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If any should be slaves, it should be first those who desire it for themselves, and secondly, those who desire it for others
Men's actions are too strong for them. Show me a man who has acted, and who has not been the victim and slave of his action.
When the master has come to do everything through the slave, the slave becomes his master, since he cannot live without him.
The Bible is a radically pro-slavery document. Slave owners waved Bibles over their heads in the Civil War and justified it.
As with most things in my life, I believe you should try to enjoy yourself and never feel like you are a slave to a routine.
And I particularly like the whole thing of being boss. Boss and employee... It's the slave quality that I find very alluring.
Renzi is a pawn. Renzi is a dumb slave at the disposal of nameless people who want to control all of our lives from Brussels.
Playing only when you have a strong hand, also known as being a slave to the cards, is simply not the way to win tournaments.
When I was six years old, my mother died; and then, for the first time, I learned, by the talk around me, that I was a slave.
The right to freedom being the gift of God, it is not in the power of man to alienate this gift and voluntarily become a slave.
God Almighty has set before me two great objects, the suppression of the slave trade and the reformation of manners (morality).
If God is the master of the universe, then what are we? The slaves of the universe? If so, let each man become proud Spartacus!
Reason is, and ought only to be the slave of the passions, and can never pretend to any other office than to serve and obey them.
A slave has but one master; an ambitious man has as many masters as there are people who may be useful in bettering his position.
All of us in the Ball family in South Carolina, from the time we're children, hear stories about our ancestors, the slave owners.
When people slave over those scripts and pay hundreds of thousands of dollars for them, they don't usually want you to add farts.
Plato once wanted to punish one of his slaves and asked his nephew to do the actual whipping for he himself did not own his anger.
Though no one would want to be sold as a slave, it is perhaps even more galling to be a sort of utility slave whom no one will buy.
Either you are a citizen or you are not a citizen at all. If you are citizen, you are free; if youre not a citizen you are a slave.
I don't like favors; they oppress and make me fell like a slave. I'd rather do everything for myself, and be perfectly independent.
La femme marie e est un esclave qu'il faut savoir mettre sur un tro" n e. A married woman is a slave whom one must put on a throne.
It is hard to have a Southern overseer; it is worse to have a Northern one; but worst of all when you are yourself the slave-driver.
My native land is a slave of heathenism, men's god is their belly, and they live only for the present. The richer a man, the holier.
No sublime wisdom asks to be worshipped or served; the greatest and the most honourable masters are those who refuse to have slaves!
All throughout filming '12 Years a Slave,' there was a focus like no other. Everyone took ownership of this film and gave their all.
The impression was gaining ground with me that it was a good thing to let the money be my slave and not make myself a slave to money.
We cannot afford to raise any institution to the rank of a fetish. To do so would be simply to become the slaves of our own machinery.
Homelessness is the actor's fate; physical incapacity to attain what is most required and desired by such a spirit as I am a slave to.
Pleas for white acceptance of black humanity have a long and terrible history in America, stretching back to the first slave narratives.
Under a dictatorship, a nation ceases to exist. All that remains is a fiefdom, a planet of slaves regimented by aliens from outer-space.
The male corporate model is built on a mans greater willingness to be a slave of sorts - especially once he has to provide for children.
And verily for everything that a slave loses there is a substitute, but the one who loses Allah will never find anything to replace Him.
The male corporate model is built on a man's greater willingness to be a slave of sorts - especially once he has to provide for children.
There is no such thing as slow freedom. Freedom is like a birth. Till we are fully free we are slaves. All birth takes place in a moment.
Life is not a finished product, it is only what we make of it, and if we make nothing of it, someone else will, and we will be his slave.
Only my death will determine whether I am 'Mohamed Gandhi', Jinnah's slave, destroyer of the Hindu religion or its servant and protector.
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.
No one is truly free, they are a slave to wealth, fortune, the law, or other people restraining them from acting according to their will.
When God takes your straw, it isn’t because he wants you to remain a slave. It’s because he wants you to take another step toward freedom.
I am an Addictive Personality, they say, a natural slave to passion - and many Doctors have warned me against it. I am a High-risk Patient.
Emancipation, to be of any value to the slave, must be the free, voluntary act of the master, performed from a conviction of its propriety.
I expect to plead not for the slave only, but for suffering humanity everywhere. Especially do I mean to labor for the elevation of my sex.
When a man's earning his living doing things he doesn't like, he feels like a slave; when he's doing what he loves, he feels like a prince.
If you are not prepared to resign or be fired for what you believe in, then you are not a worker, let alone a professional. You are a slave.
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?
The slave has but one master, the ambitious man has as many as there are persons whose aid may contribute to the advancement of his fortunes.
For me, my 'X' replaced the white slave master name of 'Little' which some blue-eyed devil named Little had imposed on my parental forebears.
Your son at five is your master, at ten your slave, at fifteen your double, and after that, your friend or foe, depending on his bringing up.
There has never been a slave who did not choose to be a slave. Their choice may be between bondage and death, but the choice is always there.
On the king's gate the moss grew gray; The king came not. They call'd him dead; And made his eldest son, one day, Slave in his father's stead.