Slavery Quotes

When work is a pleasure, life is a joy! When work is a duty, life is slavery. (Maxim Gorky)
This is slavery, not to speak one's thought. View quote
Euripides
War is peace. Freedom is slavery. Ignorance is strength. View quote
George Orwell
Machines are worshipped because they are beautiful and valued because they confer power; they are hated because they are hideous and loathed because they impose slavery. View quote
Bertrand Russell
For in reason, all government without the consent of the governed is the very definition of slavery. View quote
Jonathan Swift
Where annual elections end where slavery begins. View quote
John Quincy Adams
Injustice, poverty, slavery, ignorance - these may be cured by reform or revolution. But men do not live only by fighting evils. They live by positive goals, individual and collective, a vast variety of them, seldom predictable, at times incompatible. View quote
Isaiah Berlin
Any unarmed people are slaves, or are subject to slavery at any given moment. View quote
Huey P. Newton
Americans are so enamored of equality that they would rather be equal in slavery than unequal in freedom. View quote
Alexis de Tocqueville
Enjoying things which are pleasant that is not the evil it is the reducing of our moral self to slavery by them that is. View quote
Thomas Carlyle
Slavery is a weed that grows on every soil. (Edmund Burke)
A great fortune is a great slavery. View quote
Seneca
Stardom can be a gilded slavery. View quote
Helen Hayes
If there is a State, there must be domination of one class by another and, as a result, slavery; the State without slavery is unthinkable – and this is why we are the enemies of the State. View quote
Mikhail Bakunin
I am inclined to believe that the sin of slavery is one of which it may be said that without the shedding of blood there is no remission. View quote
James A. Garfield
Emancipate yourselves from mental slavery, none but ourselves can free our minds! View quote
Bob Marley
You cannot have Liberty in this world without what you call Moral Virtue, and you cannot have Moral Virtue without the slavery of that half of the human race who hate what you call Moral Virtue. View quote
William Blake
Love that does not renew itself every day becomes a habit and in turn a slavery. View quote
Kahlil Gibran
Being born is like being kidnapped. And then sold into slavery. View quote
Andy Warhol
I build no system. I ask an end to privilege, the abolition of slavery, equality of rights, and the reign of law. Justice, nothing else; that is the alpha and omega of my argument: to others I leave the business of governing the world. View quote
Pierre-Joseph Proudhon
Some people try to get you out of slavery for you to be their slave. (Mike Tyson)
Wealth is a tool of freedom, but the pursuit of wealth is the way to slavery. View quote
Frank Herbert
Whenever I hear anyone arguing for slavery, I feel a strong impulse to see it tried on him personally. View quote
Abraham Lincoln
Without peace, there is no freedom, individual or national. War and hostilities are a form of slavery. View quote
Klas Pontus Arnoldson
Decolonization actually boosted slavery. As foreign powers withdrew from the colonies, people were enslaved by their own countrymen. And we see it in Africa, we see it in Asia. View quote
Loretta Napoleoni