Sidney Sheldon Quotes

People can be slave-ships in shoes.

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

All people are enslaved by something.

A man is the prisoner of his power.

We are the slaves of slaves

Hee is not free that drawes his chaine.

Bring on the shackles - I'm your prisoner

Familiarize yourselves with the chains of bondage and you prepare your own limbs to wear them. Accustomed to trample on the rights of others, you have lost the genius of your own independence and become the fit subjects of the first cunning tyrant who rises among you.

Servitude seizes on few, but many seize on her.

See, it's no in between: you're either free or you're a slave.

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

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.

No one is free, even the birds are chained to the sky.

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

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

Man is everywhere still in chains.

Some people try to get you out of slavery for you to be their slave.

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

To disarm the people—that was the best and most effective way to enslave them.

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.

Familiarize yourselves with the chains of bondage and you prepare your own limbs to wear them.

Slavery is the rule. Freedom the exception.

Beat and cuff your slave, keep him hungry and spiritless, and he will follow the chain of his master like a dog. Feed and clothe him well, work him moderately, surround him with physical comfort and dreams of freedom intrude.

To drag a man in fetters into the grand illuminated temple of liberty, and call upon him to join you in joyous anthems, were inhuman mockery and sacrilegious irony.

He wants to enslave you.' 'I shudder at the thought of being free.