John Milton Quotes

I will not remain silent, resigned to watch as my fellow prisoners collapse under the strain of slavery-like conditions.

Jesus was not just a prophet but the fulfillment of all prophecy.

Death is better than slavery.

Every where the years bring to all enough of sin and sorrow; but in slavery the very dawn of life is darkened by these shadows.

To some extent I liken slavery to death.

Slavery is a weed that grows on every soil.

[Describing slavery:] ... a cruel war against human nature itself.

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.

Some chains are forged for us - those are the hardest to bear.

I was a king and a king's heir and now I am a slave.

Disguise thyself as thou wilt, still, Slavery," said I, "still thou art a bitter draught.

Captivity is the greatest of all evils that can befall one.

I was always mortified.Didn't they know they were tying thier mothers to the ground? Weren't chains ashamed of their prisoners?

Death is a slave's freedom.

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

There is no such thing as freedom on earth," he said. "Only different kinds of bondages. And comparative bondages. YOU think you are free now because you've escaped from a peculiarly unbreakable kind of bondage. But are you? You love me - THAT'S a bondage.

By a divine paradox, wherever there is one slave there are two

We've got some new ways to make slaves here.

We are the slaves of slaves

There are a few men whom slavery holds fast, but there are many more who hold fast to slavery.

A well-paid slave is nonetheless a slave.

Slavery is so intolerable a condition that the slave can hardly escape deluding himself into thinking that he is choosing to obey his master's commands when, in fact, he is obliged to. Most slaves of habit suffer from this delusion and so do some writers, enslaved by an all too personal style.

Slavery is slavery. The chain of gold is quite as bad as the chain of iron. Is there a way out?

Slavery is the next thing to hell.