Be A Slave Quotes
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.
The New Englanders, by their canting, whining and insinuating tricks, have persuaded the rest of the colonies that the government is going to make absolute slaves of them.
Our passions may be compared to certain slaves--the more severity we show them, the better they obey us.
True liberty does violence to self and, like Christ, who disregarded that he was sovereign becomes a slave to serve others.
To make your life being a writer, it's an auto-slavery ... you are both the slave and the task-master.
We are runaway slaves from our own past, and only by turning to face the hounds can we find our freedom beyond them.
TRUTH: When a child believes he must win to be worthy, when young adults define themselves by what they do and not who they are, it is a kind of slavery a slave master would envy.
I have worked like a galley slave throughout these eight years, morning till night, and I have given all I could to this work. I am happy with the results.
I don't like to think that I am a slave to technique, or so inept that I have to restrict myself to one method.
If your book is set in the plantation days of the slave-owning South and you write a little romance between two slave owners without acknowledging the system they live, that's a political gesture.
The translator of prose is the slave of the author, and the translator of poetry is his rival.
There's still nearly the same amount of slavery, if not more, in the world today, as there was at the height of the slave trade.
I’ve been a slave to football. It follows you home, it follows you everywhere, and eats into your family life. But every working man misses out on some things because of his job.
I should have known the power-hungry slave drivers at River's Edge would see my five days of freedom only as a challenge to be filled.
As with most things in my life, I believe you should try to enjoy yourself and never feel like you are a slave to a routine.
A remarkable documentary and the first in-depth record of many black women, slave and free.
Stop trying to do things that will make you happy. Happiness is a state of mind; because otherwise, you are a slave to circumstance.
But it is not the rich man only who is under the dominion of things; they too are slaves who, having no money, are unhappy from the lack of it.
When I was six years old, my mother died; and then, for the first time, I learned, by the talk around me, that I was a slave.
He who fears to venture as far as his heart urges and his reason permits, is a coward; he who ventures further than he intended to go, is a slave.
The act of writing for the slave constituted the act of creating a public, historical self, not only the self of the individual author but also the self, as it were, of the race.
I demanded a realm in which I should be both master and slave at the same time: The world of art is the only such realm.
This sounds really corny, but I am a slave to my work, a workaholic, and glad of it. I like what I do; this is my place, my little universe, one of them.
When a man's earning his living doing things he doesn't like, he feels like a slave; when he's doing what he loves, he feels like a prince.
Tyrants are but the spawn of Ignorance, Begotten by the slaves they trample on.
They tell me: If you see a slave sleeping, do not wake him lest he be dreaming of freedom. I tell them: If you see a slave sleeping, wake him and explain to him freedom.
It's horrifying and absurd to think that there are currently more slaves on earth than at any other time in human history.
I don't like favors; they oppress and make me fell like a slave. I'd rather do everything for myself, and be perfectly independent.
Fear is a psychic tyrant that has no intention of letting its slave go free. It will say whatever it needs to say to confuse your thinking... It will always seek to preserve itself.