Quotes on Be A Slave

I didn't know I was a slave until I found out I couldn't do the things I wanted.

Whenever I hear anyone arguing for slavery, I feel a strong impulse to see it tried on him personally.

This is slavery, not to speak one's thought.

Is it freedom to be a slave to the senses, to anger, to jealousies and a hundred other petty things that must occur every day in human life?

To begin depriving death of its greatest advantage over us, let us adopt a way clean contrary to that common one; let us deprive death of its strangeness, let us frequent it, let us get used to it; let us have nothing more often in mind than death... We do not know where death awaits us: so let us wait for it everywhere." "To practice death is to practice freedom. A man who has learned how to die has unlearned how to be a slave.

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

As legal slavery passed, we entered into a permanent period of unemployment and underemployment from which we have yet to emerge.

He who seeks freedom for anything but freedom's self is made to be a slave.

Freedom means you are unobstructed in living your life as you choose. Anything less is a form of slavery.

The slave is doomed to worship time and fate and death, because they are greater than anything he finds in himself, and because all his thoughts are of things which they devour.

Abraham Lincoln recognized that we could not survive as a free land when some men could decide that others were not fit to be free and should therefore be slaves. Likewise, we cannot survive as a free nation when some men decide that others are not fit to live and should be abandoned to abortion or infanticide.

The Grecians and Romans were strongly possessed of the spirit of liberty but not the principle, for at the time they were determined not to be slaves themselves, they employed their power to enslave the rest of mankind.

As long as we have a master in heaven, we will be slaves on earth.

If we cannot give freedom to every creature, let us do nothing that will impose slavery upon any other creature.

So plain that no one, high or low, ever does mistake it, except in a plainly selfish way; for although volume upon volume is written to prove slavery a very good thing, we never hear of the man who wishes to take the good of it, by being a slave himself.

The man who asks of freedom anything other than itself is born to be a slave.

The individual has totally different interests from the society, because the society has no soul. The society is soulless. And if you become too much a part of the society, it will reduce your soul also to a non-entity. Beware, before you have lost your whole opportunity. Don't be a slave. Follow society to the point you feel is needed, but always remain master of your own destiny.

The moment the slave resolves that he will no longer be a slave, his fetters fall. Freedom and slavery are mental states.

Captivity is the greatest of all evils that can befall one.

Not only was I not born to be a slave; I was not born to hope to become the equal of the slave master.

Those who deny freedom to others deserve it not for themselves.