Be A Slave Quotes

I've never received a dollar royalty to any of my books because I feel, as a slave everything that I have is a gift of my messenger.

Lord, I want to be your slave.

Slaves have to obey their masters.

A [typical] worker is a part-time slave.

If Lincoln had an affair with a slave woman, it would be an outrage, but when Clinton does it with one of his staff, everyone is okay with it.

America was founded on the backs of slaves.

Not kill us," Pigeon corrected. "She was mainly just trying to turn us into mindless slaves.

I'm a slave for you. Dancing in the dark.

On her Slave For You video: It's a very sensual video so I thought it was a good reflection of the song. My Mum thought it was... different.

Montgomery's unique role in the domestic slave trade was that it was the first community that had a rail line that connected the Deep South to the mid-Atlantic region.

If you are competing with slaves, then you are a slave yourself.

Though no one would want to be sold as a slave, it is perhaps even more galling to be a sort of utility slave whom no one will buy.

If Lincoln freed the slaves and preserved the Union, how come 'Lincolnesque' just means tall?

I do not like to work and have no trade but i do like to eat, so this is basic, the basic training of slaves to fear.

I am simply not such a slave to my vanity, and I don't want to be, because as you get older you really have to start accepting the inevitable.

Poetry and slave trading cannot be bedfellows. That's where I stand.

Women have been brought up much like slaves, that is, to lie.

It's fine to be a great democrat when you've a slave to rub your boots on.

One dedicated worker is worth a thousand slaves.

My parents never told us that our great-grandmothers had been slaves.

Books are messengers of freedom. They can be hidden under a mattress or smuggled into slave nations.

I haven't been to a gas station in years. It feels so good not to be a slave to gas, playing the whole game of war for oil.

Aristotle [would] probably conclude most Americans, for all intents and purposes, are slaves.

For some, the past is a chain, each day a link, raveling backward to one ringbolt or another, in one dark place or another, and tomorrow is a slave to yesterday.

Women are slaves to their beauty.

Wisely used history can give pleasure and provide us with a useful tool; but we should not become its slaves.

We are all slaves to the shining metal.

Seeming's enough for slaves of space and time - ours is the now and here of freedom. Come.

Theism tells men that they are the slaves of a God. Atheism assures men that they are the investigators and users of nature.

The world of employer and employee, like that of master and slave, debases both.

I found motherhood a crash course in existentialism (what is my purpose in life, am I mistress or slave of my destiny, when the hell do I get some sleep?) and [the book] ROOM was the result.

Christianity is most admirably adapted to the training of slaves, to the perpetuation of a slave society.

He that feareth is a slave, were he never so rich, were he never so powerful. But he that is without fear is king of all the world.

To every man, even though he be a slave, the light of heaven is sweet.

[God brought African slaves to America] so that their descendants would know freedom.

To give liberty to a slave before he understands its value is, perhaps, rather to impose a penalty than to bestow a blessing.

Make thy recreation servant to thy business, lest thou become a slave to thy recreation.

Pity, but never love bestows kind words upon the slave.

There shall be no slave in your home, male or female: Least of all the mother of your son.

It was unlawful, as well as unsafe, to teach a slave to read.

Slaves were expected to sing as well as to work. A silent slave was not liked, either by masters or overseers.

Physical circumstance will not cause happiness. Or if it does, there is the fear of loss. Now you are a slave to it. You have become bound to it.

Don't become a slave to success or failure, family, friends, possessions. If these things come to you in life, enjoy them, but fix your consciousness on that which does not change.

Women have been sexual slaves for most of recorded history.

Disobedience- that is the nobility of slaves.

Master-morality and Slave-morality.

The greatest slave in a kingdom is generally the king of it.

Russia was a slave in Europe but would be a master in Asia.

Dostoevsky preaches the morality of the pariah, the morality of the slave.

No use slaving for me and then saying you want to be cared for: who cares for a slave? If you come back, come back for the sake of good fellowship; for you’ll get nothing else.