Marion Zimmer Bradley Quotes

That god forbid, that made me first your slave, I should in thought control your times of pleasure, Or at your hand th' account of hours to crave, Being your vassal bound to stay your leisure.

It all depends on whether you have things, or they have you.

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.

Everybody is owned by somebody.

This is the pure form of servitude: to exist as an instrument.

Once men turned their thinking over to machines in the hope that this would set them free. But that only permitted other men with machines to enslave them.

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

Once they get their hooks into you, you're a dead pigeon.

His very chains helped to deceive him about the harshness of his service.

And I particularly like the whole thing of being boss. Boss and employee... It's the slave quality that I find very alluring.

People can be slave-ships in shoes.

There is no such thing as liberty. You only change one sort of domination for another. All we can do is to choose our master.

Tyrants are seldom free; the cares and the instruments of their tyranny enslave them.

I do like to belong to a man.

Man’s freedom is lacking if somebody else controls what he needs, for need may result in man’s enslavement of man..

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

I do not blame those who wish to rule the Athenians, but those who are over-ready to serve.

Our countrymen have all the folly of the ass and all the passiveness of the sheep .... They are determined not to be free.

Power over a man's support is a power over his will.

The power of the master must be absolute to render the submission of the slave perfect.

Propaganda does not aim to elevate man, but to make him serve.

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

If one is free at heart, no man-made chains can bind one to servitude, but if one's mind is so manipulated and controlled by the oppressor, then there will be nothing the oppressed can do to scare his powerful masters.

Most people say they're slaves, but in my opinion, to say that I am a slave is to take ownership of actually being a slave - to be a tool, be a thing. Basically cattle.

When the master has come to do everything through the slave, the slave becomes his master, since he cannot live without him.