Slave Quotes - Page 19

Treat [the people] as slaves, guard them against brigands, and they will come to regard themselves as slaves and brigands.

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

I would rather be a freeman among slaves than a slave among freemen.

The problem for those who assert biblical authority in support of traditional definitions of marriage is that one could, with equal validity, assert that the lending of money or certain kinds of haircuts are forbidden by God, or that slavery and the subjugation of women are authorized by the Lord.

No slave is a slave to the same lengths, and in so full a sense of the word, as a wife is.

Every measure of prudence, therefore, ought to be assumed for the eventual total extirpation of slavery from the United States ... I have, throughout my whole life, held the practice of slavery in ... abhorrence.

Finance is a slave's word.

The money that we possess is the instrument of liberty, that which we lack and strive to obtain is the instrument of slavery.

The sin of slavery is one of which it may be said that without the shedding of blood there is no remission.

I never thought my book would turn so many people against slavery.

When the master has come to do everything through the slave, the slave becomes his master, since he cannot live without him.

He who strays from the customary becomes a sacrifice to the extraordinary; he who keeps to the customary becomes its slave. He iscondemned to perish in either case.

Whether or not they exist we are slaves to our gods.

Carry out the republican principle of universal suffrage, or strike it from your banners and substitute 'Freedom and Power to one half of society, and Submission and Slavery to the other.'

We certainly did take the country from the Indians. Right. So, but what's going on here, as I would call it a, sort of, morality tale. What the progressives do is, they take a few nuggets of American history, Columbus' arrival, then the founder's compromise with slavery, and what they do is they fast forward to their favorite episode, so to speak, and they create a story out of that leaving a whole bunch of facts out.

I ask for so little.Just fear me, love me, do as I say and I will be your slave

Hope is a willing slave; despair is free.

A dogmatic belief in objective value is necessary to the very idea of a rule which is not tyranny or an obedience which is not slavery.

All societies have these cases. There are many, many crime cases that remain famous from the times of the Romans. The Bible is full of crime stories. You can almost flip to a page. Joseph being sold into slavery by his brothers is a crime story. The Bible is full of crime stories.

When you are in debt, then you are a slave.

He who is by nature not his own but another's man is by nature a slave.

I'm not a master of films. I'm rather a slave.

Slavery didnt break up the black families as much as liberal welfare rules.

We are all of us, more or less, the slaves of opinion.

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.