Levi Strauss Quotes

A slave has but one master; an ambitious man has as many masters as there are people who may be useful in bettering his position.

A servant sometimes need to be served.

Everybody is owned by somebody.

You're a Good Little Slave

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

It is nobody's right to be waited on and nobody's fate to do the waiting.

If you look at slavery across all human history, and you sort of strip away the packaging, whether it's racialized or religious-based, and you look at the actual core of the slavery, it's one person completely controlling another one.

He who can be, and therefore is, another's, and he who participates in reason enough to apprehend, but not to have, is a slave by nature.

Whose bread I eat, his song I sing.

It is bad to have a servant, but worse to have a master.

Politics is the art of putting people under obligation to you.

They would make fine servants .... With fifty men we could subjugate them all and make them do whatever we want.

The masters wanted to keep their slaves, and the slaves, their masters.

I have never been able to conceive how any rational being could propose happiness to himself from the exercise of power over others.

A new kind of slavery will emerge. It will probably adopt the cruelest form of domination the community could impose upon the individual and the state upon the community.

The masses in this country [Spain] are not like your Americans, nor even like the British. They are slave stock. They are good for nothing but slaves and only when they are used as slaves are they happy.

Would you rather lead an army of slaves?

It is better to be the slave of a master than to be a slave of a slave.

Shake the hand that feeds you.

The existence of the state is inseparable from the existence of slavery.

Hee that is a master must serve (another).

The demon got up. The demon said Fool. To think you can eat their food and not talk to them. To think you can take their money and not be afraid of them. To think you can depend on their company and not suffer from them.

Servitude seizes on few, but many seize on her.

All socialism involves slavery. That which fundamentally distinguishes the slave is that he labours under coercion to satisfy anothers desires.

There might be some sinister modern form of slavery going on.