Slave Quotes

A little learning, indeed, may be a dangerous thing, but the want of learning is a calamity to any people.

If you are living out of a sense of obligation you are slave.

Marriage, n: the state or condition of a community consisting of a master, a mistress, and two slaves, making in all, two.

Literature takes its revenge on reality by making it the slave of fiction.

I’m a slave to this leaf in a diary that lists what I must do, what I must say, every half hour.

That was a difference between black slaves and white indentured servants. Black slaves were usually not allowed to keep their names, but were given new names by their owners.

The people of England regards itself as free; but it is grossly mistaken; it is free only during the election of members of parliament. As soon as they are elected, slavery overtakes it, and it is nothing.

The man who is not able to develop and use his mind is bound to be the slave of the other man who uses his mind.

If the human being is a proud and honorable creature, he shouldn’t forget to act that way, even if he falls, even if the whole world is against him, even if he ends as a slave.

He was a tool of the boss, without brains or backbone.