Share on Facebook Share on Twitter Comment on this quote Share via Email Print this Page [141-160] of 209 Slavery quotesSlavery QuotesSlavery Previous 20 quotes Next 20 quotes Whether in chains or in laurels, liberty knows nothing but victories.~ Wendell Phillips Eternal vigilance is the price of liberty.~ Wendell Phillips No free people can lose their liberties while they are jealous of liberty. But the liberties of the freest people are in danger when they set up symbols of liberty as fetishes, worshipping the symbol instead of the principle it represents.~ Wendell Phillips Necessity is the plea for every infringement of human freedom. It is the argument of tyrants; it is the creed of slaves.~ William Pitt Wars in old times were made to get slaves. The modern implement of imposing slavery is debt.~ Ezra Pound The man who produces while others dispose of his product, is a slave.~ Ayn Rand We must find new lands from which we can easily obtain raw materials and at the same time exploit the cheap slave labor that is available from the natives of the colonies. The colonies would also provide a dumping ground for the surplus goods produced in our factories.~ Cecil Rhodes Confronted with such a tight regulation, can man pretend to be free because the tyranny he is subjected to derives from the law? Of course, the legal power is not called "tyranny" since it appears to be established by the general will in the common interest, and since, in any event, occurrences of arbitrary power are infrequent. But a master's equity does not mean that his subjects are not slaves. ... And when their servitude lasts and their thoughts follow their behavior, the state becomes totalitarian and subjection is complete. Since it is legal servitude, the regime is still said to be democratic. Such is the hypocrisy of political language.~ Georges Ripert The man who lives under the servitude of laws takes, without being aware of it, the soul of a slave.~ Georges Ripert One of these days they are going to remove so much of the 'hooey' and the thousands of things the schools have become clogged up with, and we will find that we can educate our broods for about one-tenth of the price and learn 'em something that they might accidentally use after they escape.~ Will Rogers I prefer liberty with danger to peace with slavery.~ Jean-Jacques Rousseau Man is born free, and everywhere he is in chains.~ Jean-Jacques Rousseau There is no subjugation so perfect as that which keeps the appearance of freedom for in that way one captures volition itself.~ Jean-Jacques Rousseau True, it is evil that a single man should crush the herd, but see not there the worse form of slavery, which is when the herd crushes out the man.~ Antoine de Saint-Exupéry A free race cannot be born of slave mothers.~ Margaret Sanger Standing up to a tyrant has always been illegal and dangerous. There is no guarantee but one -- to not live like a slave, nor to die like one.~ Eric Schaub What is freedom? It means not being a slave to any circumstance, to any restraint, to any chance.~ Lucius Annaeus Seneca A great fortune is a great slavery.~ Lucius Annaeus Seneca For no man is free who is a slave to his body.~ Lucius Annaeus Seneca Kindly remember that he whom you call your slave sprang from the same stock, is smiled upon by the same skies, and on equal terms with yourself breathes, lives and dies. It is just as possible for you to see in him a free-born man as for him to see in you a slave.~ Lucius Annaeus Seneca Previous 20 quotes Next 20 quotes Share on Facebook Tweet Email Print