Slave Quotes - Page 20

No, Freedom has a thousand charms to show That slaves, howe'er contented, never know.

Psychoanalysis showed me that I might be neurotic because I was a girl but, as Chekhov might have put it, I alone had to squeeze the slave out of myself, drop by drop.

We can become slaves to things we don't understand

No more turning a blind eye to Chinese spies in our nuclear labs. No more keeping silent about Chinese slave labor camps.

Since the days of slavery, if you were a good singer or dancer, it was your job to perform for the master after dinner.

No more slave States and no more slave territory.

The worst of slaves is he whom passion rules.

All religion is slavery.

It was a marvel, an enigma in abolition latitudes, that the slaves did not rise en-masse, at the beginning of hostilities.

We can easily become as much slaves to precaution as we can to fear.

The artist is the lover of nature; therefore he is her slave and her master.

Some people are by nature slaves and will always be so.

How can we trust a religion that has advocated slavery and the subjugation of women throughout history?

And who is responsible for this appalling child slavery? Everyone.

Intellectual slavery, of whatever nature it may be, will always have as a natural result both political and social slavery.

We created time, and now we have become the slave of time.

Moses freed the Jews. Lincoln freed the slaves. I freed the neurotics.

When God takes your straw, it isn’t because he wants you to remain a slave. It’s because he wants you to take another step toward freedom.

The Arabs are deep in the slave trade right now.

If thou dost still retain the same ill habits, the same follies, too, still thou art bound to vice, and still a slave.

His foreparents came to America in immigrant ships. My foreparents came to America in slave ships. But whatever the original ships, we are both in the same boat tonight.

Have there ever been more submissive slaves? Adoring, even in their irons, the God who punishes them.

This is the posture of fortunes slave: one foot in the gravy, one foot in the grave.

The slave trade was globalism. Why people insist that globalism, after its hideous history, is a good thing, I do not know.

I believe that the only possible reason for our being here is to serve in some form or another but that the form is not always readily found or recognized. And I've noticed that those who refuse to serve often wind up as slaves.