Be A Slave Quotes

Your son at five is your master, at ten your slave, at fifteen your double, and after that, your friend or foe, depending on his bringing up.

The great artist is a slave to his ideals.

It was one of the compromises of the Constitution that the slave property in the Southern States should be recognized as property throughout the United States.

He that is kind is free, though he is a slave; he that is evil is a slave, though he be a king.

The slave child had no thought for the morrow; but there came that blight, which too surely waits on every human being born to be a chattel.

The education system today makes and educated person selfish. It makes that person a slave to the senses and as a consequence the person forgets their own divine nature.

I see I have made my self a slave to Philosophy.

No man in his senses can hesitate in choosing to be free, rather than a slave.

A proper wife should be as obedient as a slave... The female is a female by virtue of a certain lack of qualities - a natural defectiveness.

Riches cannot rescue from the grave, which claims alike the monarch and the slave.

He that communicates his secret to another makes himself that other's slave.

If you are worthy of its affection, a cat will be your friend but never your slave.

Happy slaves are the bitterest enemies of freedom.

I'm not a slave to objectivity. I'm never quite sure what it means. And it means different things to different people.

Since the discovery of printing, knowledge has been called to power, and power has been used to make knowledge a slave.

This country was founded by a group of slave owners who told us that all men are created equal.

For what is the self-complacent man but a slave to his own self-praise.

Boss up on your emotions before you become a slave to them.

One thinks himself the master of others, and still remains a greater slave than they.

The Placer is an enemy who must necessarily become our lord or our slave; one doesn't enjoy if it's not defeated.

As a comic book artist, once you become a master, you end up a slave. In fine art you're always free... since I couldn't make it at Marvel, I made my life a carnival.

In America, you don't even have proper holidays. It's really one of the most prosperous slave societies in history. People work their asses off all year long and get two weeks off! It's incredible.

There is a reason it used to be a crime in the Confederate states to teach a slave to read: Literacy is power.

Let me state here and now that the black woman in America can justly be described as a 'slave of a slave.

Whoever then wishes to be free, let him neither wish for anything nor avoid anything which depends on others: if he does not observe this rule, he must be a slave.

We are not the slaves of laziness, we are the slaves of WiFi.

As soon as we react, we become slaves. A man blames me, and I immediately react in the form of anger. A little vibration which he created made me a slave.

People say that slaves were taken from Africa. This is not true: People were taken from Africa, among them healers and priests, and were made into slaves.

If all men are born free, why is it that all women are born slaves?

Whoever wants to be free, therefore, let him not want or avoid anything that is up to others. Otherwise he will necessarily be a slave.

A wise word is more rare than the green emerald, and one can find the word of wisdom even amongst the slave girls making grain.

We are free when we are not the slave of our impulses, but rather their master. Taking inward distance, we thus become the authors of our own dramas rather than characters in them.

Freedom is not being a slave to any circumstance, to any constraint, to any chance; it means compelling Fortune to enter the lists on equal terms.

There are people creating Photoshopped pictures of me getting beat as if I were a slave back in the day.

There is something akin to freedom in having a lover who has no control over you, except that which he gains by kindness and attachment.

Because I was born a slave, I love liberty more than you.

People-trafficking is modern day slavery. There are more slaves today than there were at the height of the slave trade.

What father ever gave up his son to death for the sake of his slave!

I defied the machinery to make me its slave. Its incessant discords could not drown the music of my thoughts if I would let them fly high enough.

The impression was gaining ground with me that it was a good thing to let the money be my slave and not make myself a slave to money.

A slave in the fields one night He's running along Gets far enough to be a free man And he's feeling so strong

Auctions are bizarre combinations of slave market, trading floor, theatre and burlesque... a lot of people are going to be making a lot of excuses or maintaining that they were never part of this.

Of two friends, one is always the slave of the other, although frequently neither acknowledges the fact to himself.

I feel like a slave, and in a way like an artist, because I need to get inspiration everyday, from everything and everyone.

[On disagreeing with her husband about his slave-holding:] I cannot give my conscience into the keeping of another human being or submit the actions dictated by my conscience to their will.

The power of our Muse lies in her meaninglessness. Even the style can turn one into a slave if one does not run away from it, and then one is doomed to repeat oneself.

Treat [the people] as slaves, guard them against brigands, and they will come to regard themselves as slaves and brigands.

I think it's important to break taboos for the same reason it's important to break laws and rules - because either you're a slave to them, or you're taking matters into your hands.

If men were equal in America, all these Poles and English and Czechs and blacks, then they were equal everywhere, and there was really no such thing as foreigner; there were only free men and slaves.

Having enough money has to go hand in hand with living in a way that you're not being a slave to your possessions.