Be A Slave Quotes

Better to starve free than be a fat slave

The moment you recognize what is beautiful in this world, you stop being a slave

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

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.

Terrence, the Roman slave who freed himself with his writings, once observed, "I am a human being. Nothing human is alien to me." That could be the motto of literature!

Be then my slave, and know what it means to be delivered into the hands of a woman.

To make a contented slave it is necessary to make a thoughtless one. It is necessary to darken the moral and mental vision and, as far as possible, to annihilate the power of reason.

If you don't first handle fear and desire, and you get rich, you'll only be a highpay slave.

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

From our birth to our death we are all the slaves of suggestion.

If you are not happy in your work, you are a slave.

Each man must create his own system or else he is a slave to another mans

This is a fight between a free world and a slave world.

Let them fear bondage who are slaves to fear; the sweetest freedom is an honest heart.

Where there is no style, there is no slave. Martial Arts mean honestly expressing yourself. No style. No slave.

When you're an actor, you're a slave to other people's visions.

All is mystery; but he is a slave who will not struggle to penetrate the dark veil.

He that cannot reason is a fool. He that will not is a bigot. He that dare not is a slave.

A man will work and slave in obscurity for ten years and then become famous in ten minutes.

One hundred years ago, the slave was freed. One hundred years later, the Negro remains in bondage to the color of his skin.

My master had power and law on his side; I had a determined will. There is might in each.

Man becomes a slave to his constantly repeated acts. What he at first chooses, at last compels.

Man is free; yet we must not suppose that he is at liberty to do everything he pleases, for he becomes a slave the moment he allows his actions to be ruled by passion.

Slaves sing most when they are most unhappy. The songs of the slave represent the sorrows of his heart; and he is relieved by them, only as an aching heart is relieved by its tears.

We do not know where death awaits us: so let us wait for it everywhere. To practice death is to practice freedom. A man who has learned how to die has unlearned how to be a slave.

We are not slaves of the market. Our human life has a greater meaning than making money, making profit, and working for the market or for multinational corporations.

The art world is now a slave of mass culture. We have a sound-bite culture and so we have sound-bite art. You look at it, you get it - it's as immediate and as superficial as that.

There can be no tyrants where there are no slaves.

Sacrifice and neon lights, Slaveships don't wait, Love many, trust few, And don't be late...

You are a slave of what you need in your soul.

Conquer thyself, till thou has done this, thou art but a slave; for it is almost as well to be subjected to another's appetite as to thine own.

Virtue, vain word, futile shadow, slave of chance! Alas! I believe in thee!

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

The greatest mania of all is passion: and I am a natural slave to passion: the balance between my brain and my soul and my body is as wild and delicate as the skin of a Ming vase.

Take responsibility for your finances or get used to taking orders for the rest of your life. You're either a master of money or a slave to it. Your choice.

Abolishing slavery leads to slaves without masters

You a slave to a page in my rhyme book.

It is a great mistake, as we have already remarked, to be afraid of Him and to act in His presence like a timid and craven slave trembling with fright before his master.

If you worry more for others' beliefs, then you will be their slave.

I think we must get rid of slavery or we must get rid of freedom.

The only freedom that man ever has is when he becomes a slave to Jesus Christ.

The man who does as he likes is the greatest slave. The man who never does as he likes is God's free man.

If you ever looked at me once with what I know is in you, I'd be your slave.

If there must always be a laboring population distinct from proprietors and employers, we regard the slave system as decidedly preferable to the system at wages.

To make a vow for life is to make oneself a slave.

I will not be a slave to my image, nor will I be a slave to anyone else's interpretations of me.

Of course slavery and the Muslims were deeply implicated in the slave trade, Islam was an Imperialist religion which destroyed Christianity in the Near East, yet nobody mentions those facts.

Seduced, shaggy Samson snored. She scissored short. Sorely shorn, Soon shackled slave, Samson sighed, Silently scheming, Sightlessly seeking Some savage, spectacular suicide.

Do not quench your inspiration and your imagination; do not become the slave of your model.

I was born a slave-was the child of slave parents-therefore I came upon the earth free in God-like thought, but fettered in action.