Be A Slave Quotes - Page 4

• Youths of the Pellaians and of the Macedonians and of the Hellenic Amphictiony and of the Lakedaimonians and of the Corinthians... and of all the Hellenic peoples, join your fellow-soldiers and entrust yourselves to me, so that we can move against the barbarians and liberate ourselves from the Persian bondage, for as Greeks we should not be slaves to barbarians.

  Alexander the Great

  Moving, Army, Greek

  "Historia Alexandri Magni". Pseudo-Kallisthenes,

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• But I am mistaken in speaking of a Christian republic; the terms are mutually exclusive. Christianity preaches only servitude and dependence. Its spirit is so favorable to tyranny that it always profits by such a regime. True Christians are made to be slaves, and they know it and do not much mind; this short life counts for too little in their eyes.

  Jean-Jacques Rousseau

  Christian, Short Life, Eye

  Jean-Jacques Rousseau, G. D. H. Cole (2003). “On the Social Contract”, p.95, Courier Corporation

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• Do not commit yourself to anybody or anything, for that is to be a slave, a slave to every man Above all, keep yourself free of commitments and obligations - they are the device of another to get you into his power

  Baltasar Gracian

  Commitment, Slave, Obligation

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• I don't want to be a slave to electronic devices. I don't want to be connected to my friends. I don't want to send snapshots of my dog and cute pictures of my family life to my friends and family. I don't want to be liked, by pushing a button. I use all of this technology to basically replace devices that I had in the past which worked just fine.

  Harrison Ford

  Cute, Dog, Past

  "Harrison Ford, Liam Hemsworth, Amber Heard, Lucas Till, and Director Robert Luketic Talk PARANOIA, Real-Life Parallels, and More". Interview with Sheila Roberts, collider.com. August 12, 2013.

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• We do not know where death awaits us: so let us wait for it everywhere. To practice death is to practice freedom. A man who has learned how to die has unlearned how to be a slave.

  Michel de Montaigne

  Men, Practice, Waiting

  Michel de Montaigne (1991). “The essays of Michel de Montaigne”, Lane, Allen

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• I'm not gonna be a slave. I'm a rock n' roller.

  Steven Adler

  Rocks, Slave

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• A man who cannot command himself will always be a slave.

  Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

  Men, Slave, Command

  Johann Wolfgang von Goethe (1964). “Goethe : [selected Verse]”

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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, Slave

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• But if you want to continue to be slaves of the banks and pay the cost of your own slavery, then let bankers continue to create money and control credit.

  Josiah Stamp

  Bankers, Cost, Banking

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• To every man, even though he be a slave, the light of heaven is sweet.

  Euripides

  Sweet, Men, Light

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• If the present generation, or any other, are disposed to be slaves, it does not lessen the right of the succeeding generation to be free: wrongs cannot have a legal descent.

  Thomas Paine

  Doe, Generations, Succeed

  Thomas Paine (1791). “Rights of Man: Being an Answer to Mr. Burke's Attack on the French Revolution”, p.136

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• Everyone wants a happy life without difficulties or suffering. We create many of the problems we face. No one intentionally creates problems, but we tend to be slaves to powerful emotions like anger, hatred and attachment that are based on misconceived projections about people and things. We need to find ways of reducing these emotions by eliminating the ignorance that underlies them and applying opposing forces.

  Dalai Lama

  Powerful, Ignorance, Happy Life

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• People allow themselves to be slaves of their bad habits and society's bad habits - but they have free will, and if they wish to be free they can.

  Peace Pilgrim

  People, Wish, Free Will

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• Permit no man to be a king and permit also no man to be a slave!

  Mehmet Murat Ildan

  Kings, Men, Slave

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• The most onerous slavery is to be a slave to oneself.

  Seneca the Younger

  Slavery, Slave, Oneself

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• I don't want to be a slave to history or facts. As long as I'm getting a good cursory understanding of what it is and I'm not drifting too far away at certain points, then I can play with the idea and take it anywhere I want to.

  Scott Walker

  Play, Ideas, Long

  Source: pitchfork.com

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• Knowledge unfits a child to be a slave.

  Frederick Douglass

  Children, Slave

  Frederick Douglass (1855). “My Bondage and My Freedom ...”, p.146

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• A horse can have a job and not be a slave. He can look forward to it and enjoy it. That's the same for me.

  Buck Brannaman

  Horse, Jobs, Looks

  Source: www.americancowboy.com

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• I decided I didn't want to be a slave to any passion any more except for my work, i had too many passions - bridge, horses, gambling. I want to live a different kind of life, be with my family more because I didn't give them enough time.

  Omar Sharif

  Life, Horse, Passion

  "Biography/ Mini Bio". www.imdb.com.

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• For it is true now, as it always was and always will be, that to be free is the same thing as to be pious, to be wise, to be temperate and just, to be frugal and abstinent, and to be magnanimous and brave; and to be the opposite of all these is the same as to be a slave.

  Albert Pike

  Wise, Opposites, Brave

  Albert Pike “Morals and Dogma : Scottish Rite in Freemasonry”, Lulu.com

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• Abraham Lincoln recognized that we could not survive as a free land when some men could decide that others were not fit to be free and should therefore be slaves. Likewise, we cannot survive as a free nation when some men decide that others are not fit to live and should be abandoned to abortion or infanticide.

  Ronald Reagan

  Men, Land, Abortion

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• Aristotle said that some people were only fit to be slaves. I do not contradict him. But I reject slavery because I see no men fit to be masters.

  C. S. Lewis

  Men, People, Slavery

  C. S. Lewis (1987). “Present Concerns”, p.17, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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• Student loans are destroying the imagination of youth. If there’s a way of a society committing mass suicide, what better way than to take all the youngest, most energetic, creative, joyous people in your society and saddle them with, like $50,000 of debt so they have to be slaves? There goes your music. There goes your culture. There goes everything new that would pop out. And in a way, this is what’s happened to our society. We’re a society that has lost any ability to incorporate the interesting, creative and eccentric people.

  David Graeber

  Suicide, People, Imagination

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• Now, I ask you, had you not rather be killed than to be a slave to a tyrant, who takes the life of your mother, wife, and dear little children? Look upon your mother, wife and children, and answer God Almighty; and believe this, that it is no more harm for you to kill a man who is trying to kill you, than it is for you to take a drink of water when thirsty.

  David Walker

  Mother, Children, Believe

  David Walker (2011). “Walker's Appeal, in Four Articles: Together with a Preamble, to the Coloured Citizens of the World, but in Particular, and Very Expressly, to Those of the United States of America”, p.30, Univ of North Carolina Press

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• I have studied humans for a small eternity. Intent infuses their every movement. Road maps to their inner navigation, plastered all over their skin. Born to be slaves.

  Karen Marie Moning

  Skins, Movement, Maps

  Karen Marie Moning (2015). “Burned: Fever Series”, p.12, Delacorte Press

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