Be A Slave Quotes

I delivered leaflets for my dad and was paid £5 per thousand, which was slave labour.

Blacks have no rights - in fact they were three - fifths human according to the constitution to give slave owners more voting rights. So that's African Americans.

Having rationally endeavored to control nature, is he not now becoming the slave of the objects which he makes?

Be your money's master, not its slave.

If you work without love, you are working like a slave. When you work with love, you work like an emperor. Your work is your joy, your work is your dance.

If you cannot be the master of your language, you must be its slave. If you cannot examine your thoughts, you have no choice but to think them, however silly they may be.

Let's live with that small pittance which we have; Who covets more is evermore a slave.

I will have a care of being a slave to myself, for it is a perpetual, a shameful, and the heaviest of all servitudes; and this may be done by moderate desires.

One may gain political and social independence, but if one is a slave to his passions and desires, one cannot feel the pure joy of real freedom

Every person's life is theirs by right. An individual's life can and must belong only to to himself, not to any society or community, or he is then but a slave.

Evil is so seductive. It needs to grind you up and make you its slave.

Will the slave fight? If any man asks you, tell him No. But if anyone asks you will a Negro fight, tell him Yes!

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

Beshrew that heart that makes my heart to groan For that deep wound it gives my friend and me; Is't not enough to torture me alone, But slave to slavery my sweet'st friend must be?

I'm not a slave to the recording industry. I have the freedom to make an album that I want to make and do it the way I want.

I'm nothing more than a sports slave.

The slave may be happy, but happiness is not enough.

Only when the mind is free has the body a chance to be free. Yes, they must believe, they must believe. Because I know what it means to be a slave. I am a slave.

Knowledge unfits a child to be a slave.

There has never been a slave who did not choose to be a slave. Their choice may be between bondage and death, but the choice is always there.

Permit no man to be a king and permit also no man to be a slave!

Can man be free if woman be a slave?

I don't wish to be a slave any longer to the stringent exigencies of literature.

People have called Christopher Columbus horrible, racist, a psycho-maniac killer and a slave owner.

Is it freedom to be a slave to the senses, to anger, to jealousies and a hundred other petty things that must occur every day in human life?

The male corporate model is built on a mans greater willingness to be a slave of sorts - especially once he has to provide for children.

Is base in kind, and born to be a slave.

Just fear me and love me...and do as I say...and I will be your slave.

Our political problem now is, "Can we as a nation continue together permanently - forever - half slave and half free?"

An inspection of the Constitution will show that the right of property in a slave in not "distinctly and expressly affirmed" in it.

We must free the slaves or be ourselves subdued.

I do not understand that because I do not want a negro woman for a slave I must necessarily want her for a wife. My understanding is that I can just let her alone.

I never knew a man who wished to be himself a slave. Consider if you know any good thing, that no man desires for himself.

If the negro is a man, why then my ancient faith teaches me that ‘all men are created equal,' and that there can be no moral right in connection with one man's making a slave of another.

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

I am according to my slave's expectations of me: if good, then good, and if bad, then bad.

In this respect, granting homosexuals the right to marry is like granting plantation owners the right to own slaves.

I do admire [Willie] Wonka. He's a true capitalist. His factory has zero government regulations, slave labor and an indoor boat. Wonderful.

Who combats bravely is not therefore brave, He dreads a death-bed like the meanest slave: Who reasons wisely is not therefore wise,- His pride in reasoning, not in acting lies.

Slave to no sect, who takes no private road, But looks through Nature up to Nature's God.

Imitation causes us to leave natural ways to enter into artificial ones; it therefore makes slaves.

Conversation is a partnership, not a relation of master and slave, as most people try to make it.

I'm not a slave driver or a yeller. I was yelled at in kitchens and other workplaces.

I'm a slave to my dogs and go out with them almost every day. They are poorly behaved if they don't run. They really act up.

I like suggesting that ‘we are slaves to the objects around us,’ that ‘plenty should be enough,’ or that the ‘buyer should beware,’ within the context of conventional selling space.

The most powerful men are not public men: a public man is responsible, and a responsible man is a slave. It is private life that governs the world.

Remember, Sir, that [England] began the slave trade!

All who are not lunatics are agreed about certain things : That it is better to be alive than dead, better to be adequately fed than starved, better to be free than a slave

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.

The reason is, and by rights ought to be, slave to the emotions.