Slave Quotes - Page 18

Stardom can be a gilded slavery.

There is something akin to freedom in having a lover who has no control over you, except that which he gains by kindness and attachment.

Recognition of the modes of existence of technical objects must be the result of philosophic consideration; what philosophy has to achieve in this respect is analogous to what the abolition of slavery achieved in affirming the worth of the individual human being.

Resistance - that is the distinction of the slave. Let your distinction be obedience. Let your commanding itself be obeying!

To relive the relationship between owner and slave we can consider how we treat our cars and dogs - a dog exercising a somewhat similar leverage on our mercies and an automobile being comparable in value to a slave in those days

What was distinctively Western was not slavery but the moral crusade to end slavery.

Slaves. though we be enrolled Minds are never to be sold.

Ralph Nader has slavery reparations on his platform, which makes me think he's not serious. If he thought he could win he wouldn't even say that.

If, before undertaking some action, you must obtain the permission of society-you are not free, whether such permission is granted to you or not. Only a slave acts on permission. A permission is not a right.

Didn't we settle contraception & affirmative action? If the GOP keep going backwards they'll soon be debating slavery.

My paramount objective in this struggle is to save the Union, and is not to either save or destroy Slavery.

To depend upon a profession is a less odious form of slavery than to depend upon a father.

To take a person out of slavery takes an instant. To take slavery out of a person takes a process.

It is easy to see that when republican virtue fails, slavery ensues.

Single acts of tyranny may be ascribed to the accidental opinion of the day; but a series of oppressions, begun at a distinguished period, and pursued unalterably through every change of ministers (adminstrators) too plainly proves a deliberate, systematic plan of reducing us to slavery.

As soon as extreme attachment comes, a man loses himself, he is no more master of himself, he is a slave.

The best traders are simply slaves to the market's price action

The one who is good, is free even being a slave; the one who is bad remains a slave even being a king.

The master is a slave when he fears those whom he rules.

Having enough money has to go hand in hand with living in a way that you're not being a slave to your possessions.

If there is a State, then there is domination, and in turn, there is slavery.

If men were equal in America, all these Poles and English and Czechs and blacks, then they were equal everywhere, and there was really no such thing as foreigner; there were only free men and slaves.

The wealthy have never liked to pay for the labor that enriches them. Ever since slavery was eliminated, they have been trying to keep it as close to slavery as they can without violating the slave laws.

An integrated cup of coffee isn't sufficient pay for four hundred years of slave labor.

Let not the 12 million Negroes be ashamed of the fact that they are the grandchildren of slaves. There is dishonor in being slave-owners.