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Corrupted freemen are the worst of slaves. — David Garrick

Seeming's enough for slaves of space and time ours is the now and here of freedom . Come — E. E. Cummings

I regret the unhappiness of princes who are slaves to forms and fettered by caution. — Elizabeth I

When it comes to being slaves to fashion, American managers make adolescent girls look like rugged individualists. — Geoffrey Nunberg

Most self-employed people remain slaves to the employed's working hours. — Mokokoma Mokhonoana

The Pyramids of Tsort by moonlight!' breathed Ysabell, 'How romantic!'
MORTARED WITH THE BLOOD OF THOUSANDS OF SLAVES — Terry Pratchett

No sublime wisdom asks to be worshipped or served; the greatest and the most honourable masters are those who refuse to have slaves! — Mehmet Murat Ildan

We must free the slaves or be ourselves subdued. — Abraham Lincoln

War is father of all, and king of all. He renders some gods, others men; he makes some slaves, others free. — Heraclitus

I cry looking at our reality, through slave eyes. I bet they would say our generation has crossed the line. — Delano Johnson

Like all wage slaves, he had two crosses to bear: the people he worked for and the people he worked with — Stephen Vizinczey

Disobedience is the true foundation of liberty. The obedient must be slaves. — Henry David Thoreau

Superiors got all the good things in life. Commoners got what was left. Slaves got a beating if they complained. — Yuval Noah Harari

Kings are the slaves of history. — Leo Tolstoy

I personally keep slave documents listing the value of slaves framed on my wall in California, and in my office in Chicago. — Sue Monk Kidd

From our birth to our death we are all the slaves of suggestion. — Emile Coue

But what makes wage slaves? Wages! — Groucho Marx

Slavery it is that makes slavery; freedom, freedom. The slavery of women happened when the men were slaves of kings. — Ralph Waldo Emerson

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

Christians, like slaves and soldiers, ask no questions. — Jerry Falwell

Through the messages of miracles and breakthrough,people are now more like slaves than human beings. — Sunday Adelaja

Fear is the passion of slaves. — Patrick Henry

There's leaders, and there's followers ... but I'd rather be a d*ck than a swallower — Kanye West

Theism tells men that they are the slaves of a God. Atheism assures men that they are the investigators and users of nature. — E. Haldeman-Julius

The best traders are simply slaves to the market's price action — Steve Burns

There was a great deal of inbreeding between the Indians and the slaves. Genetically speaking, black people are some part black, some part European. — Alex Haley

Social media had the unique ability to turn adults into immature slaves to drama. — Santino Hassell

Marriage is slavery, I said. And when God made us human - if God exists - He didn't intend for us to be slaves to each other. — Viet Thanh Nguyen

Make us your slaves, but feed us. — Fyodor Dostoevsky

Abraham Lincoln got shot and died,
Freed the slaves so they put him on the five. — Too $hort

Under a dictatorship, a nation ceases to exist. All that remains is a fiefdom, a planet of slaves regimented by aliens from outer space. — Wole Soyinka

Free white workers were better off than slaves or servants, but they still resented unfair treatment by the wealthier classes. — Howard Zinn

we are always the slaves to whomever or whatever we look to for peace. — Andy Wood

The masters and overseers were so good at employee development, in their absence, the employees still achieved the company's mission — Darnell Lamont Walker

Being deceived into thinking the perks of slavery are a good thing, we can easily aquire a preference for chains and a taste for the slaves rations. — Dennis Green

Slaves lose everything in their chains, even the desire of escaping from them. — Jean-Jacques Rousseau

We were castoffs and slaves, orphans and unwanteds and used-to-be princesses...and we were mighty.

pg 288 — Lesley Livingston

These conquerors of the world are slaves to their passions, and someday their passions will bring them down. — Francine Rivers

Desire makes slaves out of kings, while patience makes kings out of slaves. — Abu Hamid Al-Ghazali

And so we smile on, Feeding the truths we share With a union of our souls, Cathedral slaves of our passion Which builds beauty amongst chaos. — Scott Hastie

We are runaway slaves from our own past, and only by turning to face the hounds can we find our freedom beyond them. — Timothy B. Tyson

We are slaves to whatever we don't understand. — Vernon Howard

We owe to our Mother-Country the Duty of Subjects but will not pay her the Submission of Slaves. — George Mason

Property is not the natural and obvious and inevitable concept that most people think it is. — Robert A. Heinlein

All men shall be my slaves! All women shall succumb to my charms! All mankind shall grovel at my feet and not know why! — L. Ron Hubbard

Time was made for slaves. — John Baldwin Buckstone

Swords were given to men, that none might be Slaves, but such as know not how to use them. — Algernon Sidney

We are all born free
and spend a lifetime
becoming slaves
to our own
false truths. — Atticus Poetry

The worst thing about slavery is that the slaves eventually get to like it. — Aristotle.

I freed thousands of slaves, and could have freed thousands more, if they had known they were slaves. — Harriet Tubman

Some of today's slaves sleep on king size beds. — Mokokoma Mokhonoana

Slaves are governed by the fear of man, and, whenever the fear of man replaces the fear of God in a society, slavery reappears and increases. — Rousas John Rushdoony

Fugitive slaves were rare then, and as a fugitive slave lecturer, I had the advantage of being the first one out. — Frederick Douglass

Like most Rebel soldiers, Sam Watkins owned no slaves. — Bruce Catton

Rome only exists because of slaves. That's how it functions. We are its muscles, its brains, and most of all its secrets. — Lesley Livingston

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

When enough people realize that they are slaves but don't have to be, revolutions happen. — J.S.B. Morse

If God is the master of the universe, then what are we? The slaves of the universe? If so, let each man become proud Spartacus! — Mehmet Murat Ildan

No, Freedom has a thousand charms to show
That slaves, howe'er contented, never know. — William Cowper

When the slaves left Africa, they left us this music. They left us blues. — Youssou N'Dour

Support what is good and spit out what is bad. Get off of your knees and reject the role of slave to the culture of violence. — Bryant McGill

These people are committed to one person. They are Master's and slaves, or Doms and subs who don't share — B.S.M. Stoneking

When we teach people to run after miracles, we make them slaves. — Sunday Adelaja

When the looms spin by themselves, we'll have no need for slaves. — Aristotle.

Though being freed from sin, most remain slaves, blinded and gagged by their own deception. — Ted Dekker

Friendship is a disinterested commerce between equals; love an abject intercourse between tyrants and slaves. — Oliver Goldsmith

When the passage "All men are born free and equal," when that passage was being written were not some of the signers legalised owners of slaves? — Herman Melville

By all men bond to Nothing, Being slaves without a lord, By one blind idiot world obeyed, Too blind to be abhorred. — Gilbert K. Chesterton

Let us in the name of the Holy Trinity go on sending all the slaves that can be sold. — Howard Zinn

Words, like people, hate to be the slaves of ideas — Marty Rubin

FORBIDDEN BRIDES OF THE FACELESS SLAVES IN THE SECRET HOUSE OF THE NIGHT OF DREAD DESIRE — Neil Gaiman

All dreams of empire end because day breaks in the hearts of the slaves used to build it. — Luke Montgomery

In this age of 'whatever,' Americans are becoming slaves to the new tyranny of nonchalance. James Morris — George F. Will

I would rather be a freeman among slaves than a slave among freemen. — Jonathan Swift

To bind one free man with love is better than to release a thousand slaves. — Idries Shah

The state is made for man, not man for the state ... That is to say, the state should be our servant and not we its slaves — Albert Einstein

Whenever all men are ... hastening to be slaves or tyrants we make Liberalism the prime bogey. — C.S. Lewis

The world's greatest need is preaching preachers. The Gospel is our emancipation proclamation: let's take it to the slaves of sin. — Lester Roloff

Too many Christians live their lives like slaves - to the devil - because they believe his lies more than they trust God. — Joyce Meyer

Why should we break up Our snug and pleasant party? Time was made for slaves, But never for us so hearty. — John Baldwin Buckstone

The worst of slaves is he whom passion rules. — Rupert Brooke

Southern women often marry a man knowing that he is the father of many little slaves. They do not trouble themselves about it. — Harriet Ann Jacobs

AMBITION MAKES MORE TRUSTY SLAVES THAN NEED — Ben Jonson

We are masters of our characters and in turn, slaves of their outgrowth. — Mohammed Ali Bapir

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

For still the new transcends the old In signs and tokens manifold; Slaves rise up men; the olive waves, With roots deep set in battle graves! — John Greenleaf Whittier

Slaves of Plastic! Leather-shoe chino-pants prisoners! Haircut junkies! Dacron-shiffers! — Allen Ginsberg

The slaves toiling in the temple of this god began to feel rebellion at his harsh tasks. — Stephen Crane

We are slaves of our weaknesses until we free ourselves through our strengths. — Ben Tolosa

Slaves do not always welcome their deliverers. They become accustomed to being slaves. They would rather gear those ills they have — Martin Luther King Jr.

We were free to create, as long as we never forgot that we are slaves to Jesus. — Francis A. Schaeffer

You have lascivious thoughts And keep them to yourself Words are your slaves Flesh quivers under your fingertips — Demetrios Anastasia

The severe household has no fierce slaves, but it is the affectionate mother. — Han Fei

Only in thought is man a God; in action and desire we are the slaves of circumstance. — Bertrand Russell

They are my slaves [ books and papers ] and they must serve me as I please. — Karl Marx

It [feminism] is mixed up with a muddled idea that women are free when they serve their employers but slaves when they help their husbands. — G.K. Chesterton

Who is the descendant of the slavemasters a descendant of slaves to fight other people in thier own country? — Muhammad Ali

We are slaves to the cost of living. — Carolina Maria De Jesus

If Lincoln freed the slaves and preserved the Union, how come
'Lincolnesque' just means tall? — Calvin Trillin

I sedulously refrained from doing anything that would incite slaves to run away from their masters. — Hiram Rhodes Revels