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Quotes About Slave

The carnal mind makes a man a perfect slave to his vicious appetite.
~ Matthew Henry
of earlier thoughts, as he claimed it was. His horrified fascination with slave revolt and race war was a constant, in private as well as in public speeches.
~ Unknown
Pain is itself a god: the taskmaster of life. Pain cracks the whip, and all that lives will move. To live is to be a slave to pain.
~ Matthew Stover
Learning the happiness habit, you become a master instead of a slave, or as Robert Louis Stevenson said, "The habit of being happy enables one to be freed, or largely freed, from the domination of outward conditions.
~ Maxwell Maltz
When every aspiration is frustrated, a person still must seek a meaningful goal around which to organize the self. Then, even though that person is objectively a slave, subjectively he is free.
~ Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi
Cz?owiek jest niewolnikiem swego serca i zamyka oczy na to, co nie jest dla niego przyjemne, a wierzy w to, na co ma nadziej?.
~ Mika Waltari
Such a faith would be fatal to my reason, to my liberty, and even to the success of my undertakings it would immediately transform me into a stupid slave, an instrument of the will and interests of others.
~ Mikhail Bakunin
Three things take the slave to God's pleasure: 1) Increase in seeking forgiveness 2) Gentleness 3) Increased charity giving
~ Unknown
The mind is the master, at the same time it acts as the best slave that never rests or sleeps.
~ Unknown
True leadership is service and sometimes bondage. Thus, Jesus ends up washing the feet of his pupils. The master acting as a slave.
~ Unknown
I think the fear gets into your blood. It makes your subatomic particles twist and distort. You change, chemically. The fear changes, too. It because not your helper, but your master. You are a slave to it.
~ Nancy Werlin
Fashion condemns us to many follies; the greatest is to make ourselves its slave.
~ Napoleon Bonaparte
His body had been doing that for almost two thousand years. Since his time as a slave on the Obsidia.
~ Unknown
Yes, the death of young men in battle is a tragedy - I'd lost four brothers, I didn't need anybody to tell me that. A tragedy worthy of any number of laments - but theirs is not the worst fate. I looked at Andromache, who'd have to live the rest of her amputated life as a slave, and I thought: We need a new song.
~ Pat Barker
but perhaps no kindness was possible between owner and slave, only varying degrees of brutality?
~ Pat Barker
The cultivation of those sciences which have enlarged the limits of the empire of man over the external world, has, for want of poetical faculty, proportionally circumscribed those of the internal world; and man, having enslaved the elements, remains himself a slave.
~ Percy Bysshe Shelley
Implacable hate, patient cunning, and a sleepless refinement of device to inflict the extremest anguish on an enemy, these things are evil; and, although venial in a slave are not to be forgiven in a tyrant; although
~ Percy Bysshe Shelley
Asia: Who is the master of the slave? Demogorgon: If the abysm could vomit forth its secrets...But a voice is wanting, the deep truth is imageless; For what would it avail to bid thee gaze on the revolving world? What to bid speak Fate, Time, Occasion, Chance, and Change? To these all things are subject but eternal Love.
~ Percy Bysshe Shelley
But if a priest buys a slave with his own money, or if a slave is born in his household, that slave may eat his food.
~ Leviticus 22:11
Then David asked him, “To whom do you belong, and where are you from?” “I am an Egyptian,” he replied, “the slave of an Amalekite. My master abandoned me three days ago when I fell ill.
~ 1 Samuel 30:13
Will he make a covenant with you to take him as a slave for life?
~ Job 41:4
He sent a man before them—Joseph, sold as a slave.
~ Psalm 105:17
Luxury is unseemly for a fool—how much worse for a slave to rule over princes!
~ Proverbs 19:10
No, I discipline my body and make it my slave, so that after I have preached to others, I myself will not be disqualified.
~ 1 Corinthians 9:27