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Slave Quotes - Page 9

Freedom and slavery are mental states.

'Non-Violence in Peace and War' (1949) vol. 2, ch. 5

Every emancipation has in it the seeds of a new slavery, and every truth easily becomes a lie.

I. F. Stone (2009). “The Best of I.F. Stone”, p.47, PublicAffairs

To Xeniades, who had purchased Diogenes at the slave market, he said, "Come, see that you obey orders."

"Lives and Opinions of Eminent Philosophers, Book 6: The Cynics". Book by Diogenes Laërtius translated by R. D. Hicks, 1925.

...Slavery appears such a relatively mild business that one begins to wonder why Frederick Douglass and so many others ever tried to escape.

Dinesh D'Souza (1996). “The End of Racism: Finding Values In An Age Of Technoaffluence”, p.89, Simon and Schuster

The power of the ballot we need in sheer defense, else what shall save us from a second slavery?

W. E. B. Du Bois (2012). “The Souls of Black Folk”, p.7, Courier Corporation

Slavery is also as ancient as war, and war as human nature.

Voltaire (2015). “Delphi Collected Works of Voltaire (Illustrated)”, p.4456, Delphi Classics

Slaves lose everything in their chains, even the desire of escaping from them.

Jean Jacques Rousseau (2015). “The Social Contract”, p.88, Jean Jacques Rousseau

From our birth to our death we are all the slaves of suggestion.

Émile Coué (1923). “My method, including American impressions”

Not easily may an individual escape the deep slavery of the herd.

Algernon Blackwood (2014). “Delphi Complete Novels of Algernon Blackwood (Illustrated)”, p.1989, Delphi Classics

Be then my slave, and know what it means to be delivered into the hands of a woman.

Leopold von Sacher-Masoch (2015). “Venus in Furs”, p.60, Cosimo Classics

Slavery can never be abolished.

James Henry Hammond (1836). “Remarks of Mr. Hammond, of South Carolina, on the Question of Receiving Petitions for the Abolition of Slavery in the District of Columbia”, p.13