Be A Slave Quotes

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.

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

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

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

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.

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!

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

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.

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

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

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

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

Better a sovereign in squalor than a slave in splendor.

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

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

Before passing different laws for different people, I'd relinquish myself unto you as your slave.

What to the Slave is the 4th of July.

You may dream freely when you listen to music as well as when you look at painting. When you read a book you are the slave of the author's mind.

Who dares not speak his free thoughts is a slave.

I'll dabble here and there in different forms of the art, but the label has me locked down like a slave so, of course, I'll be doing albums during this time

Lincoln sees slavery in some ways as a theft of labor. A slave is a laborer who is being denied the fruits of his labor.

Fashion condemns us to many follies, the greatest is to make oneself its slave.

She [Chien-Shiung Wu] is a slave driver. She is the image of the militant woman so well known in Chinese literature as either empress or mother.

I want to know whether you are a person devoted to creating or to exchanging in some respect or other: as a creator you belong tothe free, as an exchanger you are their slave and instrument.

Abraham Lincoln freed the slaves, Robert Lincoln bought a nice ski lodge.

No man is free who is a slave to the flesh.

Thou art beautiful because God created thee, but thou art a slave to sin... wickedness has made you ugly.

I dare not say with Paul that I am the slave of Christ, but my highest aspiration and desire is to be the slave of Christ.

The poor despise labor when performed by slaves.

At this very moment I'm behind on a compilation that Slave Labor is doing for Free Comic Book Day.

This is a world of compensations; and he who would be no slave, must consent to have no slave.

He who goes against the fashion is himself its slave

No Christian ought to think of himself as his own master, but each should rather so think and act as though given by God to be slave to his like minded brethren (cf. I Cor. 9:19)?

When a player knows he is a slave he'll never give his employer his heart.

Fugitive slaves were rare then, and as a fugitive slave lecturer, I had the advantage of being the first one out.

If any should be slaves, it should be first those who desire it for themselves, and secondly, those who desire it for others

If we cannot give freedom to every creature, let us do nothing that will impose slavery upon any other creature.

Oh, nature's noblest gift, my grey goose quill, Slave of my thoughts, obedient to my will, Torn from the parent bird to form a pen, That mighty instrument of little men.

I'd rather be called a N*gger than a Slave.

The Southern slave would obey God in respect to marriage, and also to the reading and studying of His word. But this, as we have seen, is forbidden him.

Here I am, a product of something really vicious, product of the Atlantic slave trade. And yet, I give nary a thought to some of the awful things happening right now in the world.

The individual who refuses to defend his rights when called by his government deserves to be a slave, and must be punished as an enemy of his country and a friend to her foe

Don't become a slave to non-crucial matters.

My great-great-great-grandmother walked as a slave from Virginia to Eatonton, Georgia... It is in memory of this walk that I chose to keep and to embrace my "maiden" name, Walker.

Too many would-be executives are slaves of routine.

The Confucian concept and Chinese ideograms for 'woman' and for 'slave' are the same.

The future is the only kind of property that the masters willingly concede to the slaves.

What shall we think of a well-adjusted slave?

Let me never become a slave to crowds.

In part because they had no choice, right? If you were a slave, you did what the master said. And they said to worship: "You're going to worship with us."