Diogenes Quotes

Would you rather lead an army of slaves?

If you look at slavery across all human history, and you sort of strip away the packaging, whether it's racialized or religious-based, and you look at the actual core of the slavery, it's one person completely controlling another one.

Slavery made the Negro as dependent upon the intelligence and foresight of his master as a soldier upon the will of his commander

America was founded on the backs of slaves.

The master is a slave when he fears those whom he rules.

Sheep, cattle, men-servants were all possessions to be sold as it pleased their masters. It were a good thing were it still so. For else no man may compel nor tame the servile folk.

Free election of masters does not abolish the masters or the slaves.

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.

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.

Call someone your lord and he'll sell you in the slave market.

They would make fine servants .... With fifty men we could subjugate them all and make them do whatever we want.

That’s a slave talking.

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

A new kind of slavery will emerge. It will probably adopt the cruelest form of domination the community could impose upon the individual and the state upon the community.

It is better to be the slave of a master than to be a slave of a slave.

It is well known that the man, whom it delighteth the people to honor, keeps, and for many years past has kept, as his concubine, one of his own slaves. Her name is SALLY.

To control the means whereby men live is not very different from owning their persons.

Colonialism is the cousin of slavery.

Everybody is owned by somebody.

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

You're a Good Little Slave

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.

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

In part because they had no choice, right? If you were a slave, you did what the master said. And they said to worship: "You're going to worship with us."