Quotes with slave

  • Your secret is your prisoner; once you reveal it, you become its slave.
  • The person who is master of their passions is reason's slave.
  • He will always be a slave who does not know how to live upon a little.
  • A creditor is worse than a slave-owner; for the master owns only your person, but a creditor owns your dignity, and can command it.
  • 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.
  • Without self knowledge, without understanding the working and functions of his machine, man cannot be free, he cannot govern himself and he will always remain a slave.
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  • Camille Paglia Men are run ragged by female sexuality all their lives. From the beginning of his life to the end, no man ever fully commands any woman. It's an illusion. Men are pussy-whipped. And they know it. That's what the strip clubs are about; not woman as victim, not woman as slave, but woman as goddess.
    As quoted in Sexuality and Gender (2002)
    Camille Paglia
    American academic and social critic (1947 - )
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  • Ezra Pound A slave is one who waits for someone to come and free him.
    Ezra Pound
    American poet (1885 - 1972)
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  • St. Augustine of Hippo He that is kind is free, though he is a slave; he that is evil is a slave, though he be a king.
    St. Augustine of Hippo
    Roman African Christian theologian and philosopher (354 - 430)
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  • Aristotle 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.
    Aristotle
    Greek philosopher (384 - 322)
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  • Anni-Frid Lyngstad I like to think of myself as being fashion-conscious without being a slave to fashion.
    Anni-Frid Lyngstad
    Norwegian-Swedish singer and environmentalist
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  • Epictetus It is the nature of the wise to resist pleasures, but the foolish to be a slave to them.
    Epictetus
    Roman philosopher (50 - 130)
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  • Solomon Ibn Gabirol Your secret is your prisoner; once you reveal it, you become its slave.
    Solomon Ibn Gabirol
    Andalusian poet and Jewish philosopher (1021 - 1058)
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  • Victor Hugo A creditor is worse than a slave-owner; for the master owns only your person, but a creditor owns your dignity, and can command it.
    Victor Hugo
    French writer (1802 - 1885)
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  • Abraham Lincoln A house divided against itself cannot stand - I believe this government cannot endure permanently half slave and half free.
    Abraham Lincoln
    American statesman (1809 - 1865)
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  • Ralph Waldo Emerson A man in debt is so far a slave.
    Ralph Waldo Emerson
    American poet and philosopher (1803 - 1882)
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  • Jean de la Bruyère A slave has but one master. An ambition man, has as many as there are people who helped him get his fortune.
    Jean de la Bruyère
    French writer (1645 - 1696)
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  • Ralph Waldo Emerson Act, if you like, but you do it at your peril. Men's actions are too strong for them. Show me a man who has acted and who has not been the victim and slave of his action.
    Ralph Waldo Emerson
    American poet and philosopher (1803 - 1882)
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  • Abraham Lincoln As I would not be a slave, so I would not be a master. This expresses my idea of democracy.
    Abraham Lincoln
    American statesman (1809 - 1865)
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  • Barry Unsworth As I wrote I began to see more strongly that there were inescapable analogies. You couldn't really live through the '80s without feeling how crass and distasteful some of the economic doctrines were. The slave trade is a perfect model for that kind of total devotion to the profit motive without reckoning the human consequences.
    Barry Unsworth
    English writer (1930 - 2012)
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  • Thomas Carlyle Be not a slave of words.
    Thomas Carlyle
    Scottish writer and historicus (1795 - 1881)
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  • Thomas Carlyle Be not a slave of words.
    Thomas Carlyle
    Scottish writer and historicus (1795 - 1881)
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  • Angelina Grimke Can you not see that women could do and would do a hundred times more for the slave, if she were not fettered?
    Angelina Grimke
    American activists and female advocates of abolition and women's rights (1805 - 1879)
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  • Ralph Waldo Emerson 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
    American poet and philosopher (1803 - 1882)
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  • Karl Kraus Democracy means the opportunity to be everyone's slave.
    Karl Kraus
    Austrian writer and journalist (1874 - 1936)
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  • Samuel Johnson 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
    English writer (1709 - 1784)
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