D. H. Lawrence Quotes

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.

You carry forever the fingerprint that comes from being under someone's thumb.

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

And I particularly like the whole thing of being boss. Boss and employee... It's the slave quality that I find very alluring.

People demand freedom only when they have no power.

Tyrants are seldom free; the cares and the instruments of their tyranny enslave them.

It is a strange desire, to seek power, and to lose liberty; or to seek power over others, and to lose power over a man's self.

The tyrant is only the slave turned inside out.

It is bad to have a servant, but worse to have a master.

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

Wild beasts hate nets, and people hate their superiors.

You only have power over people so long as you don’t take everything away from them. But when you’ve robbed a man of everything he’s no longer in your power — he’s free again.

There are no tyrants where there are no slaves.

If one is free at heart, no man-made chains can bind one to servitude, but if one's mind is so manipulated and controlled by the oppressor, then there will be nothing the oppressed can do to scare his powerful masters.

Everybody is owned by somebody.

A man is none the less a slave because he is allowed to choose a new master once in a term of years. Neither are a people any the less slaves because permitted periodically to choose new masters.

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

For the power of Man to make himself what he pleases means... the power of some men to make other men what THEY please.

If you think of yourselves as helpless and ineffectual, it is certain that you will create a despotic government to be your master. The wise despot, therefore, maintains among his subjects a popular sense that they are helpless and ineffectual.

It is one thing to own a woman, and it is another to have her within the bonds of an excellent mastery.

There's a certain amount of tyranny in all of us to some extent, and in some people it's much more developed than in others. It's a different balance which makes us all different.

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.

Power does not corrupt. Fear corrupts... perhaps the fear of a loss of power.

To depend upon the Will of a Man is Slavery.