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I am the slave of my baptism. Parents, you have caused my misfortune, and you have caused your own.

Imitation causes us to leave natural ways to enter into artificial ones; it therefore makes slaves.

This is the artist, then, life's hungry man, the glutton of eternity, beauty's miser, glory's slave.

Art should never be a slave to commerce, but for all working artists that's exactly what it must be.

Books are messengers of freedom. They can be hidden under a mattress or smuggled into slave nations.

Vanity is the most despotic and iniquitous of masters, and I can never be the slave of my own vices.

Many attempts had been made by colonial legislatures to cut off or to tax the importation of slaves.

Why hast thou made me born in this country, The inhabitant of which is satisfied with being a slave?

Several hundred years ago, the only thing that slave families had was cooking and their family meals.

If you're not confident in the authority of the Scriptures, you will be a slave to what sounds right.

The one who is good, is free even being a slave; the one who is bad remains a slave even being a king.

God will take care of the poor trampled slave, but where will the slaveholder be when eternity begins?

A Gorean slave girl in the presence of a free man or woman always kneels, unless excused from doing so.

Before the American Revolution there were frequent slave uprisings, and a lot of people would run away.

To Xeniades, who had purchased Diogenes at the slave market, he said, "Come, see that you obey orders."

Quing-Jao: I am a slave to the gods, and I rejoice in it. Jane: A slave who rejoices is a slave indeed.

I didn't know that '12 Years a Slave' was being filmed at the same time we were making 'The Retrieval.'

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

My mother said, "Money is a great slave but a horrible master." It was her version of a French proverb.

I can literally count on one hand how many slave stories have gotten notoriety over the past few years.

Our passions may be compared to certain slaves--the more severity we show them, the better they obey us.

When we are in contact with our feelings and needs, we humans no longer make good slaves and underlings.

You can still sit under the tree where Dr. Livingstone negotiated with slave traders to set people free.

They say if you drink Zambezi water with your mother's milk, you are always a slave of Africa, and I am.

A race of altruists is necessarily a race of slaves. A race of free men is necessarily a race of egoists.

As soon as extreme attachment comes, a man loses himself, he is no more master of himself, he is a slave.

Why should we break up Our snug and pleasant party? Time was made for slaves, But never for us so hearty.

Let me state here and now that the black woman in America can justly be described as a 'slave of a slave.

If we should ever get to Heaven, we shall find nobody to reproach us for being black, or for being slaves.

The problems with First Ladies is that you have to set the standard. My role is to be both star and slave.

Trust me that as I ignore all law to help the slave, so will I ignore it all to protect an enslaved woman.

You don't become completely free by just avoiding being a slave; you also need to avoid becoming a master.

My life has not been the best possible. The slave of impulse, I have rushed forward to my own destruction.

All black Americans have slave names. They have white names; names that the slave master has given to them.

Columbus not only sent the first slaves acroiss the Atlantic, he sent more slaves than any other individual

A slave-holder cannot hold a slave without putting himself or his deputy in the cage for holding the slave.

There is no king who has not had a slave among his ancestors, and no slave who has not had a king among his.

Slave girls on Gor address all free men as Master, though, of course only one such would be her true Master.

You should not be a slave to your telephone. The technology is there to serve you, not the other way around.

A slave has but one master. An ambition man, has as many as there are people who helped him get his fortune.

What are your Axioms, and Categories, and Systems, and Aphorisms? Words, words.... Be not the slave of Words.

Wisely used history can give pleasure and provide us with a useful tool; but we should not become its slaves.

I wouldn't call him a slave. I don't whip him when he does something wrong. Just when he does something good.

Women slave for their hair! It's all about how we compare ourselves to other women, how we size ourselves up.

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

Slaves were expected to sing as well as to work. A silent slave was not liked, either by masters or overseers.

There is a reason it used to be a crime in the Confederate states to teach a slave to read: Literacy is power.

Can you not see that women could do and would do a hundred times more for the slave, if she were not fettered?

In the twenty-first century, the robot will take the place which slave labor occupied in ancient civilization.

I don't like to think that I am a slave to technique, or so inept that I have to restrict myself to one method.

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