Slave Quotes

I am not a slave to my thoughts or emotions.
- Richard Carlson

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A man in debt is so far a slave.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson

I believe that it is better to tell the truth than a lie.
I believe it is better to be free than to be a slave.
And I believe it is better to know than to be ignorant.
- H.L. Mencken

I think the person who takes a job in order to live -
that is to say, for the money -
has turned himself into a slave.
- Joseph Campbell

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Thank you for joining me on this journey we call life,
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie

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

The best slave does not need to be beaten. She beats herself.
- Erica Jong

It is the nature of the wise to resist pleasures,
but the foolish to be a slave to them.
- Epictetus

Men's actions are too strong for them.
Show me a man who has acted,
and who has not been the victim
and slave of his action.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson

As I would not be a slave,
so I would not be a master.
This expresses my idea of democracy.
- Abraham Lincoln

The whole commerce between master and slave
is a perpetual exercise of the most boisterous passions,
the most unremitting despotism on the one part,
and degrading submissions on the other.
Our children see this, and learn to imitate it.
- Thomas Jefferson

We have a choice of how we view the obstacles on our life path.
One choice makes us slaves to circumstance,
while the other empowers us, and motivates us
to follow our dreams - and our happiness.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie

Animals, whom we have made our slaves,
we do not like to consider our equal.
- Charles Darwin

We are masters of the unsaid words,
but slaves of those we let slip out.
- Winston Churchill

Disobedience is the true foundation of liberty.
The obedient must be slaves.
- Henry David Thoreau

Because we fear the responsibility for our actions,
we have allowed ourselves to develop the mentality of slaves.
Contrary to the stirring sentiments of the Declaration of Independence,
we now pledge "our Lives, our Fortunes and our sacred Honor"
not to one another for our mutual protection, but to the state,
whose actions continue to exploit, despoil, and destroy us.
- Butler D. Shaffer

Love that does not renew itself every day
becomes a habit and in turn a slavery.
- Khalil Gibran

The slavery of fear had made men afraid to think.
But such is the irresistible nature of truth,
that all it asks, and all it wants, is the liberty of appearing.
- Thomas Paine, Rights of Man, 1791

Whenever I hear anyone arguing for slavery,
I feel a strong impulse to see it tried on him personally.
- Abraham Lincoln

We are not held back by the love we didn't receive in the past,
but by the love we're not extending in the present.
- Marianne Williamson

To the people who love you,
you are beautiful already.
This is not because they're
blind to your shortcomings
but because they so clearly see your soul.
- Victoria Moran

Darkness cannot drive out darkness;
only light can do that.
Hate cannot drive out hate;
only love can do that.
- Martin Luther King, Jr.

Love Without Limits.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie

Love is when the other person's happiness
is more important than your own.
- H. Jackson Brown, Jr.

Love me when I least deserve it,
because that's when I really need it.
- Swedish Proverb

Love does not claim possession, but gives freedom.
- Rabindranath Tagore

I have found that if you love life,
life will love you back.
- Arthur Rubinstein

This day I will marry my friend,
the one I laugh with, live for, dream with, love.
- Anonymous

Lord, grant that I might not so much
seek to be loved as to love.
- St. Francis of Assisi

Love means not ever having to say you're sorry.
- Erich Segal

Know the power and the peace of saying,
"I love you just the way you are."
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie

Love one another but make not a bond of love.
Let it rather be a moving sea
between the shores of your souls.
- Khalil Gibran

Seek first to understand,
then to be understood.
- Stephen Covey

For all sad words of tongue and pen,
The saddest are these, "It might have been.
- John Greenleaf Whittier

Where There is Love,
Nothing is Missing.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie

Use the power of your word
in the direction of truth and love.
- don Miguel Ruiz

Where there is great love,
there are always miracles.
- Willa Cather

Life is a reflection of intent.
Love reflects love.
Hate reflects hate.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie

I Dream This Day of Wondrous Things,
of Peace and Hope and Pride.
I Dance My Dance with Life Today,
I'm Filled with Love Inside.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie

Hate is never conquered by hate,
Hate is only conquered by love.
- The Buddha

We can do no great things,
only small things with great love.
- Mother Teresa

Lord, make me an instrument of thy peace.
Where there is hatred, let me sow love.
- St. Francis of Assisi

The first sigh of love is the last breath of wisdom.
- Anonymous

Know that love has no limits.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie

You have heard that it was said,
"Love your neighbor and hate your enemy."
But I tell you: Love your enemies and pray for those who persecute you.
- Matthew 5:43-44

You, yourself, as much as anybody in the entire universe,
deserves your love and affection.
- The Buddha

Love is an undulating energy that moves through you,
within you, and radiates out of you,
and changes everything.
- Bartholomew

Falling in love you remain a child; rising in love you mature.
By and by love becomes not a relationship,
it becomes a state of your being.
Not that you are in love - now you are love.
- Osho

Ever has it been that love knows not its own depth
until the hour of separation.
- Khalil Gibran

Where there is love there is life.
- Mohandas (Mahatma) Gandhi

If you love it enough, anything will talk with you.
- George Washington Carver

Gift the love of your life with undistracted,
untelevisioned, unhurried attentiveness.
- Mary Anne Radmacher

Most of us love, to be sure.
Yet far too often our love is passive.
We must be proactive in our love
in order for it to change our lives.
- Marianne Williamson

Love them as they are,
and forgive them everything.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie

Where there is love there is no question.
- Albert Einstein

Where love reigns, there is no will to power;
and where the will to power is paramount, love is lacking.
The one is but the shadow of the other.
- Carl Jung

The right mixture of caring and not caring -
I suppose that's what love is.
- James Hilton

Love reflects love.
Hate reflects hate.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie

The whole worth of a kind deed is
in the love that inspires it.
- The Talmud

Return love for hate.
- Anonymous

Love is not a mere sentiment.
Love is the ultimate truth at the heart of creation.
- Rabindranath Tagore

At the center of non-violence stands the principle of love.
- Martin Luther King, Jr.

There is no love without forgiveness,
and there is no forgiveness without love.
- Bryant H. McGill

All you need is love, love. Love is all you need.
- The Beatles

Real love is accepting other people the way they are
without trying to change them.
- don Miguel Ruiz

Love is a fruit in season at all times,
and within reach of every hand.
- Mother Teresa

Love's gift cannot be given,
it waits to be accepted.
- Rabindranath Tagore

Love is like the truth,
sometimes it prevails,
sometimes it hurts.
- Victor M. Garcia Jr.

The hunger for love is
much more difficult to remove
than the hunger for bread.
- Mother Teresa

Intense love does not measure, it just gives.
- Mother Teresa

Love is an act of faith.
- Erich Fromm

Spread love everywhere you go.
Let no one ever come to you without leaving happier.
- Mother Teresa

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May the world be kind to you, and may your own thoughts be gentle upon yourself.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie