Since the discovery of printing, knowledge has been called to power, and power has been used to make knowledge a slave.
I WAS born a slave; but I never knew it till six years of happy childhood had passed away
Being frozen into the passive position of an object whose very existence depends on the eye of its beholder turn the educated modern Western women into a harem slave.
To Xeniades, who had purchased Diogenes at the slave market, he said, "Come, see that you obey orders.
It's fine to be a great democrat when you've a slave to rub your boots on.
Let me state here and now that the black woman in America can justly be described as a 'slave of a slave.
Every one of us should be ashamed to be free while his brother is a slave.
Once a man has tasted freedom he will never be content to be a slave.
No more slave States and no more slave territory.
A [typical] worker is a part-time slave.
True liberty does violence to self and, like Christ, who disregarded that he was sovereign becomes a slave to serve others.
The covetous person is full of fear; and he or she who lives in fear will ever be a slave.
I can understand the poor and stupid voting for Marxism or one of its fashionable variants. If you've no hope of being other than a slave, you may as well opt for the most efficient form of slavery.
Lacanian theory must be understood as a kind of “slave morality.
True, I used to see a lot of hope. I saw men tear down the veils behind which the truth had been hidden. But then the same men, when they have power in their hands at last, began to find the veils useful. They made many more. Life has not changed. Only some people have been growing, becoming different, that is all. After a youth spent fighting the white man, why should not the president discover as he grows older that his real desire has been to be like the white governor himself, to live above all the blackness in the big old slave castle?
Books are messengers of freedom. They can be hidden under a mattress or smuggled into slave nations.
We found water. We passed into a more fertile country where were grass and fruit. We found the trail to Babylon because the soul of a free man looks at life as a series of problems to be solved and solves them, while the soul of a slave whines, 'What can I do who am but a slave?
for nothing can be more reasonable, than that slaves and flatterers should exact the same taxes on all below them, which they themselves pay to all above them.
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.
The right to life is the source of all rights -- and the right to property is their only implementation. Without property rights, no other rights are possible. Since man has to sustain his life by his own effort, the man who has no right to the product of his effort has no means to sustain his life. The man who produces while others dispose of his product, is a slave.