Luc de Clapiers Quotes

Servitude degrades people to such a point that they come to like it.

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

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

Familiarize yourselves with the chains of bondage and you prepare your own limbs to wear them.

There are three ways in which a man becomes a slave. He may be born into slavery, or forced into it, or he can deliberately accept his servitude. All three forms flourish in the modern world. Men are born and forced into slavery in Russia and her satellites states. Men in the free world invite slavery when they ask the government to provide complete security, when they surrender their freedom to the "Welfare State."

If ever thou be'st bound in thy scarf and beaten, thou shalt find what it is to be proud of thy bondage.

I was a king and a king's heir and now I am a slave.

All you have to do is go back to slavery - days, and there were two types of slaves, the house slave and the field slave. The house slave was the one who believed in the master, who had confidence in the master and usually was very friendly with the master. And usually he was also used by the master to try and keep the other slaves pacified.

Slaves lose everything in their chains, even the desire of escaping from them.

The interpretation of our reality through patterns not our own, serves only to make us ever more unknown, ever less free, ever more solitary.

Those who do not move, do not notice their chains.

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.

A slave is one who waits for someone to come and free him.

People can be slave-ships in shoes.

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

The world today is divided into the free and the enslaved.

The real passion of the twentieth century is servitude.

The sovereign being is burdened with a servitude that crushes him, and the condition of free men is deliberate servility.

We are like horses who hurt themselves as soon as they pull on their bits - and we bow our heads. We even lose consciousness of the situation, we just submit. Any re-awakening of thought is then painful.

It’s often safer to be in chains than to be free.

Many of the former Slaves are only nominally free, for the servile spirit is still within them.

The era of individualism, liberalism and democracy, of humanitarianism and freedom, is nearing its end. The masses will accept with resignation the victory of the Caesars, the strong men, and will obey them. Life will descend to a level of general uniformity, a new kind of primitivism, and the world will be better for it.....

As for freedom, it will soon cease to exist in any shape or form. Living will depend upon absolute obedience to a strict set of arrangements, which it will no longer be possible to transgress. The air traveler is not free. In the future, life’s passengers will be even less so: they will travel through their lives fastened to their corporate seats.

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

Slavery is the rule. Freedom the exception.