Be A Slave Quotes

Fashion makes fools of some, sinners of others, and slaves of all.

Lacanian theory must be understood as a kind of “slave morality.

All my stories and worlds spring from the basic principle of being a slave to the premise, to follow the consequences wherever they may lead without taking any easy or comfortable ways out.

No one is more enslaved than a slave who doesn't think they're enslaved.

A fundamental condition of Being is slavery. Man is the slave of God, and God that of His vanity.

It is profoundly tragic that I am a slave, but it is profoundly joyous that I am God's slave, not that of a devil.

If you take something like the slave-auction sketch, the warmth of the light gives it a crisp 12 Years a Slave look. And your eye tells your brain, "I should be taking this seriously."

The slaves were simply turned loose without any property. They were easily recognizable. They were black. They were suddenly free to go exploring.

Arriane sized her up, tapping one finger against her lips. "Perfect," she said, stepping forward to loop her arm through Luce's. "I was just thinking I could really use a new slave.

I am the very slave of circumstance And impulse -- borne away with every breath!

When human statecraft attaches a chain to the feet of a free man, whom it makes a slave in contempt of nature and citizenship, eternal justice rivets the other end about the tyrant's neck.

Despair is a free man--hope is a slave.

A slave- holder, who has decided to abolish slavery, does not consult his slaves whether they desire freedom or not.

A slave-holder cannot hold a slave without putting himself or his deputy in the cage for holding the slave.

Soul-force comes only through God's grace and never descends upon a man who is a slave to lust.

There is no such thing as slow freedom. Freedom is like a birth. Till we are fully free we are slaves. All birth takes place in a moment.

No one chains a slave without chaining himself.

If as a member of a slave nation I could deliver the suppressed classes from their slavery without freeing myself from my own, I would do so today. But it is an impossible task.

If India becomes the slave of the machine, then, I say, heaven save the world.

A slave has not the freedom even to do the right thing.

After four hundred years of slave labor, we have some back pay coming, a bill owed to us that must be collected.

The Negro is nothing but an ex-slave who is now trying to get himself integrated into the slave master's house.

I have read where Abraham Lincoln said he wasn't interested in freeing the slaves.

Servitude is inherent; we are all slaves to duty or to force.

When is the Democratic Party going to apologize for being the biggest slave-holding-supporting institution on the planet and sticking with racism for the century after the abolition of slavery?

Mine was a trained Presbyterian conscience and knew but the one duty - to hunt and harry its slave upon all pretexts and on all occasions, particularly when there was no sense nor reason in it.

The man born and bred a slave, even if freed, never loses wholly the feeling or manner of a slave.

I was a king and a king's heir and now I am a slave.

It would be idle to say that we were not, from time to time, aware that a volcano slumbered fitfully beneath us. There were dark sides to the Slavery Question, for master, as for slave.

Pain is itself a god: the taskmaster of life. Pain cracks the whip, and all that lives will move. To live is to be a slave to pain.

A free horse where there is no man on its saddle always looks more beautiful than a slave horse with a man on its saddle!

If God is the master of the universe, then what are we? The slaves of the universe? If so, let each man become proud Spartacus!

No sublime wisdom asks to be worshipped or served; the greatest and the most honourable masters are those who refuse to have slaves!

C'm'on lefties! Admit that Trump has been very tough on China. He has been especially tough on Chinese kids who slave away in sweatboxes, making his clothing lines.

Some people try to get you out of slavery for you to be their slave.

Whenever Hollywood makes films about us, it's 12 Years a Slave or The Butler or The Help. That is not the sum total of who we are as a people.

Flown Raven is the country,"I muttered. "City slave," he said. "Farm boy," I shot back. "I've never even seen a farm." "Don't trifle me with details.

By day I was a slave; by night, I was a prince.

All black Americans have slave names. They have white names; names that the slave master has given to them.

Education opens the door to everything in terms of having a career and an impact on society and not being a slave to your job, really.

To be one's own master is to be the slave of self.

I knew I hated him as only a woman can hate a man, as only a slave can hate his master.

Every farm with slaves was a slave-breeding farm. Raising slaves was mostly a cottage industry.

You mourn, for it is proper to mourn. But your grief serves you; you do not become a slave to grief. You bid the dead farewell, and you continue.

Death is a slave's freedom.

Any labor which competes with slave labor must accept the economic conditions of slave labor.

I can understand the poor and stupid voting for Marxism or one of its fashionable variants. If you've no hope of being other than a slave, you may as well opt for the most efficient form of slavery.

Why are we smiling when we loathe each other?’ ‘Why do we sell happiness to the readers of this magazine when we are profoundly unhappy ourselves, the slaves of fame?

Only people who are assured of daily food can concern themselves with matters of principle and ethic. A man will become a slave rather than starve.

Man, who wert once a despot and a slave, A dupe and a deceiver! a decay, A traveller from the cradle to the grave Through the dim night of this immortal day.