Neal A. Maxwell Quotes

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

All people are enslaved by something.

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.

When the master has come to do everything through the slave, the slave becomes his master, since he cannot live without him.

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

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

Servitude seizes on few, but many seize on her.

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

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

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.

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

You are authorized to reduce to servitude all infidel people.

Slavery is the rule. Freedom the exception.

Everybody is owned by somebody.

Beat and cuff your slave, keep him hungry and spiritless, and he will follow the chain of his master like a dog. Feed and clothe him well, work him moderately, surround him with physical comfort and dreams of freedom intrude.

We stole their babes and mothers, chiefs and braves Although we held the whip, you knew we were The real slaves To alchemy, human alchemy.

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.

A slave-holder cannot hold a slave without putting himself or his deputy in the cage for holding the slave.

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

In the end they will lay their freedom at our feet and say to us, Make us your slaves, but feed us.