Oscar Wilde Quotes

If you figure a way to live without serving a master, any master, then let the rest of us know, will you? For you'd be the first person in the history of the world.

It's sort of what the Johnny and Devi stories are about, the idea of always being a slave to something.

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

It is just as difficult and dangerous to try to free a people that wants to remain servile as it is to enslave a people that wants to remain free.

This is the difference between slavery and freedom. The slave must do what his superior orders him to do, but the free citizen-and this is what freedom means-is in a position to choose his own way of life.

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

I would prefer to be a citizen of an independent country rather than Emperor of an enslaved one.

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.

No man is good enough to be another's master.

If you don't want to be a slave, stop acting like a slave.

He who can be, and therefore is, another's, and he who participates in reason enough to apprehend, but not to have, is a slave by nature.

I'm tired of being considered property.

Men would rather be starving and free than fed in bonds.

Education makes a people easy to lead, but difficult to drive; easy to govern, but impossible to enslave.

Do not deliver yourself up as a slave to any man.

A man is none the less a slave because he is allowed to choose a new master once in a term of years.

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

Those who shall have tasted actual freedom I believe can never be slaves, or quasi slaves again.

The slavery at Bufford's was too fresh in my recollection to let me care to bind myself again. From the time that I took my nose off that lithographic stone, I have had no master, and never shall have any.

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.

Men aspiring to be free can hardly think of enslaving others.

Lean liberty is better than fat slavery

I'm a slave to this leaf in a diary that lists what I must do, what I must say, every half hour.

Willingly no one chooses the yoke of slavery.

The question is whether you can bear freedom. At present the vast majority of men, whether white or black, require the discipline of labor which enslaves them for their own good.