Best slavery & self Quotes | Short & Famous Sayings

“Humans call animals 'dumb'... after they robbed their entire own precious world. They are intelligent beings in their own right, and thoroughly self-sufficient... if not molested by humans. Yet, after millennia of slavery by selfish/callous humans they're made to look dumb! The 'superior species' in their situations would, too, appear 'dumb'.”

Ifs World Humans Looks Made Self Animal Situation Intelligent Slavery Species Selfish Superiors Dumb Sufficient Animal Rights Self Sufficient Callous

Author:Adela Popescu

“The slavery of identity comes from our refusal to face ourselves. So we must begin the exploration to self-awareness. Where do we start?”

Self Faces Awareness Identity Self Awareness Slavery Exploration Refusal

Book:How to Wish

Source: How to Wish

“All too often, as we know from experience, people do not choose life; they do not accept the gospel of life, but let themselves be led by ideologies and ways of thinking that block life, that do not respect life, because they are dictated by selfishness, self-interest, profit, power and pleasure and not by love. ... As a result, the Living God is replaced by fleeting human idols, which offer the intoxication of a flash of freedom, but in the end bring new forms of slavery and death.”

“If a man surrenders all power of self-determination in regard to the profits, management or ownership of the place where he works, he not only loses that special prerogative which marks him off from a cow in a pasture, but what is worse, he loses all capacity for determining any work. This is the beginning of a slavery which sometimes goes by the name of security.”

“While our sin reaches far, God's grace reaches farther. God came after us not to strip away our freedom but to strip away our slavery to self, that we could become truly free.”

Self Sin Grace Slavery God's Grace

Author:Tullian Tchividjian

“Notwithstanding all the wrongs that slavery heaped upon me, I can bless it for one thing-youth's important lesson of self-reliance.”

I Can Important Self One Thing Youth Lessons Slavery Bless Self Reliance Reliance Important Lessons

Book:Slave Narrative Six Pack 2

Source: Slave Narrative Six Pack 2

“Submitting self to God is the only real freedom-because the deepest slavery is self-dependence, self-reliance. When you live your life believing that everything (family, finances, relationships, career) depends primarily on you, you're enslaved to your strengths and weaknesses. You're trying to be your own savior. Freedom comes when we start trusting in God's abilities and wisdom instead of our own. Real life begins when we transfer our trust from our own efforts to the efforts of Christ.”

“It is just this rage for consideration that has betrayed the dog into his satellite position as the friend of man. The cat, an animal of franker appetites, preserves his independence. But the dog, with one eye ever on the audience, has been wheedled into slavery, and praised and patted into the renunciation of his nature. Once he ceased hunting and became man's plate-licker, the Rubicon was crossed. Thenceforth he was a gentleman of leisure; and except the few whom we keep working, the whole race grew more and more self-conscious, mannered and affected.”

Source: Memories and Portraits: Stevenson's Vol. 21

“The first thing Islam does is to destroy the self image of the believers. It convinces them that without Islam they are worthless creatures only fit for hellfire. It tells them that their culture is jahelyyah (ignorance) and their ancestral religion was taaghoti (satanic). They are made to despise their identity and selfhood and seek their glory in their submission to Islam and slavery to its deity who was Muhammad's own alter ego.”

Firsts Doe Made Self Culture Identity Ignorance Fit Creatures Ego Glory Slavery Islam Believer Convince Despise Worthless Submission Deities Muhammad Satanic Alter Ego

Author:Ali Sina

“The world has proclaimed the reign of freedom, especially of late, but what do we see in this freedom of theirs? Nothing but slavery and self-destruction! For the world says: "You have desires and so satisfy them, for you have the same rights as the most rich and powerful. Don't be afraid of satisfying them and even multiply your desires."”

World Self Desire Powerful Rich Rights Late Destruction Slavery Satisfying Consumerism Reign Self Destruction Overconsumption

Book:GREAT BOOKS OF THE WESTERN WORLD

Source: GREAT BOOKS OF THE WESTERN WORLD

“Because of its exceptional capacity for self-criticism, the West took the initiative in abolishing slavery; the calls for abolition did not resonate even in black Africa, where rival African tribes took black prisoners to be sold as slaves in the West.”

Self Black Capacity Criticism Slavery Slave West Prisoner Initiative Tribes Exceptional Rivals Abolition Self Criticism African Tribes Abolishing Slavery

Author:Ibn Warraq

“I invite you, wholeheartedly, to read books that remind you of your highest self and emancipate you from mental slavery or false beliefs and illusions. The more you invest in attracting books that resonate with the frequency of your true self, the more light you will bring to the world.”

World Book Self Light Belief Highest Illusion Slavery Invites True Self Frequency Wholeheartedly Mental Slavery

Author:Carlos Santana

“According to the classic liberal-arts ideal, learning promises liberation, but it is not liberation from demanding moral ideals and social norms, or liberation to act on our desires-it is, rather, liberation from slavery to those desires, from slavery to self.”

Art Self Desire Social Moral Promise Ideals Slavery Liberation Classic Norm Social Norms Liberal Arts

Book:Conscience and Its Enemies: Confronting the Dogmas of Liberal Secularism

Source: Conscience and Its Enemies: Confronting the Dogmas of Liberal Secularism

“Slavery results from laws, laws are made by governments, and, therefore people can only be freed from slavery by the abolition of governments.... And it is time for people to understand that governments not only are not necessary, but are harmful and most highly immoral institutions, in which a self-respecting, honest man cannot and must not take part.”

People Men Made Self Government Law Results Honest Institutions Slavery Immoral Honest Man Abolition

Author:Leo Tolstoy

“Self-hate is a form of mental slavery that results in poverty, ignorance, and crime.”

Self Form Hate Results Poverty Crime Ignorance Slavery Self Hate Mental Slavery

Author:Susan L. Taylor

“I tried all in my power to avert this war. I saw it coming, for twelve years I worked night and day to prevent it, but I could not. The North was mad and blind; it would not let us govern ourselves, and so the war came, and now it must go on unless you acknowledge our right to self government. We are not fighting for slavery. We are fighting for Independence.”

Years War Self Government Night Fighting Saws Goes On Independence Slavery Blind Mad Acknowledge Twelve Self-government Avert

Author:Jefferson Davis

“Emancipate yourselves from mental slavery, none but ourselves can free our minds!”

“The worst thing about that kind of prejudice... is that while you feel hurt and angry and all the rest of it, it feeds you self-doubt. You start thinking, perhaps I am not good enough.”

Thinking Feels Kind Self Enough Hurt Doubt Worst Prejudice Slavery Angry Good Enough Worst Things Not Good Enough Self-doubt

Author:Nina Simone

“America's greatest crime against the black man was not slavery or lynching, but that he was taught to wear a mask of self-hate and self-doubt.”

Men Self America Hate Black Doubt Crime Taught Slavery Mask Self-doubt Lynching Self Hate

Author:Malcolm X

“Enjoying things which are pleasant; that is not the evil; it is the reducing of our moral self to slavery by them that is.”

Self Evil Enjoy Moral Slavery Pleasant Wickedness Reducing

Book:The Selected Works of Thomas Carlyle

Source: The Selected Works of Thomas Carlyle

“When we acknowledge the kingdom of the self, we will no longer accept slavery either for ourselves or for others, no matter how it is disguised.”

Self Matter Accepting Acceptance Slavery Kingdoms Acknowledge

Author:Gerry Spence

“We have the wolf by the ears, and we can neither hold him, nor safely let him go. Justice is in one scale, and self-preservation in the other.”

Self Justice Ears Slavery Scales Preservation Self Preservation Let Him Go

Author:Thomas Jefferson

“A life that stood out as a gospel of self-forgetting service. He could have added fortune to fame but caring for neither he found happiness and honor in being helpful to the world. The centre of his world was the south where he was born in slavery some 79 years ago and where he did his work as a creative scientist.”

World Years Self Science Found Born Forget Creative Birth Honor Fame Research Years Ago Scientist Slavery Fortune South Caring Helpful Centre Found Happiness

Author:George Washington Carver

“There is no calamity which a great nation can invite which equals that which follows a supine submission to wrong and injustice and the consequent loss of national self-respect and honor, beneath which are shielded and defended a people's safety and greatness.”

People Self Nations Loss Greatness Honor Safety Slavery Injustice Self Respect Agreement Invites Submission Calamity Great Nations

Author:Eldridge Cleaver

“It is only your self-identification with your mind that makes you happy or unhappy. Rebel against your slavery to your mind, see your bonds as self-created and break the chains of attachment and revulsion. Keep in mind your goal of freedom, until it dawns on you that you are already free, that freedom is not something in the distant future to be earned with painful efforts, but perennially one's own, to be used! Liberation is not an acquisition but a matter of courage, the courage to believe that you are free already and to act on it.”

“As long as the mind is enslaved, the body can never be free. Psychological freedom, a firm sense of self-esteem, is the most powerful weapon against the long night of physical slavery.”

Mind Long Self Body Night Powerful Self Esteem Weapons Slavery Esteem Psychological Firm Most Powerful Sense Of Self Powerful Weapons Long Nights

Book:MLK on

Source: MLK on

“Of all the featherless beasts, only man, chained by his self-imposed slavery to the clock, denies the elemental fire and proceeds as best he can about his business, suffering quietly, martyr to his madness. Much to learn.”

Men Self Suffering Fire Madness Slavery Deny Clock Beast Martyr Elementals Chained

Book:Desert Solitaire

Source: Desert Solitaire

“Whereas, Slavery, throughout its entire existence in the United States is none other than a most barbarous, unprovoked, and unjustifiable War of one portion of its citizens upon another portion; the only conditions of which are perpetual imprisonment, and hopeless servitude or absolute extermination; in utter disregard and violation of those eternal and self-evident truths set forth in our Declaration of Independence.”

Source: The Public Life of Capt. John Brown, with an Auto-biography of His Childhood and Youth

“If the layman cannot participate in decision making, he will have to turn himself over, essentially blind, to a hermetic elite. ... [The fundamental question becomes] are we still capable of self-government and therefore freedom? Margaret Mead wrote in a 1959 issue of Daedalus about scientists elevated to the status of priests. Now there is a name for this elevation, when you are in the hands of-one hopes-a benevolent elite, when you have no control over your political decisions. From the point of view of John Locke, the name for this is slavery.”

“They maintain that only a dictatorship - their dictatorship, of course - can create the will of the people, while our answer to this is: No dictatorship can have any other aim but that of self-perpetuation, and it can beget only slavery in the people tolerating it; freedom can be created only by freedom, that is, by a universal rebellion on the part of the people and free organization of the toiling masses from the bottom up.”

People Self Courses Answers Mass Organization Universal Aim Slavery Bottom Rebellion Anarchy Dictatorship Begets Toiling

Author:Mikhail Bakunin

“No self-respecting person who loves humanity or wishes for a world of greater equality and justice should have anything to do with whitewashing the slavery and extermination of Marxism-Leninism.”

World Should Persons Self Humanity Wish Justice Greater Should Have Slavery Marxism Equality And Justice Extermination Marxism Leninism

Author:Anthony Gregory

“A freedom or pleasure that rests on someone else's slavery or misery cannot finally satisfy the self because it is a limitation or narrowing of the self, an admission of impotence, an offense against generosity and justice. Our freedom depends on other people's freedom, for our fates are inextricably interwoven with others', especially with those we love.”

People Self Justice Pleasure Fate Depends Slavery Misery Limitation Generosity Offense Admission Impotence Those We Love

Author:Hakim Bey

“The war...must go on till the last man of this generation falls in his tracks...unless you acknowledge our right to self-government. We are not fighting for slavery. We are fighting for Independence,and that, or extermination, we WILL have.”

Men War Self Government Lasts Fall Fighting Generations Goes On Independence Slavery Track Acknowledge Civil War This Generation Self-government Extermination

Author:Jefferson Davis

“A strong human spirit with control over appetites of the flesh is master over emotions and passions and not a slave to them. That kind of freedom is as vital to the spirit as oxygen is to the body! Freedom from self-slavery is true liberation!”

Humans Kind Self Body Spirit Passion Strong Emotion Masters Slavery Slave Flesh Liberation Appetite Human Spirit Oxygen

Author:Russell M. Nelson

“No knowledge about self is self-slavery!”

Self Inspiration Knowledge Six Slavery Slave Know Self Sabotage Slave Trade 6 Short Words Six Words Six Words Inspiration Not To Self Self Slavery

Book:Six Words Inspiration

Source: Six Words Inspiration

“I am not a thing. I am not your possession. I am a human being." - CBI Agent Sam Rose”

Self Humanity Identity Slavery Ownership

Book:Convergence Point

Source: Convergence Point

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