Slavery Quotes - Page 6

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

It is inevitable, that eventually the people will demand absolute security from the state... And absolute security is absolute slavery.

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

Well for one, the 13th amendment to the constitution of the US which abolished slavery - did not abolish slavery for those convicted of a crime.

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

All forms of involuntary servitude are prohibited, not only slavery but also conscription, forced association, and forced welfare distribution.

Too much liberty leads both men and nations to slavery.

Slavery can never be abolished.

Better to starve free than be a fat slave

Captivity is the greatest of all evils that can befall one.

Slavery is what slavery's always been: About one person controlling another person using violence and then exploiting them economically, paying them nothing. That's what slavery's about

I endorse without reserve the much-abused sentiment of Gov. M'Duffie, that "slavery is the corner stone of our Republican edifice;" while I repudiate, as ridiculously absurd, that much-lauded but nowhere accredited dogma of Mr. Jefferson, that "all men are born equal.

In this country protection has always, to some extent, existed; but at some times it has been efficient, and at others not; and our tendency toward freedom or slavery has always been in the direct ratio of its efficiency or inefficiency.

The difference between technology and slavery is that slaves are fully aware that they are not free

The existence of the state is inseparable from the existence of slavery.

Slavery is the great and foul stain upon the North American Union.

Being deceived into thinking the perks of slavery are a good thing, we can easily aquire a preference for chains and a taste for the slaves rations.

To take away (voting) is to reduce a man to slavery.

Slavery is the offspring of darkness.

Not the Christian religion only, but nature herself, cries out against the state of slavery.

Slavery discourages arts and manufacturing ...[and] every master of slaves is born a petty tyrant.

What a revolting contrast exists in England between the slavery of women and the intellectual superiority of women writers.

Notwithstanding all the wrongs that slavery heaped upon me, I can bless it for one thing-youth's important lesson of self-reliance.

When everything is subject to money, then the scarcity of money makes everything scarce, including the basis of human life and happiness. Such is the life of the slave—one whose actions are compelled by threat to survival. Perhaps the deepest indication of our slavery is the monetization of time.

The Conservative knows that to regard man as part of an undifferentiated mass is to consign him to ultimate slavery.