Slave Quotes

Whoever has not two-thirds of his time to himself, is a slave.

Whoever wants to be free, therefore, let him not want or avoid anything that is up to others. Otherwise he will necessarily be a slave.

The slaves of developed industrial civilization are sublimated slaves.

Finance is a slave's word.

He who is by nature not his own but another's man is by nature a slave.

Reason is the slave of passion.

You are a slave of what you need in your soul.

If you are not their slaves, you are rebels.

Riches cannot rescue from the grave, which claims alike the monarch and the slave.

Died—Negro Tom, the famous African Calculator, aged 80 years. He was the property of Mrs. Elizabeth Cox of Alexandria. Tom was a very black man. He was brought to this country at the age of 14, and was sold as a slave.... This man was a prodigy. Though he could never read or write, he had perfectly acquired the art of enumeration.... He could multiply seven into itself, that product by seven, and the products, so produced, by seven, for seven times. He could give the number of months, days, weeks, hours, minutes, and seconds in any period of time that any person chose to mention, allowing in his calculation for all leap years that happened in the time; he would give the number of poles, yards, feet, inches, and barley-corns in any distance, say the diameter of the earth's orbit; and in every calculation he would produce the true answer in less time than ninety-nine men out of a hundred would produce with their pens. And, what was, perhaps, more extraordinary, though interrupted in the progress of his calculation, and engaged in discourse necessary for him to begin again, but he would ... cast up plots of land. He took great notice of the lines of land which he had seen surveyed. He drew just conclusions from facts; surprisingly so, for his opportunities. Had his [Thomas Fuller’s] opportunity been equal to those of thousands of his fellow-men ... even a NEWTON himself, need have ashamed to acknowledge him a Brother in Science.

You don't become completely free by just avoiding being a slave; you also need to avoid becoming a master.

The master is a slave when he fears those whom he rules.

If I could save the Union without freeing any slave, I would do it.

If there is a God, there should be no slaves.

Karl Marx, a visionary, figured out that you can control a slave much better by convincing him he is an employee.

Men must be either the slaves of duty, or the slaves of force.

To Xeniades, who had purchased Diogenes at the slave market, he said, "Come, see that you obey orders."

I have discovered that a famed familiarity in great ones is a note of certain usurpation on the less; for great and popular men feign themselves to be servants to others to make those slaves to them.

No more slave States; no slave Territories.

Economics is a slave-driver. No one has free time; no one has any leisure.

There are cases where the slave does not know his servitude and where it is necessary to bring the seed of his liberation to him from the outside: his submission is not enough to justify the tyranny which is imposed upon him.

Once a man has tasted freedom he will never be content to be a slave.

Whoever then wishes to be free, let him neither wish for anything nor avoid anything which depends on others: if he does not observe this rule, he must be a slave.

Money, as it increases, becomes either the master or the slave of ts owner.

A Briton even in love should be A subject, not a slave!