(127 quotes found)
“You're all a bunch of fuckin' slaves!”
Jim Morrison
“No one is more enslaved than a slave who doesn't think they're enslaved.”
Kate Beckinsale
“If you are ruled by mind you are a king; if by body, a slave.”
Cato The Elder
“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
“Nobody had ever instructed him that a slave-ship, with a procession of expectant sharks in its wake, is a missionary institution, by which closely-packed heathen are brought over to enjoy the light of the Gospel.”
Harriet Beecher Stowe
“As long as a word remains unspoken, you are its master; once you utter it, you are its slave.”
Solomon Ibn Gabirol ben Judah
“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
“I freed a thousand slaves I could have freed a thousand more if only they knew they were slaves.”
Harriet Tubman
“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
“Necessity is the argument of tyrants, it is the creed of slaves.”
William Pitt the younger