Slave Quotes: Voices from the Past (Page 2)

"We are masters of the unsaid words, but slaves of those we let slip out"

"Be not a slave of words"

"For what Harley Street specialist has time to understand the body, let alone the mind or both in combination, when he is a slave to thirteen thousand a year?"

Virginia Woolf, Author

"Create like a god, command like a king, work like a slave"

Constantin Brancusi, Sculptor

"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, Philosopher

"I defied the machinery to make me its slave. Its incessant discords could not drown the music of my thoughts if I would let them fly high enough"

Lucy Larcom, Poet

"Freedom in capitalist society always remains about the same as it was in ancient Greek republics: Freedom for slave owners"

Vladimir Lenin, Leader

"Free men have arms; slaves do not"

William Blackstone, Judge

"The slave has but one master, the ambitious man has as many as there are persons whose aid may contribute to the advancement of his fortunes"

Jean de la Bruyere, Philosopher

"A slave has but one master; an ambitious man has as many masters as there are people who may be useful in bettering his position"

Jean de la Bruyere, Philosopher

"If I could have convinced more slaves that they were slaves, I could have freed thousands more"

Harriet Tubman, Activist

"The only time you really live fully is from thirty to sixty. The young are slaves to dreams; the old servants of regrets. Only the middle-aged have all their five senses in the keeping of their wits"

Theodore Roosevelt, President

"Too many would-be executives are slaves of routine"

James Cash Penney, Businessman

"No slave is a slave to the same lengths, and in so full a sense of the word, as a wife is"

John Stuart Mill, Philosopher

"Reason is, and ought only to be the slave of the passions, and can never pretend to any other office than to serve and obey them"

David Hume, Philosopher

"On the king's gate the moss grew gray; The king came not. They call'd him dead; And made his eldest son, one day, Slave in his father's stead"

Helen Hunt Jackson, Writer

"It is time to get drunk! So as not to be the martyred slaves of Time, get drunk; get drunk without stopping! On wine, on poetry, or on virtue, as you wish"

Charles Baudelaire, Poet

"Ambition makes more trusty slaves than need"

Ben Jonson, Poet

"It is the hour to be drunken! to escape being the martyred slaves of time, be ceaselessly drunk. On wine, on poetry, or on virtue, as you wish"

Charles Baudelaire, Poet

"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, Poet

"He that is kind is free, though he is a slave; he that is evil is a slave, though he be a king"

Saint Augustine, Saint

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

Natalie Clifford Barney, Author

"I'm not gonna be a slave. I'm a rock n' roller"

Steven Adler, Musician

"He that communicates his secret to another makes himself that other's slave"

Baltasar Gracian, Philosopher

"Fear is the passion of slaves"

Patrick Henry, Politician

"Democracy means the opportunity to be everyone's slave"

Karl Kraus, Writer

"Flee the country where a lone man holds all power: It is a nation of slaves"

Simon Bolivar, Leader

"Do not compare your material forces with those of the enemy. Spirit cannot be compared with matter. You are human beings, they are beasts. You are free, they are slaves"

Simon Bolivar, Leader

"Southern states in the confederacy were not ready to give up their fight to secede or give up their way of life, which was made possible in large part through the blood, sweat and tears of African slaves"

Corrine Brown, Politician

"Your secret is your prisoner; once you reveal it, you become its slave"

Solomon Ibn Gabriol, Poet

"As long as a word remains unspoken, you are its master; once you utter it, you are its slave"

Solomon Ibn Gabriol, Poet

"Animals, whom we have made our slaves, we do not like to consider our equal"

Charles Darwin, Scientist

"It only stands to reason that where there's sacrifice, there's someone collecting the sacrificial offerings. Where there's service, there is someone being served. The man who speaks to you of sacrifice is speaking of slaves and masters, and intends to be the master"

Ayn Rand, Writer

"An Enlightened Master is ideal only if your goal is to become a Benighted Slave"

Robert Anton Wilson, Writer

"The Free State men, myself among them, took it for granted that Missouri was a slave state"

Buffalo Bill, Celebrity

"The greatest task before civilization at present is to make machines what they ought to be, the slaves, instead of the masters of men"

Henry Ellis, Psychologist

"Either be wholly slaves or wholly free"

John Dryden, Poet

"But really, for the most part - doing a prequel is great because you do have room to kind of free this character and how they got to where they are instead of being a slave to exactly what the previous actor did"

Jennifer Lawrence, Actress

"I am the slave of my baptism. Parents, you have caused my misfortune, and you have caused your own"

Arthur Rimbaud, Poet

"I am not ashamed of my grandparents for having been slaves. I am only ashamed of myself for having at one time being ashamed"

Ralph Ellison, Author

Page 2 of 7