Enslaved Quotes

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.

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.

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.

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

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.

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

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

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

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

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.

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

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.

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

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

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

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

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

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.

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.

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.

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.

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

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

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

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

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.