slave to pen and ink.

He is always a slave who cannot live on little.

Everything, virtue, glory, honor, things human and divine, all are slaves to riches.

And I particularly like the whole thing of being boss. Boss and employee... It's the slave quality that I find very alluring.

Here I am, a product of something really vicious, product of the Atlantic slave trade. And yet, I give nary a thought to some of the awful things happening right now in the world.

Too many would-be executives are slaves of routine.

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

At this very moment I'm behind on a compilation that Slave Labor is doing for Free Comic Book Day.

The artist has a twofold relation to nature; he is at once her master and her slave.

The camera is the slave to the actor.

Fortune's unjust; she ruins oft the brave, and him who should be victor, makes the slave.

To tame the proud, the fetter'd slave to free, These are imperial arts.

In returning I read a very different book, published by an honest Quaker , on that execrable sum of all villanies, commonly called the Slave-trade.

Men must be either the slaves of duty, or the slaves of force.

When God takes your straw, it isn’t because he wants you to remain a slave. It’s because he wants you to take another step toward freedom.

If we should ever get to Heaven, we shall find nobody to reproach us for being black, or for being slaves.

Besides all this, if you are idle, and take to bad courses, you will hurt those of your brethren who are slaves, and do all in your power to prevent their being free.

The tongue is the vile slave's vilest part.

I'm talkin' about us, the new slaves, the people who love fashion. I'm talking about us, you know? 'Cause I'm a slave to it. I love it.

I'm gonna sit here on this runway until I'm at the end of it. Because that's that thing that people slave over. That's that thing that people are slaves to. That's that thing that I'm a slave to.

My life has not been the best possible. The slave of impulse, I have rushed forward to my own destruction.

I´m not a wandering slave, I am a woman of choice

You say, Wait a minute, God, you spared me from a slave job in an office, and now I have a slave job onstage. I am not on that clock no more.

The man who has no inner life is a slave of his surroundings, as the barometer is the obedient servant of the air.

He who goes against the fashion is himself its slave

Oh, nature's noblest gift, my grey goose quill, Slave of my thoughts, obedient to my will, Torn from the parent bird to form a pen, That mighty instrument of little men.

Slave rebellions, especially the [1791] Haitian Revolution, had an ongoing effect on the ways in which abolitionists talked about ending slavery.

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.

Was not Abraham Lincoln an extremist? - "This nation cannot survive half slave and half free."

In part because they had no choice, right? If you were a slave, you did what the master said. And they said to worship: "You're going to worship with us."

Which is heavier: a soldier's pack or a slave's chains?

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

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.

The worst slave owners were those who were kind to their slaves