Be A Slave Quotes

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.

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

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.

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.

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

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.

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

Resistance - that is the distinction of the slave. Let your distinction be obedience. Let your commanding itself be obeying!

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

He who passes not his days in the realm of dreams is the slave of the days.

I wanna explain something about the title 'Yeezus', simply put 'West' was my slave name and 'Yeezus' is my God name.

If you want to remain a slave to the banks and want them to pay the cost of your own slavery, then let them continue the issue of currency control and regulate the money supply of the nation.

Moses freed the Jews. Lincoln freed the slaves. I freed the neurotics.

I don't owe Don King anything. I got things with my own sweat and blood. I don't know if I'll be associated with Don but I won't be a slave or puppet for him.

The first big dramatic push in the Haitian Revolution was to overthrow the slave regime and we have to remember this was really the first place where there was a large scale emancipation experiment.

We created time, and now we have become the slave of time.

The plea for the predominance of learning to read in early school life because of the great importance attaching to literature seems to be a perversion.

You have been overcome; and whether you are overcome by envy or by a so-called noble influence, you are still a slave, you are not free.

Habit, to which all of us are more or less slaves.

The slave has but one master, the ambitious man has as many as there are persons whose aid may contribute to the advancement of his fortunes.

Only my death will determine whether I am 'Mohamed Gandhi', Jinnah's slave, destroyer of the Hindu religion or its servant and protector.

Gold will be slave or master.

He is sometimes slave who should be master; and sometimes master who should be slave.

The bibliophile is the master of his books, the bibliomaniac their slave.

There is no slave out of heaven like a loving woman; and of all loving women, there is no such slave as a mother.

Alike to the slave and his oppressor cometh night with sweet refreshment, and half of the life of the most wretched is gladdened by the soothings of sleep.

Actors work and slave and it is the color of your hair that can determine your fate in the end.

But when you become a slave to a public persona and don’t feel comfortable without it, it becomes a shield and it shouldn’t come at the expense of your self-worth.

But what makes wage slaves? Wages!

Nor was it only from the millions of slaves that chains had been removed; the whole nation had been in bondage; free speech had been suppressed.

We call a man a bigot or a slave of dogma because he is a thinker who has thought thoroughly and to a definite end.

Each of us has been endowed with the perfect power to be free. Slavery is a state of mind that fails to acknowledge the slave's own power.

If God is, man is a slave; now, man can and must be free; then, God does not exist. I defy anyone whomsoever to avoid this circle; now, therefore, let all choose.

Many attempts had been made by colonial legislatures to cut off or to tax the importation of slaves.

I regret the unhappiness of princes who are slaves to forms and fettered by caution.

By a divine paradox, wherever there is one slave there are two

Better a sovereign in squalor than a slave in splendor.

My mother said, "Money is a great slave but a horrible master." It was her version of a French proverb.

I ask for so little.Just fear me, love me, do as I say and I will be your slave

When Rimbaud became a slave trader, he stopped writing poetry.

Where is the man, who, if asked to become a slave, would not hurl back the offer indignantly in the teeth of the oppressor?

There would be a paragraph about some veteran digging tunnels for the Germans in a slave labor camp, or something like that. Finally I decided to look it up and go further into it.

If somebody makes me laugh, I’m his slave for life.

Don't be a salary slave! If you are going to do anything in this world, you must start before you are forty, before your period of initiative has ended. Do it now!

A mass of dust, world's momentary slave, Is man, in state of our old Adam made, Soon born to die, soon flourishing to fade.

I am the slave of my baptism. Parents, you have caused my misfortune, and you have caused your own.

When the master has come to do everything through the slave, the slave becomes his master, since he cannot live without him.

I like to think of myself as being fashion-conscious without being a slave to fashion.

Dancing, as Fred Astaire said, is next to ditch-digging. You sweat and you slave and the audience doesn't think you have a brain in your head.