Be A Slave Quotes

The person who forgets the ultimate is a slave to the immediate.

The borrower is a slave to the lender and the debtor to the creditor.

Being your slave what should I do but tend, Upon the hours, and times of your desire? I have no precious time at all to spend; Nor services to do till you require.

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.

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

The two systems slave and free-labor are incompatible. They have never permanently existed together in one country, and they never can.

Not only was I not born to be a slave; I was not born to hope to become the equal of the slave master.

All socialism involves slavery. That which fundamentally distinguishes the slave is that he labours under coercion to satisfy anothers desires.

The violinist must possess the poets gift of piercing the protective hide which grows on propagandists, stockbrokers and slave traders, to penetrate the deeper truth which lies within.

Being frozen into the passive position of an object whose very existence depends on the eye of its beholder turn the educated modern Western women into a harem slave.

Oh for a tongue to curse the slave Whose treason, like a deadly blight, Comes o'er the councils of the brave, And blasts them in their hour of might!

A free race cannot be born of slave mothers.

The more they lack material things, the more they indulge themselves when they can, but the less is their satisfaction with this world and they hunger for life after death(on Russian slave laborers.)

Every one of us should be ashamed to be free while his brother is a slave.

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.

My father didn't know his real name. My father got his name from his grandfather and he got his name from his grandfather and he got it from the slave master.

Since I will be no one's slave, I will be no one's master.

...counselling man to treat her as a slave while persuading her that she is a queen.

I was latching on to something that was part of my heritage, because many of the slaves who were brought here were Moslems.

A man is none the less a slave because he is allowed to choose a new master once in a term of years. Neither are a people any the less slaves because permitted periodically to choose new masters.

If you see anybody wail and complain, call him a slave, though he be clad in purple.

The artist, even when he imitates nature, always feels himself to be not a slave but a demigod.

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

Nature intended women to be our slaves. They are our property.

Formerly the master selected the slave; today the slave selects his master.

The covetous person is full of fear; and he or she who lives in fear will ever be a slave.

If you have inner peace, nobody can force you to be a slave to the outer reality.

We are turning into a nation of whimpering slaves to Fear

Either you are a citizen or you are not a citizen at all. If you are citizen, you are free; if youre not a citizen you are a slave.

The soul of the slave, the soul of the "little man," is as dear to me as the soul of the great.

Jeffersonian Democracy simply meant the possession of the federal government by the agrarian masses led by an aristocracy of slave-owning masses.

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

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

Freedom is born of self-discipline. No individual, no nation, can achieve or maintain liberty without self-control. The undisciplined man (or woman) is a slave to his own weaknesses.

I believe this Government cannot endure, permanently half slave and half free.

God seeks comrades and claims love, The devil seeks slaves and claims obedience.

Abraham Lincoln got shot and died, Freed the slaves so they put him on the five.

Dissimulation is the refuge of the slave.

If the mind, that rules the body, ever so far forgets itself as to trample on its slave, the slave is never generous enough to forgive the injury, but will rise and smite the oppressor.

Everything is a slave of something else: Clouds, of the winds; men, of the desires; universe, of the chaos; shadows, of the light.

I'm not a slave to anything anymore. And I never will be again.

If you are living out of a sense of obligation you are slave.

We are slaves to whatever we don't understand.

You don't become completely free by just avoiding being a slave; you also need to avoid becoming a master.

He who has no opinion of his own, but depends upon the opinion and taste of others, is a slave.

A slave government is an oligarchy; and one, too, of the most arbitrary and criminal character.

And so, whether they came here on the Mayflower, on a slave ship, or on an airplane from Havana, we are all descendants of the men and women who built here the nation that saved the world.

A man in debt is so far a slave.

A slave has but one master. An ambition man, has as many as there are people who helped him get his fortune.

Slavery was regarded by Aristotle as an ordinance of nature, and so probably was it by the slaves themselves in olden time.