Slave Quotes - Page 15

• Either be wholly slaves or wholly free.

  John Dryden

  Literature

  'The Hind and the Panther' (1687) pt. 2, l. 285

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• If there is a species which is more maltreated than children, then it must be their toys, which they handle in an incredibly off-hand manner. Toys are thus the end point in that long chain in which all the conditions of despotic high-handedness are in play which enchain beings one to another, from one species to another --cruel divinities to their sacrificial victims, from masters to slaves, from adults to children, and from children to their objects.

  Jean Baudrillard

  Children, Hands, Play

  Jean Baudrillard (1990). “Cool Memories”, p.116, Verso

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• Woman has always been man's dependent, if not his slave; the two sexes have never shaped the world in equality. And even today woman is heavily handicapped, though her situation is beginning to change.

  Simone de Beauvoir

  Sex, Equality, Men

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• Nor was it only from the millions of slaves that chains had been removed; the whole nation had been in bondage; free speech had been suppressed.

  Matthew Simpson

  Speech, Bondage, Chains

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• I've always been a slave to my heart.

  Willie Stargell

  Sports, Heart, My Heart

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• The feudal concept of self-preservation is poisoned at the core by the virulent assumption of master and man, of potentate and slave, of external and internal suppression of the life urge of the only one - of its faith in human sacrifice as a means of salvation.

  Louis Sullivan

  Mean, Sacrifice, Men

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• Who cannot resolve upon a moment's notice To live his own life, he forever lives A slave to others.

  Gotthold Ephraim Lessing

  Forever, Moments, Resolve

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• The Europeans wanted gold and slaves, like everybody else; but at the same time they wanted statues put up to themselves as people who had done good things for the slaves.

  V. S. Naipaul

  People, Gold, Done

  V. S. Naipaul (2012). “A Bend in the River”, p.14, Pan Macmillan

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• True, I used to see a lot of hope. I saw men tear down the veils behind which the truth had been hidden. But then the same men, when they have power in their hands at last, began to find the veils useful. They made many more. Life has not changed. Only some people have been growing, becoming different, that is all. After a youth spent fighting the white man, why should not the president discover as he grows older that his real desire has been to be like the white governor himself, to live above all the blackness in the big old slave castle?

  Ayi Kwei Armah

  Real, Fighting, Men

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• Tremble with awe, O men! The insults God suffered for the sake of our salvation you too must endure! God is slapped on the face by the basest of slaves (Jn. 18:22). He gives you an example of victory, yet do you refuse to undergo this at the hands of a man of like passions as yourself? You are ashamed of becoming an imitator of God (Eph. 5:1), how then will you reign with Him and share in His glory in the kingdom of heaven if you do not endure that man?

  Symeon the New Theologian

  Christian, Passion, Men

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• But it is not the rich man only who is under the dominion of things; they too are slaves who, having no money, are unhappy from the lack of it.

  George MacDonald

  Unhappy, Rich, Domination

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• For him who is perfect in love and has reached the summit of dispassion there is no difference between his own or another's, or between Christians and unbelievers, or between slave and free, or between male and female. But because he has risen above the tyranny of the passions and has fixed his attention on the single nature of man, he looks on all in the same way and shows the same disposition to all. For in him there is neither Greek nor Jew, male nor female, bond not free, but Christ who 'is all, and in all' (Col. 3:11; cf. Gal. 3:28).

  Maximus the Confessor

  Christian, Passion, Men

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• And so we smile on, Feeding the truths we share With a union of our souls, Cathedral slaves of our passion Which builds beauty amongst chaos.

  Scott Hastie

  Passion, Soul, Unions

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• The best slave does not need to be beaten. She beats herself.

  Erica Jong

  Doe, Needs, Beats

  Erica Jong (2006). “Fear of Fifty”, p.258, Penguin

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• As long as woman regards the Bible as the charter of her rights, she will be the slave of man. The bible was not written by a woman. Within its leaves there is nothing but humiliation and shame for her.

  Robert Green Ingersoll

  Men, Rights, Long

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• All who are not lunatics are agreed about certain things : That it is better to be alive than dead, better to be adequately fed than starved, better to be free than a slave

  Bertrand Russell

  Alive, Feds, Certain

  Bertrand Russell (2009). “Bertrand Russell's Best”, p.115, Routledge

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• No principle, that is possible to be named, can be more self-evidently false than this; or more self-evidently fatal to all political freedom. Yet it triumphed in the field, and is now assumed to be established. If it really be established, the number of slaves, instead of having been diminished by the war, has been greatly increased; for a man, thus subjected to a government that he does not want, is a slave.

  Lysander Spooner

  War, Men, Self

  Lysander Spooner (1867). “No Treason: No. 1-”, p.3

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• Mammon is the largest slave-holder in the world.

  Arthur Frederick Saunders

  World

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• He who has mastery over his incensive power has mastery also over the demons. But anyone who is a slave to it is a stranger to the ways of the Saviour, for as the Saviour enjoined us: 'Learn from Me; for I am gentle and humble in heart: and you will find rest for your souls' (Mt. 11:29). Now if a man abstains from food and drink, but becomes incensed to wrath because of evil thoughts, he is like a ship sailing the open sea with a demon for a pilot.

  Evagrius Ponticus

  Christian, Humble, Heart

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• Slaves do what others want. Servants do what others need.

  James Hunter

  Needs, Want, Servant Leadership

  James C. Hunter (2008). “The Servant: A Simple Story About the True Essence of Leadership”, p.65, Crown Business

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• Side by side with the miseries of underdevelopment...we find ourselves up against a form of superdevelopment, equally inadmissable. This superdevelopment consists in an excessive availability of material goods for the benefit of certain social groups and makes people slaves of "possession" and immediate gratification, with no other horizon than the multiplication or continual replacement of the things already owned with others still better. This is the civilization of consumption, or "consumerism," which involves so much throwing away and waste.

  Pope John Paul II

  Civilization, Availability, People

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• Even if nonpolluting power were feasible and abundant, the use of energy on a massive scale acts on society like a drug that is physically harmless but psychically enslaving. A community can choose between Methadone and "cold turkey"-between maintaining its addiction to alien energy and kicking it in painful cramps-but no society can have a population that is hooked on progressively larger numbers of energy slaves and whose members are also autonomously active.

  Ivan Illich

  Turkeys, Kicking It, Numbers

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• Speak with contempt of none, from slave to king, The meanest Bee hath, and will use, a sting.

  Benjamin Franklin

  Kings, Use, Bees

  Benjamin Franklin (2013). “Poor Richard's Almanac and Other Writings”, p.92, Courier Corporation

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• Base is the slave that pays.

  William Shakespeare

  Slavery, Pay

  William Shakespeare, T.W. Craik (1995). “King Henry V: Third Series”, p.164, Cengage Learning EMEA

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• The people of Asia were slaves, because they had not learned how to pronounce the word 'no'.

  Winston Churchill

  Freedom, People, Political

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