George R. R. Martin Quotes

I´m not a wandering slave, I am a woman of choice

This is the difference between slavery and freedom. The slave must do what his superior orders him to do, but the free citizen-and this is what freedom means-is in a position to choose his own way of life.

He who can be, and therefore is, another's, and he who participates in reason enough to apprehend, but not to have, is a slave by nature.

The essence of squatter or popular sovereignty—I don't care how you call it—is that if one man chooses to make a slave of another, no third man shall be allowed to object.

While I have often said that all men out to be free, yet I would allow those colored persons to be slaves who want to be; and next to them those white persons who argue in favor of making other people slaves. I am in favor of giving an opportunity to such white men to try it on for themselves.

In part because they had no choice, right? If you were a slave, you did what the master said. And they said to worship: "You're going to worship with us."

To be free means to choose, whose slave you want to be. ­

I have always thought that all men should be free; but if any should be slaves, it should be first those who desire for themselves, and secondly those who desire it for others. Whenever I hear anyone arguing for slavery, I feel a strong impulse to see it tried on him personally.

Either be wholly slaves or wholly free.

See, it's no in between: you're either free or you're a slave.

No man may make another free.

To depend upon the Will of a Man is Slavery.

Would you rather lead an army of slaves?

Freedom of choice can harm no one.

A man is none the less a slave because he is allowed to choose a new master once in a term of years.

If we create independent life, but keep it under our control, what is that? It can be said to be a form of slavery.

Either you think, or else others have to think for you and take power from you, pervert and discipline your natural tastes, civilize and sterilize you.

We are free today because we are the stronger; we will be slaves again when the government becomes the stronger.

Freedom is the power to choose our own chains.

What man wants is simply independent choice, whatever that independence may cost and wherever it may lead.

No man in his senses can hesitate in choosing to be free, rather than a slave.

Willingly no one chooses the yoke of slavery.

It is just as difficult and dangerous to try to free a people that wants to remain servile as it is to enslave a people that wants to remain free.

We will have to choose not between color nor race nor religion nor between East and West either, but simply between being slaves and being free. And we will have to choose completely and for good; the time is already past now when we can choose a little of each, a little of both. We can choose a state of slavedom, and if we are powerful enough to be among the top two or three or ten, we can have a certain amount of license - until someone more powerful rises and has us machine-gunned against a cellar wall.

Look. I brought you here to give you a choice-" "You didn't bring us here," said Nick. "You're here," said Bod. "I wanted you here. I came here. You followed me. Same thing.