I adore you, Emilia Ward, let me worship you and I will be your dog, your slave… anything you want. Just don’t leave me.
This is how you will remember that you are mine. Every painful touch, every aching hug, will remind you - that you are a slave - to me.
How many women are there ... who because of their husbands' harshness spend their weary lives in the bond of marriage in greater suffering than if they were slaves among the Saracens?
I love drawing on lead. Romans used to curse each other with sheets of it. My slave would come slide the sheet under your door with a curse on it. They had amazing writing and drawings on them, and they survive to this day since lead is so stable.
My grandmother lived to be 100 years old. Her grandmother was a slave, yet she was a college graduate in the Spellman class of 1917. She taught art for 50 years and she saved her Social Security checks for her children's education.
In 1891 the Brazilian Minister of Finance decreed the abolition of history; he ordered the destruction of every document which dealt in any way with slavery or the slave trade; a nation-wide burning of the books.
Give me that man that is not passion's slave, and I will wear him in my heart's core, in my heart of heart, as I do thee.
In modern states, the citizen is politically impotent. A citizen, it is true, may complain, make suggestions, or cause disruptions, but in the ancient world these were privileges that belonged to any slave.
It might seem that the empirical philosopher is the slave of his material, but that the pure mathematician, like the musician, is a free creator of his world of ordered beauty.
I should have known the power-hungry slave drivers at River's Edge would see my five days of freedom only as a challenge to be filled.
We must face the ultimate contradiction that our free and democratic society was made possible by massive slave labor.
My father was a slave to capitalist ideology. He didn't know what he was doing." "You mean you went to an expensive school?
Life. All this. Why do they need to make us do this? Why do they treat us like we're their slaves?" "Power." "Power isn't real. It's just a word.
The mind is constituted to accept the god of the more powerful. If you have to choose between the god of the slave owner and the god of the enslaved, naturally you will choose the former . . .
The crime which is done now is that war has made a tool and slave of science, and man's knowledge, painfully and laboriously compiled, is made the instrument of man's destruction.
Sunday, with its immunity from work, was devised for slaves who got out of all the work they could during the week.
Feel free to become a slave to your own clone. And mine. Remember, you can never have too many lovers who look exactly the same as me.
I ask no paradise on high, With cares on earth oppressed, The only heaven for which I sigh, Is rest, eternal rest.
And I have wondered often, was I master in my soul, or did I become the slave of my own blade?
Where is the fun of living if you are going to make yourself a slave to all sorts of petty rules?" asked Patty wearily.
I think the whole stigma of 'black movies' is slowly being lost. When you look at movies like '12 Years A Slave,' to 'The Butler,' to 'The Best Man,' to 'Ride Along,' to even 'Think Like a Man' from last year - these movies are just good movies.
