Slave Quotes - Page 21

• Atrocity is truly emperor; All things that thrive are slaves of cruel Creation.

  John Updike

  Atrocities, Creation, Emperor

  John Updike (2012). “Collected Poems, 1953-1993”, p.476, Knopf

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• I was a captive and a slave. I loved Dora Spenlow to distraction! She was more than human to me. She was a Fairy, a Sylph, I dont know what she was--anything that no one ever saw, and everything that everybody ever wanted.

  David Copperfield

  Saws, Fairy, Distraction

  David Copperfield “The Works of Charles Dickens”

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• My people. I have given them a sense of individuality, integrity. I have not made them slaves of any god or any religion. Nor of any holy book or any priest. I have certainly not replaced their god. They are all a part of what I call my traveling circus.

  Rajneesh

  Integrity, Book, People

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• To become free, you have to be acutely aware of being a slave.

  Assata Shakur

  Assata Shakur (1987). “Assata: An Autobiography”, p.277, Zed Books

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• The demand for equal rights in every vocation of life is just and fair; but, after all, the most vital right is the right to love and to be loved. Indeed, if partial emancipation is to become a complete and true emancipation of woman, it will have to do away with the ridiculous notion that to be loved, to be sweetheart and mother, is synonymous with being slave or subordinate. It will have to do away with the absurd notion of the dualism of the sexes, or that man and woman represent two antagonistic worlds.

  Emma Goldman

  Mother, Sex, Men

  Emma Goldman (2015). “Anarchism: Top Crime Collections”, p.126, 谷月社

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• We are not the slaves of laziness,
  we are the slaves of WiFi.

  Zelo

  Laziness

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• Abolishing slavery leads to slaves without masters

  George Fitzhugh

  Slavery, Abolishing Slavery, Masters

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• Some men are masters of cities, but are enslaved to women.

  Democritus

  Men, Cities, Masters

  "Ancilla to the Pre-Socratic Philosophers: A Complete Translation of the Fragments in Diels Fragmente Der Vorsokratiker", translated by Kathleen Freeman, Harvard University Press, (p. 163), 1948.

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• The fact is, that civilization requires slaves. Unless there are slaves to do the ugly, horrible, uninteresting work, culture and contemplation become almost impossible.

  Oscar Wilde

  Government, Civilization, Culture

  "The Soul of Man Under Socialism" (1891)

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• Workers, black and white, need some kind of international affirmative action to protect them from unfair competition with unorganized or slave labor abroad and unfair competition with robots at home.

  Jesse Jackson

  Home, Black And White, Slave Labor

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• America don't have no future! America's going to be destroyed! Allah's going to divinely chastise America! Violence, crimes, earthquakes - there's gonna be all kinds of trouble. America's going to pay for all its lynchings and killings of slaves and what it's done to black people.

  Muhammad Ali

  Lynching, Earthquakes, America

  "This is the Legend of Muhammad Ali, the Greatest Fighter That Ever Will Be". Interview, www.playboy.com. June 3, 2016.

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• I do admire [Willie] Wonka. He's a true capitalist. His factory has zero government regulations, slave labor and an indoor boat. Wonderful.

  Alec Baldwin

  Zero, Government, Slave Labor

  Source: www.npr.org

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• Whoever wants to be free, therefore, let him not want or avoid anything that is up to others. Otherwise he will necessarily be a slave.

  Epictetus

  Want, Be A Slave

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• A man in armor is his armor's slave.

  Robert Browning

  Men, Armor

  Robert Browning (1899). “The Works of Robert Browning”

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• People who think they are free eventually end up slaves to their own desires, and those who give their freedom away to the only One you can trust with that freedom eventually get it back.

  Philip Yancey

  Thinking, People, Giving

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• It is not the right of property which is protected, but the right to property. Property, per se, has no rights; but the individual - the man - has three great rights, equally sacred from arbitrary interference: the right to his life, the right to his liberty, the right to his property The three rights are so bound together as to be essentially one right. To give a man his life but to deny him his liberty, is to take from him all that makes his life worth living. To give him his liberty but take from him the property which is the fruit and badge of his liberty is to still leave him a slave.

  George Sutherland

  Men, Rights, Giving

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• Though slavery is thought, by some, to be mild in Missouri, when compared with the cotton, sugar and rice growing states, yet no part of our slave-holding country is more noted for the barbarity of its inhabitants than St. Louis.

  William Wells Brown

  Country, Sugar, Growing

  William Wells Brown (2012). “The Narrative of William Wells Brown, A Fugitive Slave”, p.16, Simon and Schuster

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• To keep a man a slave you do much the same as the cruel circus masters did to the elephant around the turn of last century. Clamp heavy chains around their legs and stake them to the ground. Then beat and terrorize them. After a while you no longer even have to stake the chain; the elephant gives up and just the mere rattle of the chain convinces the elephant there is no hope, so they give up and do whatever it is the circus requires.

  Glenn Beck

  Giving Up, Men, Elephants

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• Slavery, you know, is nothing else than the unwilling labor of many. Therefore to get rid of slavery it is necessary that people should not wish to profit by the forced labor of others and should consider it a sin and a shame. But they go and abolish the external form of slavery and arrange so that one can no longer buy and sell slaves, and they imagine and assure themselves that slavery no longer exists, and do not see or wish to see that it does, because people still want and consider it good and right to exploit the labor of others.

  Leo Tolstoy

  People, Wish, Doe

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• Hundreds of thousands and millions of wage slaves of capital and peasants downtrodden by the serf-owners are going to the slaughter for the dynastic interests of a handful of crowned brigands, for the profits of the bourgeoisie in its drive to plunder foreign lands.

  Vladimir Lenin

  Land, Bourgeoisie, Plunder

  "Collected Works, Vol. 41". Book by Vladimir Lenin, 1960.

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

  Henry Ward Beecher

  Book, Masters, Bibliophiles

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• Knowledge has always flowed upwards to bishops and kings, not down to serfs and slaves.

  Julian Assange

  Kings, Bishops, Serfs

  "Julian Assange rails against surveillance on Today programme" by Matthew Weaver, www.theguardian.com. January 2, 2014.

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• Once you cease to be a master, once you throw off your master's yoke, you are no longer human rubbish, you are a human being, and all the things that adds up to. So, too, with the slaves. Once they are no longer slaves, once they are free, they are no longer noble and exalted; they are just human beings.

  Jamaica Kincaid

  Add, Noble, Yoke

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• You don't have to become a slave in a corporate office or groupie of a celebrity architect, because all you need is a piece of paper, a pencil and the desire to make architecture.

  Raimund Abraham

  Office, Desire, Needs

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• When we are placed in a set of circumstances where we have to take initiative and be creative, some of us find it hard to transition. Those people have been trained not to think but to obey orders. They are slaves to the training, unconsciously pledging allegiance to the average. Mentally they recite from the manual of mediocrity.

  T. D. Jakes

  Thinking, Average, Order

  T. D. Jakes (2014). “Instinct: The Power to Unleash Your Inborn Drive”, p.57, Hachette UK

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