W. Clement Stone Quotes

Call someone your lord and he'll sell you in the slave market.

The dearest ambition of a slave is not liberty, but to have a slave of his own.

That’s a slave talking.

If ever thou be'st bound in thy scarf and beaten, thou shalt find what it is to be proud of thy bondage.

To keep a man a slave you do much the same as the cruel circus masters did to the elephant around the turn of last century. Clamp heavy chains around their legs and stake them to the ground. Then beat and terrorize them. After a while you no longer even have to stake the chain; the elephant gives up and just the mere rattle of the chain convinces the elephant there is no hope, so they give up and do whatever it is the circus requires.

This is servitude, To serve th'unwise, or him who hath rebelled Against his worthier, as thine now serve thee, Thyself not free, but to thyself enthralled.

Servitude seizes on few, but many seize on her.

It is one thing to own a woman, and it is another to have her within the bonds of an excellent mastery.

There's a certain amount of tyranny in all of us to some extent, and in some people it's much more developed than in others. It's a different balance which makes us all different.

A slave is one who waits for someone to come and free him.

I think it is the easiest mentality for a human being to be either colonized or to colonize. The structure of either the slave or the master seems to be the simplest and the most relaxing one to slip into. Either you are a slave, and you don't have to think for yourself, or you're a master, and you don't have to work for yourself.

Master of the universe but not of myself, I am the only rebel against my absolute power.

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

With women, I've got a long bamboo pole with a leather loop on the end. I slip the loop around their necks so they can't get away or come too close. Like catching snakes.

The enslaving of the other is also the enslaving of the self.

The sovereign being is burdened with a servitude that crushes him, and the condition of free men is deliberate servility.

Bondage is the life of personality, and for bondage the personal self will fight with tireless resourcefulness and the most stubborn cunning.

When a wrong thought is told a thousand times and impressed on one’s brain, one starts feeling the falsehood as truth. Similarly if the mind of slave is hammered of slavery, he starts enjoying his slavery

Barbarians are by nature slaves rather than subjects.

The most potent weapon in the hands of the oppressor is the mind of the oppressed.

A man is the prisoner of his power.

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

Force is never more operative than when it is known to exist but is not brandished.

If you're going to hold someone down you're going to have to hold onto the other end of the chain. You are confined by your own system of repression.

Would you rather lead an army of slaves?