Slave Quotes

He who goes against the fashion is himself its slave.

Reason is, and ought only to be the slave of the passions, and can never pretend to any other office than to serve and obey them.

It's sort of what the Johnny and Devi stories are about, the idea of always being a slave to something.

The air of England has long been too pure for a slave, and every man is free who breathes it.

What to the Slave is the 4th of July.

You learn to cook so that you don't have to be a slave to recipes. You get what's in season and you know what to do with it.

Freedom in capitalist society always remains about the same as it was in ancient Greek republics: Freedom for slave owners.

Just as the slave master required the slaves to imitate the image he had of them, so women, who live in a relatively powerless position, politically and economically, feel obliged by a kind of implicit force to live up to culture's image of what is female.

The proposition of an established classification of states as slave states and free states, as insisted on by some, and into northern and southern, as maintained by others, seems to me purely imaginary, and of course the supposed equilibrium of those classes a mere conceit.

I think the person who takes a job in order to live - that is to say, for the money - has turned himself into a slave.

John Brown's effort was peculiar. It was not a slave insurrection.

It is a great mistake, as we have already remarked, to be afraid of Him and to act in His presence like a timid and craven slave trembling with fright before his master.

Oh while I live, to be the ruler of life, not a slave, to meet life as a powerful conqueror, and nothing exterior to me will ever take command of me.

Too often a story is examined through biased eyes, without a sensitivity for everyone who forged it. It's seen from the point of view of the great white savior, and rarely is the perspective of the slave a part.

A slave has but one master; an ambitious man has as many masters as there are people who may be useful in bettering his position.

The proceedings of this House in 1790, in reference to petitions on the matter of the slave trade, and of slavery in the States, have been cited. It has been said that those petitions were not received.

The slave may be happy, but happiness is not enough.

If a man carries his horse out of a slave State into a free one, be does not lose his property interest in him; but if he carries his slave into a free State, the law makes him free.

But really, for the most part - doing a prequel is great because you do have room to kind of free this character and how they got to where they are instead of being a slave to exactly what the previous actor did.

Do not quench your inspiration and your imagination; do not become the slave of your model.

Without sounding too pretentious, I was sort of a slave to the narrative. When the narrative cracks in, I have to go where it takes me. I had to go to the Bohemian Grove. It was the obvious end to the book.

My mother was born in your state, Mr. Walter, and my mother was a Quaker, and my ancestors in the time of Washington baked bread for George Washington's troops when they crossed the Delaware, and my own father was a slave.

Remember this: your body is your slave; it works for you.

According to the Gorean way of looking at things a taste of the slave ring is thought to be occasionally beneficial to all women, even the exalted free woman.

The victory of the working people over the exploiters and slave holders is at the same time the victorious struggle for liberation by the German people.

The whole commerce between master and slave is a perpetual exercise of the most boisterous passions, the most unremitting despotism on the one part, and degrading submissions on the other. Our children see this, and learn to imitate it.

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.

He that will not reason is a bigot; he that cannot reason is a fool; and he that dares not reason is a slave.

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.

I'm not a slave to objectivity. I'm never quite sure what it means. And it means different things to different people.