Jean-Jacques Rousseau Quotes

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

Being born is like being kidnapped. And then sold into slavery.

Slavery is the rule. Freedom the exception.

My definition of slavery is the deprivation of human volition, any form of relationship between two peoples which is based on the deprivation of volition of one side.

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.

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

Slavery and freedom cannot exist together.

Slavery was not a bad day on the job. It was not your boss yelling at you. It was not hard work for little pay. This was a full system of human subjugation.

That’s a slave talking.

Slavery is the cause of treason and sustains it everywhere it exists.

[Describing slavery:] ... a cruel war against human nature itself.

Although volume upon volume is written to prove slavery a very good thing, we never hear of the man who wishes to take the good of it, by being a slave himself.

Every slave is a stolen man.

Now I've been free, I know what a dreadful condition slavery is. I have seen hundreds of escaped slaves, but I never saw one who was willing to go back and be a slave.

The very idea that human beings are held in bondage is sickening.

However you disguise slavery, it is slavery still. Its chains, though wreathed with roses, not only fasten on the body but rivet on the mind.

All people are enslaved by something.

Slavery is the offspring of darkness.

Hee is not free that drawes his chaine.

Talk about slavery! It is not the peculiar institution of the South. It exists wherever men are bought and sold, wherever a man allows himself to be made a mere thing or a tool, and surrenders his inalienable rights of reason and conscience. Indeed, this slavery is more complete than that which enslaves the body alone.

When one person is enslaved, we're all enslaved.

To some extent I liken slavery to death.

Man is everywhere still in chains.