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The fact is, that civilization requires slaves. Human slavery is wrong, insecure, and demoralizing. On mechanical slavery, on the slavery of the machine, the future of the world depends.
- Wilde, Oscar
Slavery Motivational Quotes



Best Quotes about Slavery

1.
You can be up to your boobies in white satin, with gardenias in your hair and no sugar cane for miles, but you can still be working on a plantation.
Holiday, Billie

2.
Slavery is so intolerable a condition that the slave can hardly escape deluding himself into thinking that he is choosing to obey his master's commands when, in fact, he is obliged to. Most slaves of habit suffer from this delusion and so do some writers, enslaved by an all too personal style.
Auden, W. H.

3.
Slavery is no more sinful, by the Christian code, than it is sinful to wear a whole coat, while another is in tatters, to eat a better meal than a neighbor, or otherwise to enjoy ease and plenty, while our fellow creatures are suffering and in want.
Cooper, James F.

4.
Slavery is the first step towards civilization. In order to develop it is necessary that things should be much better for some and much worse for others, then those who are better off can develop at the expense of others.
Herzen, Alexander

5.
Slavery can only be abolished by raising the character of the people who compose the nation; and that can be done only by showing them a higher one.
Chapman, Maria Weston

6.
Slaves lose everything in their chains, even the desire of escaping from them.
Rousseau, Jean Jacques

7.
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.
Russell, Bertrand

8.
The art of being a slave is to rule one's master.
Diogenes of Sinope

9.
So long as the law considers all these human beings, with beating hearts and living affections, only as so many things belonging to the master -- so long as the failure, or misfortune, or imprudence, or death of the kindest owner, may cause them any day to exchange a life of kind protection and indulgence for one of hopeless misery and toil -- so long it is impossible to make anything beautiful or desirable in the best-regulated administration of slavery.
Stowe, Harriet Beecher

10.
To relive the relationship between owner and slave we can consider how we treat our cars and dogs -- a dog exercising a somewhat similar leverage on our mercies and an automobile being comparable in value to a slave in those days.
Hoagland, Edward

11.
Men would rather be starving and free than fed in bonds.
Buck, Pearl S.

12.
The genius of any slave system is found in the dynamics which isolate slaves from each other, obscure the reality of a common condition, and make united rebellion against the oppressor inconceivable.
Dworkin, Andrea

13.
Forced from home, and all its pleasures, afric coast I left forlorn; to increase a stranger's treasures, o the raging billows borne. Men from England bought and sold me, paid my price in paltry gold; but, though theirs they have enroll'd me, minds are never to be sold.
Cowper, William

14.
Captivity is the greatest of all evils that can befall one.
Cervantes, Miguel De

15.
A man is no less a slave because he is allowed to choose a new master once in a term of years.
Spooner, Lysander

16.
Slavery is a weed that grows on every soil.
Burke, Edmund

17.
Talk about slavery! It is not the peculiar institution of the South. It exists wherever men are bought and sold, wherever a man allows himself to be made a mere thing or a tool, and surrenders his inalienable rights of reason and conscience. Indeed, this slavery is more complete than that which enslaves the body alone... I never yet met with, or heard of, a judge who was not a slave of this kind, and so the finest and most unfailing weapon of injustice. He fetches a slightly higher price than the black men only because he is a more valuable slave.
Thoreau, Henry David

18.
Do not quench your inspiration and your imagination; do not become the slave of your model.
Gogh, Vincent Van

19.
The distinguishing sign of slavery is to have a price, and to be bought for it.
Ruskin, John

20.
If you are living out of a sense of obligation you are slave.
Dyer, Wayne

21.
The fact is, that civilization requires slaves. Human slavery is wrong, insecure, and demoralizing. On mechanical slavery, on the slavery of the machine, the future of the world depends.
Wilde, Oscar

22.
Some slaves are scoured to their work by whips, others by their restlessness and ambition.
Ruskin, John

23.
Most people seek after what they do not possess and are enslaved by the very things they want to acquire.
El-Sadat, Anwar

24.
Slavery may, perhaps, be best compared to the infantile disease of measles; a complaint which so commonly attacks the young of humanity in their infancy, and when gone through at that period leaves behind it so few fatal marks; but which when it normally attacks the fully developed adult becomes one of the most virulent and toxic of diseases, often permanently poisoning the constitution where it does not end in death.
Schreiner, Olive

25.
Slavery takes hold of few, but many take hold of slavery.
Seneca

26.
Slavery is an institution for converting men into monkeys.
Emerson, Ralph Waldo

27.
Slavery is founded on the selfishness of man's nature -- opposition to it on his love of justice. These principles are in eternal antagonism; and when brought into collision so fiercely as slavery extension brings them, shocks and throes and convulsions must ceaselessly follow.
Lincoln, Abraham

28.
I pity them greatly, but I must be mum, for how could we do without sugar and rum?
Cowper, William

29.
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.
Stowe, Harriet Beecher

30.
It cannot in the opinion of His Majesty's Government be classified as slavery in the extreme acceptance of the word without some risk of terminological inexactitude.
Churchill, Winston

31.
I cannot be fired. Slaves have to be sold.

32.
Today the large organization is lord and master, and most of its employees have been desensitized much as were the medieval peasants who never knew they were serfs.
Nader, Ralph


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