William Faulkner Quotes

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

To depend upon the Will of a Man is Slavery.

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.

The tyrant is only the slave turned inside out.

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

Man’s freedom is lacking if somebody else controls what he needs, for need may result in man’s enslavement of man..

To disarm the people—that was the best and most effective way to enslave them.

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

There are no tyrants where there are no slaves.

We are free today because we are the stronger; we will be slaves again when the government becomes the stronger.

Force works on servile natures, not the free.

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.

I believe that any man who takes the liberty of another into his keeping is bound to become a tyrant, and that any man who yields up his liberty, in however slight the measure, is bound to become a slave.

To subjugate another is to subjugate yourself.

I have no reason to suppose that he, who would take away my Liberty, would not when he had me in his Power, take away everything else.

Whatever crushes individuality is despotism, by whatever name it may be called and whether it professes to be enforcing the will of God or the injunctions of men.

See, it's no in between: you're either free or you're a slave.

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

Deny human rights, and however little you may wish to do so, you will find yourself abjectly kneeling at the feet of that old-world god, Force.

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

People demand freedom only when they have no power.

The average European does not seem to feel free until he succeeds in enslaving and oppressing others.

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

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.