Nikos Kazantzakis Quotes

He loves his bonds who, when the first are broke, Submits his neck into a second yoke.

Fear is the passion of slaves.

This is the fantasy of every woman - to hold at our feet servile and tame slaves, like in Roman times. And the worse we treat them, the more passionate they become.

There are people in this servile world who will endure any trampling, and at the first beck rush delightedly to proffer their assistance.

I make you a gift of these Blacks, of their children, their horses, their weapons, and all they possess. Share them among you.

Unless you have found something in life to live for that is more important to you than your own life, you will always be a slave. For all another man needs to do is threaten to take your life to get you to do his bidding.

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.

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.

The man who speaks to you of sacrifice, speaks of slaves and masters. And intends to be the master.

Sex, drugs, money, power etc. Just because you get to choose your master doesn't mean you aren't a slave.

To be free means to choose, whose slave you want to be. ­

To yield reverence to another, to hold ourselves and our lives at his disposal, is not slavery; often, it is the noblest state in which a man can live in this world.

This is the difference between slavery and freedom. The slave must do what his superior orders him to do, but the free citizen-and this is what freedom means-is in a position to choose his own way of life.

Every man is a prisoner, and the greatest irony of all is to be the prisoner of another man.

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

All of us are infected today with an extraordinary egoism. And that is not freedom; freedom means learning to demand only of oneself, not of life and others, and knowing how to give: sacrifice in the name of love.

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.

Terrible wars have been fought where millions have died for one idea - freedom. And it seems that something that means so much to so many people would be worth having.

Every act of will is an act of self-limitation. To desire action is to desire limitation. In that sense, every act is an act of self-sacrifice. When you choose anything, you reject everything else.

The full acting out of the self's surrender to God therefore demands pain: this action, to be perfect, must be done from the pure will to obey, in the absence, or in the teeth, of inclination

Man puts manacles on his fellow-man; God never.

When man has nothing but his will to assert--even his good-will--it is always bullying. Bolshevism is one sort of bullying, capitalism another: and liberty is a change of chains.

Who owns a man, Durnik?” the blond young man asked sadly. “The one who rules him, or the one who pays him?

One thinks himself the master of others, and still remains a greater slave than they.