Be A Slave Quotes

The will is infinite and the execution confin'd, the desire is boundless and the act a slave to limit.

Let not the 12 million Negroes be ashamed of the fact that they are the grandchildren of slaves. There is dishonor in being slave-owners.

Whether or not they exist we are slaves to our gods.

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.

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

The way we value black beauty has changed. I'm single now, but back in the slave days, I would have never been single. I'm 6 feet tall and I'm strong. Look at me, I'm a Mandingo.

I would rather be a freeman among slaves than a slave among freemen.

There must be sophistry in all this; but the condition of a slave confuses all principles of morality, and, in fact, renders the practice of them impossible.

I'm not a master of films. I'm rather a slave.

The slave of the belly ponders the menu with which to celebrate the feast. The servant of God, however, thinks of the graces that may enrich him.

Slaves. though we be enrolled Minds are never to be sold.

No slave is a slave to the same lengths, and in so full a sense of the word, as a wife is.

An integrated cup of coffee isn't sufficient pay for four hundred years of slave labor.

The best traders are simply slaves to the market's price action

The man who produces while others dispose of his product is a slave.

If your slave commits a fault, do not smash his teeth with your fists; give him some of the (hard) biscuit which famous Rhodes has sent you.

The computer is here to stay, therefore it must be kept in its proper place as a tool and a slave, or we will become sorcerer's apprentices, with data data everywhere and not a thought to think.

Whatever day Makes man a slave, takes half his worth away.

The one who is good, is free even being a slave; the one who is bad remains a slave even being a king.

Hope is a willing slave; despair is free.

I know I'm a Son of God, an heir of God, and a joint heir of Christ. I'm seated with him in the heavenlies, but by choice; like Paul, Peter and others, I've chosen to be a slave.

Finance is a slave's word.

Men make their own happiness, and a man may be respected even though only a slave.

How do you react when you think you need people's love? Do you become a slave for their approval?

The worst of slaves is he whom passion rules.

Mathematics is the source of a wicked intellect that, while making man the lord of the earth, also makes him the slave of the machine.

The slave trade was globalism. Why people insist that globalism, after its hideous history, is a good thing, I do not know.

This is the posture of fortunes slave: one foot in the gravy, one foot in the grave.

Whoever has not two-thirds of his time to himself, is a slave.

He who is by nature not his own but another's man is by nature a slave.

If thou dost still retain the same ill habits, the same follies, too, still thou art bound to vice, and still a slave.

The first step is for man to cease to be the slave of man. The second, is to cease to be the slave of the monsters of his own creation, the ghosts and phantoms of the air.

The weak-minded man is the slave of his vices and the dupe of his virtues.

If your body wants comfort, you try to make it learn to give up that. Try to make your body your slave and not you the slave of the body.

The automatic machine, whatever we thinkof any feelings it may or may not have, is the precise economic equivalent of the slave.

If I thought, had any idea, that I'd ever be a slave again, I'd take a gun an' jus end it all right away. Because you're nothing but a dog. You're not a thing but a dog.

Good masters generally have bad slaves, and bad slaves have good masters.

The tyrant is nothing but a slave turned inside out.

Well, I try my best to be just like I am, But everybody wants you to be just like them, They sing while you slave and I just get bored

The greatest slave is not he who is ruled by a despot, great though that evil be, but he who is in the thrall of his own moral ignorance, selfishness, and vice.

No, Freedom has a thousand charms to show That slaves, howe'er contented, never know.

Psychoanalysis showed me that I might be neurotic because I was a girl but, as Chekhov might have put it, I alone had to squeeze the slave out of myself, drop by drop.

At the Oscars, if you didn't vote for '12 Years a Slave' you were a racist.

People think it's the mind that drives us. It is the heart. The mind is a slave to the heart. So check the condition of the heart.

I WAS born a slave; but I never knew it till six years of happy childhood had passed away

The slave girl is reared in an atmosphere of licentiousness and fear.

But I now entered on my fifteenth year - a sad epoch in the life of a slave girl. My master began to whisper foul words in my ear. Young as I was, I could not remain ignorant of their import

By a divine paradox, wherever there is one slave there are two. So in the wonderful reciprocities of being, we can never reach the higher levels until all our fellows ascend with us.

We can become slaves to things we don't understand

If a slave is unwilling to go with his new master, he is whipped, or locked up in jail, until he consents to go, and promises not to run away during the year.