Portuguese Proverb Quotes

There are no tyrants where there are no slaves.

One leader, one people, signifies one master and millions of slaves.

Some people are by nature slaves and will always be so.

The natural course of power is to make the many slaves to the few.

You have said that it is me killing you; now here are your masters coming … you will have to pull and shove wagons, but under me you never had to do this kind of thing. Now you be joyful because here are your future rulers.

Every organism, every human being, must conquer or serve.

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

Free election of masters does not abolish the masters or the slaves.

It only stands to reason that where there's sacrifice, there's someone collecting the sacrificial offerings. Where there's service, there is someone being served. The man who speaks to you of sacrifice is speaking of slaves and masters, and intends to be the master.

Few men desire liberty; most men wish only for a just master.

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.

Call someone your lord and he'll sell you in the slave market.

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

To live by one man's will became the cause of all men's misery.

Through the history of the world there have always been exploiters and exploited. There always will be ... because the great mass of men are made by nature to be slaves, they are unfit to control themselves, and for their own good need masters.

Whether the institution to be defended is slavery, political absolutism, or the absolutism of the head of a family, we are always expected to judge of it from its best instances; and we are presented with pictures of loving exercise of authority on one side, loving submission to it on the other

Slavery made the Negro as dependent upon the intelligence and foresight of his master as a soldier upon the will of his commander

Why independence, if the slaves of today will be the tyrants of tomorrow?

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

Good masters generally have bad slaves, and bad slaves have good masters.

Aristocracy is always cruel.

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.

Most men today cannot conceive of a freedom that does not involve somebody's slavery.

People can be slave-ships in shoes.

And this is the Anarchistic definition of the State: the embodiment of the principle of invasion in an individual, or a band of individuals, assuming to act as representatives or masters of the entire people within a given area.