Be A Slave Quotes
Life is not a finished product, it is only what we make of it, and if we make nothing of it, someone else will, and we will be his slave.
We want capitalism and market forces to be the slave of democracy rather than the opposite.
This is a matter of freedom. If you don't have many possessions then you don't need to work all your life like a slave to sustain them, and therefore you have more time for yourself.
The creation of the spiritual was no accident. It was a creation born of necessity, so that the slave might more adequately adjust himself to the conditions of the New World.
If the human being is a proud and honorable creature, he shouldn't forget to act that way, even if he falls, even if the whole world is against him, even if he ends as a slave.
Why hast thou made me born in this country, The inhabitant of which is satisfied with being a slave?
No one is truly free, they are a slave to wealth, fortune, the law, or other people restraining them from acting according to their will.
We cannot afford to raise any institution to the rank of a fetish. To do so would be simply to become the slaves of our own machinery.
That which commands admiration in the white woman only hastens the degradation of the female slave.
The man who does not do his own thinking is a slave, and is a traitor to himself and to his fellow-men.
Take advice, but not orders. Only give yourself orders. Abraham Lincoln once said, 'Since I will be no one's slave, I will be no one's master.'
In giving freedom to the slave, we assure freedom to the free - honorable alike in what we give and what we preserve. We shall nobly save, or meanly lose, the last best hope of earth.
Bringing the gifts that my ancestors gave, I am the dream and the hope of the slave. I rise. I rise. I rise.
The state is made for man, not man for the state.... That is to say, the state should be our servant and not we its slaves
All mankind is divided, as it was at all times and is still, into slaves and freemen.
It was the slave's continuing desire for recognition that was the motor which propelled history forward, not the idle complacency and unchanging self-identity of the master
Homelessness is the actor's fate; physical incapacity to attain what is most required and desired by such a spirit as I am a slave to.
And I keep on fighting for the things I want. Though I know that when you're dead you can't. But I'd rather be a free man in my grave, than living as a puppet or a slave.
God Almighty has set before me two great objects, the suppression of the slave trade and the reformation of manners (morality).
As long as a word remains unspoken, you are its master; once you utter it, you are its slave.
An Enlightened Master is ideal only if your goal is to become a Benighted Slave.
The moment the slave resolves that he will no longer be a slave, his fetters fall. Freedom and slavery are mental states.
You're a slave, a bound helpless slave to one thing in the world, your imagination.
To Xeniades, who had purchased Diogenes at the slave market, he said, "Come, see that you obey orders."
There is no king who has not had a slave among his ancestors, and no slave who has not had a king among his.
Men's actions are too strong for them. Show me a man who has acted, and who has not been the victim and slave of his action.
i'm a slave to my emotions, to my likes, to my hatred of boredom, to most of my desires
All men shall be my slaves! All women shall succumb to my charms! All mankind shall grovel at my feet and not know why!
I believe that it is better to tell the truth than to lie. I believe that it is better to be free than to be a slave. And I believe that it is better to know than be ignorant.
Cannot the love of Christ carry the missionary where the slave-trade carries the trader? I shall open up a path to the interior or perish.
Stomach: A slave that must accept everything that is given to it, but which avenges wrongs as slyly as does the slave.
I am a slave to the rhythm. I am a palette. I just go with the moment. You've got to do it that way because if you're thinking, you're dead. Performing is not about thinking; it's about feeling.
Oh while I live, to be the ruler of life, not a slave, to meet life as a powerful conqueror, and nothing exterior to me will ever take command of me.
You have seen how a man was made a slave; you shall see how a slave was made a man.
Wages is a cunning device of the devil, for the benefit of tender consciences, who would retain all the advantages of the slave system, without the expense, trouble, and odium of being slave-holders.
Detach yourself from all that makes your mind restless. Renounce all that disturbs its peace. If you want peace, deserve it. By being a slave to your desires and fears, you disturb peace.
