Slave and Slavery Quotes
- A slave does not choose his master.~ Ghanaian Proverb
- A slave has no choice.~ Kenyan Proverb
- Better be an old man’s darling than a young man’s slave.~ Traditional Proverb
- Better in the grave than be a slave.~ Korean Proverb
- Better to be a poor woman than the slave of the rich.~ Swedish Proverb
- Call someone your lord and he’ll sell you in the slave market.~ Saudi Arabian Proverb
- Do not quench your inspiration and your imagination; do not become the slave of your model.~ Vincent Van Gogh
- Fire is a good slave, but a bad master.~ Albanian Proverb
- For the first five years of your son’s life treat him as a prince, for the next ten years as a slave, then as a friend for the rest of his life.~ Indian Proverb
- He who is a slave of truth is a free man.~ Arabian Proverb
- He who works as a slave, eats as a king.~ Indian Proverb
- Hunger is felt by a slave and hunger is felt by a king.~ Ghanaian Proverb
- If you are living out of a sense of obligation you are slave.~ Wayne Dyer
- If you call a lady a slave, she laughs, but if you call a slave a slave, he cries.~ Indian Proverb
- It is better to be a free man in a small house than a slave in a big one.~ Norwegian Proverb
- Poverty is slavery.~ Somali Proverb
- Rather be a slave to a rich man than the spouse of a poor man.~ Indian Proverb
- Rather free in a foreign place than a slave back home.~ Norwegian Proverb
- Seven days king, seven days minister, slave for the rest of your life.~ Arabian Proverb
- Slavery is an institution for converting men into monkeys.~ Ralph Waldo Emerson
- Slavery is a weed that grows on every soil.~ Edmund Burke
- Slaves lose everything in their chains, even the desire of escaping from them.~ Jean Jacques Rousseau
- The art of being a slave is to rule one’s master.~ Diogenes of Sinope
- The distinguishing sign of slavery is to have a price, and to be bought for it.~ John Ruskin
- The man who has no inner life is the slave of his surroundings.~ Thomas La Mance
- The mistress is queen, the wife is the slave.~ Portuguese Proverb
- The slave must be content with the joys of his master.~ Arabian Proverb
- The worst thing about slavery is that the slaves eventually get to like it.~ Aristotle
- Voluntary work is better than slavery.~ Nigerian Proverb
- When the heart acts the body is its slave.~ African Proverb
- Work like a slave and eat like a gentleman.~ Albanian Proverb
- You are still a slave if only your limbs are free.~ German Proverb
- Your five year old son is your instructor; at ten your slave; at fifteen your equal and after that either friend or foe.~ Turkish Proverb
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