Ezra Pound Quotes

Slavery takes hold of few, but many take hold of slavery.

The world today is divided into the free and the enslaved.

Every slave is a stolen man.

Slavery is the rule. Freedom the exception.

These poor wretches were stolen from their homes, carried to a strange country, and sold to servitude, from which they sought to escape on the first occasion which offered.

Slavery, properly so called, is the establishment of a right which gives to one man such a power over another as renders him absolute master of his life and fortune.

People can be slave-ships in shoes.

To some extent I liken slavery to death.

Slavery and freedom cannot exist together.

Slavery was not a bad day on the job. It was not your boss yelling at you. It was not hard work for little pay. This was a full system of human subjugation.

Slavery is the cause of treason and sustains it everywhere it exists.

A man is none the less a slave because he is allowed to choose a new master once in a term of years.

I think slavery is the next thing to hell. If a person would send another into bondage, he would, it appears to me, be bad enough to send him into hell if he could.

The very idea that human beings are held in bondage is sickening.

Slaves lose everything in their chains, even the desire of escaping from them.

It's sort of what the Johnny and Devi stories are about, the idea of always being a slave to something.

When one person is enslaved, we're all enslaved.

The slave is doomed to worship time and fate and death, because they are greater than anything he finds in himself, and because all his thoughts are of things which they devour.

Man is everywhere still in chains.

Men would rather be starving and free than fed in bonds.

Corrupted freemen are the worst of slaves.

Being born is like being kidnapped. And then sold into slavery.

Man is born free, yet he is everywhere in chains.

This is about slavery.

That’s a slave talking.