Quotes of: Slave Keyword

The augmentation of slaves weakens the states; and such a trade is diabolical in itself, and disgraceful to mankind.

George Mason

And I particularly like the whole thing of being boss. Boss and employee... It's the slave quality that I find very alluring.

Hugh Grant

It's sort of what the Johnny and Devi stories are about, the idea of always being a slave to something.

Jhonen Vasquez

As yet, the Negroes themselves do not fully appreciate these old slave songs.

James Weldon Johnson

Lucilla: Today I saw a slave become more powerful than the Emperor of Rome.

Gladiator

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

Few rappers realize the genre sprang from West African griots through Delta slave songs to jazz poetry and the comedic trash talk of 'the dozens.'

Quincy Jones

The Free State men, myself among them, took it for granted that Missouri was a slave state.

Buffalo Bill

A human being who trades away individuality for conformity is nothing but a slave.

Auliq Ice

As I would not be a slave, so I would not be a master. This expresses my idea of democracy.

Abraham Lincoln

He who will not reason, is a bigot; he who cannot is a fool; and he who dares not is a slave.

William Drummond

He that will not reason is a bigot; he that cannot reason is a fool; and he that dares not reason is a slave.

William Drummond

He that will not reason is a bigot; he that cannot reason is a fool; he that dares not reason is a slave.

William Drummond

All over the world there are enormous numbers of smart, even gifted, people who harbor a passion for science. But that passion is unrequited. Surveys suggest that some 95 percent of Americans are “scientifically illiterate.” That’s just the sam...

The Demon-Haunted World: Science as a Candle in the Dark

Look at the tyranny of party-- at what is called party allegiance, party loyalty-- a snare invented by designing men for selfish purposes-- and which turns voters into chattels, slaves, rabbits; and all the while, their masters, and they themselves a...

Autobiography of Mark Twain, Vol. 1

I was taught how to tie up the loin with a butcher's looping knot and was so excited by the discovery that I went home and practiced. I told Elisa about my achievement. “I tied up everything,” I said. “A leg of lamb, some utensils, a chair. My ...

Heat: An Amateur's Adventures as Kitchen Slave, Line Cook, Pasta-Maker, and Apprentice to a Dante-Quoting Butcher in Tuscany

[first lines] Aibileen Clark: I was born 1911, Chicksaw County, Piedmont Plantation. Woman: And did you know as a girl growing up that one day you'd be a maid? Aibileen Clark: Yes ma'am, I did. Woman: And you knew that because... Aibileen Clark: My m...

The Help

Who could have foretold the heart grows old from touching others

The Energy of Slaves

For what Harley Street specialist has time to understand the body, let alone the mind or both in combination, when he is a slave to thirteen thousand a year?

Virginia Woolf

Rise like the hero you were born to be, or die the slave you think you are.

Age of the Seer

The sweetest pleasure arises from difficulties overcome.

The Moral Sayings of Publius Syrus: A Roman Slave