David Sedaris Quotes

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

Capitalism offers you freedom, but far from giving people freedom, it enslaves them.

Let me be a free man - free to travel, free to stop, free to work.

I'm tired of being considered property.

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

Education makes a people easy to lead, but difficult to drive; easy to govern, but impossible to enslave.

He who seeks freedom for anything but freedom's self is made to be a slave.

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.

Whatever day Makes man a slave, takes half his worth away.

Men aspiring to be free can hardly think of enslaving others.

Do not commit yourself to anybody or anything, for that is to be a slave, a slave to every man Above all, keep yourself free of commitments and obligations - they are the device of another to get you into his power

The question is whether you can bear freedom. At present the vast majority of men, whether white or black, require the discipline of labor which enslaves them for their own good.

I'm fortunately not in a situation where someone owns me.

It is a maxim that no man was ever enslaved by influence while he was fit to be free.

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

To toil for a hard master is bitter, but to have no master to toil for is more bitter still.

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.

But there’s no such thing as free. There are only different and more horrible ways to be enslaved.

What do you suppose will satisfy the soul, except to walk free and own no superior?

The bachelors admired freedom is often a yoke, for the freer a man is to himself the greater slave he often is to the whims of others.

Better to starve free than be a fat slave

Better freedom and a chilly road than a warm hearth and servitude.

The name of peace is sweet and the thing itself good, but between peace and slavery there is the greatest difference.

The secret point of money and power in America is neither the things that money can buy nor power for power's sake but absolute personal freedom, mobility, privacy.