slave quotes

• The Museum is not meant either for the wanderer to see by accident or for the pilgrim to see with awe. It is meant for the mere slave of a routine of self-education to stuff himself with every sort of incongruous intellectual food in one indigestible meal. (Gilbert K. Chesterton) [museum/slave/food]
• We call a man a bigot or a slave of dogma because he is a thinker who has thought thoroughly and to a definite end. (Gilbert K. Chesterton) [slave/thinker]
• Curses always recoil on the head of him who imprecates them. If you put a chain around the neck of a slave, the other end fastens itself around your own. (Ralph Waldo Emerson) [recoil/slave]
• The moment the slave resolves that he will no longer be a slave. His fetters fall... freedom and slavery are mental states. (Mahatma Gandhi) [moment/slave/willpower/slave]
• Gold will be slave or master. ( Horace) [gold/willpower/slave/master]
• He will always be a slave who does not know how to live upon a little. ( Horace) [willpower/slave]
• The whole commerce between master and slave is a perpetual exercise of the most boisterous passions, the most unremitting despotism on the one part, and degrading submissions on the other. Our children see this, and learn to imitate it. (Thomas Jefferson) [master/slave/exercise]
• Do not discourage your children from hoarding, if they have a taste to it; whoever lays up his penny rather than part with it for a cake, at least is not the slave of gross appetite; and shows besides a preference always to be esteemed, of the future to the present moment. (Samuel Johnson) [taste/slave/appetite/future]
• There is no king who has not had a slave among his ancestors, and no slave who has not had a king among his. (Helen Keller) [king/slave/slave/king]
• As I would not be a slave, so I would not be a master. This expresses my idea of democracy. (Abraham Lincoln) [slave/master/democracy]
• A house divided against itself cannot stand -- I believe this government cannot endure permanently half slave and half free. (Abraham Lincoln) [government/slave]
• In giving freedom to the slave, we assure freedom to the free -- honorable alike in what we give and what we preserve. (Abraham Lincoln) [slave/give]
• I believe that it is better to tell the truth than a lie. I believe it is better to be free than to be a slave. And I believe it is better to know than to be ignorant. (H. L. Mencken) [truth/slave]
• A slave is one who waits for someone to come and free him. (Ezra Pound) [slave]
• The slave is doomed to worship time and fate and death, because they are greater than anything he finds in himself, and because all his thoughts are of things which they devour. (Bertrand Russell) [slave/time/death/thoughts]
• He who is a slave to his stomach seldom worships God. ( Saadi) [slave/stomach/god]
• Freedom is not being a slave to any circumstance, to any constraint, to any chance; it means compelling Fortune to enter the lists on equal terms. ( Seneca) [being/slave/chance/fortune]
• What we determine we often break. Purpose is but the slave to memory. (William Shakespeare) [slave/memory]
• It would seem that man was born a slave, and that slavery is his natural condition. At the same time nothing on earth can stop man from feeling himself born for liberty. Never, whatever may happen, can he accept servitude; for he is a thinking creature. (Simone Weil) [slave/slavery/condition/time]
• 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. (Walt Whitman) [life/slave/life/willpower]
• 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. (Britney Spears) [slave]
• I wouldn't call him a slave. I don't whip him when he does something wrong. Just when he does something good. (Shannon Elizabeth) [slave]
• I wouldn't call him a slave. I don't whip him when he does something wrong. Just when he does something good. (Elizabeth Shannon) [slave]
• “No one is more enslaved than a slave who doesn't think they're enslaved.” (Kate Beckinsale) [more/slave/think]
• Neither can men, by the same principles, be considered as lands, goods, or houses, among possessions. It is necessary that all property should be inferiour to its possessor. But how does the slave differ from his master, but by chance? (Thomas Clarkson) [men/property/slave/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. (Edwin Booth) [spirit/slave]
• Too often a story is examined through biased eyes, without a sensitivity for everyone who forged it. It's seen from the point of view of the great white savior, and rarely is the perspective of the slave a part. (Jeffrey Wright) [eyes/point/slave]

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