Enslaved Quotes

Most people seek after what they do not possess and are enslaved by the very things they want to acquire.

Trust me that as I ignore all law to help the slave, so will I ignore it all to protect an enslaved woman.

It is impossible to read for pleasure from something to which you are both father and mother, born in such travail that the writer despises the thing that enslaved him.

Many people on the political left found my work psychologically liberating. They began to say: once you realize that standards emerge historically, then you can see through and discard all the norms to which we have been falsely enslaved.

I love the natural world - it comes from my culture, which grew out of a people enslaved.

The truth is that I am enslaved... in one vast love affair with 70 children.

We have enslaved the rest of the animal creation, and have treated our distant cousins in fur and feathers so badly that beyond doubt, if they were able to formulate a religion, they would depict the Devil in human form.

If my body is enslaved, still my mind is free.

The corporate woman has been defined as the 'liberated woman' and I see that as the exact opposite. I think she now is more enslaved, maybe even more than the housewife was; because she's so out of her power, and imitating male power is not female power.

No one is more enslaved than a slave who doesn't think they're enslaved.

The so-called modern education, with all its defects, however, does others so much more good than it does the Negro, because it has been worked out in conformity to the needs of those who have enslaved and oppressed weaker peoples.

Keeping small nations enslaved because of the deals between the great nations or because of any pragmatic considerations that might have been there are totally unacceptable.

Man will never be enslaved by machinery if the man tending the machine be paid enough.

The freer that women become, the freer men will be. Because when you enslave someone, you are enslaved.

I must create a system or be enslaved by another mans; I will not reason and compare: my business is to create.

Rhyme, that enslaved queen, that supreme charm of our poetry, that creator of our meter.

There is nothing strange about fear: no matter in what guise it presents itself it is something with which we are all so familiar that when a man appears who is without it we are at once enslaved by him.

None are more hopelessly enslaved than those who falsely believe they are free.

Muslim delegates concerned about rights in Palestine could have brought their enthusiasm closer to home by addressing the fate of black Christians being slaughtered and enslaved in the Sudan.

Cursed be he above all others Who's enslaved by love of money. Money takes the place of brothers, Money takes the place of parents, Money brings us war and slaughter.

We are enslaved by anything we do not consciously see. We are freed by conscious perception.

The poet's spoken discourse often depends on a mystique, on the spiritual freedom that finds itself enslaved on earth.

It has been said that Poland is dead, exhausted, enslaved, but here is the proof of her life and triumph.

The world today is divided into the free and the enslaved.

I would prefer to be a citizen of an independent country rather than Emperor of an enslaved one.

The people made worse off by slavery were those who were enslaved. Their descendants would have been worse off today if born in Africa instead of America. Put differently, the terrible fate of their ancestors benefitted them.

Destiny waits alike for the free man as well as for him enslaved by another's might.

Idle youth, enslaved to everything; by being too sensitive I have wasted my life.

I got interested in computers and how they could be enslaved to the megalomaniac impulses of a teenager.