Seneca the Younger Quotes

Arriane sized her up, tapping one finger against her lips. "Perfect," she said, stepping forward to loop her arm through Luce's. "I was just thinking I could really use a new slave.

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.

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

People can be slave-ships in shoes.

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

We are the slaves of slaves

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

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.

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.

Some people try to get you out of slavery for you to be their slave.

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..

That’s a slave talking.

Would you rather lead an army of slaves?

Everybody is owned by somebody.

You're a Good Little Slave

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

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

There are a few men whom slavery holds fast, but there are many more who hold fast to slavery.

In part because they had no choice, right? If you were a slave, you did what the master said. And they said to worship: "You're going to worship with us."

Every man is a prisoner, and the greatest irony of all is to be the prisoner of another man.

Those who make some other person their job... are dangerous.

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

With women, I've got a long bamboo pole with a leather loop on the end. I slip the loop around their necks so they can't get away or come too close. Like catching snakes.

Power over others is weakness disguised as strength.