1.
Desires make slaves out of kings and patience makes kings out of slaves.
Al-Ghazali
'Longing turns potentates into captives and forbearance transforms captives into potentates.'
2.
Flee the country where a lone man holds all power: It is a nation of slaves.
Simon Bolivar
Evacuate the nation where a single person has complete authority: It is a state of bondage.
3.
I would have been able to free a thousand more slaves if I could only have convinced them that they were slaves.
Unknown
I would have liberated a thousand more individuals from bondage if I could have only persuaded them to recognize their enslavement.
4.
I was born a slave, but nature gave me a soul of a free man.
Toussaint Louverture
I entered the world in chains, yet the spirit within me was endowed with unbounded liberty.
5.
In slave times the Negro was kept subservient and submissive by the frequency and severity of the scourging, but, with freedom, a new system of intimidation came into vogue; the Negro was not only whipped and scourged; he was killed.
Ida B. Wells
6.
Make your own rules or be a slave to another man's.
William Blake
Forge your own protocol or be a vassal to another person's.
7.
Was it not enough punishment and suffering in history that we were uprooted and made helpless slaves not only in new colonial outposts but also domestically.
Robert Mugabe
Was it not sufficient retribution and anguish in the past that we were displaced and rendered powerless captives not only in unfamiliar imperial territories but also within our own boundaries.
8.
The worker is the slave of capitalist society, the female worker is the slave of that slave.
James Connolly
The employee is the servant of capitalist society, the female employee is the subject of that servitude.
9.
You can't master your future if you're still a slave to your past.
Rihanna
You cannot create a successful future if you remain bound to your past.
10.
What we committed in the Indies stands out among the most unpardonable offenses ever committed against God and mankind and this trade [in Indian slaves] as one of the most unjust, evil, and cruel among them.
Bartolome de las Casas
11.
A slave is someone who sits down, and waits for someone to free them.
Frederick Douglass
12.
It is hard for the old slave holding spirit to die. But die it must.
Sojourner Truth
13.
The supreme nobility of a Roman emperor does not consist in being a master of slaves, but in being a lord of free men, who loves freedom even in those who serve him.
Julius Evola
14.
If you are not prepared to resign or be fired for what you believe in, then you are not a worker, let alone a professional. You are a slave.
Howard Gardner
17.
To become free, you have to be acutely aware of being a slave.
Assata Shakur
18.
If you're not confident in the authority of the Scriptures, you will be a slave to what sounds right.
Matt Chandler
19.
I am persuaded that the rights of woman, like the rights of slaves, need only be examined to be understood and asserted.
Sarah Moore Grimke
20.
I despise 'animal welfare.' That's like saying, 'Let's beat the slaves three times a week instead of five times a week'.
Gary Yourofsky
21.
The worst thing about slavery is that the slaves eventually get to like it.
Aristotle
22.
We are all slaves of our own actions. Why be angry with anyone else?
Shantideva
23.
Globalization means using slaves to manufacture products that are then sold to the unemployed!
Marine Le Pen
24.
If taxes are laid upon us without our having a legal representation where they are laid, we are reduced from the character of free subjects to the state of tributary slaves.
Samuel Adams
26.
It is better to be a slave to your beloved woman than a free man to the unloved one.
Eric Berne
28.
And verily for everything that a slave loses there is a substitute, but the one who loses Allah will never find anything to replace Him.
Ibn Qayyim Al-Jawziyya
29.
See, it's no in between: you're either free or you're a slave.
H. Rap Brown
30.
Once a man has tasted freedom he will never be content to be a slave.
Walt Disney
31.
If we gotta fight and die for America, why should we be treated like slaves in America?
Hosea Williams
32.
Do not commit yourself to anybody or anything, for that is to be a slave, a slave to every man Above all, keep yourself free of commitments and obligations - they are the device of another to get you into his power
Baltasar Gracian
33.
You had better all die - die immediately, than live as slaves and entail your wretchedness upon your posterity.
Henry Highland Garnet
35.
Man is born to seek power, yet his actual condition makes him a slave to the power of others.
Hans Morgenthau
36.
John Brown was tried for treason, murder, and inciting slaves to insurrection.
John Sergeant Wise
37.
A man who is more concerned with being a good man than being good at being a man makes a very well-behaved slave.
Jack Donovan
41.
Freedom is for the educated people who fought for it. We were slaves of the English, now we will be slaves of the educated Indians—or the Pakistanis.
Khushwant Singh
42.
None can be free who is a slave to, and ruled by, his passions.
Pythagoras
43.
If money and material things become the center of our lives, they seize us and make us slaves.
Pope Francis
44.
I am the slave of an internal power more powerful than my education.
Arnold Schoenberg
45.
A well-paid slave is nonetheless a slave.
Curt Flood
48.
You learn to cook so that you don't have to be a slave to recipes. You get what's in season and you know what to do with it.
Julia Child
49.
To be free means to choose, whose slave you want to be. Â
Jeanne Moreau