Adam Johnson Quotes

A man is the prisoner of his power.

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

Bring on the shackles - I'm your prisoner

You may pretend to a civil independence, but the rest is a chimera. You are tied to me like a moon to a planet. I am not your enemy, but some force must be applied so that you follow in my step.

A bird on a tether, no matter how long the rope, can always be pulled back.

Power said to the world, "You are mine." The world kept it prisoner on her throne. Love said to the world, "I am thine." The world gave it the freedom of her house.

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

I do like my hair being pulled from time to time, it's like a pair of reins, innit?

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.

People can be slave-ships in shoes.

With women, I've got a long bamboo pole with a leather loop on the end. I slip the loop around their necks so they can't get away or come too close. Like catching snakes.

Bondage is the life of personality, and for bondage the personal self will fight with tireless resourcefulness and the most stubborn cunning.

A prisoner of war is a man who tries to kill you and fails, and then asks you not to kill him.

The masters wanted to keep their slaves, and the slaves, their masters.

Everybody is owned by somebody.

I should have liked to have had him beside me in a glass coffin, so that I could watch him all the time and he would not have been able to get away from me.

A leash is a rope with a noose at both ends.

We are in bondage to that which overcomes us. See also 2 Peter 2:19.

All people are enslaved by something.

A jailer is as much a prisoner as his prisoner.

Always we try to put the wild in a cage.

I knew he would never leave me, never let me down-because the man had never abandoned anything in his long life. If I hadn’t taken the gold rope of our bond, I knew Adam would have sat on me and hog-tied me with it. I liked that. A lot.

Finn smiled ruefully. "I'm a Prisoner, old man. Just like you.

To need to dominate others is to need others. The commander is dependent.

Servitude seizes on few, but many seize on her.